CH contractors to repair schools

CEBU, Philippines - Mayor Michael Rama will try to tap the services of private contractors and suppliers doing business with Cebu City Hall to help repair some dilapidated schools in the city.

Rama instructed his staff that aside from the contractors and suppliers, others who will be required to attend the meeting he has set are City Administrator Jose Marie Poblete, Education Consultant Ester Cubero, and the supervisors of the City School Board’s projects.

Rama wants to ask the suppliers and contractors of City Hall to adopt a school and initiate the repairs to prepare the schools for the opening of classes.

After meeting with the concerned City Hall contractors and suppliers, the mayor will visit the 40 different elementary and high schools in the city to personally see what their needs are.

Some of the public elementary schools in the city had scheduled their Brigada Eskwela on Saturday where the parents of the pupils will be asked to report to their schools and help prepare the classrooms for the start of classes.

The mayor is hoping that City Hall’s contractors and suppliers will help repair the dilapidated public schools as part of their social responsibility.

The mayor would also want to know from Abe Navaja, the warehouse caretaker of the City School Board, how to speed up the repair of some schools in the city through the Special Education Fund (SEF) budget.

The SEF is equivalent to one percent of the overall real property taxes collected by the Local Government Unit and is intended to be spent for education-related expenses. (FREEMAN)