COMMONWEALTH Ports Authority Executive Director Christopher Tenorio has submitted his courtesy resignation to the CPA board of directors.
Tenorio said he has yet to hear from any of the board members whether or not they have accepted his resignation. He declined to comment when asked why he was resigning.
In a statement on Wednesday, Tenorio said:
“This is to confirm that I have submitted my resignation to be effective May 01, 2023. However, for the sake of continuity, the Board asked me to stay back for now until we address all of our single audit compliance issues. Additionally, they asked that I work on critical projects so that when I leave, there will be continuity with the next director. So, with that being said, they have amended my effective resignation date to August 2023.”
The CPA board, for its part, has also received a copy of a transition report informing the Palacios-Apatang administration that “CPA is an entity in crisis and seemingly on the threshold of catastrophe….”
The report said this was due to the following reasons:
“1) Longstanding and recurring management issues.
“2) Resulting criticism, warnings, intervention, and prospective sanctions — explicitly raised, documented, and detailed over the past four years — by the Federal Aviation Administration and related federal regulatory/grant officials.
“3) Seemingly few if any known prospects of averting a massive fiscal downturn by the end of the 2023 fiscal year, which CPA’s current board should long ago have made transparent to all, but instead appears to have neither conceived, nor implemented, any contingency/remedial options or plans beyond hopes of tourism increases, and/or instituting CPA personnel reductions at the eleventh hour.”
In January, then-CPA board vice chairman Roman Tudela turned in his courtesy resignation in response to Gov. Arnold I. Palacios’ memorandum requesting the courtesy resignations of board and commission members appointed by his predecessor.
The CPA board chair, Kimberlyn King-Hinds, as well as board members Joseph Diaz, Barrie Toves, Pete P. Reyes, Thomas Villagomez and Ramon Tebuteb, have not tendered their courtesy resignations.
Christopher Tenorio
