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Kumoi is new La Fiesta consultant
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Posted on Mar 14 2005
Gov. Juan N. Babauta has hired former senator Ramon “Kumoi” Guerrero as engineering consultant for La Fiesta complex in San Roque.
“We’re tapping his electrical engineering expertise,” said Governor’s legal counsel Steve Newman yesterday.
In particular, Guerrero is tasked to look at the design of the facility in connection with the proposed hook-up of the building’s 1 megawatt generator to the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.
Guerrero, who signed a short-term contract with the administration for the La Fiesta project, is scheduled to do a media tour of the facility today.
Press secretary Peter A. Callaghan said Gov. Juan N. Babauta will also discuss “the future of La Fiesta” in a press conference this morning.
The Governor’s Office formally assumed the ownership of the facility from Northern Marianas College, which earlier purchased the property for its Pacific Gateway project. The college’s plan had failed to take off primarily for lack of funding.
The administration, meantime, remains confident that the complex will become self-sustaining in view of tenants wanting to locate to the area.
A U.S.-based nursing company has expressed willingness to occupy a portion of the facility.
Another investor, Loyola Foundation which proposes to begin a medical school on Saipan, also expressed desire to use the complex as its campus.
The administration is also offering the facility for CUC’s office use.
