{"id":205639,"date":"2015-07-02T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=205639"},"modified":"2015-07-02T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T20:00:20","slug":"house-committee-adopts-draft-govt-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/house-committee-adopts-draft-govt-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"House committee adopts draft govt budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House Committee on Ways and Means adopted a draft government budget for fiscal year 2016.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_205646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205646\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"205646\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/antonio-p.-sablan-mug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/antonio-p.-sablan-mug-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sablan\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-205646\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-205646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Rep. Antonio P. Sablan (Ind-Saipan), the draft budget is \u201calmost the same\u201d as the $145.8-million budget proposal coming from Gov. Eloy. S. Inos.<\/p>\n<p>But Sablan declined to give the specific amount saying that the actual draft budget approved by the committee will be presented during a House session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just passed the draft budget. It will be presented to the whole body and if approved, will be transmitted to the Senate,\u201d Sablan said.<\/p>\n<p>He said House Speaker Joseph P. Deleon Guerrero (Ind-Saipan) is set to call for a House session next week to approve the draft bill.<\/p>\n<p>Deleon Guerrero earlier said that 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 House Committee on Ways and Means in the last few weeks has been conducting budget deliberations for the government departments in the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said as expected, most of the agencies wanted more than what was proposed.<\/p>\n<p>During the deliberations, committee members looked 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>Some of the biggest CNMI departments, meanwhile, are scheduled to appear before the Senate chamber for the budget hearings.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Finance is scheduled on July 7 at 9:30am, while the Department of Public Safety is scheduled on the same day at 2pm. The CNMI Medical Referral Program is scheduled on July 9 at 9:30am, while the Department of Public Works is scheduled on the same day at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. is expected to have a budget hearing on July 15 at 9:30am, while the Public School System is scheduled on July 14 at 9:30am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Committee on Ways and Means adopted a draft government budget for fiscal year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":205646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5658,20,26,65],"class_list":["post-205639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-appropriations-act","tag-budget","tag-cnmi","tag-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205639","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=205639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}