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Laura Manglona named anew to CUC board
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Posted on Mar 01 2005
Gov. Juan N. Babauta has appointed Laura I. Manglona back to the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. board of directors—a year after she ended her 10-year stint as Rota representative on the panel.
Manglona was nominated to fill the position vacated by Martin Mendiola, who was confirmed by the Rota Municipal Council as the new resident director of the Department of Commerce for Rota on Feb. 18, 2005.
“The Lt. Governor and I are confident that Mrs. Laura I. Manglona is qualified to fulfill the vital responsibilities as a member of the CUC board,” Babauta said in a nomination letter submitted later.
The appointment now awaits confirmation by the Senate.
Originally nominated by former governor Lorenzo I. De Leon Guerrero in January 1994, Manglona was the only CUC board member retained in the gubernatorial tenure of Froilan C. Tenorio. She has been re-nominated and confirmed by the Senate since then.
Over the decade that she served with the CUC board, Manglona had held the positions of vice chair and treasurer, and headed committees such as operations, personnel, cable TV and telecommunication, finance and budget, and audit and compliance.
Shortly before leaving the utility firm on March 11, 2004, Manglona earned criticism for incurring the biggest travel cost among CUC board members for fiscal year 2003. A report showed that Manglona’s trips cost CUC a total of $7,686 from October 2003 to Feb. 11, 2004 alone.
Her successor, Mendiola, assumed the duties of Rota representative to the CUC board in late November 2004. His “no” vote at the Nov. 30, 2004 board meeting resulted in the tie that rendered the fuel surcharge regulations void. Nevertheless, the regulations were subsequently adopted and took effect last Monday, Feb. 28.
The five other individuals currently comprising the CUC board of directors are chair Francisco Q. Guerrero, vice chair Herman P. Sablan, secretary Rufina Miles, treasurer and Tinian representative Allen Perez, and board members Joe Torres and Velma Ann Palacios.
