{"id":186520,"date":"2014-12-04T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=186520"},"modified":"2014-12-04T04:00:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T18:00:24","slug":"rota-delegation-urges-mendiola-work-atalig-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rota-delegation-urges-mendiola-work-atalig-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Rota delegation urges Mendiola to work with Atalig on transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_186540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186540\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Rota.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-186540\" alt=\"The Rota Legislative Delegation met last Tuesday inside the conference room of Senate Vice President Victor B. Hocog (Ind-Rota). In attendance were RLD chair Rep. Teresita A. Santos (R-Rota), Hocog, Sen. Jovita Taimanao (Ind-Rota), as well as legislative staff. (Mark Rabago)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Rota-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rota Legislative Delegation met last Tuesday inside the conference room of Senate Vice President Victor B. Hocog (Ind-Rota). In attendance were RLD chair Rep. Teresita A. Santos (R-Rota), Hocog, Sen. Jovita Taimanao (Ind-Rota), as well as legislative staff. (Mark Rabago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Rota Legislative Delegation passed a resolution on Tuesday urging incumbent Rota Mayor Melchor A. Mendiola to work with mayor-elect Efraim M. Atalig in ensuring a smooth transition for the Rota municipal government.<\/p>\n<p>Atalig, who ran under the NMI Republican Party banner, beat independent candidate Mendiola in the general elections last Nov. 4 by 70 votes, 797-727.<\/p>\n<p>Rota Legislative Delegation Resolution 18-11, authored by Rep. Teresita Santos (R-Rota), passed by three affirmative votes. Santos, Senate Vice President Victor Hocog (Ind-Rota) and Sen. Jovita Taimanao (Ind-Rota) all voted yes, while Sen. Paul Manglona (Ind-Rota) was excused.<\/p>\n<p>Resolution No. 18-11 sought \u201cto respectfully seek the support of incumbent Mayor Melchor Atalig Mendiola to provide assistance and cooperation toward Rota mayor-elect Efraim Manglona Atalig\u2019s transition team for the sole purpose of ensuring that the Rota municipal government will have a smooth and orderly transition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution added that mayor-elect Atalig\u2019s transition team plays an important role in the development of an action plan to ensure that the Rota municipal government will have a smooth and orderly transition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtalig seeks assistance and cooperation from incumbent Mayor Melchor Atalig Mendiola in instructing all resident department heads to work in collaboration with the Rota mayor-elect\u2019s transition team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Resolution No. 18-11 noted that the Rota Legislative Delegation is appreciative of Mendiola\u2019s cooperation in providing assistance to Atalig\u2019s transition team and that a smooth and orderly transition between the incoming and outgoing mayor would greatly benefit the citizens of the First Senatorial District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rota Legislative Delegation passed a resolution on Tuesday urging incumbent Rota Mayor Melchor A&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":186540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}