Pupils and faculty members of North City Elementary School (NCES) in Dumaguete City thanked the local government and Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo for the two-storey, eight-classroom school building, worth P17.5 million, turned over March 19.
NCES principal Sheldon Serion said that with the new school building that follows the standards of the Department of Education, it is expected that the quality of instruction and learning environment will be enhanced.
Remollo said that seven schools are recipients of the school building program, totaling P81.4 million and taken from the savings of the city government, to help address the shortage of classrooms.
Noting that NCES has almost a thousand students, Dumaguete City Schools Division Superintendent Edmark Ian Cabio thanked Remollo for elevating the learning experience of the students by allocating resources to build more school buildings and improve the facilities.
Cabio said that in all his years as an educator, this is the first time that a local government funded the construction of school buildings and turned them over to DepEd, the city said in a press release.
The school’s Parents-Teachers Association president, Guillermo Villareal, also lauded the consistent and significant support that NCES and the education sector received from Remollo, benefitting learners and teachers.
Remollo, chairperson of the Local School Board, said that, of the P81.4 million budget, P18 million will be for the construction of a two-storey, eight-classroom school building and improvement of covered stage at the Cadawinonan ES;
Two-storey, two-classroom school building and completion of two-storey two-classroom school building for Junob National High School, P5.5 million; three-storey, six-classroom school building and completion of two-storey, two-classroom school building for Camanjac National High School, P10. 6 million; two-storey, six-classroom school building for Cantil-e ES, P9 million; two-storey, eight-classroom school building for South City ES, P17.5 million; and electrical upgrade for the Dumaguete City National High School, amounting to P1 million.
The city government also earlier acquired the campus and buildings of the former Catherina Cittadini School, which Remollo designated as the new home for students and faculty members of both the City Central School and Calindagan Elementary School.
The mayor said that as long as there are savings and additional revenues because of good governance, the Dumaguete LGU will continue constructing buildings and other facilities to support the students in public schools. ||
