technical working group formed to evaluate school site at country club

BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio Domogan last week created a technical working group to evaluate the 8,559-square meter lot identified as school site at the Baguio Country Club Village.
In Administrative Order No. 84, the mayor designated Councilor Peter Fianza as chair and city engineer Leo Bernardez as co-chair of the TWG with city building official Engr. Nazita Banez and a representative from the Environment Management Bureau of the Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources as members.
The TWG will be tasked primarily to order the conduct of a soil test to determine the soil capacity of the area to house a school building.  It will also take charge of evaluating and assessing whether the lot is slide-prone and not safe as school site and determining whether engineering intervention can be introduced to remedy the situation.
The mayor said there is a need to determine the feasibility of the lot as a school site after Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) president and chief operating officer Arnel Casanova objected to its use as such on the ground of safety based on the report of the EMB-DENR-CAR that the area is prone to landslides.
The mayor said the lot was identified as a school building site on June 14, 2012.
“The (area) is outside the fence of Camp John Hay and within the Baguio Country Club Barangay which is to be excluded from John Hay Reservation pursuant to No. 14 of the 19 conditionalities for the development of Camp John Hay per Resolution No. 362 series of 1994 which was approved by Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA),” the mayor said.
He gave the TWG a month from August 3 to complete and submit a report.