Javier Jiménez (mayor)

Javier Jiménez is a Puerto Rican politician and the current mayor of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Jiménez is affiliated with the New Progressive Party (PNP) and has served as mayor since 2005.[1]

Javier Jiménez
Mayor of San Sebastián
Assuming office
January 14, 2005
SucceedingJusto Medina Estévez
Personal details
Political partyNew Progressive Party (PNP)

Hurricane Maria

Hurricane Maria, on September 20, 2017, triggered numerous landslides in San Sebastián with the significant amount of rain that fell. The hurricane winds knocked the power out and the entire municipality was left in the dark, as was the rest or Puerto Rico.[2][3]

Top of monument honoring Pepino Power Authority.
Bottom of monument honoring Pepino Power Authority.

Two weeks after the hurricane decimated the island, Jiménez noticed that help was not on the way. He decided that San Sebastián would not wait for the AEE brigades to come. He assembled an ad hoc team of volunteers, some who were retired AEE electricians and their mandate was to get the electrical power back up and running, for the people of San Sebastián. They were able to restore 92% of the electricity within two months.[4] A monument honoring the accomplishments of the Pepino Power Authority, as they were quickly named, was erected in Plaza de la Identidad Pepiniana in San Sebastián barrio-pueblo.[5]

In early 2019, Jiménez received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) for mitigating the power failure.[6]

References
  1. "Alcalde de San Sebastián, Elecciones Generales 2004". CEEPUR. Archived from the original on 2012-10-06.
  2. "Preliminary Locations of Landslide Impacts from Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico". USGS Landslide Hazards Program. USGS.
  3. "Preliminary Locations of Landslide Impacts from Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico" (PDF). USGS Landslide Hazards Program. USGS.
  4. "Pepino Power Authority será galardonada en Luisiana". El Nuevo Dia. 23 April 2019.
  5. "Pepino Power Authority es una iniciativa de pueblo". El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish). 29 December 2017.
  6. Notiséis 360 (25 April 2019). "Reconocen a la "Pepino Power Authority" en Estados Unidos • WIPR".


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