Marianas Management Corp. president Clarence Tenorio Sr. yesterday confirmed that CUC informed them about the non-renewal of the contract.
He said they received the notice from CUC Executive Director Antonio Muna in Dec. 2009.
CUC’s lease contract for the entire third floor of the building will expire in April, he said.
The contract of the Department of Public Lands, occupying half of the second floor, will expire in April.
But DPL is asking for a three-month extension, Tenorio said.
The other government agencies leasing office space in the building are the Zoning Board and the Division of Revenue and Taxation.
Tenorio said these agencies’ contracts will expire in June and September, but they have yet to receive any advisory from them.
Variety learned that CUC may transfer its administration office to the airport area or the Middle Road building previously used by the Covenant Party headquarters during the election campaign last year.
Asked for comment, Muna said CUC will soon issue a press release.
The operation office of CUC’s wastewater and sewer division has already moved to a government building on Capital Hill.
Tenorio said they will submit a new proposal to CUC once the agency issues a request for new lease contract proposals.
Asked if CUC’s pullout from their building was politically motivated, Tenorio said their family’s business should not be implicated in politics.
During the Babauta administration, CUC’s offices were moved out of the Joeten building apparently to “get back” at the Tenorio family for not supporting the then-governor.
After he was sworn in four years ago, Gov. Benigno R. Fitial returned the CUC offices to the Joeten building.
Sources said the Joeten family is now being punished by the governor for backing his Republican opponent in last year’s elections.
