Puerto Rico's transition process to begin Monday
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| Published on Friday, November 7, 2008 |
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By María Miranda Sierra
Caribbean Net News Puerto Rico Correspondent
Email: miranda@caribbeannetnews.com
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Secretary of State Fernando Bonilla announced on Thursday that he has sent a letter to Governor Elect Luis Fortuño to let him know that the current Aníbal Acevedo Vilá administration is ready to begin the government transition process this Monday.
Bonilla, who will be heading Acevedo Vilá’s transition process team, said that all government agencies turned in documents and transition reports as required by the law, all of which will be accessible to the new administration’s transition committee team.
“I sent a letter to the governor elect so he can divulge the names of the members of his transition committee and we summoned them for the first meeting to be held on Monday, so we can go through the working plan,” Bonilla said at a news conference.
Bonilla said that there is a $400,000 available budget for the transitional process. Bonilla said that the funds should be enough as in the 2004 transitional process only $200,000 was spent.
The law that regulates the transition process disposes that the governor elect can designate up to ten members for his committee.
Bonilla, also congratulated Fortuño for his victory in the letter, and included a proposed calendar for the public hearing’s process in which all exiting government chiefs must participate in.
Acevedo Vilá’s 11-member team includes La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Jorge Silva Puras, and the Justice, Consumer Affairs, Treasury, Family and Transportation secretaries. The chiefs of the Government Development Bank, the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company, the Office of Management and Budget and the Planning Board are also members of Acevedo Vilá’s transition committee. | | | | Reads : 587 | | | |
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