Mandaue, DepEd inaugurate new 3-storey building

Thursday, February 16, 2012

AFTER 11 years, the Mandaue City Government finally finished the construction of a three-storey building that now houses the Department of Education Mandaue City Division Office.

The City formally turned over the building to the division office last Tuesday.

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“It’s better late than never,” Mayor Jonas Cortes said, speaking to reporters. The construction of the building, he said, was hampered by some issues the City had to settle with the Commission on Audit.

Though it had been left unfinished for some years, engineers have assured the building is safe, said the mayor.

Benjamin Tiongzon, Mandaue City Division administrative officer, said the cost of constructing the building was P12 million.

A portion of the amount was taken from the Priority Development Assistance Fund of Sens. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. and Franklin Drilon.

“We’ve waited for more than a decade. We cannot wait for another year,” he told reporters at the turnover ceremony.

Also last Tuesday, the Aboitiz Foundation turned over 12 computer units and 300 armchairs to the Canduman National High School.

Tiongzon said a portion of the old building of the division office will be demolished in favor of a parking lot. They moved to the new building last Feb. 2.

The office’s frontline transactions, he said, are done in the building’s ground floor.

The building also has a training center equipped with an audio-visual room.

The city engineering office and DepEd officials in the city recently inspected school buildings following the magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck Cebu and Negros last Feb. 6.
The inspection team recommended that a school building in Umapad Elementary School and another one in Opao Elementary School be abandoned after large cracks were found on these buildings.

Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on February 16, 2012.

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