{"id":371835,"date":"2022-07-05T14:07:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T04:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=371835"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:07:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T04:07:51","slug":"rota-appropriation-bills-okd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rota-appropriation-bills-okd\/","title":{"rendered":"Rota appropriation bills OK\u2019d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_371836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-371836\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mang-san.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-371836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mang-san-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-371836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald M. Manglona and Teresita A. Santos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Rota Legislative Delegation passed Friday a bill that would appropriate $100,000 from the poker licensing account for two months\u2019 worth of subsistence allowance for the island\u2019s hemodialysis and terminally-ill patients, and for the operations of the Luta Soil and Water Conservation District.<\/p>\n<p>At a session in the Senate chamber, RLD members passed House Local Bill 22-33, which was authored by Rep. Donald M. Manglona (Ind.-Rota).<\/p>\n<p>Present at the session were RLD co-chairs Manglona and Sen. Teresita A. Santos (Ind.-Rota), and Sen. Paul A. Manglona (Ind.-Rota). Sen. Victor B. Hocog (R-Rota) was excused from the session.<\/p>\n<p>Under HLB 22-33, $95,000 would be appropriated for two months\u2019 worth of Medical Subsistence Allowance for Rota hemodialysis and terminally-ill patients, and $5,000 for the operations of the Luta Soil and Water Conservation District.<br \/>\nThe Finance secretary shall be the expenditure authority for the $95,000 for the Medical Subsistence Allowance, while the chairperson of the Luta Soil and Water Conservation District shall be the expenditure authority for the $5,000.<br \/>\nIn response to Saipan Tribune\u2019s question, Santos said the delegation decided to remove the proposed appropriation of $35,000 for construction of basketball and volleyball courts, and the $10,000 for fencing of these courts.<br \/>\n\u201cThe delegation decided to fund those projects from bond interest,\u201d Santos said.<br \/>\nThe RLD also passed Friday House Local Bill 22-34 that would appropriate $150,000 from the Rota Municipal Scholarship Foundation Reserve Account Program for scholarships and housing assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the Rota Municipal Scholarship Foundation Board shall be the expenditure authority of this funding. Manglona is the author of the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rota Legislative Delegation passed Friday a bill that would appropriate $100,000 from the poker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":371836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[309],"class_list":["post-371835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371835","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=371835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}