By The Star Staff
Governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón said late last week that she is not considering keeping Bureau of Emergency Management and Disaster Administration Commissioner Nino Correa Filomeno in his position.
“No,” was González Colón’s answer to the question of whether she would consider it.
“I said I was going to have changes in the government,” she said. “I maintain that position. In the primary I said I was going to make changes in the heads of agencies. So I am not going to single out any agency head. Here people have to understand that I received a mandate for change and I intend to honor it. When I evaluate the rest of the government agencies, we will make that evaluation and if there is a good, extraordinary agency head, who should stay on after a meeting and I can see his plans, I will evaluate him. I do not close that door. I believe in giving him opportunities, but there may or may not be opportunities in another area, not necessarily in the one he occupies. But I am not going to jump ahead to a process when I have not yet selected a single agency head.”
“I said during the campaign that I had to win first in order to sit down and choose agency heads and evaluate at this time what comes after the election, which is having made the change of leadership in the House, in the Senate, and today I am doing it with the municipalities,” González Colón continued. “The next steps will be the appointment of the transition committee. Once that happens, I will be internally appointing a committee to evaluate candidates for government agencies. In the same way that I have publicly asked those people who are interested in serving the people of Puerto Rico to submit their resume to my party’s website so that we can evaluate those people who are interested in serving and in the same way those that we are going to evaluate. During that period I will take the time to meet and call many agency heads who have presented me plans on what they understand the government agency should be. And I do not want to be unfair to the professionals who are there. There may be good professionals, but I speak of a change. And when I speak of a change it is a real change.”
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