The House of Representatives adopted Monday a fiscal year 2015 concurrent resolution on the CNMI government\u2019s total projected resources of $170 million, of which $134 million is available for appropriations. It also paves the way for House Ways and Means Committee chair Rep. Tony Sablan (Ind-Saipan) to schedule hearings on 12 government agencies\u2019 proposed 2015 budget.<\/p>\n
House Concurrent Resolution 18-2, authored by Sablan, unanimously passed the House at past 4pm Monday. It was the only measure that the House acted on in Monday afternoon\u2019s session, which resumed at 9:30am yesterday.<\/p>\n
This comes over a month since Gov. Eloy S. Inos sent his proposed budget to the Legislature on April 1, covering the period from Oct. 1, 2014, to Sept. 30, 2015.<\/p>\n
The Ways and Means Committee\u2019s budget hearings will be from May 7 to 30, each starting at 9am.<\/p>\n
The first hearing will be on the Department of Corrections\u2019 budget today, May 7. This will be followed by the Department of Public Safety\u2019s budget hearing tomorrow, May 8.<\/p>\n
Next week\u2019s budget hearings will be for the Public School System (May 13), Department of Public Lands (May 14), and Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. (May 15).<\/p>\n
The following week will be hearings on the agency budgets of the following: Department of Finance (May 20), Department of Lands and Natural Resources (May 21), and Marianas Visitors Authority (May 22).<\/p>\n
On the last week of May, the budget hearings will focus on these agencies: Department of Community and Cultural Affairs (May 27), Department of Public Works (May 28), Medical Referral (May 29), and Northern Marianas College (May 30).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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