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‘Resolve issue on Vicky’s pay, replacement’
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Posted on Jan 02 2006
Gov.-elect Benigno R. Fitial has urged the Marianas Visitors Authority to resolve how it would be able to pay for Vicky Benavente’s contract and the hiring of her replacement.
“The board better resolve that,” Fitial said Friday. “We are definitely hiring a new MVA managing director.”
MVA is one of the seven government agencies that Fitial wants under his direct control when he takes over the Executive Branch next week.
MVA managing director Vicky Benavente’s contact has been terminated effective Jan. 13, 2006. The board said that it would pay Benavente based on her contract, which expires in June next year.
MVA board chairman said it is “for humanitarian reason” that the board made its decision, coupled with its desire to give the incoming board a free hand to hire its own managing director.
“She has to fulfill her contract until June but I felt, for humanitarian reason, and coupled with the need to accord the new administration [freedom], I have decided to bring this matter before the board, and the board agreed with me,” he said.
Benavente took over the position in an acting capacity in June 2004, replacing Jonas Ogren.
She served as deputy managing director from 1998 until her official appointment as head of MVA last year.
Benavente started as a management intern and marketing assistant under then Marianas Visitors Bureau in 1988.
