{"id":300887,"date":"2019-06-04T06:02:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T20:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=300887"},"modified":"2019-06-04T06:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T20:02:51","slug":"saipan-mayors-office-helps-clear-sports-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-mayors-office-helps-clear-sports-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office helps clear sports complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_300890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300890\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nmsapix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-300890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers fix the roofing of the Miguel \u201cTan Ge\u201d Basa Pangelinan Ballfield.   (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The fences are up, the parking lot has been cleared, and the two ballfields at the Oleai Sports Complex are now playable, thanks to the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Marianas Sports Association executive director Tony Rogolifoi said that for the last few months, Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang through his office\u2019s employees has been assisting NMSA staff in cleaning and clearing the sports complex and its facilities that sustained significant damage from Super Typhoon Yutu in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very grateful to Mayor Apatang and his dedicated staff for helping us clear the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios and Miguel \u201cTan Ge\u201d Basa Pangelinan ballfields, which are now ready for use. They also helped us fix the front fence (facing Beach Road) and they loaned us equipment to work the grounds,\u201d Rogolifoi said.<\/p>\n<p>The roofing at the \u201cTan Ge\u201d field has been repaired, too, while a few more work will be done at  the \u201cTan Ko\u201d pitch, which will be used for the upcoming 2019 Saipan Baseball League. Then last Saturday, the front parking lot of the sports complex went through water blasting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLittle by little, we\u2019re trying to fix things here with the help of the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office, while we\u2019re waiting for FEMA\u2019s help,\u201d the NMSA official said. <\/p>\n<p>NMSA has already turned in some paperwork for the repairs needed at the Oleai facilities to FEMA early this year. A separate 10-project proposal to the CNMI Office of the Planning and Development was also submitted last February with majority of the suggested improvements are from the facilities located at the sports complex.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NMSA, according to Rogolifoi, has also submitted a budget proposal to the Office of the Governor for the 2020 fiscal year and has yet to get an update from Capitol Hill, while the budget for the remaining months of 2019 has been cut by 30 percent due to the government\u2019s austerity measures.<\/p>\n<p>NMSA, besides the money it is getting from the government in the past several years, uses its earnings from lottery\/scratch cards for the maintenance and operation of the sports complex and to support CNMI athletes\u2019 participation in off-island tournaments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_300891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300891\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nmsapixpasa-300x225.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-300891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers clean the parking lot of the Oleai Sports Complex. (Roselyn B. 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