City deploys CELSO workers to parks, streets
The city government has deployed workers to parks and streets to help strengthen park operation and management of traffic.
City Caretaker and Administrator Antonio Orendian Jr. said the workers are part of the Community Emergency Livelihood and Support Outreach (CELSO) program of the city government intended to confront the effects of global financial crisis.
Some 120 CELSO workers are assigned to the augment the 30-man Traffic Enforcement Team of the city; 12 are assigned to the Paseo del Mar; 12 to the Jardin Maria Clara and 70 are assigned to assist in street security and to enforce various city ordinances and such as anti-littering and sidewalk laws among others.
The city’s livelihood program is expected to employ hundreds of jobless individuals for a period ranging from 2-5 months. Daily compensation is P240, according to Orendain.
CELSO is an economic program in support of the national government’s economic resiliency plan which is specifically intended as a pump-priming measure to cushion the impact of the global slowdown, expand social protection, shift resources from slow to fast moving projects and front-loading of resources through various projects.
The projects include the Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Programs (CLEEP) by way of TUPAD (Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged Workers and ISLA (Integrated Services for Livelihood Advancement of the Fisher Folks).
Orendain said different offices of the city have its quota of workers under the CELSO program.
The program is patterned after the national government’s livelihood assistance program being implemented by the Department of Labor and Employment, the city caretaker added. (Sheila Covarrubias)