Despite anticipated government revenue losses after Typhoon Soudelor, the local government has been on time with its utility bills, according to administration and utility officials.<\/p>\n
Commonwealth Utilities Corp. chief financial officer Matthew Yaquinto told Saipan Tribune<\/em> yesterday that the central government and the Public School System are \u201cgood\u201d on payments, confirming a report from an administration official that the government is current.<\/p>\n The exact figures of payments were not made available as of press time.<\/p>\n There are some $2 million in back payments owed from previous years, but the administration has been making payments since the typhoon. They pay some $5.2 million in utility payments a year.<\/p>\n Yaquinto also said the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. has also been current, paying $150,000 a month.<\/p>\n Meantime, the Inos administration did not yet have dollar figures accounting for the \u201chit\u201d Typhoon Soudelor had on the economy, when asked for the information.<\/p>\n The CNMI Department of Finance is looking at government revenue points such as revenue tax, customs fees, and business license fees to crunch out a larger number detailing the impact to the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite anticipated government revenue losses after Typhoon Soudelor, the local government has been on time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[260,5903,6333,244],"class_list":["post-210659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-commonwealth-utilities-corp","tag-matthew-yaquinto","tag-typhoon-soudelor","tag-utility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210659","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=210659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}