{"id":161671,"date":"2012-05-31T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bf9bbc97-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2012-05-31T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:35:00","slug":"bf9bbcad-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bf9bbcad-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Thornburgh gets 5-percent salary hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI State Board of Education has unanimously approved a 5-percent salary adjustment for the Public School System\u2019s federal programs officer.<\/p>\n<p>The board agreed at a special meeting yesterday that the increase will be added to Tim Thornburgh\u2019s base salary, which now stands at $65,000 per annum following the adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on the recommendation made by Education Commissioner Rita Sablan, the board made its decision after the PSS Fiscal, Personnel, and Administrative Committee endorsed the salary hike.<\/p>\n<p>This was among the several issues deliberated on by the FPA committee during its executive session held prior to the 11am special meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Committee chair Tanya King said the salary adjustment is justified by the amount of responsibilities that the federal programs officer has, including his capacity as acting commissioner on various occasions.<\/p>\n<p>According to King, the adjustment will make Thornburgh\u2019s salary commensurate to his responsibilities as well as aligned with other PSS directors<\/p>\n<p>King noted that Thornburgh\u2019s salary increase will solely come from federal funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI State Board of Education has unanimously approved a 5-percent salary adjustment for the Public School System\u2019s federal programs officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}