This document discusses local special bodies in the Philippines and the roles and compositions of their local boards. It outlines the Local Prequalification, Bids & Awards Committee, Local School Board, Local Health Board, Local Development Council, Local Peace & Order Council, and People's Law Enforcement Board. For each board, it provides details on their functions and compositions at the barangay, city/municipality, and provincial levels. It also discusses challenges to local governance and recommendations to address them.

1. Prepared by:
CHERRY A. PASCUA
VERONICA D CALIMLIM
Local Special
Bodies
M
PA 203 Local Governance &
Administration

2. Local Special Bodies
• Local Prequalification, Bids & Awards
Committee
• Local School Board
• Local Health Board
• Local Development Council
• Local Peace & Order Council
• People’s Law Enforcement Board

3. Local Prequalification, Bids &
Awards Committee
• Conduct prequalification of contractors,
bidding, evaluation of bids, &
recommendation of awards concerning local
infrastructure projects
• Composition: LCE as chairman; Sanggunian
appropriations committee chairman,
Sanggunian minority representative,
treasurer, 2 NGO representatives, practicing
CPA, & COA representative as observer

4. Local School Board (LSB)
• Determine supplemental budget for public
schools from real property special levy share
(SEF)
• Authorize disbursement of SEF
• Advise Sanggunian on education matters
• Recommend changes in public school names
• Consulted by DepEd on appointments of
Superintendents, supervisors, principals &
other school officials

5. LSB Composition
• LCE & Division Superintendent/District
Supervisor as co-chairmen
• Sanggunian Education Committee chairman
• Treasurer
• SK Federation President
• President of PTA Federation
• Public Schools Non-Academic personnel
representative

6. Local Health Board (LHB)
• Propose to Sanggunian annual budgetary
allocations for operation & maintenance of
health facilities & services within locality
• Advise Sanggunian on health matters
• Create committees to advise local health
agencies on personnel selection & promotion,
bids & awards, grievances & complaints,
personnel discipline, budget review,
operations review & other similar functions

7. LHB Composition
• LCE as chairman
• Local Health Officer as vice chairman
• Sanggunian Health Committee chairman
• PO or NGO representative
• DOH representative

8. Local Development Council (LDC)
• Formulate long-term, medium-term & annual
socio-economic development plans & policies
• Formulate medium-term & annual public
investment plan
• Formulate local investment incentives to
promote inflow & direction of private investment
capital
• Coordinate, monitor & evaluate implementation
of development programs & projects

9. LDC Composition
• Barangay:
– Punong Barangay as chairman
– Members of the Sangguniang Barangay
– NGO representatives who shall constitute ¼ of the
members of the fully organized council
– Representative of the congressman

10. LDC Composition
• City or Municipality:
– LCE as chairman
– All PBs of the city or municipality
– Chairman of the Sanggunian Committee on
Appropriations
– Congressman or his representative
– NGO representatives who shall constitute ¼ of the
members of the fully organized council

11. LDC Composition
• Province:
– Governor as chairman
– All mayors of component cities & municipalities
– Chairman of the Sanggunian Committee on
Appropriations
– Congressman or his representative
– NGO representatives who shall constitute ¼ of the
members of the fully organized council

12. Relation of LDC to Sanggunian
& RDC
• LDC proposals shall be submitted to
Sanggunian for appropriate action; approved
local development plans may be integrated
with development plans of next higher level
LDC
• Approved development plans of Provinces,
HUCs & Independent Component Cities shall
be submitted to RDC for integration to
regional development plan

13. Local Peace & Order
Council (LPOC)
• The composition and functions of
the provincial, city & municipal
peace & order councils shall be
governed by the provisions of EO
309, s. 1988, as amended.

