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Friday, April 29, 2005
GSIS ID system to save city P.7M, thousands of man-hours
A SIMPLE request by the Baguio City Council for the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) to bring its eCard machine here for the issuance of GSIS membership identification cards to City Hall employees will save the local government P.752 million and prevent loss of thousands of working hours for public service.
Instead of the City's over 1,000 employees traveling to the GSIS eCard center in Calasiao, Pangasinan, the machine will be transported to Baguio and installed at the City Hall's multi-purpose center for the processing of the identification cards on the first week of May.
The council asked for such arrangement in response to a memorandum circular signed by GSIS field office manager Delia Madarazo and which set the dates for local and National Government agencies in the Cordillera and Region I to send their respective employees for the centralized ID processing in Calasiao.
The memorandum listed a total of 17,456 GSIS members in 212 local and national government lines agencies the Cordillera alone. The listed offices advised to have their employees go to Calasiao for the processing of their eCards on their designated schedules from February to June this year.
Processing time takes about one day per office but the employees would actually spend more than one day considering their travel time to and from the center.
In asking that the machine be brought up here, the council noted that the transport expenses and allowances of City-paid employees who would go to Calasiao during the city's schedule from Feb. 28 to March 10 would total P752,150.
"The projected expenses are not included in the current year's appropriation and the cost of man hours lost are not included in the computation," said the resolution-request authored by Councilor Edilberto Tenefrancia, noted and supported by Councilors Faustino Olowan, Erdolfo Balajadia and Leandro Yangot Jr.
The expenses of the other agencies in Region 1 and the Cordilleras in having their employees report for their ID processing in Calasiao would also total to millions of pesos.
The council pointed out that a similarly more convenient and less costly working arrangement had already been done when the regional consular office of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) conducted an outreach passport service here last year.
The council resolution adopted last February 21 also asked the GSIS to extend the scheduled eCard enrolment here to employees of line agencies and other local government units (LGUs) in the Cordilleras.
In response, Madarazo, in a letter dated April 13 to Mayor Braulio Yaranon, asked that the City provide two telephone lines, chairs, tables, movable dividers and marshals needed by the GSIS staff in it outreach program first week of May.
She explained that the eCard will be used by GSIS members in transacting business with the insurance system. (Ramon Dacawi)
(April 29, 2005 issue)
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