Capitol and city hall have partnered to expand the facilities at the Cogon Night High School which enrollment, like its regular day classes, is expected to keep growing. The province under Gov. Edgar Chatto and Vice Gov. Concepcion Lim aided P1.5 million while the Tagbilaran City government of Mayor John Geesnell Yap II and Vice Mayor Jose Antonio Veloso chipped in P200,00. The sum is intended to buy a lot for additional classrooms as student population steadily climbed in recent years and is foreseen to further increase next school year. Chatto and Yap led in the ceremonial turnover of checks witnessed by school and Department of Education (DepEd) – City Division officials, teachers and parents.

The governor and the mayor cast hope in First District Rep. Rene Relampagos, himself a generous development supporter who also graced the event, to principally assist in the construction of new classrooms. Chatto was told of the increasing number of students in both regular day and special night classes of the school. Night classes have been established and institutionalized for the children of poor or low-income families who have only night spare time for studies because they mostly work at daytime to support their parents. Chatto and Yap granted the request of the teachers and parents whose pleas for support were usually flatly denied during the past city administration.

Not just of the Cogon school, teachers often got “castigated” by the former city leadership should they ask for school improvement and other supports from the governor who was a congressman then. But still, Chatto, as the solon then of the First District, was able to construct a building which now houses some classrooms at the school in Cogon, which is the city's and province's biggest barangay by population. The convergence of efforts of the province and incumbent city hall to improve the city school attests to Boholano resilience and resolve to recover from the worst earthquake disaster. (Ven rebo Arigo)