{"id":347620,"date":"2021-07-09T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=347620"},"modified":"2021-07-09T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T20:00:31","slug":"public-comments-sought-on-saipan-neighborhood-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/public-comments-sought-on-saipan-neighborhood-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Public comments sought on Saipan Neighborhood Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 16th Saipan &amp; Northern Islands Municipal Council is soliciting input from residents, families, neighbors, friends, and businesses on the best approach forward with the Saipan Neighborhood Watch Program.<\/p>\n<p>The town hall meetings will be held on Saipan from 5:30pm to 6:30pm to solicit feedback about the installation of CCTV cameras initially at school bus stops (then later at sports and recreational facilities, public parks, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>The meetings are scheduled as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0July 13, 2021: Kagman Community Center in Kagman 3;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0July 15, 2021\u2014Carolinian Utt in Garapan;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0July 20, 2021\u2014Tanapag Social Hall (across Sta. Remedios Church); <\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0July 22, 2021\u2014San Vicente Youth Park;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0July 27, 2021\u2014Koblerville Youth Center; and<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0July 29, 2021\u2014GTC Elementary School. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, residents can attend the meetings via Google Meet by sending their email address at least one day in advance to spnmunicipalcouncil@gmail.com for the meeting link. <\/p>\n<p>The goal of the Neighborhood Watch Program is to implement a year-round community-based \u201cneighborhood watch\u201d effort by all to preserve the safety and security of all\u2014children (famagu\u2019on), youth (manhobin), adults and elderly (man\u00e5mku\u2019), families, households, businesses, non-profit organizations, and public facilities\u2014in villages throughout Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal, too, is to call upon the 22nd Commonwealth Legislature\u2019s support to pass a bill (and appropriate annual project funding) to dedicate this project in honor of the lives of Maleina and Faloma Quitugua Luhk, who mysteriously went missing a decade ago on May 25, 2011,\u201d said municipal council chair Ana Demapan-Castro. \u201cEveryone\u2019s lives and peace of mind matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more details, call the municipal council at 664-2700 or 664-2701. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 16th Saipan &amp; Northern Islands Municipal Council is soliciting input from residents, families, neighbors,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":347703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23766],"class_list":["post-347620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-saipan-neighborhood-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347620","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=347620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}