EXEMPT SALARY CHANGES – MID-LEVEL – PROPERTY AND PROCUREMENT, PUBLIC WORKS, TOURISM, VITEMA
Employee Name, Position Title — Current Salary — Proposed Salary, %Change
PROPERTY & PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT
Augustin Ayala, General Counsel — $50,000 — $60,000, 20.00%
Lawrence Ottley, Director of Printing — $47,000 — $55,000, 17.02%
Dwayne Benjamin, Director of Property — $42,000 — $50,000, 19.05%
Elma Baptiste, Director of Central Stores — $42,500 — $50,000, 17.65%
Wynn Canton, Director, Programs & Services — $47,000 — $50,000, 6.38%
Benet Fahie, Acquisition Officer — $40,000 — $46,000, 15.00%
Edgar Phillips, Chief Coord. Special Svcs. — $42,500 — $45,500, 7.06%
Herbert A. E. Grigg, Chief Operations Ofcr. — $38,000 — $45,000, 18.42%
Orlando Ramirez, Real Property Specialist — $40,000 — $45,000, 12.50%
Herbert Schoenbohm, Coord., Transportation — $42,000 — $44,000, 4.76%
Hugh Henry, Procurement Facilitator — $40,000 — $44,000, 10.00%
Bernard Phillips, Production Manager — $40,000 — $43,000, 7.50%
Cecile Phillip, Contract Administrator — $35,000 — $40,000, 14.29%
Horace Graham, Contract Administrator — $35,000 — $40,000, 14.29%
Joseph Hull, Mgr., Special Assignments — $30,000 — $40,000, 33.33%
Nicole Roberts, Contract Administrator — $35,000 — $40,000, 14.29%
Raymond Todman, Chief Maintenance Coord. — $33,000 — $38,000, 15.15%
Miquelina Ojeda, Asst. Admin. Coordinator — $30,000 — $36,000, 20.00%
Patricia Squiabro, Mgr., Programs & Services — $30,000 — $36,000, 20.00%
Paul Bastian, Special Asst. to Commr. — $25,000 — $35,000, 40.00%
Daniel Andrews, Special Assistant — $22,000 — $28,000, 27.27%
Lisa Nibbs, Program Office Asst. — $22,000 — $27,000, 22.73%
Christina Perez, Special Asst. to Commr. — $18,000 — $24,000, 33.33%
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Antonio Messer, Technical Asst. to Commr. — $58,000 — $58,000, 0.00%
Sonia Boyce, Special Asst. to Commr. — $51,000 — $54,000, 5.88%
Aloy Nielson, Dir. Engineering (Highway) — $46,000 — $56,000, 21.74%
Angel Robles, Terr. Special Strategic Planner — $45,000 — $55,000, 22.22%
Francisco Nadal, District Engineer STT STJ — $45,000 — $55,000, 22.22%
Roan Creque, Coordinator Special Projects — $50,000 — $55,000, 10.00%
Thomas Dunn, Special Asst. to Commr. — $51,000 — $55,000, 7.84%
Lionel Olive, Director of Equipment Maint. — $40,000 — $50,000, 25.00%
Eva Richardson, Grants Manager — $45,000 — $48,000, 6.67%
Karole Ovesen-MacGregor, Highway Planner — $38,000 — $46,000, 21.05%
Emile Boschulte, Administrator of Payroll — $35,000 — $45,000, 28.57%
Allenston Nanton, Director of Construction — $37,500 — $42,500, 13.33%
Florence Smith, Human Resources Officer — $33,000 — $41,000, 24.24%
John Dessuit, Parking Lot Manager — $29,500 — $40,000, 35.59%
Vacant, Exec. Secy. to the Commissioner — $20,000 — $40,000, 100.00%
Eran Fleming, Project Manager — $30,000 — $36,000, 20.00%
Nelson Petty, Land Acquisition Coord. — $30,000 — $36,000, 20.00%
Jose Ledesma, Project Supervisor III — $25,500 — $35,000, 37.25%
Linda Christian, Office Assistant — $25,000 — $35,000, 40.00%
Narris Pryce, Coordinator of Cemeteries — $30,000 — $35,000, 16.67%
Shelton Shulterbrandt, Program Coordinator — $30,000 — $35,000, 16.67%
Michael Farrington, Support Svcs. Consultant — $28,000 — $31,000, 10.71%
Sharon Challenger, Support Svcs. Consultant — $28,000 — $31,000, 10.71%
