{"id":350078,"date":"2021-08-17T06:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T20:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=350078"},"modified":"2021-08-17T06:05:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T20:05:34","slug":"nmti-is-selecting-tinian-rep-for-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmti-is-selecting-tinian-rep-for-board\/","title":{"rendered":"NMTI is  selecting  Tinian rep  for board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Technical Institute\u2019s board of trustees is in the process of selecting a Tinian representative to join the board. <\/p>\n<p>According to NMTI interim chief executive officer Jodina Attao last Wednesday, she and the board\u2019s recently-formed nomination subcommittee were to meet last Friday to review four potential candidates. There is already a Rota representative within the board.<\/p>\n<p>Attao explained last Wednesday that having representatives from Tinian and Rota as board members is mandated by law, but having representation from Saipan\u2019s neighboring islands is important nonetheless. It was earlier reported that NMTI wants to bring its programs to Tinian and Rota in the future. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to establish our presence [on] Rota and Tinian, and we need representatives to speak for the people of Rota and Tinian to determine their needs. &#8230;Although we\u2019re all one and the same, there are totally different needs on the islands,\u201d said Attao. <\/p>\n<p>Saipan Tribune was unable to learn if Attao and the subcommittee have already selected a Tinian representative as of press time Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Technical Institute\u2019s board of trustees is in the process of selecting a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":334752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-350078","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\/350078","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}