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PSS budget bill includes $4M for scholarship
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Posted on Sep 30 2005
The House-approved budget bill for the Public School System includes $4 million for the CNMI Scholarship Office.
Rep. Justo S. Quitugua, chair of the House Committee on Education, said House Bill 14-371, which originally appropriates $50 million for PSS, was amended Thursday to include $4.2 million for scholarship.
The title of the bill was amended to read: “To make a partial appropriation of $54.2 million for the PSS personnel and operation, the CNMI Scholarship Office, and to provide budget authority for fiscal year 2006 and for other purposes.”
The bill allots $49.63 million to PSS, including $39.9 million for personnel and $9.7 million for non-personnel.
The Board of Education gets $350,017 for personnel and $20,000 for non-personnel, for a total of $370,017.
For the Scholarship Office, $118,058 goes to personnel cost and $4.1 million for non-personnel/scholarship assistance, for a total of $4.2 million.
PSS has 1,111 FTEs, the BOE has five, and the CNMI Scholarship has three personnel.
H.B. 14-371 passed the House unanimously Thursday.
The House clerk said yesterday that the measure has yet to be transmitted to the Senate, meaning that it did not beat the Sept. 30 end of fiscal year timeline.
Meantime, the $54 million appropriation under the bill leaves only $152 million for other government agencies in the CNMI, based on the $206 million revenue projection for fiscal year 2006.
PSS is currently budgeted at $37.2 million.
