{"id":205069,"date":"2015-06-25T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=205069"},"modified":"2015-06-25T06:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T20:00:38","slug":"lawmakers-start-budget-deliberations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lawmakers-start-budget-deliberations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers start budget deliberations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers this week have started deliberations on the government\u2019s fiscal year 2016 budget allocations for its various departments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_205081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205081\" style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"205081\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Antonio-Sablan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Antonio-Sablan-120x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sablan\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-205081\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-205081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Rep Antonio P. Sablan (Ind-Saipan), head of the House Committee on Ways and Means, the deliberations will hopefully end this week and will be readied for presentation to other members of the House in a session.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said right now, the committee members are looking at the personnel requirements of the various departments, as well as possible sources of budget allocations on the balance sheets.<\/p>\n<p>Just like the budget hearings, some of the bigger departments will be prioritized.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Joseph P. Deleon Guerrero (Ind-Saipan) said after the deliberations, the committee head will then file an Appropriations Act, or the \u201cbudget bill\u201d for submission and review.<\/p>\n<p>The deliberations are being held throughout this week, while a House session is expected to be scheduled next week.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, the Governor\u2019s Office submitted a $145.8-million government budget for fiscal year 2016.<\/p>\n<p>After initial review of the House Committee on Ways and Means, Sablan said the budget requests of government departments and their respective activities exceeded the $145.8-million proposed budget by $38.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers expect that not all the departments\u2019 \u201cwish list\u201d on their budgets will be granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers this week have started deliberations on the government\u2019s fiscal year 2016 budget allocations for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":205081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5658,20,65],"class_list":["post-205069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-appropriations-act","tag-budget","tag-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205069","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=205069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}