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TWG to study partnership for school canteen mgmt project
- Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1461501062237/twg-to-study-partnership-for-school-canteen-mgmt-project
- Thursday, July 27, 2017
- (JBD/SP)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- The City Council committees on health and sanitation and health insurance, on education and on roads and traffic management jointly proposed the creation of a Technical Working Group (TWG) that will study the possible partnership between the Department of Education (DepEd) and the city government on canteen management and operation.
This was agreed during the joint committee meeting in relation to the proposed ordinance regulating ambulant vendors doing business within 50-meters from the school premises.
During the meeting, lawyer Laurence Del Puerto, representative of Department of Education, said pursuant to DepEd Order No. 8, all school canteens should be duly managed by administration or by the canteen-operated Teachers Cooperative.
He said school canteens should not sell food items that have high content of sugar and salt such as junk foods and other beverages. Foods must have Pinoy seal, he added.
Councilor Reuben Daba, vice-chair of the committee on health, asked the DepEd about the possibility of including ambulant vendors in the Bottom-Up-Budgeting (BuB) program, considering that ambulant vendors secure business permits and undergo a series of health training from the City Health Office.
The committees, chaired by Councilors Maria Lourdes S. Gaane, Suzette Magtajas-Daba and Romeo Calizo, requested the DepEd for possible exemption from DepEd Order No. 8 and that for schools that have no canteen; the city government will construct a canteen and allow the ambulant vendors to operate the same under the BUB program, in partnership with DepEd.
The committees, likewise, proposed the conduct of a public consultation with the Parents-Teachers-Association on the possible partnership of DepEd and the city government for the construction of school canteens and its operation under the BUB.