Alridge Thomas, Field Mgr. Roads & Hwys. — $23,000 — $30,000, 30.43%
Leroy Turnbull, Maintenance Assistant — $21,000 — $25,000, 19.05%
Beresford Husbands, Executive Chauffeur — $15,000 — $20,000, 33.33%
Leon Percival, Litter Enforcement Aide — $17,000 — $20,000, 17.65%
Magarita Ayala, Executive Secretary — $13,500 — $20,000, 48.15%
Isaac T. Paddin, Maintenance Technician — $15,600 — $18,600, 19.23%
Howard Grey, Heavy Equipment Aide — $12,500 — $16,000, 28.00%
TOURISM DEPARTMENT
Henry deLagarde, General Manager — $48,000 — $60,000, 25.00%
Dorothy Downing, Director Admin. & … * — $48,000 — $54,000, 12.50%
Joryn Turnbull, Manager – Collateral — $45,000 — $52,000, 15.56%
Ludvig Harrigan, Manager, Los Angeles — $36,000 — $52,000, 44.44%
Audrey Callwood, Coordinator of … — $48,000 — $50,000, 4.17%
Jean Hodge, MIS Director — $38,000 — $48,000, 26.32%
Chantal Figueroa, Asst. Dir. – Marketing — $40,000 — $45,000, 12.50%
Eleanor Garcia, Financial Analyst — $38,000 — $45,000, 18.42%
Gail L. Francs, Special Asst. to … — $40,000 — $45,000, 12.50%
Helen Newton, Manager, New York — $35,000 — $45,000, 28.57%
Lisa James, Conference Planner — $40,000 — $45,000, 12.50%
Beverly Murrain, Assistant Manager — $30,000 — $42,000, 40.00%
Carol Hodge, Asst. Coordinator of … — $36,000 — $42,000, 16.67%
Cherisse Wells, Assistant Manager — $30,000 — $42,000, 40.00%
Ellen Benjamin, Executive Officer — $34,000 — $40,000, 17.65%
Jennifer Francis-Rey, Manager, Visitors' — $35,000 — $38,500, 10.00%
Leroy Davis, Senior Sales — $27,000 — $37,000, 37.04%
Caroline Simon, Exec. Asst. to … — $28,000 — $35,000, 25.00%
Norma Dyer, Manager-Visitors' — $30,000 — $35,000, 16.67%
Renee James, Administrative — $25,000 — $35,000, 40.00%
Yolanda Bryan, Communication — $30,000 — $35,000, 16.67%
Alvin Milligan, Special Asst. – Cruise — $25,000 — $30,000, 20.00%
Bernice Hodge, Secretary to the … — $25,000 — $30,000, 20.00%
Bienvenida Torres, Administrative Asst. — $25,000 — $30,000, 20.00%
Claude Richards, Tourism Admin. — $24,000 — $30,000, 25.00%
Clorise Smith, Secretary to Legal — $25,000 — $30,000, 20.00%
Dana Victor, Tourism Admin. — $24,000 — $30,000, 25.00%
Delores Williams, Sales Representative — $24,000 — $30,000, 25.00%
Eric Bough Jr., Sales Representative — $24,000 — $30,000, 25.00%
Geneva Jones, Sales Representative — $24,000 — $30,000, 25.00%
Gwen Rivera, Tourism Admin. — $24,000 — $30,000, 25.00%
Heather Carty, Tourism Career — $23,000 — $30,000, 30.43%
Jacqueline Hodge, Sales Representative — $24,000 — $30,000, 25.00%
* Incomplete position titles with ellipses (…) in this section indicate original printout truncation.
V.I. TERRITORIAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Sylma C. Sablon, Dir. Admin. & Bus. Mgt. — $47,200 — $55,000, 16.53%
Al Javois, Department Director Logistics — $38,000 — $45,000, 18.42%
Conard Knowles, State Training/ Exercise Officer — $35,000 — $42,000, 20.00%
Jean M. Webster, Special Assistant — $35,000 — $42,000, 20.00%
Mary F. Moorehead, Federal Programs Mgr. — $35,000 — $42,000, 20.00%
Jacqueline Heyliger, State Hazard Mitigation Planner — $30,000 — $37,000, 23.33%
Karen Frett, Hurricane Seismic Coord. — $30,000 — $37,000, 33.33%
Adelle S-Williams, Communications Coord. — $27,500 — $34,375, 25.00%
George Lewis, Planner/Communications Ofcr. — $25,000 — $32,000, 28.00%
Garfield T. Claxton, Program Assistant — $14,500 — $20,000, 37.93%

