Governor: Any agency chief who doesn’t meet metrics will leave

Although the appointment process has not yet been completed, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón said Thursday that if heads of agencies are not up to par, they will be dismissed.

“For me, more important than a title, will be people who solve problems for the people, people who get the government moving and that we don’t waste time in bureaucracy or ‘call me on Monday, we’ll check, we’re working or give me a break,’ none of that,” the governor said at a press conference. “Here we have to solve problems for the people. My vision from day one was a government that solves problems for the people, a government that takes care of them and that has the sensitivity to do so.”

“That’s why the people I’m looking for and all of them are going to the Senate consent council, but you know what? I’m going to be evaluating that agency head all the time and whoever can’t comply with the things we’re assigning will be removed and someone else will be appointed,” González Colón added. “I don’t have time to waste and I’m not going to leave in a secretary, even if he has been appointed, because he is already there. No, no, no, no, we all have to have metrics. I impose metrics on myself, because I’m going to do the same with my agency chiefs.”