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4 named to scholarship board
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Posted on Sep 16 2014
Gov. Eloy S. Inos appointed four individuals to serve as initial members of the scholarship board of directors, some six months after he signed into law a bill establishing a new scholarship office as an autonomous agency rather than under the governor’s office.
Their appointments, pursuant to Public Law 18-40, require the Senate’s advice and consent.
Inos’ appointees representing Saipan include Dr. Alfred B. Ada, Jacqueline Che, and Kodep Ogumoro-Uludong, while representing Tinian is Chellette San Nicolas.
The scholarship board of directors reviews applications for student grants, student loans, and other student financial assistance programs that the CNMI Scholarship Office administers.
Inos appointed Ada yesterday, while Che, Ogumoro, and San Nicolas were appointed Friday.
Ada is currently the Public School System’s Career and Technical Education Program manager and a former principal of Kagman High School and William S. Reyes Elementary School.
Che is with Northern Marianas College, while the two others are also educators. Ogumoro-Uludong and Che were among those asked to resign from the CNMI scholarship board last year when it was still under the governor’s office.
The new appointment is a four-year term. But because the terms of the “initial” members are staggered when the board is established, the term of each member will be determined by the drawing of lots.
Therefore, if confirmed, each of the four appointees will serve either a term of three or four years.
Inos, in four separate letters to Senate President Ralph Torres (R-Saipan), said he’s confident that the appointees will devote their time and efforts on the important board.
Because the Senate has just received the governor’s appointees, a public hearing on their nominations have yet to be scheduled by the Senate Committee on Executive Appointments and Governmental Investigations.
