{"id":294115,"date":"2019-02-19T06:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=294115"},"modified":"2019-02-19T06:06:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:06:27","slug":"bulk-of-cucs-11-7m-yutu-expenses-gpa-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bulk-of-cucs-11-7m-yutu-expenses-gpa-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulk of CUC\u2019s $11.7M Yutu expenses: GPA, labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_294116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-294116\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CUC-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CUC-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-294116\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-294116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo shows power personnel, including from off-island, fixing power poles damaged by Super Typhoon Yutu last Oct. 24 and 25. The bulk of the $11.7 million that the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. spent went to the Guam Power Authority and for labor. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reimbursing CUC for all typhoon-related expenses. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The bulk of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.\u2019s $11.7-million expense for Super Typhoon Yutu restoration went to the Guam Power Authority and labor. <\/p>\n<p>According to CUC\u2019s chief financial officer\u2019s reports for the first quarter of fiscal year 2019, from October 2018 to January 2019, Yutu restoration expenses reached $11,742,302.<\/p>\n<p>Of the $11.7 million spent during the four-month period, $5,087,939 was to GPA and $4,141,797 went to local labor costs. <\/p>\n<p>Last December, CUC executive director Gary P. Camacho disclosed that over 280 utility personnel, including from off-island, were involved in the restoration program on Saipan and Tinian.<\/p>\n<p>GPA reportedly sent 41 power experts.<\/p>\n<p>CUC\u2019s expenses for GPA personnel amounted to $1.3 million last November, $1.5 million last December, and $2.3 million last January.<\/p>\n<p>The CFO reports, which was prepared by CUC\u2019s acting chief financial officer Corina Magofna, also show that rental for equipment reached $1,106,166 and meals amounted to $308,936.<\/p>\n<p>The smallest expense was $12,228, which was for the submersible pump installed at the former Mariana Resort &amp; Spa in Marpi.<\/p>\n<p>In the four-month period, the highest expense ($4,299,298) was incurred last January.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reimbursing CUC\u2019s typhoon-related expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bulk of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.\u2019s $11.7-million expense for Super Typhoon Yutu restoration went&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":294116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[49,138],"class_list":["post-294115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-cuc","tag-gpa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294115","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}