By Moneth G. Deposa
Variety News Staff

THE Commonwealth Ports Authority’s executive director, Clyde K. Norita, has resigned over “micromanagement” by the agency’s board.
Norita, who was recommended by the governor, was hired by CPA in September last year and his contract was renewed by the board in December.
“It’s micromanagement,” he told Variety yesterday. “Board members are getting involved in specific day-to-day operations of the agency.”
Norita said his resignation will be effective at the end of this month.
CPA chairman Rex I. Palacios was not answering this reporter’s phone calls yesterday.
“I tried my best to work with the board in defining the areas of our responsibilities,” Norita said. “I want our jobs defined…the board’s and the management’s.”
The board, he added, was intervening and meddling in decisions relating to internal management operations such as the hiring and promoting of people as well as the assigning of overtime work for employees.
“The board is the decision-making body and the management is the implementing body. Whatever I enforce is based on the policies and rules that the board has worked out,” Norita said.
Press Secretary Charles P. Reyes Jr. yesterday said the administration respects Norita’s decision.
“We have the information that he will resign but as to when he will submit his resignation, we have no idea,” Reyes said. “We’re very impressed with the changes he made in the agency, particularly the cutting of CPA’s consultant fees.”