The task force aims to draft a comprehensive plan to resolve issues with the BCDA surrounding unfulfilled conditionalities, a revenue-sharing agreement, and the segregation of 13 barangays
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The 19 conditionalities were first introduced through City Council Resolution 362 in 1994 to guide the CJH Master Development Plan. Two key provisions, Conditions 9 and 10, set the terms for revenue-sharing between the BCDA and the city government. Condition 9 mandates that 3% of gross income from operations within the John Hay Special Economic Zone be allocated to the city government, and an additional 1% to a community development fund.
City Councilor Betty Lourdes Tabanda, who questioned BCDA’s failure to comply, referenced a 2020 Supreme Court decision that implicitly recognized Conditions 9 and 10, and called for the BCDA to accept the entire set of conditionalities. Councilor Jose Molintas criticized the BCDA’s approach, calling it a “divide-and-rule” tactic. He added, “You will get all the sales out of the lands but you will leave all the problems to the city.”
within the area, many of whom have ancestral claims to the land. Indigenous leaders and advocates have long called for the government to honor their rights, as CJH was originally part of ancestral domains prior to its conversion into a military reservation. While JHMC Board of Directors member Kristoffer Dance explained that the BCDA and JHMC boards must first approve any commitment to the conditionalities, he assured the council that the request would be relayed to the proper authorities.
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