{"id":181856,"date":"2014-10-14T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=181856"},"modified":"2014-10-14T04:00:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T18:00:19","slug":"cop-suggested-possible-caretaker-unwanted-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cop-suggested-possible-caretaker-unwanted-gym\/","title":{"rendered":"COP suggested as a possible caretaker of unwanted gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_181863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181863\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a attid=\"181863\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/marylou-ada-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/marylou-ada-color.jpg\" alt=\"Ada\" width=\"233\" height=\"296\" class=\"size-full wp-image-181863\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-181863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ada<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBoard of Education member Marylou S. Ada has pointed \u201cacross the street\u201d to Coral Ocean Point as a possible suitor to adopt the Koblerville gym that is currently being built that the Public School System may no longer need.<\/p>\n<p>As reported earlier, PSS is reviewing whether they would need such a gym as the recent middle school reconfiguration and the unprecedented population number at Marianas High School may make the need for a new high school a higher priority.<\/p>\n<p>The Koblerville gym was initially intended to be built for the proposed Koblerville Junior High School, but the administrative costs PSS would shoulder with the new gym and the lack of commitment from the government in building a new junior high puts its use into question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it would be good to meet with Coral Ocean Point because the gym is right across. If [COP] can adopt the gym, provide for maintenance [and] repairs as part of community service, they get a tax break for that. I think it\u2019s worth looking into,\u201d Ada said.<\/p>\n<p>Board member Lucy Blanco-Maratita called the idea a \u201cgood suggestion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps there might be another government agency that oversees sports centers [who] they can take over and assume the responsibility,\u201d board chair Herman Guerrero said.<\/p>\n<p>Conversations on the topic continue and \u201cnothing is definitive\u201d so far, Guerrero said.<\/p>\n<p>The gym\u2019s completion date is Dec. 19, barring any weather problems, according to the Capital Improvement Projects office of PSS.<\/p>\n<p>Constructed by Tropex Garden, the gym costs $1,405,817, with some funds redirected from a proposed but cancelled Saipan Southern High School swimming pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board of Education member Marylou S. Ada has pointed \u201cacross the street\u201d to Coral Ocean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":181863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54,729,40,41],"class_list":["post-181856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-agency","tag-cop","tag-pss","tag-public-school-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181856","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}