For two and a half hours yesterday, the regents held a closed-door meeting to discuss Fernandez’s ultimate fate.
Andrew Orsini, personnel committee chairman of the board of regents, said Fernandez will be allowed to appear with her lawyer during the hearing next month.
Fernandez’s contract, he added, requires that she is provided with due process.
The hearing, he said, is “very critical” because it will discuss the findings of the investigation regarding the allegations against Fernandez .
NMC and the Attorney General’s Office conducted separate investigations.
Yesterday, the regents accepted the more than 20-page report of NMC’s probe.
Orsini said compared to the AGO’s, the report from NMC’s Guam lawyer is “more in-depth.”
He refused to give details, saying the regents were not even provided a copy of the report, which was discussed during their meeting.
After the hearing next month, Orsini said the regents will determine whether to reinstate Fernandez or terminate her.
He reiterated that the regents were not “dragging the case,” which he described as “very complicated and involved local and the federal agencies.”
This, he added, prompted NMC to hire a Guam-based law firm whose expertise is on education cases.
All the seven regents attended the meeting.
