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2000-01-28 |
DE LEON, JR., J. |
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| Ordinance No. 0246, Series of 1997[5] appropriated P39,352,047.75 for the expropriation of Lot 26 of the Maysilo Estate. It is, however, not this but the sum of P39,343,028.00 appropriated under Ordinance No. 0254, Series of 1998[6] which was sourced from the P50,000,000,00 allotted for "Current Operating Expenditures". It should be noted that the P50,000,000.00 under "Current Operating Expenditures" of the 1998 Annual Budget was denominated as for "Expropriation of Properties" but the particular properties subject of expropriation were not specified. In fact, petitioners, in the same consolidated answer cited by respondents, have unequivocally stated that "as will be noted from the budget, the expropriation of properties does not refer to any particular property."[7] Thus, it can be said that petitioners, as early as when the case was pending before the OP, were already arguing about the character of the P50,000,000.00 as proper subject of realignment. | |||||