{"id":3872,"date":"2012-02-23T02:42:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2012-02-23T02:42:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:42:29","slug":"guam-gets-1-28m-for-school-buses-compact-impact-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-gets-1-28m-for-school-buses-compact-impact-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Guam gets $1.28M for school buses, Compact impact costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON D.C.<\/strong>-The Department of the Interior&#8217;s Assistant Secretary for Insular Affairs, Tony Babauta, has authorized a $1.28 million Capital Improvement Project grant for the Government of Guam&#8217;s Department of Public Works, Division of Bus Operations and $4.14 million of Compact Impact Funding to the Guam Memorial Hospital. Both CIP and CIF funding comes from the Department of the Interior&#8217;s Office of Insular Affairs fiscal year 2012 allocation.<\/p>\n<p>By letter, Babauta informed Gov. Eddie Calvo that $1,280,000 of fiscal year 2012 CIP funding will be made available to allow the Government of Guam to buy eight new school buses and $4,142,026 in CIF funds will be directed to GMH to help defray the costs of healthcare services provided to citizens of the Freely Associated States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking the necessary investments to ensure students are afforded safe, dependable and quality transport to and from school is essential. The bus shortage on Guam has been underscored in conversations I have had with both DPW director Brown and Sen. Tom Ada. I am assured by both these leaders and will join them as they work together to find meaningful solutions to maintain the government&#8217;s fleet of buses which keep Guam&#8217;s students safe and on-time,\u201d said Babauta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI [also] applaud the efforts of Governor Calvo and the Guam Memorial Hospital leadership to overcome the many challenges of providing quality healthcare to the people of Guam. Governor Calvo and I have worked closely to assist in these efforts and I am pleased we were able to direct a significant amount of compact impact funding to GMH to defray their costs of providing important and needed services for migrants from Palau, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands,\u201d he added.<strong><em> (DOI)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON D.C.-The Department of the Interior&#8217;s Assistant Secretary for Insular Affairs, Tony Babauta, has authorized&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}