{"id":345143,"date":"2021-05-31T06:05:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=345143"},"modified":"2021-05-31T06:05:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T20:05:10","slug":"torres-will-present-expenditure-plan-for-481-87m-arpa-funding-to-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/torres-will-present-expenditure-plan-for-481-87m-arpa-funding-to-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres will present expenditure plan for  $481.87M ARPA funding to Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres will hold a presentation this Friday to the Legislature to share his expenditure plan for the $481.87-million American Rescue Plan Act funding that the administration recently received. <\/p>\n<p>Torres will also be inviting the municipality mayors and the Judiciary to the presentation, he said at a radio news briefing Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The presentation will also show the guidelines that need to be followed in spending these ARPA funds. <\/p>\n<p>The governor said a lot of departments, entities, nonprofits, businesses in the community, and different government branches are also asking for assistance. \u201cWe do have guidelines that we need  to follow,\u201d he pointed out. <\/p>\n<p>Torres said one of the reasons why he created the Infrastructure Recovery Program is to assist the departments on these programs and projects. \u201cIt all depends on what projects need to be rolled out,\u201d said the governor, adding that he expects these funds to start rolling out within a month.<\/p>\n<p>Torres said there\u2019s different costs, different amounts for different projects.<\/p>\n<p>Torres said the goal is to spend this money as fast as they can, while making sure that the guidelines are followed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres will hold a presentation this Friday to the Legislature to share&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":340247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345143","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}