{"id":3352,"date":"2012-02-17T06:19:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T06:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2012-02-17T06:19:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T06:19:43","slug":"glenn-muna-is-named-new-associate-commissioner-of-pss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/glenn-muna-is-named-new-associate-commissioner-of-pss\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Mu\u00f1a is named new associate commissioner of PSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Moneth Deposa<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The Public School System has a new permanent associate commissioner, a position that has been vacant for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Education Commissioner Rita A. Sablan confirmed with Saipan Tribune yesterday that Glenn Mu\u00f1a was appointed to the position on Feb. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Mu\u00f1a is a former principal of Oleai Elementary School. Jack Sablan takes over as principal of Oleai school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re very happy with his appointment. Glenn was appointed on Feb. 6 and he went through an extensive interview process. This is an internal competitive position we opened to anybody in PSS to apply,\u201d Sablan told Saipan Tribune yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sablan, Mu\u00f1a was one of two applicants who went through a rigorous interview process with four different panels.<\/p>\n<p>Mu\u00f1a takes over the post vacated last year by former acting associate commissioner for administrative services Peter Leau.<\/p>\n<p>David Borja was the last associate commissioner to occupy the post in a permanent capacity. He left the post to become the education commissioner, the post now occupied by Sablan.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan disclosed that since Leau&#8217;s departure, the post has been announced internally. She said the human resource office got four inquiries but only two actually submitted formal applications. The two candidates were interviewed by a panel of administrators, a panel of instructional staffers, a panel of the education board members, and a panel of the HR and finance and budget offices.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan is confident that Muna&#8217;s more than seven years&#8217; experience will aid him in his new job. His functions include overseeing emergency management at PSS, procurement office, students&#8217; nutrition program, pupil transportation, capital improvement project office, data management, and E-Rate and network programs, among others.<\/p>\n<p>PSS has an enrolment of nearly 11,000 this school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moneth Deposa Reporter The Public School System has a new permanent associate commissioner, a&#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-3352","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\/3352","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=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}