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Saturday, June 04, 2005
Talisay City to absorb sacked Citom worker
By Garry Cabotaje
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
Romeo Bacaltos, the dismissed casual employee of the Cebu City Traffic Operations Management, will be Talisay City’s new executive assistant on traffic management.
City Administrator and Legal Officer Aurora Econg told reporters yesterday that Mayor Socrates Fernandez already agreed with the recommendation to employ the 54-year-old Bacaltos as a traffic consultant.
Econg, though, said Bacaltos did not apply for the post, adding that it’s the Talisay City Hall’s initiative to hire him upon learning of his fate.
Expert at his work
Bacaltos, a true-blue Talisaynon and father of Councilor Richel Bacaltos, is a pioneering staff member of the Citom, where he worked for 17 years with “perfect attendance.”
Bacaltos reportedly started out as a parking aide, before becoming a field inspector then finally an engineering assistant, when he received a dismissal notice last week.
“We considered his being a Talisaynon and his expertise,” Econg said.
She said City Hall will find ways to hire the other dismissed Citom personnel, who are also Talisay constituents.
Richel, council committee chairman on education, was happy when he learned that his father has been given a chance to serve in Talisay City.
He believes his father’s traffic management expertise can be tapped once he starts working in Talisay.
Vice mayor’s idea
It was Vice Mayor Aberdovey Belleza, Ta-lisay City Traffic Commission chairman, who earlier broached the idea of absorbing the Tali-saynons, who have been unceremoniously kicked out by Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña.
Aside from being saddened, majority of the Talisay City officials said Osmeña’s move was made in vengeance and not based on the dismissed workers’ job performance.
The two cities have been at odds after Talisay City Government insisted on claiming 53.44 hectares of the South Reclamation Project.
Osmeña retaliated by kicking out Talisay fish vendors from Cebu City public markets, and closing the Cebu South Coastal Road.
(June 4, 2005 issue)
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