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DPW plans to move to Capitol Hill
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Posted on May 01 2006
The Department of Public Works is planning to move to a government building on Capitol Hill to save the department from spending $80,000 a year for office rental.
DPW Secretary Jose S. Demapan told the Saipan Tribune that the department’s administration and other offices would hopefully be relocated to the old public lands’ office on Capitol Hill this year.
Demapan said DPS is trying to renovate and redesign the old public lands’ office to accommodate their offices and stop renting the building in Gualo Rai. But the secretary said their technical services would remain in Lower Base as it is housed in a government property.
Demapan said the problem in the DPW is “connectivity.”
“We do not connect with these other divisions. That’s what I’m trying to do now—set a management meeting with every division to make sure that I get this connectivity with employees from that area to the administration,” he said.
“Sometimes they know something that we don’t know here. I want to make sure that all communications must go to this office. Everything that goes around DPW, the secretary must know,” he added.
