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Senate to decide on two appointees
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Posted on Nov 21 2004
The Senate is expected to decide tomorrow on the fate of two gubernatorial appointees: Santiago F. Tudela as commissioner of the Department of Public Safety and Martin T. Mendiola as Commonwealth Utilities Corp. Rota board member.
The Senate Committee on Executive Appointments and Governmental Investigations, chaired by Sen. Paterno S. Hocog, will be reporting on the two nominations in Tuesday’s senate session which be held at Rota-NMC Conference Room.
Tudela is replacing former DPS commissioner Ed Camacho, who resigned from his post recently.
Tudela has been with the department for several years now.
Mendiola, meantime, will take the place vacated by long-serving CUC board member Laura Manglona, whose term ended earlier this year.
Manglona served on the CUC board for 10 years.
The CUC board is currently composed of five members: chairman Francisco Q. Guerrero, vice chair Herman P. Sablan, secretary Rufina Miles, treasurer/Tinian representative Allen Perez, and board members Joe Torres and Velma Ann Palacios.
Mendiola is working as budget/federal program coordinator for the Rota Mayor’s Office.
From August 2001 to February 2004, Mendiola served as a counselor and academic advisor for the Northern Marianas College campus on Rota.
Before that, he served as the Rota mayor’s special assistant for projects and administrative officer for the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Mendiola worked as special assistant for then congressman Alejo M. Mendiola Jr. from January 1997 to July 1998, and as researcher for the 6th Rota Municipal Council from December 1996 to January 1997.
He also spent over 15 years working in different schools on Guam, initially as teacher and later as principal.
Meantime, Gov. Juan N. Babauta informed the Senate that he is withdrawing the nomination for Herman Q. Deleon Guerrero as member of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Commission.
He said Deleon Guerrero “notified our office that he is unable to accept this position.”
“Therefore, I have no choice but to withdraw his name as my nominee,” said Babauta in a Nov. 3 letter to Senate president Joaquin G. Adriano.
There was no mention of Deleon Guerrero’s reason for rejecting the offer.
