BUDGET MONITORING. Members of the Eastern Visayas Regional Development Council during their first face-to-face meeting since mid-2020 on Thursday (June 23, 2022) at the Leyte provincial capitol. Included in the agenda was budget performance monitoring in the region.(PNA photo by Roel Amazona) TACLOBAN CITY - Some PHP30.21 billion budget of national government agencies in Eastern Visayas remain undisbursed as of the first quarter of 2022, representing 81 percent of the total obligated funds since last year, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) reported. During the first face-to-face Regional Development Council (RDC) meeting that ended late Thursday, the DBM regional office here reported that PHP29.85 billion of funds for the first quarter of 2022 remained unspent by the end of March. Last year, there was still PHP350 million unspent outlay of various national government agencies in Eastern Visayas, DBM assistant regional director Aleli Hernandez said during the meeting at the