{"id":414803,"date":"2024-10-08T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=414803"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Palacios-signs-2-Tinian-appropriation-bills-into-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Palacios-signs-2-Tinian-appropriation-bills-into-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Palacios signs 2 Tinian appropriation bills into laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Arnold I. Palacios has signed two Tinian local bills into laws to appropriate $94,091 and $114,000 for the personnel and operations of the , and from revenues collected from poker fees on Tinian, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Palacios informed last week Sen. Karl R. King-Nabors (R-Tinian), who chairs the Tinian and Aguiguan Legislative Delegation, and House\u00a0 Speaker Edmund S. Villagomez (Ind-Saipan) of his signing of House Local Bill No. 23-64, D1 into Tinian Local Law No. 23-16, and House Local Bill No. 23-63, D1 into Tinian Local Law No. 23-17.<\/p>\n<p>The two bills, authored by Rep. Patrick H. San Nicolas (R-Tinian), were unanimously passed by the TAALD last Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill No. 23-64, D1 proposes to appropriate $80,000 to the TCGCC for personnel and $14,091 to the TCGCC for operational expenses. The $94,091 is a local revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the TCGCC and\/or his designee is the expenditure authority for the $94,091.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill No. 23-63, D1 proposes that out of $114,00 in total revenues collected from Tinian from the poker fees, $6,000 will be appropriated to Tinian Municipal Council for operations, $5,000 to TAALD for operations, $80,000 to the Tinian mayor for personnel and operations, and $23,000 to the Tinian mayor\u2019s discretionary account.<\/p>\n<p>The expenditure authority of the $6,000 shall be the chairman of the Tinian Municipal Council, while for the $5,000 shall be the TAALD chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The expenditure authority of the $80,000 and $23,000 shall be the Tinian mayor.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/be7a735ff0ac9c1f2c082410e47ac298.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Patrick H. San Nicolas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Arnold I. Palacios has signed two Tinian local bills into laws to appropriate $94,091&#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-414803","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\/414803","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=414803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}