{"id":356032,"date":"2021-11-18T06:05:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=356032"},"modified":"2021-11-18T06:05:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:05:14","slug":"rb-camacho-to-take-hands-on-approach-as-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rb-camacho-to-take-hands-on-approach-as-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"RB Camacho to take hands-on approach as mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saipan mayoral candidate Ramon Blas \u201cRB\u201d Camacho.
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If given the chance to serve as mayor of Saipan, Ramon Blas \u201cRB\u201d Camacho aims to use his platform to get out and engage with the community directly, be it in a community cleanup, the Neighborhood Watch program, and even in educating the community on the importance of agriculture.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the three-time Saipan mayoral candidate last Tuesday, Camacho said his goal remains the same\u2014to establish a connection with the community through a Neighborhood Watch program.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first move will be the Neighborhood Watch. That will be my first act in office\u2014bring the community together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

From there, Camacho said, he will branch out to personally visiting every village to tackle issues like village cleanups and other programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI intend to visit every village in the community and I want to hold a lot of town hall meetings\u2014that will be my first agenda in office. I will also tackle other issues like cleaning up junk in residences. I will take a hands-on approach. For example, I will set appointments with residents and discuss the junk on their property. Then, we can set up a time where me and my staff will come out to your residence and we will help you clear out the junk,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In addition, Camacho intends to schedule village inspections to ensure that villages stay clean and also intends to establish an incentive program to motivate community members to continue to clean their villages.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we will do village inspections to make sure junk and trash don\u2019t pile up again after we\u2019ve helped cleared them out. I will take a hands-on approach because that\u2019s what our community needs. Then, down the line, when we\u2019re all satisfied with the cleanliness in our community, we can come up with incentives like an award for the cleanest residence, the cleanest village, the\u2026village with the lowest crime rate,\u201d Camacho said.<\/p>\n

In addition, he wants to educate the community on the importance of agriculture and showcase Saipan\u2019s local produce once tourists return.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe role of mayor is about the community. Let\u2019s start educating our kids and occupy their time, involve them. Another thing is let\u2019s promote our own backyard garden. Let\u2019s teach our kids to start playing with the soil. Let\u2019s look at it this way: Why do tourists come to Saipan? They want to know and experience what the island is all about. \u2026Lets display what the islands can provide like breadfruit and local banana, sweet potato, taro\u2014that\u2019s what we need to showcase. That\u2019s really my goal when I become mayor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If given the chance to serve as mayor of Saipan, Ramon Blas \u201cRB\u201d Camacho aims…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":356039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356032","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\/356032","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}