{"id":372237,"date":"2022-07-13T06:06:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=372237"},"modified":"2022-07-13T06:06:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T20:06:35","slug":"new-law-allots-151k-for-pending-precinct-1-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/new-law-allots-151k-for-pending-precinct-1-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"New law allots $151K for pending Precinct 1 projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_372241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-372241\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3MUGS-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-372241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3MUGS-1-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-372241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Guerrero, Joseph Flores, and Angel A. Demapan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A House local bill re-appropriating Precinct 1 fund balances totaling over $151,000 for other pending projects in the community has now been enacted into law.<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian), in his capacity as acting governor, recently signed into law House Local Bill 22-32 into Saipan Local Law 22-12. It was authored by Rep. Angel A. Demapan (R-Saipan), Joseph A.Flores (Ind-Saipan), and Joseph Lee Pan T. Guerrero (R-Saipan).<\/p>\n<p>The bill was introduced on April 27, 2022 and passed by the Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation last June 3.<\/p>\n<p>The bill re-appropriates $1,016 and $12 allotted under Saipan Local Law 19-2; $16,000 allotted under Saipan Local Law 19-24; $13,173 allotted under Saipan Local Law 20-04; and $42,059 and $79,171 allotted under Saipan Local Law 20-26. This brings the re-appropriated funds to a combined total of $151,431.<br \/>\nOf that amount, $55,232 will supplement funds to mitigate flooding at the intersection of Tun Thomas Sablan Road and Batto PI.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining $96,199 is for the construction, renovation, and\/or repair of speed bumps, bus shelters, restrooms, basketball courts, and the installation of street lights and traffic signage within Precinct 1 on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Public Works is the expenditure authority of the $151,431.<br \/>\nThe funding came from revenues collected from the poker fees and exclusive gaming annual license fees allotted to Saipan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A House local bill re-appropriating Precinct 1 fund balances totaling over $151,000 for other pending&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":372241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372237","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\/372237","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=372237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}