What should be done with public property that has been sitting idle for three decades?  Senator Joe San Agustin’s Bill 6 seeks to transfer DISID’s former Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to establish an administrative office and training facility in support of Guam’s athletes in the Special Olympics program. 

Longtime volunteer coach and special education teacher Royanne Salas says they have been operating out of a “hole in the wall” and these athletes need a home.  "They don’t have a place to call home," she testified. "My athletes from high school, when they go to adult league, they have no place to practice. They’re doing it on the beach. They’re asking schools to use their fields. Now schools are closing their fields off for some other reason, for repairs.

"So I see them on the beach, I see them on the road. There’s no place to call home for these athletes. These are athletes. They should be treated as such."

But the CHamoru Land Trust Commission is against its transfer, with commissioner David Herrera suggesting to merge their programs with the Guam Department of Education, adding to "ratify an MOU to utilize the existing facilities that are slated to be vacated such as the Harry S. Truman Elementary School that is being proposed to be merged with the Marcial Sablan Elementary School. The Harry S. Truman Elementary School is an existing and functional educational facility that will greatly serve both the administrative office and the athletes."