Our Town Frederiksted will sponsor a town meeting at St. Gerard's Hall. Presentations by representatives of the St. Croix Renaissance Group which purchased the former St. Croix Alumina site will give its plans for developing the property as an environmentally sensitive industrial park.
For information call 772-3550

The 14th Annual Golf Tournament will take place. Call 778-3800 for information.

The Pistarckle Theater presents Christmas Tuna.

The Christmas Show will be featured at the Reichhold Theater for the Performing Arts.

The Christmas Show will be featured at the Reichhold Theater for the Performing Arts.

July 3, 2002 – In a wide-ranging meeting Tuesday, the St. Thomas-St. John Board of Elections voted to ask the attorney general for a legal opinion on its members who are running for higher office and discussed streamlining primary elections to reduce costs, adding two polling places on St. Thomas, changing procedures for absentee voting and conducting a campaign to recruit new young voters.
Fine tuning electoral procedures is a routine undertaking for the board going into an election season. But this year, voting law changes and a resulting court challenge have added extra considerations to the task.
Board members are publicly elected officials. This year three board members have set their sights on higher office as well: Kevin Rodriquez, Shawn-Michael Malone and Lawrence Boschulte have announced their candidacy for the 25th Legislature. At Tuesday's meeting, board member Alecia Wells said the situation has raised ethical concerns in the community.
"People are saying they're making their own laws and governing the election," Wells said.
She pointed out that such conflicts were not a problem before the law was changed in January by the current Legislature in a veto override. Previously, public officials running for public office were required to take a leave of absence from their current positions from the date of filing until the general election — or the primary election, should they be eliminated at that point. They no longer need to do so. (See "Loud protests to quiet changes in voting law".)
. The board voted unanimously to ask Attorney General Iver Strdiron to issue a legal opinion on the position of Elections Board members seeking higher office under the new circumstances.
The board also discussed the possible impact of a court case challenging a different aspect of the new election law. Several St. Thomas residents have sued the V.I. government in District Court saying the aspect of the law which bars campaign activity after 2 a.m. on an election day violates the First Amendment constitutional guarantees of free speech and free assembly.
Malone predicted the court will agree with the plaintiffs, saying "it appears [the law] does violate the Constitution." But what happens after that, he said, will be up to police, who govern conduct on public streets. "We only have jurisdiction around the polls, not in the street where the law is enforced," he said.
Meantime, the board still is responsible for holding primary elections — something it did not anticipate earlier this year, when it expected the territory's three political parties to take it upon themselves to select their candidates for the general election. The law as changed in January specified that "The Board of Elections will be responsible for certifying the process to be used by any political party to select party officers and candidates for public office."
Democrats and Republicans joined forces in court pointing out that there is no provision in the law requiring the parties to foot the bill for the primaries, and said they had no intention of doing so. That left the board in the same position it has faced in previous years: having to hold a primary without adequate funding to do so.
The solution, members decided Tuesday, is to streamline the Sept. 14 primary election process. Given that the turnout for primaries historically is very light, they will open just three polling places on St. Thomas (Joseph Gomez Elementary, Charlotte Amalie High and Addelita Cancryn Junior High Schools) and two on St. John (Julius E. Sprauve and Guy Benjamin Schools). They also recommended that there be three on St. Croix, but it would be up to the St. Croix Board of Elections to make a final decision.
"We had 'x' amount of dollars, and this is the type of election we could have," Boschulte said.
The board will notify the political parties in writing of the plan. Malone said it also still has to confirm the availability of the schools to be used as polling places with the Education Department.
For the general election on Nov. 5, the board discussed expanding the number of polling places for one area of St. Thomas. To relieve congestion at Gomez School, it wants to divide the voting for area residents among three sites — Gomez, the Anna's Retreat Community Center and E. Benjamin Oliver Elementary School.
And for elections to come after November, the board hopes to go into schools for another purpose — to encourage young people turning 18 to register as new V.I. voters.
"We've been to a few of the schools, and the majority of the kids that graduate are under 18 and they go away to school," Boschulte said.
Under the proposal, those turning 18 by the first Tuesday in November 2004 would be able to register in advance. Those planning to go off-island for higher education also would be shown how to vote by absentee ballot.
Meanwhile, because of controversy surrounding absentee ballots in the last election, the board also is reviewing the procedures for mailing, collecting and counting such ballots. One idea under consideration is the use of an official date stamp. The board until now has used pre-stamped envelopes for mail-in ballots, and those envelopes did not receive cancellation stamps from the postal service, so it was not possible to confirm when they were mailed.

