{"id":350107,"date":"2021-08-18T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=350107"},"modified":"2021-08-18T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T20:00:40","slug":"community-briefs-august-18-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-august-18-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY BRIEFS &#8211; August 18, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saipan municipal council session moved to Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The scheduled meeting for the 16th Saipan and Northern Islands Municipal Council on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021 is rescheduled to Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. The session will be held at 10am at the Saipan and Northern Mariana Islands Municipal Council office at the Kiosku, Chalan Kanoa, Saipan. The meeting agenda will include the Municipal Council building project and Kiosku repairs project, as well as the proposed user fee for the kiosku. (<strong>PR<\/strong><em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>DPL sets homestead program outreach on Rota<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Public Land will be conducting a community outreach hearing regarding the homestead program on Sept. 9, 2021, at the Rota Mayor\u2019s Office starting at 5pm. For more information, contact Rota resident director Antonio Quitugua at Rota DPL office at 532-9431 or email dplrota@dpl.gov.mp. If you would like to meet on a one-on-one basis with the DPL secretary and Quitugua before the scheduled hearing and the following day (Sept. 10, 2021) before 12pm, email Mai Mendiola at admin@dpl.gov.mp or Velma Reyes at vreyes@dpl.gov.mp. (<strong>PR<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free Guam PTAC webinars on federal contracting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Guam Procurement Technical Assistance Center is offering free live webinars for August 2021. Webinars run from 10am to 11:30am and will 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Aug. 19 &#8211; Cybersecurity: Federal Contractor Responsibilities\u2014The Department of Defense is requiring cybersecurity certification for vendors. We will discuss the best way to comply with DOD\u2019s requirement. The upcoming Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification and the DFARS Interim Rule will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Aug. 26 &#8211; Marketing to the federal government\u2014The 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 \/>\nRegister on our website,\u00a0http:\/\/guamptac.com\/news-and-events.php. (<strong>PR<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan municipal council session moved to Monday The scheduled meeting for the 16th Saipan and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":343384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[175,711],"class_list":["post-350107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-dpl","tag-pr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350107","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=350107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}