By Gerardo R. Partido
Variety News Staff

THE newly elected and re-elected members of the Consolidated Commission on Utilities will take their oath of office today.
The oath-taking ceremony will be held at the board conference room of the Guam Power Authority main office along Route 16 in Harmon.
To be sworn in are the following newly elected and re-elected commissioners of the CCU: Eloy P. Hara, a newly elected member as well as Benigno M. Palomo and Simon A. Sanchez II, newly re-elected members.
They will officially be sworn in by presiding Chief Justice Phil Carbullido during a special meeting of CCU at 4 p.m. today
Sanchez, the incumbent CCU chairman for four years now, topped the CCU race last November, garnering 21,596 votes according to the Guam Election Commission.
Palomo came in second, garnering 17,902 votes, while the third and final CCU slot was won by Eloy Hara who got 11,681 votes.
Sanchez, a Stanford and Harvard graduate, included in his campaign the recent U.S. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report, which says that the island’s water is the cleanest and safest it has been in decades.
Palomo, the second placer, is also a long-time commissioner having served in the CCU for four years. He is a three-term senator and a former general manager of the Port Authority of Guam and the Department of Public Works.
Hara also has a solid record of public service, having served as assistant general manager for Guam Power Authority and executive director of the Civil Service Commission.