Sunday, May 27, 2018

A few works done by Mayor Ko in Taipei City/Carlos Pueblo


A few works done by Mayor Ko in Taipei City/Carlos Pueblo

Mayor Ko invites his department head to have a lunch box meeting with amateur
internet media to present a few works done by his administration. He doesn’t mind
to be interrupted during his 6 ½ minutes fast swallowing food to answer some point
posted by those two young men. I am very impressed of his management of his limited
24 hours a day and his limited budget of 20 million home equity loan to fight his re-
election at the end of the year. There has been several appearances with different
department, i.e. Dr. Hsu of the city welfare bureau; Mr. Lin of the city development;
city educational bureau; city cultural bureau, and other, 6 of them at present. All
posted on Youtube under the name of Mayor Ko.

Dr. Hsu, the bureau chief of the welfare, has been an associate with the Mayor for a long
Time as his disciple and subordinate at the University medical school as well as the subordinate
Hospital. He has been trained and learned all his professor’s skills to analysis and execute his
task all under a standard operation procedure, SOP. He sets up pilot programs for the poor
neighborhood including homeless 4 area at the beginning in corporation with the city heat
bureau and the city general hospital systems to provide necessary and affordable help within
the city budget and manpower. The program has been expanded several folded each year.

Taipei has been in existence as a city for about 125 years. It was well planned at the beginning
of Japanese rule until 1945 under Nationalist Chinese occupation. Due to several reasons, the
old city becomes deteriorated, unsafe, and inhumane to live. This Mr. Lin, a world known city
planner, convinces Mayor Ko and the city council to budget available fund and manpower to
engage the reconstruction, toll down the building, arrangement of relocation of resident, and
beginning of new construction with advanced residential planning, such as senior care, under
school age children care, and public housing. It can be called the most advanced facility of
modern time in compare with the Netherlands and Germany. He also mentions that the city
hospitals can even provide mobile clinic unit to reach such new residential project to do needed
service. The chief of the city health bureau is also an associate of Mayor Ko, his professor at
NTU Medical School and Hospital.

I only have had a very limited space to introduce the new English learning project, the same as
the re-innovation of residential project, it has been all under SOP, standard operation procedure,
to set up pilot plan and expanded rapidly each year. There are 4 pilot elementary schools selected to have this English pilot program to teach English at the 1st grade and up for certain
hours a week and extended to fine art and music classes to practice. Now, I see English as a second official language in Taiwan can be possible.







No comments: