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Rota finance director warns staff are 'nearing burnout,' seeks FTEs, vehicles and training
Summary
Resident Director Avery Hoco Calvo told the CNMI Ways and Means Committee that Rota’s Department of Finance is understaffed, underfunded for operations and training, and struggling to maintain vehicles and inspection capacity without additional FTEs and equipment.
Resident Director Avery Hoco Calvo, head of the Department of Finance for Rota, told the CNMI Ways and Means Committee on June 5 that her office is short-staffed, that longer-term within‑grade increases have stalled and that remaining employees are “nearing burnout.”
Calvo said the department has 22 staff but many positions carry wages and duties unchanged since 2020–2021. “I cannot continue to ask my technicians to perform the jobs of agents,” Calvo said, adding she feared running staff “into the ground” and that, if conditions do not improve, she would “tender my resignation.”
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