Marianas Visitors Authority Board Chair Dave M. Sablan has resigned from his post yesterday to give way to a new leadership at the tourism agency.<\/p>\n
The MVA board of directors will hold an election next week to choose the new chair. In the meantime, Board Secretary Julian Calvo will serve as acting board chair.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am giving the board members the opportunity to choose the new leader. I really hope MVA will continue to prosper and the industry will be able to recover from the economic slump,\u201d Mr. Sablan said.<\/p>\n
The resignation of Mr. Sablan came in the wake of a Senate\u2019s decision to reduce the budget of MVA from $6 million to $4.9 million for FY 2001 by giving the rest of the money to Rota and Tinian and paving the way for the establishment of separate MVA offices.<\/p>\n
Mr. Sablan has earlier signified his intention to step down as board chair when four elected members of the nine-man board took office late June of this year.<\/p>\n
The board of directors, however, appealed for him to stay in view of the ongoing projects of the tousim agency.<\/p>\n
Other members of the board are Marian Aldan-Pierce, Frances LG. Borja, JM Guerrero, Wendi Herring, Roberta Guerrero and Vicente H. Borja. (LFR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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