We presented the final shelter plan for the municipality of Pavia last Saturday in coordination with our subject Planning Workshop (P210.1) in DURP. We held it in the meeting room of the HUDCC Region VI office located in Jalandoni Street that is across the University of San Agustin. The initial plan and location were at our classroom in the College of Management at UP Visayas Iloilo City campus but due to the interference of the bomb threat that morning, we decided to just transfer it.

The presentation started past 1 in the afternoon as we needed to finalize a few of the slides during lunch. We also expected the first year students of the DURP course to attend and ask questions on our presentation so the place was pretty much jam-packed. My classmate Atty. Chad was the first presenter while Engr. Nat was the moderator/emcee. The attorney presented the legal basis on the importance of the shelter plan for every LGU and on how it is connected to the national projects. It was followed by the plan’s goals and objectives which were presented by Engr. Louie. The next chapters that were presented were the Pavia Demographics, current Housing situation, assessment of Shelter needs, Affordability analysis, Resources assessment for Shelter provision, and lastly, the Work Plan. I presented the part on the future housing needs as based on the expected population growth.

Questions were raised during the open forum that followed wherein various topics were clarified for the first year students. Good thing Ma’am Eva is there to clarify and explain the scenario. There were a few corrections noted and then after that we wrapped up the activity with a group picture. It was nice that we were able to interact with the other class and share ideas.

This week will be our deadline for the corrected paper and have them printed and bind with one copy for Ma’am Eva and another copy for the municipality of Pavia.

Also this week in particularly Friday will be our final presentation of our Site Plan with Sir Franz. I don’t know what is the progress with the write up yet as we still have to meet this coming Thursday but I still hope the content is made before that day. That presentation will also serve as our final exam score so that made me a bit worried even though this option is better than us actually answering the exam paper.

The last week of the class seems to be so slow but for us realizing that we will be graduating after this one feels so satisfying. Wish us luck that our presentation will be (hopingly) perfectly executed.