A task force formed by the FSM Consulate Office on Guam is gearing up to put their plans into action and take it out to the community.

Since last year's machete attack in Mangilao a task force was formed by FSM Consul General Teresa Filipin. The goal? "Encourage our citizens to try to you know live in the communities and be productive members of the communities," she said.

The FSM Task Force is comprised of representatives from the various FAS and FSM communities in Guam. Recently Filipin met with village mayors.

"Some of our plans right now is to get the Mayors Council's support in some of our efforts," she explained. "One of them is looking into the orientation of our folks living here on Guam the do's and don'ts. Getting access to resources and where they can get assistance, so part of that whole scheme is to make it a requirements when people apply for the mayor's verification make it a requirement from the mayor's side to have our folks here go through an orientation program. This is working very closely with the Micronesian Resource Center. The effort is ongoing but we're not able to capture you know a lot of people in this - this really goes to the consulate's plan to implement pre orientation before moving to Guam and then an orientation on the ground.

"Some things are simple as how to navigate the system and even simpler how to walk the streets how to obey traffic signs and all of that, so some of our folks who move here they come from a community where they don't have traffic lights. Simple things like that. Make it more so that they're more aware of their surrounding and their new environment."

Filipin says they've also spoke with Adelup which approves of the idea. The mandatory orientation also serves another purpose, which she said, "And it will also be a way for us to keep track of our citizens here on Guam because through the mayor's office we get that information and we will be able to reach out to our citizens here."

The orientation plan will still need to be fine tuned. "This is an idea right now and we need to do a plan of operation and see how we can vet it out and make it so that it's legal and we're not starting something now and later on it has to be sustainable," she said.

Although the FSM task force is comprised of representatives of the various FSM AND FAS communities there are plans to add representatives appointed by each village mayor to join. And like last year's town hall meetings on public safety held by the governor, the FSM task force will be following suit.

"There were a lot of important takeaways - a lot of our meetings been really about what transpired at the community meetings, so the task force now is looking into having our own Micronesian town hall meetings in each of the communities," said Filipin.