Davao City gov't completes inventory of properties

The Davao City Council is intensifying efforts to fully utilize city-owned properties, with plans to recover untitled lands and identify government-use sites for schools, public markets, infirmaries, and police outposts.

- By IVY TEJANO

In Tuesday's Pulong-Pulong sa Dabawenyos media forum at the Sangguniang Panlungsod, Committee on Government Properties chairperson Councilor J. Melchor Quitain Jr. said they completed an updated inventory of all city-owned properties last year.

The Task Force on the Inventory of Real Properties of the City Government of Davao, led by lawyer Francis Fernandez, completed the comprehensive inventory of the properties following a series of committee hearings.

Quitain said the committee has requested the City Planning and Development Office to provide an update on the status of properties that are suitable for government utilization, such as schools, infirmaries, public markets, and police outposts.

The councilor, who is also a lawyer, noted that while the city has an extensive list of properties, a significant portion of these properties are not yet officially titled in the city's name due to incomplete documentation.

"We will coordinate with the task force or the REPTAF to recover, at a minimum, one-fourth of the properties that should be titled in Davao City's name," Quitain said, adding that every councilor is entitled to or is allowed to get a copy of the list from REPTAF.