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Ex-CDA board members to be reappointed
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Posted on Mar 27 2006
The four board members who have resigned from the Commonwealth Development Authority will be reappointed to their posts.
This came after former CDA board members Marcie Tomokane, Vincent Calvo, Edwin Hofschneider and Pedro Itibus met with Gov. Benigno R. Fitial last Thursday. The four members were reportedly briefed on the administration’s priorities during last week’s meeting.
The governor had called for the resignation of the Babauta administration’s appointees so he could appoint his own people.
But press secretary Charles P. Reyes Jr. said that, after talking to the board members, the governor decided re-nominate them to the CDA board.
“They complied with the governor’s call for courtesy resignations. Now, the governor is willing to have them all back so CDA could have a quorum,” Reyes said.
The CDA board of directors is a seven-member body. At least five members are needed to form a quorum.
The three board members remaining on the board are board chair Tom Glenn Quitugua and members Manuel Sablan and Antonio Borja.
The CDA board is expected to elect a new set of officers once the four members have been confirmed by the Senate, Reyes said.
He added that the administration expects the CDA board to adopt some changes in its compensation policy.
“We would like to see the board not compensating themselves for doing administrative matters like signing checks, for instance. The executive director is paid a fixed salary to do those things,” he maintained.
CDA has a three-year-old policy to pay the board chairman whenever he performs CDA work outside board meetings.
