{"id":409049,"date":"2024-05-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=409049"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Bill-seeks-to-repeal-salaries-of-the-casino-cannabis-commissioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Bill-seeks-to-repeal-salaries-of-the-casino-cannabis-commissioners\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill seeks to repeal salaries of the casino, cannabis commissioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Marissa Renee Flores (Ind-Saipan) formally introduced Friday a bill that seeks to repeal the salaries of the commissioners of the Commonwealth Casino Commission and the CNMI Cannabis Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Flores\u2019 House Bill 23-107 requires that the casino and cannabis commissioner receive compensation in accordance with 1 CMC Section 8247.<\/p>\n<p>Section 8247 states that \u201cthe rate of compensation for meetings attended for members of all government corporations, councils, commissions, [and agencies] &#8230; shall be no more than $60 for a full day meeting and no more than $30 for a half day or less meeting; provided that the compensation shall not exceed a maximum of $6,000 per year&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the current statute, the casino commissioners are compensated at the rate of $40,000 for the first year of the commission\u2019s existence and $65,000 per annum for each year thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Under the current statute, the cannabis commissioners are compensated at a rate of $55,000 per annum.<\/p>\n<p>Flores stated in the bill that a comparison of these salaries against compensation received by other commissioners and board members of entities within the CNMI government reveals a significant disparity.<\/p>\n<p>She said in light of this disparity and the dire economic situation currently faced by the government, the compensation received by the casino and cannabis commissioners are disproportionately high.<\/p>\n<p>Flores\u2019 legislation rectifies the disparity in compensation between the casino and cannabis commissioners, and other similarly-situated positions within the government.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/3e3ee5baf69f40f7b48ff83642f069c2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marissa Renee Flores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Marissa Renee Flores (Ind-Saipan) formally introduced Friday a bill that seeks to repeal the&#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-409049","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\/409049","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=409049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}