HIRING, PROMOTIONS DEFERRED

NO qualified personnel can still be appointed to help in the delivery of basic services and special programs and neither will the city hall employees set for promotion can get their due because the 7-majority suspended action anew on the resolution granting Mayor Belen Fernandez the authority to do it.

Reason? Councilor Alfie Fernandez, chairman of the committee of civil service did not show up on the day he asked Vice Mayor Bryan Kua to appear before the committee hearing scheduled on May 23 in order to pass the resolution for the creation of a Personnel Selection Board.

City Secretary Ryan Ravanzo said Vice Mayor Kua waited at the ground floor for the committee to call him to the hearing but he was not called. It was learned after the committee adjourned that it was Councilor Alfie Fernandez, who directed the committee not to proceed with the hearing because he wanted the hearing to be suspended for another week.

Recall that during the May 16 session of the SP, Minority Leader, Councilor Michael Fernandez, asked the majority why Draft Resolution No. 6209-2022 has not been passed when it was submitted to the SP in September last year, together with the letter of Mayor Belen Fernandez, certifying it as urgent, and despite five hearings already conducted by committee last year.

Councilor Alfie then replied it was because Vice Mayor Kua did not appear before their committee hearing last year and only sent City Secretary Ravanzo as his representative.

On being told that his presence will facilitate the approval of the resolution, Vice Mayor Kua assured Councilor Alfie he will make himself available in next committee hearing scheduled on May 23.

The new delay prompted Councilor Michael Fernandez to manifest that Vice Mayor Kua arrived at 12 noon for the 1.30 hearing on Draft  Resolution 6209-2022.

Passage of Draft Resolution No. 6209-2023 is a requirement of the Civil Service Commission (CSC). Without the resolution passed, Mayor Fernandez cannot appoint any personnel to more than 80 vacant plantilla positions in the city government.

City Secretary Ravanzo said there were 17 ordinances and resolutions that were approved during the committee hearing that took place from 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on May 23, which were all passed during the SP session later on that day, except Draft Resolution No. 6209-2022. (Leonardo Micua)

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