By Dominic B. dela Cruz
Staff reporter
Batac
City—All public elementary and secondary schools
in this city are now also evacuation centers for calamities and disasters.
This was the result of a
recent Sangguniang Panlungsod resolution that authorized Batac Mayor Albert D.
Chua to enter into a memorandum of agreement with the local Dept. of Education
office here. Division supt. Joann A. Corpuz will represent DepEd in the MOA.
Batac councilor Jeremiah C.
Nalupta sponsored the resolution is in line with the thrust of the national and
local leaderships to mitigate the impact of such foreseen and unforeseen
disasters and calamities.
Mr. Nalupta said this is for
the city’s preparedness and resilience to minimize, if not eradicate, undue
losses such as lives and properties.
The vice chairman of the
committee on education therefore, said that the city government should have
initiatives and protocols to establish a permanent standby or areas which can become
evacuation centers.
He noted that all the public
schools in this city are ideal places as evacuation centers in view of their strategic
locations, sprawling compounds and immediate availability of basic provisions
for lodging, sanitation and basic utilities.
To attain this, the city
council approved a resolution for formality by way of MOA between the city
government and the city DepEd.
Relative to this, Mr. Chua
expressed his agreement with helping the people of Batac specially those
located on the low-lying areas’ needs for evacuation.
Mr. Chua said the city
government will coordinate with the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
Council (CDRRMC) for the proper identification of schools that are suitable
sites as evacuation centers.
The city government will also
coordinate with the concerned agencies and authorities like the police, firefighters,
barangay tanods, and barangay officials to ensure the safety, orderliness and
security of school facilities, pupils, students, teachers as well as the
evacuees.
Ms. Corpuz, for her part,
also welcomes the resolution and promised to continuously monitor the physical
facilities and equipment of the schools targeted and identified as evacuation
centers are in order whole year round.
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