By Mortz C. Ortigoza
CALASIAO – The new lady
principal here is hell bent to solve the dilemma brought by her P350, 000 a month Maintenance
and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE) that could hardly sustain the monthly electrical bill, salaries of her more
than 20 security guards and utility men, and other expenses in the biggest public high school in this burgeoning town.
Principal IV Olive
Paragas Terrado, Ed.D told this writer that the Calasiao Comprehensive National
High School pays P150,000 a month for the monthly electric bill and P250, 000 for the three security
guards and the 20 utility men alone every month who serve roughly 5,500 secondary education students here.
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| Calasiao Comprehensive National High School Principal Dr, Olive P. Terrado (R) poses for posterity with her former boss San Carlos City, Pangasinan School Division Superintendent Sheila Marie Primicias. |
MOOE is the allocated funds for public elementary and secondary schools in the Philippines that can be spent on activities and necessities like electricity and water that support learning programs and help maintain a safe and healthy environment.
“Each of my three guards receives P10, 000 monthly alone while the more than 20 utility men are paid less than P10, 000 a month ,” Terrado who took over the premier secondary school from Magdalena C. Manaoat, Ph.D six months ago.
Terrado was the
principal of the main public high school in Malasiqui, Pangasinan for four
years before she swapped with Manaoat where the latter is now the principal of
Daniel Maramba National High School in Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan.
Terrado cited the canteen here will be the savior that could
sustain the expenses covered by the P350,000 a month MOOE here.
“Based on my experience running the canteen of Malasiqui
where we earned there a net profit of P120, 000 monthly, I can make a turn-around
on the canteen here with that same amount”.
Malasiqui National High
School based at the poblacion of the town has 3,500 students only.
She explained that when
she took the top reign of the highschool here the canteen earned a measly P26,000
monthly.
“When I pressed the management headed by a teacher to remit a higher
amount the following month, she gave P40,000 plus, on the second month she remitted more than P60, 000”.
In the coming school
year, Terrado cited, she will improve the canteen to spike the revenues so it
could help bankroll the expenses of the school every month.
“Recently, we sent students for a practice of the NSTP at
the division office in Lingayen, we sent them twice there thanks that we have
funds from our canteen to defray the P70,000 travel expenses and their foods
there”.
One of the reforms she
has moist eye is to downsize the use of air conditioned system where some teachers
will be relocated to use an air conditioned office to mitigate the electric bill
of P150, 000 monthly.
She cited her
experience at Malasiqui where teachers maximize a certain office as their
lounge thus paying a smaller amount of power bill monthly there.
Aside from the number of air conditions she looks also to the number of lightning system that permeate during night time in the five hectares campus.
Aside from the number of air conditions she looks also to the number of lightning system that permeate during night time in the five hectares campus.
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