By: Mac Ramirez
As part
of Commission on Elections Strategic Plan 2011-2016 (COMSTRAT1116), the
Honorable Chairman Sixto S. Brillantes Jr. Will lead today the signing of the
contract to sell and the groundbreaking ceremony for the lot where the COMELEC’s
own Main Office Building will be constructed.
The
20,160 square-meter lot is located at the Central Business Park 1-A, Bay City
in Pasay City.
According
to Engr. Julio Thaddeus Hernan, Director IV of the COMELEC’s Administrative
Services Department, the proposed COMELEC Main Office Building will likely be
composed of three (3) structures that shall include a seven (7) storey COMELEC
Administrative Building, housing all Offices and Departments, the Offices of
the COMELEC National Capital Region, and Region IV, a multi-purpose building
that may also be used for storage; and a conference hall and dormitory for
COMELEC field personnel.
Hernan
disclosed that after surveying possible sites, the lot along the bay area was
chosen based on its cost and its accessibility to airports and seaports. Hernan emphasized that the chosen site would
also be beneficial to a significant number of COMELEC main office employees as
it would shorten their commute from home to work.
Hernan
sees the completion of the COMELEC Main Office Building in two (2) year’s time
as enshrined in COMSTRAT Pillar 10 which vows to “construct COMELEC’s own main
office building and field offices for improved morale, efficiency and
independence,” before 2016.
