The Department of Budget and Management sent the Commission on Elections a crucial document that would enable the poll body to fulfill its longtime dream of constructing an office building complex.
The Comelec said on Thursday, April 13, that it received from the DBM on March 28 what is called multi-year contractual authority, which states that the budget department will cover the cost of the poll body’s building construction within a three-year period starting 2023.2024: P3.713 billionThe building complex will be located along Macapagal Avenue in Pasay City, on a P1-billion lot that was bought by the Comelec under the leadership of the late former chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. in 2011.
Numerous factors contributed to the project’s delay: the Comelec prioritized elections, private companies that were eyed to finance the project through a public-private partnership backed out, and the Department of Public Works and Highways failed to attract bidders for a detailed design of the proposed building.
In August 2022, Chairman George Garcia entered the Comelec and revived calls for the construction of a new building, in the wake of a fire that hit a portion of their IT department office in July.
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