By Moneth G. Deposa
Variety News Staff

THE Commonwealth Ports Authority will not offer a new or revised contract to its consultant Carlos Salas and will instead hire him on a per project basis, according to CPA Executive Director Clyde K. Norita.
He said the CPA board will address this issue during the next board meeting on March 15.
In an interview on Tuesday, Norita said he met with Salas and “we agreed to an extension of his contract to April 30, 2007 so that he can fully transfer his current workload to the management team of CPA.”
Salas is a former CPA executive director. After retiring in Dec. 2005 to avail himself of the 30 percent bonus, CPA hired him as a consultant for $79,200 a year.
According to Norita, Salas’s current contract “will end on April 30, 2007. There will be no new contract or revised contract after that date.”
However, “Mr. Salas will be available to CPA on a project by project basis and as needed and initiated by CPA,” Norita said, adding that “if CPA needs Mr. Salas after April 30, 2007, it will be through a purchase order and confined to a specific assignment based on an hourly rate. It is understood that the hourly rate will be much lower than what he is making now.”