{"id":201484,"date":"2015-05-13T04:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=201484"},"modified":"2015-05-13T04:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T18:00:59","slug":"csc-prioritizes-funding-for-trainings-legal-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/csc-prioritizes-funding-for-trainings-legal-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"CSC prioritizes funding for trainings, legal counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Civil Service Commission will prioritize trainings and hiring a legal counsel if its proposed budget for fiscal year 2016 is approved.<\/p>\n<p>Officials, headed by Commissioner Herman \u201cHR\u201d Deleon Guerrero, faced members of the House Committee on Ways and Means during a budget hearing on Tuesday on Capital Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The commission is proposing an estimated $713,000 for fiscal year 2016, which is slightly lower than the government\u2019s proposed $752,000.<\/p>\n<p>The trainings will get the bulk of the budget, as well as hiring of a legal counsel and executive assistant, Guerrero said.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the commission initiated an information program to ensure that employees are aware of their rights and obligations as government employees. It issued a series of bulletins covering a range of topics related to the Civil Service personnel regulations and other employment issues. To date, the commission has issued three bulletins on political coercion, Public Service System Rules &#038; Regulations, and performance evaluations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Civil Service Commission will prioritize trainings and hiring a legal counsel if its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,182,4531,747],"class_list":["post-201484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-budget","tag-capital-hill","tag-civil-service","tag-csc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201484","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}