{"id":24746,"date":"2012-07-24T07:56:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T07:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=24746"},"modified":"2012-07-24T07:56:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T07:56:20","slug":"new-local-law-gives-15k-in-poker-fees-to-rota-patients-and-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/new-local-law-gives-15k-in-poker-fees-to-rota-patients-and-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"New local law gives $15K in poker fees to Rota patients and programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Acting governor Eloy S. Inos signed into local law a measure that appropriates $15,000 in poker machine fees to Rota patients, scholars, and other programs and services.<\/div>\n<p>House Local Bill 17-84, Substitute 1, introduced by Rep. Teresita Santos (Ind-Rota), is now Rota Local Law 17-21.<\/p>\n<p>Santos, in an interview yesterday, said she&#8217;s grateful for the acting governor&#8217;s signing of the bill into law \u201cbecause it will be a big help to terminally ill and dialysis patients who have been waiting for their allowance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the new law, $6,300 is appropriated for 14 Rota dialysis and terminally ill patients at $450 each for April 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Some $2,700 will be for nine dialysis and terminally ill patients at $300 each for April 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Rota Municipal Scholarship Foundation, pursuant to Rota Local Law 17-2, will get $1,500 under the newly signed local law.<\/p>\n<p>A total of $1,500 will go toward the retroactive salary payment of affected employees.<\/p>\n<p>The Rota Liaison Office\/Rota Medical Referral Office will get $1,659 for fuel and lubrication.<\/p>\n<p>Rota&#8217;s Department of Public Safety will also get $1,000 also for fuel and lubrication. A total of $341 will go to Aquarius Beach Tower.<\/p>\n<p>Inos, in his transmittal message to Rota Legislative Delegation chair Sen. Juan Ayuyu (Ind-Rota) and acting House speaker Felicidad Ogumoro (Cov-Saipan), said he approves the measure \u201cwith specific instructions to the Secretary of Finance that the appropriation of $341 for Aquarius Beach Tower in Section 2(g) be disbursed only upon submission of proper documentation showing a public purpose for the expense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By Haidee V. Eugenio<br \/>\nReporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting governor Eloy S. Inos signed into local law a measure that appropriates $15,000 in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65,215],"class_list":["post-24746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-house","tag-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24746","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}