“I am the messenger here not the bad guy. At the end of the day, [the Public School System’s] power will be disconnected and it will not have to be CUC doing it directly,” he told Gregorio Cruz, Taotao Tano president, in an e-mail.
Muna said CUC will also disconnect accounts of those with overdue bills amounting to less than $1,000.
Cruz, in an e-mail, asked Muna to exhaust all efforts and work with PSS before resorting to the “drastic action” of disconnecting the schools’ power supply.
“We suggest and recommend that you direct this situation to our elected leaders up on the hill who made ‘education’ their top priority as so stated in each of their campaign platforms including your commander and chief in the executive branch and leave our students, our children alone!” Cruz said.
Muna said it is the Legislature that has to ensure that PSS gets enough funding.
PSS, he added, must look for ways to ensure it can operate with its existing funding while paying all its bills.
“When I get notice from Mobil, Telesource, PMIC, Aggreko, or Shell that they will not deliver services or goods to CUC due to nonpayment and I do not pay them, then we will all be without power,” Muna said.
According to Cruz, however, students should not suffer the consequences of CUC’s gross negligence and mismanagement.
