Dads back request for CJH lot segregation for school site

By Aileen P. Refuerzo

BAGUIO CITY – The city council Monday endorsed to the Camp John Hay Management Corporation the approval of the request of barangay Country Club Village for the identification, segregation and use of a portion of the Camp John Hay reservation as a school site.

In a resolution authored by Councilor Peter Fianza, the body also urged the JHMC to consider the immediate grant of a temporary or conditional permit for the construction of a school building to be funded from a national allocation pending the approval of the request for segregation.

Fianza noted that the site has been identified by the City Land Needs and Identification Committee upon request of the barangay as a school site as early as 1991.

On the strength of a permit issued by the JHMC, the barangay was able to construct two additional temporary classrooms on the site.

“With all the classrooms of the barangay being located in different places in the barangay and all of temporary nature and use, the school site has to be established (and) the barangay thus has to reiterate and pursue its request with the immediate hope that the construction of the school building be allowed within the year to prevent the allocation for the school building realigned or reverted,” Fianza said.

The barangay under barangay captain DencioAlmag last August 7 approved Resolution No. 24 following up the request reiterating the prioritization of the request for the identification, segregation and use of said lot for said purpose.

“With the (said) request… still pending favorable action, intentions to construct classrooms or a building has not been implemented (and) without the school building, the school and the community will continue to be faced with the absence of classrooms especially with the need to have another classroom for the next grade level,” they said.