Special General Assembly at San Antonio Housing Homeowners Association held

The PLGU-Davao de Oro’s Housing and Homesite Division (HHD) in collaboration with National Housing Authority, and the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) conducted a special general assembly and election of officers for San Antonio’s Housing Association on August 31, 2022.

San Antonio Village I is located at Brgy. Maparat in Compostela with a total of two thousand five hundred (2,500) settlers according to HDD, thus the need to concretely systematize community leaders for the improvement of the village. Executive Assistant for Communications and Public Relation Edward B. Macapili represented Governor Dorothy Montejo-Gonzaga during the conduct of the event. He conveyed that the provincial government will do its function to settle existing conflicts in the housing settlement in accordance with due process of the law.

On the same day, the body conducted an election for the Committee on Elections of the village. DHSUD conducted an orientation on R.A. 9904, also known as the Magna Carta for Homeowners and Homeowners Association as a preparation for their re-accreditation right after the establishment of the association.

Meanwhile, the election for San Antonio’s Grievance Committee will be on the second week of December together with the election for the Board of Directors.

The success of the general assembly is a first step toward resolving concerns and conflicts in the issuance of the settler’s home titles. This will also ingress basic government services, and sustainable livelihood programs, and strengthen the maintenance of the village regulations and other necessary undertakings.

Present during the event were Compostela Mayor Levi Ebdao, HDD Head Sue Getrude Generale, personnel from the DHSUD and NHA Region XI, and Brgy. Officials of Brgy. Maparat. The special general assembly will also be conducted on the remaining housing settlements in the province in the coming weeks. (JA, PAO-IPRD DdO, photos by J. Cadiz)