City takes proactive stance as typhoon season looms

With the typhoon season now looming upon us, the city government is once again taking a proactive stance as Mayor Benjamin Magalong directed Special Services Division officer-in-charge Michelle Agbuya to immediately send a memo to barangay officials to check all trees that need to be cut down or trimmed in their respective areas that could cause hazard or danger to life and property.   

The Mayor gave the directive during the regular management committee meeting of city government managers, June 14, at the City Hall multi-purpose hall.    

“We should always be proactive during the typhoon season,” Magalong, chair of the city disaster risk reduction and management council (CDRRMC), stressed.

He also ordered General Services Office head Eugene Buyucan to reiterate the city’s directive to barangays to make sure that garbage in their jurisdictions are already collected before a typhoon hits and that no one brings out their solid wastes during the height of the weather disturbance.    

The Mayor asked both officials to have him sign the requested memos to give more emphasis on the importance of these directives.

Similar directives have been issued by the city government in the past years especially during the typhoon season in line with one of its 16-point core agenda that calls for an efficient disaster management program.

Earlier, the City DRRM Office under Antonette Anaban conducted several seminar-workshops involving CDRRMC members that formulated contingency plans for Earthquakes, Hydrometeorological disasters (including typhoons) and Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases like the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. – Gaby B. Keith