2011 Inaugural Address By The Honorable Sebastian L. Anefal ...

moving forward with its development agenda. Any accomplishment of theAdministration is a shared accomplishment with the Legislature and the Stateleaders, and most of all, the great people of Yap for their cooperation andunderstanding during the last four challenging years. In the same vein, wesincerely thank all the voters for exercising their inalienable rights in the lastelection.Having said that let me make it clear that this does not mean that our work isfinished. We obviously have the next four years to go. The honor andresponsibility given to us as elected officials by the Yapese people must continueto motivate us to do our very best to ensure that we continue to lay thefoundation for future generations and the next set of elected leaders of our greatisland state – a future that we can all look forward to.BackgroundWhen I gave my Inauguration Speech four years ago, I indicated that we would beentering into doing “business unusual”. I also indicated to you that thegovernment would need to run efficiently and effectively. This was because itwas clear on day one of the Amended Compact that our government was goinglow and lower on annual Compact funding streams, low on local revenuegeneration, but with a tendency for higher expenditure, and it was necessary toestablish a better model of government and good governance in the State of Yap -- a model of proper planning, a model of fiscal prudence, a model of institution4