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‘CUC move to La Fiesta 90 percent complete’
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Posted on Jun 03 2005
The Commonwealth Utilities Corp. is nearly finished moving out of its former offices in the Joeten Dandan Building.
Pamela Mathis, CUC’s special adviser for corporate communications, said about 90 percent of the Power Division’s files and equipment had been moved to La Fiesta III in San Roque.
The Water Division is now occupying Block 1200 on Capitol Hill, while the Wastewater Division has returned to its former offices in Sadog Tasi, where the sewage treatment plant and water quality laboratory are also situated.
CUC started moving out of the Joeten Dandan offices last Monday, as a result of the May 31 expiration of the utility firm’s lease agreement with the building owner.
According to Mathis, the new offices in La Fiesta should be open for business in the next few days, with the telephone system now being installed and the Internet service following within the next two weeks.
Customers who need CUC assistance may call the firm’s new trunkline at 664-6131.
Mathis added that CUC personnel were expected to work over the weekend—for no overtime pay, as they did last weekend—to put everything back in order as soon as possible.
She also stressed that the Dandan payment center would remain open to serve utility customers living in the southern part of the island.
CUC’s lease for the Joeten Dandan Building, which the utility has occupied for about eight years, expired on Tuesday.
In March, CUC issued an invitation for bids for the lease of office space for CUC’s administrative and operational needs. Three proposals were submitted in response to the invitation.
However, the utility firm subsequently opted to take up the government’s offer for CUC to move to La Fiesta. The decision came more than a week after the governor’s May 19 declaration of a state of disaster emergency and assumption of control of CUC.
The Governor’s Office, which provided money to purchase the facility for the Northern Marianas College’s Pacific Gateway project about two years ago, now owns the La Fiesta complex. (Agnes E. Donato)
