In April and May 2022 at PIC, the CNMI Office of the Governor Infrastructure and Recovery Program or IRP, and the FEMA Interagency Recovery Coordination, under the FEMA Joint Recovery Office, held the remaining three trainings in a four-session series that covered Public Assistance in coordination with the Governor’s Authorized Representative and both the local and FEMA Public Assistance Offices. A total of 121 attended from PA subrecipient departments and agencies who are now better trained to respond more quickly and effectively to meet the community’s needs in times of disasters.
April 27-28, 2022
May 2-3, 2022
May 4-5, 2022
Through facilitating communication and sharing information, the governor’s Infrastructure and Recovery Program identified an efficient approach to the Garapan Revitalization Project, allowing sewerline and roads to make progress by enabling the projects to occur simultaneously and avoiding unnecessary costs for agencies if roads had to be opened up to allow CUC to replace sewerlines after the projects were completed.
For the CUC Garapan sewerline replacement project, a check for $2 million is handed to the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. by the Office of the Governor. From left Mariano Iglesias, Infrastructure and Recovery Program civil engineer; Marianne Concepcion-Teregeyo, IRP coordinator; Gov. Ralph DLG Torres, CUC Executive Director Gary Camacho, CUC Board Chair Miranda V. Manglona, Commonwealth Economic Development Authority Chair Aubry M. Hocog, and CUC Board Member Janice A. Tenorio.
On May 24-26, 2022, the 2nd Pacific Preservation Summit: Technology Empowering Cultural Heritage was hosted by the Guam Preservation Trust. Regional historical preservation offices and those involved in historic/cultural preservation were invited to attend and learn about the use of technology to promote historic and cultural preservation. From left, Infrastructure and Recovery Program Lead Archaeologist Jeremy Freeman; IRP Anthropologist Keona DLG Torres, Guam State Historic Preservation Officer Patrick Lujan, IRP Lead Biologist Randy Teal, IRP Coordinator Marianne Concepcion-Teregeyo, Guam Preservation Trust Chief Program Officer Joe Quintana, IRP Archaeologist Scott Bierly and IRP Project Liaison Deveney Dela Cruz.
