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Five more named to key govt positions
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Posted on Jan 11 2006
Additional key positions within the new Fitial-Villagomez administration have been filled.
Gov. Benigno R. Fitial has appointed Gregorio Guerrero as director of the Emergency Management Office; Patrick J. Tenorio as director of the Office of Homeland Security; Joseph T. Mendiola as chief of Parole; Gonzalo Q. Santos as acting director of the Indigenous Affairs Office; and Steve Mendiola as administrator of the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center.
These appointments, as with previously reported ones, became effective beginning Jan. 9, 2006, when Fitial was sworn into office.
The only exception is Matthew Gregory’s nomination to serve as attorney general. His appointment will be effective Friday, Jan. 13, 2006.
“Please extend your full cooperation to the key members of our new administration, so that we may successfully carry out the business of our constituents, the people of the CNMI,” Fitial said in a memorandum to all government agencies.
In related news, Senate President Joseph Mendiola has yet to appoint the senators who will chair three of the eight standing Senate committees.
Mendiola said during the Senate’s organizational session Monday that he would appoint the chairmen for the committees on Health, Education and Welfare; Public Utilities, Transportation and Communications; and Youth Programs, at a later date.
The senators that already been assigned to chair standing committees are:
– Senate Vice President Pete P. Reyes, Committee on Rules and Procedure and Committee on Federal Relations;
– Sen. Felix T. Mendiola, Committee on Fiscal Affairs;
– Sen. Maria T. Pangelinan, Committee on Resources, Economic Development and Programs;
– Sen. Paterno S. Hocog, Committee on Judiciary, Government and Law; and
– Sen. Henry H. San Nicolas, Committee on Executive Appointments and Government Investigations.
All of the five senators are part of the Senate majority bloc led by Mendiola.
Those who have not been appointed committee chairmanship are Republican senators Paul Manglona and Jude Hofschneider, and independent Sen. Luis Crisostimo. Although they have not signified formal alliance with Mendiola’s group, the three senators voted along with the majority in the organizational session.