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July 3, 2002 – In a wide-ranging meeting Tuesday, the St. Thomas-St. John Board of Elections voted to ask the attorney general for a legal opinion on its members who are running for higher office and discussed streamlining primary elections to reduce costs, adding two polling places on St. Thomas, changing procedures for absentee voting and conducting a campaign to recruit new young voters.
Fine tuning electoral procedures is a routine undertaking for the board going into an election season. But this year, voting law changes and a resulting court challenge have added extra considerations to the task.
Board members are publicly elected officials. This year three board members have set their sights on higher office as well: Kevin Rodriquez, Shawn-Michael Malone and Lawrence Boschulte have announced their candidacy for the 25th Legislature. At Tuesday's meeting, board member Alecia Wells said the situation has raised ethical concerns in the community.
"People are saying they're making their own laws and governing the election," Wells said.
She pointed out that such conflicts were not a problem before the law was changed in January by the current Legislature in a veto override. Previously, public officials running for public office were required to take a leave of absence from their current positions from the date of filing until the general election — or the primary election, should they be eliminated at that point. They no longer need to do so. (See "Loud protests to quiet changes in voting law".)
. The board voted unanimously to ask Attorney General Iver Strdiron to issue a legal opinion on the position of Elections Board members seeking higher office under the new circumstances.
The board also discussed the possible impact of a court case challenging a different aspect of the new election law. Several St. Thomas residents have sued the V.I. government in District Court saying the aspect of the law which bars campaign activity after 2 a.m. on an election day violates the First Amendment constitutional guarantees of free speech and free assembly.
Malone predicted the court will agree with the plaintiffs, saying "it appears [the law] does violate the Constitution." But what happens after that, he said, will be up to police, who govern conduct on public streets. "We only have jurisdiction around the polls, not in the street where the law is enforced," he said.
Meantime, the board still is responsible for holding primary elections — something it did not anticipate earlier this year, when it expected the territory's three political parties to take it upon themselves to select their candidates for the general election. The law as changed in January specified that "The Board of Elections will be responsible for certifying the process to be used by any political party to select party officers and candidates for public office."
Democrats and Republicans joined forces in court pointing out that there is no provision in the law requiring the parties to foot the bill for the primaries, and said they had no intention of doing so. That left the board in the same position it has faced in previous years: having to hold a primary without adequate funding to do so.
The solution, members decided Tuesday, is to streamline the Sept. 14 primary election process. Given that the turnout for primaries historically is very light, they will open just three polling places on St. Thomas (Joseph Gomez Elementary, Charlotte Amalie High and Addelita Cancryn Junior High Schools) and two on St. John (Julius E. Sprauve and Guy Benjamin Schools). They also recommended that there be three on St. Croix, but it would be up to the St. Croix Board of Elections to make a final decision.
"We had 'x' amount of dollars, and this is the type of election we could have," Boschulte said.
The board will notify the political parties in writing of the plan. Malone said it also still has to confirm the availability of the schools to be used as polling places with the Education Department.
For the general election on Nov. 5, the board discussed expanding the number of polling places for one area of St. Thomas. To relieve congestion at Gomez School, it wants to divide the voting for area residents among three sites — Gomez, the Anna's Retreat Community Center and E. Benjamin Oliver Elementary School.
And for elections to come after November, the board hopes to go into schools for another purpose — to encourage young people turning 18 to register as new V.I. voters.
"We've been to a few of the schools, and the majority of the kids that graduate are under 18 and they go away to school," Boschulte said.
Under the proposal, those turning 18 by the first Tuesday in November 2004 would be able to register in advance. Those planning to go off-island for higher education also would be shown how to vote by absentee ballot.
Meanwhile, because of controversy surrounding absentee ballots in the last election, the board also is reviewing the procedures for mailing, collecting and counting such ballots. One idea under consideration is the use of an official date stamp. The board until now has used pre-stamped envelopes for mail-in ballots, and those envelopes did not receive cancellation stamps from the postal service, so it was not possible to confirm when they were mailed.

