lemanu-Talauega Administration
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On Dec. 3, government leaders delivered Christmas gifts to the residents of Hope House at Fatu O Aiga. Gov. Lemanu P. S Mauga and First Lady Ella Mauga; Lt. Governor Talauega E. V Ale and his wife Marian McGuire Ale were in attendance.
According to a gov’t statement,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lemanu-Talauega Administration has issued a list of priority actions they’ve accomplished in order to improve the quality of life for the public workforce and families.
First on the list was a statement confirming that on “September 23, 2022, Governor Lemanu P.S....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It’s the “hope of the Governor and the Task Force... to have the government fully functioning by the summer time,” declared Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale during Monday’s COVID-19 Task Force virtual news conference.
Fully functioning government operations would have...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lemanu-Talauega Administration has set a new “petty cash” policy — to be approved by the ASG Treasury — for all Executive Branch departments and offices. And it’s outlined in Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga’s Apr. 27 memorandum to directors.
According to ASG officials, the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The year, “2022 is going to be a year of action and it’s going to be a year of a lot of activities,” declared Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale during his remarks at last Friday’s cabinet meeting. “We have established the infrastructure to do this in 2021, now we are...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lemanu/Talauega Administration’s plan to raise the lower level salaries from $12,000 up to $15,000 to $16,000 also includes raising each salary level until the increases reach the director level, according to Communications Officer, Fiafia Sunia, with the Governor’s...

![First Lady Ella and Good Lady Marian bringing gift baskets to the Labor & Delivery unit during the annual Christmas visit to LBJ hospital. [ASG photo] First Lady Ella and Good Lady Marian](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ella_and_marian.jpg?itok=P9m5yDig)




![Sunia said over the weekend that this is the initial proposed threshold raise — hiking the starting pay scale — and the subsequent pay raise proposals to follow will be pay raises to each respective threshold above until eventually looking at a director's pay raise as well. “In the beginning, when the Governor wanted to initiate these raises coming into office, he knew it would not be possible without completing the rollbacks first. Which was the first phase of the pay raise plan,” he explained. [photo: Linkedin] ASG Communications Officer, Fiafia Sunia](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fiafia_sunia.jpeg?itok=eocn1zqI)