Memorandum Circular No. 427




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Memorandum Circular No. 427, January 22, 1971 ] AUTHORIZING THE SENDING OF DELEGATES TO THE SIXTH NATIONAL CONVENTION AND CONFERENCE OF GOVERNMENT CIVIL ENGINEERS OF THE PHILIPPINES The Association of Government Civil Engineers of the Philippines (AGCEP) will hold its Sixth National Convention and Conference at Quezon City on March 17-20, 1971 on the theme: “The Government Civil Engineers and the Technological Challenges of the 70’s.” The main feature of the convention will be discussion on how government civil engineers shall meet the technological challenges confronting them in the decade of the seventies. It shall endeavor to upgrade the present standard of civil engineering education, devise ways and means of checking the growing menace of environmental pollution and accelerate the present infrastructure development program. Departments proper, bureaus, offices, chartered cities and provincial governments, as well as government owned or controlled corporations, are hereby authorized to send not more than two (2) of their civil engineers who are members of the AGCEP to this convention. Various public works and public highways engineering districts may send one representative each. This limitation as to number does not apply to conference officials. Those attending shall be allowed reasonable expenses for transportation, subsistence, lodging and conference fees, chargeable against the appropriation of their respective offices, subject to the availability of funds and the usual accounting and auditing requirements. The delegates shall submit a report of their attendance to their agency heads.1âшphi1 By authority of the President: (SGD.) ROBERTO V. REYES Acting Assistant Executive Secretary Manila, January 22, 1971 The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation