{"id":390577,"date":"2023-05-01T06:06:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=390577"},"modified":"2023-05-01T06:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:06:35","slug":"bill-that-re-appropriates-62515-for-tinian-is-vetoed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bill-that-re-appropriates-62515-for-tinian-is-vetoed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill that re-appropriates $62,515 for Tinian is vetoed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citing insufficient funds, Gov. Arnold I. Palacios has vetoed a House of Representatives local bill that would re-appropriate a combined $62,518 for Tinian. <\/p>\n<p>Palacios informed Tinian and Aguiguan Legislative Delegation chair Sen. Karl R. King-Nabors (R-Tinian) and House of Representatives Speaker Edmund S. Villagomez (Ind-Saipan) that the Department of Finance informed him that insufficient funds exist to cover the appropriation in House Local Bill 23-06, D1, as of April 10, 2023. <\/p>\n<p>The bill was passed by the Tinian and Aguiguan Legislative Delegation to re-appropriate what appears to be fund balances from various projects\/funding items appropriated by earlier local laws for expenditures: $40,000 to the mayor for personnel and operations costs, $20,018 to the mayor\u2019s discretionary fund, and $2,500 to the Tinian Athletic Sports Association.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Patrick H. San Nicolas (R-Tinian) introduced the bill last March 9. The delegation passed it on first and final reading last March 20. <\/p>\n<p>Last January, Palacios vetoed House Local Bill 22-44, D1, citing insufficient funds. The bill sought to appropriate to Tinian $344,000 from revenues collected from poker fees on the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing insufficient funds, Gov. Arnold I. Palacios has vetoed a House of Representatives local bill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":390578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390577","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\/390577","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=390577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}