Billeting center of Palaro ready for occupancy

DAVAO DEL NORTE — The sign on the gate is clear and simple: “Ready For Occupancy.”

The billeting assignments for athletes and officials for the 2015 Palarong Pambansa were drawn Friday last week and what the facilities only need are the athletes and officials – 10,000 or so of them – who will vie in the annual multi-sport competition to be hosted by Davao del Norte this summer from May 3 to 9.

“We are proud to say that every billeting center is ‘Ready For Occupancy!’” Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo del Rosario said. “Similar with our playing venues, we are ready to host the Palaro anytime, even tomorrow.”

Making Davao del Norte unique from previous Palarong Pambansa hosts is the strategic location of its billeting facilities from the Davao del Norte Sports Complex, according to Del Rosario.

“Travel time from the billeting areas to the competition venues and back will be convenient to everyone,” Del Rosario explained.

Putting premium on road safety at a maximum 35 kph within the confines of the capital to 60 kph in the outskirts, ferrying the student athletes and officials to the sports complex would border from a quick one minute drive at the minimum to 39 minutes at the maximum.

Of the 22 billeting facilities, only three are outside a 5-km radius from the sports complex.