{"id":21130,"date":"2012-06-06T01:14:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T01:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=21130"},"modified":"2012-06-06T01:14:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T01:14:39","slug":"mafnas-steps-down-as-shefa-board-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mafnas-steps-down-as-shefa-board-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Mafnas steps down as SHEFA board chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Moneth Deposa<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Saipan Higher Education Financial Assistance board chair Jose C. Mafnas stepped down yesterday, fulfilling his promise to occupy the post for only a year.<\/p>\n<p>Mafnas will, however, remain on the board as a member.<\/p>\n<p>Elected as new board chair yesterday is incumbent vice chair Josephine Sablan.<\/p>\n<p>Vina Saures will keep her post as board secretary and treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Mafnas, Sablan, and Saures, other board members are John Tenorio, and Ursula Aldan.<\/p>\n<p>The board also welcomed yesterday SHEFA&#8217;s new administrator, Merissa Seman-Rasa, who replaced Henry Hofschneider.<\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider moved back to the Saipan Mayor&#8217;s Office. A full-time employee of the Office of the Mayor, Hofschneider served as part-time SHEFA administrator but was paid by the mayor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The board disclosed that Seman-Rasa&#8217;s salary, along with one permanent full-time employee, will be paid directly from the SHEFA budget.<\/p>\n<p>In her first meeting with the board, Seman-Rasa provided a brief report about the most pressing issues and concerns that she felt should be addressed. She highlighted three areas that she wants prioritized: the application procedures and check processing to make sure that awards are released in a timely manner; record keeping; and student tracking, which comes with compliance, repayment, and collection.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 25 checks for scholars are still pending for release: two for fall 2010; four for fall 2011; and 19 for spring 2012. Seman-Rasa estimates the total value of pending awards at $51,100, with no concrete information as to when it will be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moneth Deposa Reporter Saipan Higher Education Financial Assistance board chair Jose C. Mafnas stepped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21130","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}