{"id":404717,"date":"2024-01-10T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404717"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"NMTech-seeks-1-62M-budget-for-FY-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/NMTech-seeks-1-62M-budget-for-FY-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"NMTech seeks $1.62M budget for FY 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Technical Institute, a nonprofit public corporation, submitted last week to the Legislature a $1.62-million budget request for fiscal year 2025.<\/p>\n<p>NMTech, through its chief executive officer Jodina Attao, requested $7,436 to cover all board of trustees\u2019 operations; $479,291 to pay for 10 administrative personnel; $924,175 in Commonwealth Worker Funds to cover 21 student-related personnel plus operational needs; and $221,420 in Compact Impact Funds to cover travel plus operational needs.<\/p>\n<p>In trumpeting the institute\u2019s accomplishments so far, Attao said 19 of NMTech\u2019s 22 goals in its fiscal year 2023 action plan have been successfully achieved.<\/p>\n<p>One is an ongoing project with its first phase now completed as planned, while three will be carried over into fiscal year 2024 as ongoing efforts for planning, coordination, and implementation, Attao said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s budget law, the FY 2024 Appropriation Act, allocated just $1 for NMTech. The institute, however, receives CNMI-Only Transitional Workers fee funds from the federal government, and grants. CNMI employers who employ foreign workers are mandated to pay into the CNMI-Only Transitional Workers fee funds and the federal government gives that money back to the CNMI.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/ef21adee9676ace0c04698dd143ad1ae.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>The Northern Marianas Technical Institute in Lower Base.<\/p>\n<p>-FERDIE DE LA TORRE<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Technical Institute, a nonprofit public corporation, submitted last week to the Legislature&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404717","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\/404717","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=404717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}