{"id":326718,"date":"2020-07-21T06:01:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T20:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=326718"},"modified":"2020-07-21T06:01:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T20:01:57","slug":"community-briefs-july-21-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-july-21-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY BRIEFS &#8211; July 21, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Normal ops for GRTA buses today<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Guam Regional Transit Authority would like to inform the public that its bus operations will run\u00a0normal operating hours on Liberation Day, Tuesday, July 21, 2020, from 5:30am to 7:30pm for Paratransit and Fixed Routes. The GRTA Administration Office, however, will be closed.\u00a0For inquiries, contact 475-4686, or email\u00a0ride@grta.guam.gov. (PR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guam PTAC webinars on federal contracting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Guam Procurement Technical Assistance Center is offering\u00a0free\u00a0live webinars every Thursday in July. Webinars run from\u00a010am to 11:30am\u00a0and\u00a0will be conducted via Zoom. Links to the live webinar and the webinar evaluation will be emailed to all registered attendees 15 minutes before the start of the webinar.<br \/>\n July 23 \u2013 Marketing to the Federal Government:\u00a0The government buys products and services differently than the private sector. The Guam PTAC will discuss marketing strategies, essential documents, and how to get your company on \u201cthe list\u201d.<br \/>\n July 30 \u2013 Subcontracting:\u00a0Subcontracting is an important part of most government contracts. Subcontracting plans, limitations, and related FAR clauses will be discussed.<br \/>\nRegister on http:\/\/guamptac.com\/news-and-events.php. (PR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guam issues tax refunds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HAGATNA, Guam\u2014The Department of Revenue &amp; Taxation has processed and the Department of Administration will mail 1,497 2019 tax refund checks this week. The checks total approximately $5,290,967, including refunds garnished to repay government debts, for error-free returns filed on or before Jan. 31, 2020. For inquiries, contact us via the Contact Us section of our website or at pinadmin@revtax.guam.gov. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normal ops for GRTA buses today The Guam Regional Transit Authority would like to inform&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":326720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-326718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-guam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326718","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}