Lawmakers from Rota lauded the efforts of the head of the Department of Public Works on securing new equipment, including two brand new pickup trucks, to be used for infrastructure projects on the island.<\/p>\n
DPW Secretary James Ada showed the vehicles to lawmakers at Capital Hill on Tuesday. The vehicles will be assigned to DPW offices on Rota.<\/p>\n
\u201cTinian will also get equipment and new vehicles as well,\u201d Ada said, adding that funding for the two vehicles\u2014a total of $77,000\u2014came from the department\u2019s solid waste \u201crevolving\u201d fund.<\/p>\n
Senate President Victor B. Hocog (Ind-Rota) said this is the \u201cfirst time\u201d that DPW Rota will get new vehicles.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe appreciate the efforts of the DPW secretary. These vehicles will help get their projects going,\u201d Hocog said.<\/p>\n
Sen. Steve Mesngon (R-Rota) also said this is the first time \u201cin a decade\u201d that DPW Rota will have new vehicles, and that he congratulates the DPW secretary for making this possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can use these equipment as we move forward with our landfill issues,\u201d Mesngon said.<\/p>\n
Projects<\/strong> He said he and other officials will be going to Rota on Aug. 18 and 19 in Rota for ocular inspections.<\/p>\n Ada said there is also a similar resurfacing project in Tinian, from the Tinian airport to Suicide Cliff.<\/p>\n \u201cI said (in my nomination) that I am not going to promise anything to Tinian and Rota, but this is just the beginning,\u201d Ada said, adding that more equipment for solid waste management projects for both Tinian and Rota will also soon arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lawmakers from Rota lauded the efforts of the head of the Department of Public Works…<\/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":[182,1114,1882,2835],"class_list":["post-206425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-capital-hill","tag-dpw","tag-public-works","tag-suicide-cliff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206425","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=206425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAda, meanwhile, said the DPW continues work on the resurfacing of the main highway in Rota.<\/p>\n