14. LPOC Functions
• Formulate plans & recommend measures to
improve/enhance peace & order & public safety
• Monitor implementation of peace & order
programs & projects & operation of Civilian
Volunteer Self-Defense Organizations & other
counter-insurgency programs/activities
• Make periodic assessments or peace & order
situation & submit recommendations to NPOC
• Receive complaints against government
personnel, civilian or military & endorse to
concerned agency

15. PPOC Composition
• Governor as chairman
• Vice Governor as vice chairman
• Provincial counterparts of NPOC members
• Sanggunian representative
• 3 NGO representatives (academe, civic,
religious, youth, labor, legal, business & media
organizations)

16. CPOC/MPOC composition
• Mayor as chairman
• Vice Mayor as vice chairman
• City or municipal counterparts of NPOC
members
• Sanggunian representative
• 3 NGO representatives

17. People’s Law Enforcement Board
(PLEB)
• Receive, take cognizance of or refer
complaints against officers & members of the
PNP to proper disciplining authority or
adjudicatory authority within 3 days from
filing of complaint
• 3 members chosen by LPOC from respected
members of community with one woman &
another a member of the bar

18. Venues/Opportunities for Popular
Participation
• Local sectoral representation
• Local special bodies
• Mandatory consultations
• Recall, initiative & referendum
• Partnership with NGOs & POs
• Privatization
• Public hearings/consultations
• Focus group discussions

19. Challenges/Interventions
/Approaches
• The challenge posed by bureaucratic
institutions, systems, procedures & mindsets
suffering from the inertia of excessive
centralization
• Learn from innovative & creative practices
developed at the local level
• Vigilance & participation of all sectors to
suppress the restoration of elite-dominated
politics

20. Challenges/Interventions
/Approaches
• Reverse the 40-60 ratio in IRA sharing system to
60-40 in favor of LGUs
• Direct transfer to LGUs of budgets of devolved
agencies
• Re-examine practice of unfunded mandates
• Re-examine relationship between local grantees
& PDAF-supported projects with LGUs playing
greater role in planning, dispensation & use.
• Strengthen mechanisms to facilitate continuing
dialogues & consultations between devolved
agencies & LGUs

21. Challenges/Interventions
/Approaches
• Strengthen/upgrade skills & administrative
capabilities of LGU officials
• Improve monitoring & evaluation systems
down to the barangay level
• Develop a sound & reliable MIS
• Procure more modern facilities to support
delivery of services (refrigeration of
drugs/vaccines)

22. Challenges/Interventions
/Approaches
• Explore indigenous resources that are
responsive, less costly, & more culturally
sensitive
• Strong linkages with NGOs committed to
community mobilization & citizen
participation
• Federate community organizations to assure
stronger posture

23. References
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1995 12 Basic Features of Local Autonomy.
Lecture presented to the Local Autonomy Forum,
Baguio City.
• Brillantes, Alex Jr. B.
1998 Decentralized Democratic Governance
Under the Local Government Code: A Government
Perspective, Manila: Philippine Journal of Public
Administration.

24. • Brillantes, Alex Jr. B.
1992 Local Government Code Encourages NGO
Participation in Local Governance, Manila
Bulletin.
• Legaspi, Perla E.
2001` The Enabling Role of Local
Governments. QC: UP National College of Public
Administration and Governance.

25. • Panganiban, Elena M.
1998 Metropolitanization Within a
Decentralized System: The Philippine
Dilemma. QC: Center for Local and Regional
Governance and National College of Public
Administration and Governance.

26. • Reforma, Mila A.
1998 Reforming Government: New Concepts and
Practices in Local Public Administration in the
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• Tapales, Proserpina D.
2003 The Nature and State of Local Government,
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27. • Tapales, Proserpina D.
1998 Participatory Governance: The Philippine
Experience, Tokyo, Japan: EROPA Local
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• CSC MC No. 19
1992 Guidelines and Standards in the
Establishment of Organizational Structure and
Staffing Patterns in Local Government Units

28. • Aralar, Reynaldo B. Administrative Law
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29. • EO No. 503
1992 Providing for the Rules and Regulations
Implementing the Transfer of Personnel
and Assets, Liabilities and Records of
National Government Agencies whose
Functions are to be Devolved to the Local
Government Units and Other Related
Purposes.