Isidoro Cabrera, the chief of SNISWCD, said he participated in the deliberation for the budget and revision of the election standards for new officers in the NACD’s recent meeting held in Washington, D.C.
He said his vote, along with representatives from Guam, American Samoa and the Federated States of Micronesia, made a great impact on the outcome of the meeting.
“If not for the representatives of the islands, the 2010 NACD budget would not have been approved,” he said and stressed that had the CNMI did not send a delegate to the meeting, it would have failed to raise its concerns to authorities.
He said the CNMI must be able to express its concerns and goals to proper authorities like the NACD board.
Cabrera was the first to represent the CNMI to the NACD board although it gave the commonwealth full voting rights equal to any state in the U.S. mainland as early as last year.
NACD represents over 3,000 Conservation Districts throughout the 50 states, the Commonwealth and other territories.
