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Glenn Muña is named new associate commissioner of PSS
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Posted on Feb 16 2012
The Public School System has a new permanent associate commissioner, a position that has been vacant for many years.
Education Commissioner Rita A. Sablan confirmed with Saipan Tribune yesterday that Glenn Muña was appointed to the position on Feb. 6.
Muña is a former principal of Oleai Elementary School. Jack Sablan takes over as principal of Oleai school.
“We’re very happy with his appointment. Glenn was appointed on Feb. 6 and he went through an extensive interview process. This is an internal competitive position we opened to anybody in PSS to apply,” Sablan told Saipan Tribune yesterday.
According to Sablan, Muña was one of two applicants who went through a rigorous interview process with four different panels.
Muña takes over the post vacated last year by former acting associate commissioner for administrative services Peter Leau.
David Borja was the last associate commissioner to occupy the post in a permanent capacity. He left the post to become the education commissioner, the post now occupied by Sablan.
Sablan disclosed that since Leau’s departure, the post has been announced internally. She said the human resource office got four inquiries but only two actually submitted formal applications. The two candidates were interviewed by a panel of administrators, a panel of instructional staffers, a panel of the education board members, and a panel of the HR and finance and budget offices.
Sablan is confident that Muna’s more than seven years’ experience will aid him in his new job. His functions include overseeing emergency management at PSS, procurement office, students’ nutrition program, pupil transportation, capital improvement project office, data management, and E-Rate and network programs, among others.
PSS has an enrolment of nearly 11,000 this school year.
