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On MPLA fiasco
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Posted on Oct 18 2004
We follow with amusement the warring factions of the board of directors of the Marianas Public Land Authority.
Issues of substance requiring resolution are delayed unnecessarily demonstrating that the board, as a unit, is in fact a dysfunctional body.
It’s obvious too that half the board wanted to micro-manage MPLA while the war intensifies over who is legally the commissioner of this government agency. The net result is fiasco where adolescent fits are publicly displayed.
The childish barbs are but half-cocked views that are far removed from the board’s fiduciary role as a policymaking body. The alternative is simple: Either the board gets its act together or effect termination of each board member forthwith. We have seen enough waste in taxpayers’ money. How far do you wish to drag issues through your streets of waste and immaturity?
The chair’s insensitive remarks regarding a recovering member from heart bypass surgery is coldly rude and culturally insensitive. Is this the way you treat seriously ill colleagues? Would you appreciate the same diatribe had you undergone the same fatal procedure? Whatever happened to compassion?
Obviously, board members have not been able to separate people from issues and until it can successfully employ the power of detachment, only then can it buckle down to policymaking rather than the usual immature intramural exchanges none of us (taxpayers) deserve.
John S. DelRosario, Jr.
As Gonno
