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Torres, Palacios form Transition Committee
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Posted on Dec 20 2018
Governor-elect Ralph DLG Torres and lieutenant governor-elect Arnold I. Palacios formed a Committee on Transition last week, with James A. Ada, the local GOP president, appointed as chair.
The transition committee already began its work of compiling a report based on the assessment and reviews of all agencies, boards, commissions, departments, instrumentalities, public corporations, or other entities of the CNMI government.
The incoming administration starts in January 2019.
Former lawmaker Felicidad T. Ogumoro, Torres’ senior policy adviser Glenna S. Palacios-Reyes, and Vincent DLG Torres are the other members of the committee.
They are asking all heads to provide information to the transition sub-committee chair that was assigned to them no later than 4pm on Dec. 24, Monday.
The transition committee, as mandated under Executive Order 2018-26, would then compile a report after assessing and reviewing all information given by all sub-committee chairs. They would submit the report to Torres and Palacios for their own evaluation.
All agencies, boards, commissions, departments, instrumentalities, public corporations, or other entities of the CNMI government are asked to provide information on their mandates, budget and personnel, resource inventory, policies and regulations, future plans, other matters, and recommendations.
“[The] responses must be submitted electronically together with a hard copy to the sub-committee chair on transition no later than Dec. 24, 2018,” said Ada in a letter.
“Narratives should be in Word format and financial reports should be in Excel format. This will give the Committee on Transition sufficient time to review all submissions and, if necessary, to meet with you and your staff before the transition report is submitted to the governor- and lieutenant governor-elect.”
All official representatives of the Committee on Transition had been meeting with officials of all agencies, boards, commissions, departments, instrumentalities, public corporations, or other entities of the CNMI government since last Monday, Dec. 17. The gathering of information and responses to the Commission on Transition’s questionnaire ends on Monday, Dec. 24.
