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CUC and Babauta meeting cancelled
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Posted on Jul 12 2004
Two members of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. board of directors expressed disappointment over the cancellation of the group’s scheduled meeting with Gov. Juan N. Babauta.
The meeting was cited as the main reason why the board’s election of new officers had to be postponed on July 7. The CUC directors were supposed to meet with the governor on Friday, but the meeting did not push through.
CUC chair Herman P. Sablan said the meeting was cancelled because “something came up and the governor had to do something else.”
No new date has been set so far for the meeting, but it would likely happen after the board installs a new set of officers today, Sablan said.
For their part, directors Joe Torres and Velma Ann Palacios said they were disappointed that the meeting did not go through.
“I feel that if the reason for re-scheduling the election was to allow us to meet with the governor first, then we should have met with him,” Torres maintained.
He said he waited all day on Friday to be given details about the supposed meeting, only to find out that it had been cancelled. He added that he continued waiting yesterday, but still heard nothing about the meeting.
“I was very anxious. I was looking forward to meeting with the governor and finding out what he wanted to talk to us about,” Torres said.
Palacios said she did not get any details either regarding the cancellation of the meeting.
“I was disappointed that we didn’t meet. I was trying to see if there’s a reschedule, but I did not hear anything,” she said.
Sablan, however, assured concerned citizens that the election of officers at CUC will take place, as scheduled, at 3pm today.
The election had earlier been set for the last week of June—in accordance with the CUC by-laws—but it was put off for July 7, as CUC officials had to prioritize recovery efforts after Typhoon Tingting.
During last Wednesday’s meeting, CUC vice chair Francisco Guerrero moved to strike the election from the agenda, citing the agency’s lack of a representative from Rota.
He later added that Babauta, who appointed the directors to the CUC board, had requested the postponement of the election.
The board agreed to have the election today.
