{"id":307176,"date":"2019-09-03T06:06:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T20:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=307176"},"modified":"2019-09-03T06:06:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T20:06:01","slug":"cabrera-yutu-affected-labor-day-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cabrera-yutu-affected-labor-day-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabrera: Yutu affected Labor Day planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_307182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-307182\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Cabrera-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Cabrera-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-307182\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-307182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Labor Day Committee chair Eli Cabrera delivers his remarks this year\u2019s celebration at the Garapan Fishing Base last Saturday. (MARC VENUS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although the 2019 Labor Day Committee worked hardly without any budget, they were still able to pull through for this year\u2019s celebration at the Garapan Fishing Base last Saturday, according to committee chair Eli Cabrera.<\/p>\n<p>With over 2,000 government employees and their families attending, Cabrera told Saipan Tribune in an interview Saturday afternoon that although there were some budget concerns following the austerity measure as a result of Super Typhoon Yutu, all the departments were able to chip in for this year\u2019s celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t ask for any funding; we used last year\u2019s [carryover] funding. I believe every [agency] sacrificed a little bit of their budget, contributing their own tents, their own coolers, their own everything,\u201d he told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that there was only about $2,000 left over from last year\u2019s annual Labor Day celebration. This year, his committee still has about $1,200 for next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here to have fun and I want every agency to celebrate the hard labor of each and every employee. Let\u2019s have fun and let\u2019s sit down and\u2026keep moving forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera noted that funding was the main concern plaguing the committee. \u201cThe only concern was I was worried where to find funding for this event. \u2026We had some money left over from last year and\u2026we still have some money left over from this year,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking forward to a better year next year,\u201d he said, adding that he is looking to approach the CNMI Legislature when the CNMI finances improves for next year\u2019s Labor Day celebrations. If not, he said he would consider asking each department to raise their own funds for the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to see every department involved. This year, everybody chipped in and [helped],\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the 2019 Labor Day Committee worked hardly without any budget, they were still able&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":307182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3098],"class_list":["post-307176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-labor-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307176","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=307176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}