Officials appreciate courts' efficiency

by Sabrina Salas Matanane

Guam - Highlighted in Chief Justice F. Philip Carbullido's 2012 State of the Judiciary Address include the court system's 2012-2015 Strategic Plan, which the courts began updating last year. The plan sets forth a strategic roadmap for the future and identifies four areas and several goals and strategies for making future improvements.

Some of the goals include making the courts accessible user-friendly and convenient, ensuring that cases are managed and resolved in a timely, effective and efficient manner, that the Judiciary's workforce will be motivated, satisfied, and competent, and that the Judiciary will have strong collaborative relations with stakeholders and partners.

Senators Adolpho Palacios and Frank Blas, Jr. as well as Attorney General Leonardo Rapadas recognize and appreciate how the Judiciary has managed to streamline and diversity its services. "They look for ways to survive under the circumstances and so they innovate, they become more efficient and they still ask for help because that's one agency that sets an example of how one can innovate and continue to provide the services satisfactory to the people of Guam," Palacios said.

Blas said, "There's a number of online processes they already have that can reduce not just traffic in and out of court system, but provides for better way to keep things in order. This is not just good for the consumers but for the court functions in itself."

And Rapadas noted, "The speech was good and realistic look at what we all have to go through, we all have to not cut corner but do the best we can to stretch our dollar, and sometime a dollar gets stretched so thin you can see throughout."