{"id":357001,"date":"2021-12-03T06:05:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=357001"},"modified":"2021-12-03T06:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:05:53","slug":"special-assistant-villagomez-terminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/special-assistant-villagomez-terminated\/","title":{"rendered":"Special assistant Villagomez terminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_357003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-357003\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/virginia-villagomez-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-357003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/virginia-villagomez-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-357003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia C. Villagomez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Citing only \u201cthe interest of the Commonwealth,\u201d Gov. Ralph DLG Torres terminated yesterday the services of Virginia C. Villagomez, who is the special assistant for the Office of Management and Budget.<\/p>\n<p>Torres informed Villagomez in a letter that this termination is effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The governor did not cite a specific reason.<\/p>\n<p>Torres said that, pursuant to the Commonwealth Code, \u201cunless otherwise provided by law, any person appointed to any board, agency, commission, or position by the governor shall serve at the pleasure of the governor and may be removed by the governor with or without cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He asked Villagomez to return to the OMB offices items such as keys, key cards, phones, computer equipment (laptops, tablets, etc.) work documents, and any other government property in her possession or control.<\/p>\n<p>Torres said any matters related to closing out Villagomez\u2019s time as the special assistant for OMB will be addressed by Mathilda A. Rosario, the special assistant for Administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for your time serving my administration. I wish you good luck on your future endeavor,\u201d said the governor in the termination letter.<\/p>\n<p>Villagomez was the governor\u2019s authorized representative on Super Typhoon Yutu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing only \u201cthe interest of the Commonwealth,\u201d Gov. Ralph DLG Torres terminated yesterday the services&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":357002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357001","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}