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Posted on May 29 2004
It is disgusting how the MVA Board makes decisions; don’t they realize the hypocrisy they stand for? How dare the MVA Board hire Mr. Ogren, stating that he is the best candidate because he came from an Ivy League University, and then right away hire Mrs. Benavente and state that education is not an important issue, and not even a clearcut requirement? Give me a break.
And thank you, Mr. Santos, for having the balls to bring the issue up (again) of MVA’s unfair hiring practices to the public’s attention. Even though I’m not even remotely involved in the tourism industry, this mismanagement has got to end. There has to be a way to change the board’s policy once and for all to support some type of education requirement, especially since that person will be receiving an annual salary of up to $70,000.
The MVA board is wrong to think that plain old “management experience” in and of itself is better than the combined formal education, continuing education and management experience that Mr. Santos has. The government heads, legislators and even the Governor himself all express a desire to have more educated, qualified locals return and/or stay in the CNMI, and yet they are complacent to have a board hire uneducated people to top positions. I’m sorry Mrs. Benavente, but if you wanted the job that badly…you should have sacrificed like the rest of us and gone to school to offer us more than just “management experience.”
Shelly Mendiola
Dandan Village
