I had the opportunity to sit in the Personnel Selection Board as Officer-In-Charge of the Sports Development Division at that time and one of the applicants for a City Hall post was Goldie Delvo.
I really don’t know her well, only the husband, Major Alden Delvo (at that time, ambot unsay ranko ron, Kolonel na guro) who like us, loves to play basketball at the Davao City Recreation Center and is one of our news sources.
When then HR Department Chief, ma’am Laping (she’s now retired), gave me the floor to ask the questions to the applicants for a post in the Sports Division, my question was designed to tinker their minds as to how they would handle sports development programs with a damned meager budget.
It was Goldie who gave an outstanding answer. To me, it was Golden. And I think, that is why her name is Goldie.
Goldie opened her answer saying that the government and the private sector must work together for a sports development program to be successful. She mentioned that because of the many basic services that a local government will fund and faced with a booming population, it is but normal for resources to be not plentiful for sports.
Goldie will go outside to even negotiate with local sports leaders to help in drawing up a plan for the city’s sports development. This, friends, is just an interview but she has the mind of a sports think tank already.
City Hall was right in hiring her. The last time I checked, she was the Deputy Sports Coordinator of the City of Davao and now she is gunning for a seat in the City Council.
Goldie has the educational qualification, the experience in sports management and she can be your greatest ally in pursuing sports development programs in the City Council of Davao.
Walay butbut na mga higala.
