SINCE the construction of the Pugaro Evacuation Center was discontinued by Mayor Brian Lim, the community in the island barangay of Pugaro in Dagupan City lamented that it has been without any shelter to run to each time a powerful typhoon hits the city.

They barangay residents have expressed hope that former Mayor Belen Fernandez, who started the construction, will regain the mayoralty post so the planned evacuation center will finally be completed.

As the barangay in Dagupan closest to the sea, Fernandez in a radio talk over DZRD last week said Pugaro island needs a permanent evacuation center to provide shelter to its residents being the most vulnerable  to onslaught of typhoons.

Fernandez said construction of the evacuation center was started in 2019 unfortunately, the new city administration discontinued the construction and diverted the allocated budget to other less relevant projects.

She pledged to complete the Pugaro Evacuation Center if given the mandate to be the city’s next mayor again.

The evacuation center as designed will not only provide temporary shelter during emergency situations but can  be used as venue for social occasions as well.

She said the boat-shaped and three-story structure with a roof deck can become a tourist attraction in the island.

The Pugaro Evacuation Center would have been the second permanent center in the city after the Barangay Salapingao Evacuation Center if Lim administration had seen to its completion.

The infrastructure program started by her administration and which the Lim administration continued was the tensile fabric roofing of the Dagupan City  Plaza.

The completion of the project provides government employees holding flag-raising ceremony every Monday protection from the sun and rain, and enables the city to hold its social events, i.e., Dagupan fiesta, and Bangus Festival, etc. to proceed unhampered rain or shine, she said. (Leonardo Micua)

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