{"id":303825,"date":"2019-07-17T06:08:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T20:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=303825"},"modified":"2019-07-17T06:08:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T20:08:26","slug":"snild-approves-1-9m-appropriation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/snild-approves-1-9m-appropriation\/","title":{"rendered":"SNILD approves $1.9M appropriation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_303826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303826\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SNILD-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SNILD-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"292\" class=\"size-full wp-image-303826\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-303826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saipan and Northern Island Delegation members discuss an amendment made to a local bill during a brief recess last Monday in the House of Representatives chamber on Capital Hill.\u00a0(Erwin Encinares)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation approved during their session last July 14 a measure that appropriates over $1.9 million in poker fees to several government entities and programs.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation unanimously voted to pass House Speaker Blas Jonathan \u201cBJ\u201d Attao\u2019s (R-Saipan) House Local Bill 21-24 after a few tweaks.<\/p>\n<p>The bill appropriates $1.96 million in poker fees collected from Saipan Local Law 11-2.<\/p>\n<p>The bill appropriates $470,001 to the Saipan Higher Education Financial Assistance program; $10,000 to the Saipan Little League; $180,000 to the Saipan Zoning Office for its operations and procurement of a vehicle; $400,000 to the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office for operations and the procurement of a 10-cubic-yard truck and a new vehicle; $83,000 to the Northern Islands Mayor\u2019s Office for a new vehicle; $39,000 to the Saipan and Northern Islands Municipal Council\u2019s purchase of a new vehicle; $500,000 to the Northern Marianas College for personnel costs for Saipan employees; $250,000 to the Public School System; $7,000 to the Saipan Fishing Association for the 35th annual Fishing Derby; and $23,000 to the Saipan Agricultural Fair Association for the upcoming annual Agricultural Fair.<\/p>\n<p>Attao introduced an amendment to his bill to include appropriations for PSS, the SFA, and the Agricultural Fair and was further amended through a subsidiary amendment offered by vice speaker Lorenzo I. Deleon Guerrero (R-Saipan) to adjust the amounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation approved during their session last July 14 a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":303826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2738],"class_list":["post-303825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-snild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303825","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}