{"id":318748,"date":"2020-03-09T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=318748"},"modified":"2020-03-09T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T20:00:42","slug":"attao-mendiola-sworn-as-nmti-board-trustees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/attao-mendiola-sworn-as-nmti-board-trustees\/","title":{"rendered":"Attao, Mendiola sworn as NMTI board trustees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-318748 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/attao-mendiola-sworn-as-nmti-board-trustees\/nmti-board-of-trustees\/'>NMTI-Board-of-Trustees<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-318752'>\n\t\t\t\tThe new members of the Northern Marianas Technical Institute\u2019s board of trustees, Catherine Attao and Deron Alfred T. Mendiola, have their picture taken with Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios, and supporters at the Office of the Governor on Capital Hill. (Iva Maurin)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/attao-mendiola-sworn-as-nmti-board-trustees\/attao-board-of-trustees\/'>Attao-Board-of-Trustees<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-318750'>\n\t\t\t\tTanHoldings vice president of corporate affairs and human resources Catherine Attao is sworn in as member of the Northern Marianas Technical Institute\u2019s board of trustees by Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios. Left, last Friday, March 6, at the Office of the Governor on Capital Hill. (Iva Maurin)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Northern Marianas Technical Institute\u2019s board of trustees is finally complete, with the swearing in last Friday, March 6, of Catherine Attao and Deron Alfred T. Mendiola. <\/p>\n<p>Attao is the vice president of corporate affairs and human resources at TanHoldings, while Mendiola, a food and landscape business owner, is an early mentor at the Northern Marianas College-Rota Campus.<\/p>\n<p>At the ceremony, Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios said the process to get the new board complete has been a long one, but with Attao and Mendiola in, it is time for NMTI to move forward. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody\u2026 knows what environment we are [in], how things change on a daily basis, and perhaps this is the time to shore up our training. One of the things that I shared with the governor is that we really need to take a closer look at the governance of NMTI and see how it could get improved,\u201d Palacios said. <\/p>\n<p>The lieutenant governor added that it is time to review which projects and programs within NMTI are still relevant in the changing environment that the CNMI is in.<\/p>\n<p>NMTI chief executive officer Agnes McPhetres said that Torres is \u201cthe right person to be in [the NMTI board] because she is a Human Resource Development person. That means \u201cshe knows what\u2019s the need for the CNMI in terms of training, and it really makes us feel good in NMTI to have people with us to guide us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also said that NMTI is \u201cvery pleased to have a young person from Rota,\u201d adding that the institute is going to be training young people, and that Mendiola could be an inspiration. <\/p>\n<p>Attao said that becoming part of NMTI will open doors for her to become even more of service to the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing able to be a part of the NMTI family now gives us more of an opportunity to be able to help those where we may have not been able to before,\u201d Attao said.<\/p>\n<p>Mendiola said he will do his best to work with NMTI. \u201cHopefully we can establish stronger, better rules and regulations about it and hopefully, my experiences and knowledge can contribute to this organization,\u201d Mendiola added. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from Attao and Mendiola, the other members of the NMTI board are Irene Nepomuceno Holl, Ray Pangelinan, Carmelita Faisao, Richard P. Kautz, and Mario Valentino.<\/p>\n<p>TanHoldings president and CEO Jerry Tan was at Attao\u2019s swearing in to show his support. \u201cWe should all be very grateful to having NMTI in addition to NNC in developing our workforce,\u201d Tan said. \u201cWith the severe labor shortage and the challenges facing us, NMTI is going to play even a more important role. .Everyone in this community, especially the private sector, should really embrace and support [NMTI].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Technical Institute\u2019s board of trustees is finally complete, with the swearing in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":309809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-318748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-nmti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318748","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}