UNIVERS! ÍY Of HAmt! LIBRA}Ry ananas cVariety®™ Micronesia’s Leading Newspaper Since 1972 v O ( j ® Vol. 22 Mo/19 Saipan, MP 96950 01993 Marianas.Variety «oAprïl 9 ,19 9 3 : Se rvmg CNMI for 20 Years · Stayman backs CNMI autonomy HONOLULU (AP) - Until the rial and international affairs, said. Stayman, who takes over his bills affecting the CNMI have a meaningful discussion until Clinton administration’s position “I don’t think that federal gov­ Interior post on Monday, for been introduced in the US Sen­ there is one. The Senate may is developed, it is wrong for the ernment unilaterally should be nearly nine years was a key pro­ ate, he said. Stayman alsorioted share some of the same concerns Democratic-controlled Congress changing policies on the CNMI,” fessional staff memberof the Sen­ that any House bills must be ap­ with the House, but we don't to suggest policy for the North­ he said. “They have a right to ate Energy andNaturalResources proved by the Senate and signed want to rush to judgment.” ern Mariana Islands through leg­ self-government.” Committee. He helped shape leg­ by the president before becom­ Stayman said with upcoming islation, an Interior official said Stayman said legislation in the islation for Compacts of Free ing Hw. elections in the Commonwealth for governor arid lieutenant gov­ Wednesday. US House of Representatives Association and dealing with the “There are problems and we “We may not be happy with concerning the Northern territories. He has traveled in the want to deal with them,” Stayman ernor, the legislature and Wash­ some of the things that are going Marianas textile industry, tax re­ US-Pacific insular areas on sev­ said from Washington in a tele­ ington resident representative on out there, but it is premature to form, immigration, labor and fed­ eral occasions. phone interview with the Associ­ there could be further delay in be introducing some of these eral economic aid “is just begin­ Except for a companion bill ated press in Honolulu. “But the resolving some of the issues be­ bills,” Allen P. Stayman, ning. We’re waiting to see how dealing with multi-year Com­ Clinton administration doesn’t tween the commonwealth and Interior’s new deputy for teirito- serious they are.” monwealth covenant funding, no have a position and we can’t have certain members of Congress. By Rafael H. Arroyo THE SANITARY landfill project in Marpi will be delayed because of discrepancies in the revised lease agreement between United Micronesia Development Asso­ ciation (UMDA) and Marianas Public Land Corp. (MPLC), House Speaker Thomas P. Villagomez said yesterday. In an interview, Villagomez said the agreement does not con­ form with the conditions laid out by the Legislature in approving a 15-year extension of the company’s lease of public land in Marpi. “I will not sign the agreement unless some of its provisions are n / o o u i v c u u i n g ceremony manrea me opening or me neW WaixWay ro me peaK or m i . lapogcnau, a project or the ¿Saipan Chamber or Commerce. Photcf-shoWs (from left): Bishop Tomas Camacho, Governor Lorenzo I. Guerrero, Marianas Visitors Bureau Managing Director made to conform with the terms Bennet Seman and SCC President Roy Morioka. of the approving resolution. They know they should not put in any­ thing contrary to the resolution, but I am amazed that they are CUC meter project cost soars 213% trying to,” he said. Senate President Juan S. Demapan has also not signed the Contractor also C U C ’s advisor agreement. UMDA committed to build the THE COST of a project to install and the corresponding costs ap­ $955,063, there was still a that made up this increased cost landfill as a public benefit contri­ water and electric meters in the pear to have violated the procure­ $150,000 or 16 percent increase wererecommendedby LMA, who bution to accompany a planned Northern Marianas soared by 213 ment regulations,” Hfc said. in cost resulting from expanded benefited financially under the multi-million dollar golf course percent, from the original con­ The contract was awarded by work in one scope of the con­ metering contract,” the report said. and resort hotel complex in Marpi. trae ted price of $955,116to $2.99 CUC to Lyonnaise Marianas tract,” Tan said in his final audit “CUC relied too heavily on UMDA also offered to operate million, Public Auditor Scott Tan America (LMA) on July 18,1988. report, which was dated Decem­ LM A’s advice in areas where and maintain the landfill for 12 said in a report dated April 1. When the reQuest for proposals ber 1990. more objective advice could have years. Tan, in a letter to CUC Execu­ was announced in March 1987, The auditor said LMA might been sought.” Villagomez said the approving tive Director Ramón S. Guerrero, the plan was to install4,000water have had an advantage over other Tan blamed CUC for not prop­ resolution for the initial 25-year said the utilities firm did not meters and 2,500 electric meters. bidders when it prepared its bid erly supervising the contractor to lease period included a UMDA strictly follow applicable procure­ When the contract with LMA was because LMA was also CUC’s complete the metering of all elec­ commitment of a total of $26.8 ment rules and regulations and sighed in 1988, the numbers were advisor under a technical man­ trical and water consumers. It also million for the landfill: $10 mil­ did not adequately manage and reduced to 2,500 water meters agement services contract and failed to detect computation er­ lion for the procurement and con­ control contract costs. and 1,800 electric meters. operations manager under an op­ rors resulting in overpayments, struction and $16.8 million for Tan said the project cost in­ “Although the reduction in the erations and management con­ he said. the cost of operating the landfill creased because of 20 change or­ number of meters caused a de­ tract. On July 21, 1992, CUC re­ for 12 years at $1.4 million per ders approved and paid by CUC. crease of $145,086 or 15 percent “Some personnel interviewed sponded to the audit findings, year. “The number of change orders of LMA’s original proposal of claimed that many change orders continued on page 2 continued on page 2 2-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY-APRIL 9.1993 FRIDAY, APRIL 9,1993 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3 MHS wins award ------------- _ щ-------------------— ; R e j o i c e W ith the entire fa m ily Guerrero orders H a p p y a n d s t a r t your day W ith our for Island Images’ CONGRATULATIONS PUBLIC School Commissioner agencies to follow William S. Torres recently re­ TO EASTER SUNDAY ceived an awardnotificationfirom IG suggestions the Literary Committee of the action from the concerned agen­ I M C D O n w r s BRUNCH' National Council for the Teach­ GOVERNOR Lorenzo I. 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