{"id":360580,"date":"2022-01-27T06:06:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T20:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=360580"},"modified":"2022-01-27T06:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T20:06:37","slug":"45-day-timeline-set-for-nominees-to-rota-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/45-day-timeline-set-for-nominees-to-rota-board\/","title":{"rendered":"45-day timeline set for nominees  to Rota board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres signed Friday a Senate local bill that gives the Rota Municipal Council up to 45 days to process the mayor\u2019s appointees to the Rota Municipal Scholarship Board.<\/p>\n<p>Torres informed Rota Legislative Delegation co-chairpersons Sen. Teresita A. Santos (Ind) and Rep. Donald M. Manglona (Ind), and Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian) that he signed Senate Local Bill 22-7, D1, into Rota Local Law 22-05.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360581\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ralph-DLG.-Torres-11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-360581\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Torres<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Santos introduced the bill in July 2021. The Rota Legislative Delegation unanimously passed it last Dec. 9. <\/p>\n<p>The bill amends the Commonwealth Code to provide a limited time to act on the confirmation or rejection of the Rota mayor\u2019s appointees to the Rota Municipal Scholarship Board.<\/p>\n<p>Santos said over the weekend that, as the local bill becomes a law now, if not acted on within the 45-day period by the delegation, the appointee to the scholarship board is deemed not confirmed and cannot be reappointed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360583\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Teresita-A.-Santos-11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-360583\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The senator stated in the bill that it is necessary to provide a time limit for the delegation to conduct public hearings and consider the mayor\u2019s appointees to the board.<\/p>\n<p>The Rota Municipal Scholarship Board is composed of five members who serve for a term of four years and are eligible for reappointment, but for only a maximum of two terms. Its members are appointed by the Rota mayor.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres signed Friday a Senate local bill that gives the Rota Municipal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":360582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360580","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\/360580","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=360580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}