Toribiong said that he will be acting on the recommendations proposed by theTask Force.
Asked if he has acted on the courtesy resignations of the members of the PPUC board, Toribiong said, “while I am reviewing the recommendations, the status quo with remain.”The task force earlier recommended that the president appoint the new members of the PPUC board and that the PPUC management and the board failed to implement a “reliable maintenance plan to prevent the degradation of power supply to the consumers.”PPUC members tendered their courtesy resignations last January 15.The task force said the board should stick to policy making and delegate the operational decision to the management and must limit its activities to duly called meetings and refrain from day to day operations. It added although PPUV had a plan in replacing the generating units, but when the plan faltered it had no alternative plan. In its findings, the task force said that PPUC has no preventive maintenance plan and that there is lack of communication between the corporate headquarter and power plant management on the parts that should be ordered.The task force is chaired by Patrick U. Tellei;and the rest will be composed of Minister Public Infrastructure, Industries and Commerce Jackson Ngiraingas, Sen. Paul Ueki, Del. Gibson Kanai; Joshua Koshiba; and Ken Uehara. The task force was created after occurrences of power outages affecting several parts of the country.PPUC said the outages were result of the maintenance work being conducted to the aging engines at the power plant.The task force sent their final report to the president on March 23.