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July 3, 2002 – In a wide-ranging meeting Tuesday, the St. Thomas-St. John Board of Elections voted to ask the attorney general for a legal opinion on its members who are running for higher office and to reduce primary election costs by reducing the number of polling places to three on St. Thomas and two on St. John. It suggested that St. Croix also have just three polling places.
Fine tuning electoral procedures is a routine undertaking for the board going into an election season. But this year, voting law changes and a resulting court challenge have added extra considerations to the task.
Board members are publicly elected officials. This year three board members have set their sights on higher office as well: Kevin Rodriquez, Shawn-Michael Malone and Lawrence Boschulte have announced their candidacy for the 25th Legislature. At Tuesday's meeting, board member Alecia Wells said the situation has raised ethical concerns in the community.
"People are saying they're making their own laws and governing the election," Wells said.
She pointed out that such conflicts were not a problem before the law was changed in January by the current Legislature in a veto override. Previously, public officials running for public office were required to take a leave of absence from their current positions from the date of filing until the general election — or the primary election, should they be eliminated at that point. They no longer need to do so. (See "Loud protests to quiet changes in voting law".)
. The board voted unanimously to ask Attorney General Iver Strdiron to issue a legal opinion on the position of Elections Board members seeking higher office under the new circumstances.
The board also discussed the possible impact of a court case challenging a different aspect of the new election law. Several St. Thomas residents have sued the V.I. government in District Court saying the aspect of the law which bars campaign activity after 2 a.m. on an election day violates the First Amendment constitutional guarantees of free speech and free assembly.
Malone predicted the court will agree with the plaintiffs, saying "it appears [the law] does violate the Constitution." But what happens after that, he said, will be up to police, who govern conduct on public streets. "We only have jurisdiction around the polls, not in the street where the law is enforced," he said.
Meantime, the board still is responsible for holding primary elections — something it did not anticipate earlier this year, when it expected the territory's three political parties to take it upon themselves to select their candidates for the general election. The law as changed in January specified that "The Board of Elections will be responsible for certifying the process to be used by any political party to select party officers and candidates for public office."
Democrats and Republicans joined forces in court pointing out that there is no provision in the law requiring the parties to foot the bill for the primaries, and said they had no intention of doing so. That left the board in the same position it has faced in previous years: having to hold a primary without adequate funding to do so.
The solution, members decided Tuesday, is to streamline the Sept. 14 primary election process. Given that the turnout for primaries historically is very light, they will open just three polling places on St. Thomas (Joseph Gomez Elementary, Charlotte Amalie High and Addelita Cancryn Junior High Schools) and two on St. John (Julius E. Sprauve and Guy Benjamin Schools). They also recommended that there be three on St. Croix, but it would be up to the St. Croix Board of Elections to make a final decision.
"We had 'x' amount of dollars, and this is the type of election we could have," Boschulte said.
The board will notify the political parties in writing of the plan. Malone said it also still has to confirm the availability of the schools to be used as polling places with the Education Department.
For the general election on Nov. 5, the board discussed expanding the number of polling places for one area of St. Thomas. To relieve congestion at Gomez School, it wants to divide the voting for area residents among three sites — Gomez, the Anna's Retreat Community Center and E. Benjamin Oliver Elementary School.
And for elections to come after November, the board hopes to go into schools for another purpose — to encourage young people turning 18 to register as new V.I. voters.
"We've been to a few of the schools, and the majority of the kids that graduate are under 18 and they go away to school," Boschulte said.
Under the proposal, those turning 18 by the first Tuesday in November 2004 would be able to register in advance. Those planning to go off-island for higher education also would be shown how to vote by absentee ballot.
Meanwhile, because of controversy surrounding absentee ballots in the last election, the board also is reviewing the procedures for mailing, collecting and counting such ballots. One idea under consideration is the use of an official date stamp. The board until now has used pre-stamped envelopes for mail-in ballots, and those envelopes did not receive cancellation stamps from the postal service, so it was not possible to confirm when they were mailed.

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July 2, 2002 – The Virgin Islands Vendors Association is conducting a series of political forums. The next one will be held at 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday, July 16.
Candidates and aspirants for political office in the November general elections should contact the secretary of the association, Vincent Thompson, at 714-3267 in order to schedule participation in the forums.

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