The House Ways and Means Committee prefiled on Tuesday a bill appropriating $137.73 million out of $170 million in estimated revenues for the CNMI government\u2019s operations and activities for fiscal year 2015.<\/p>\n
Under House Bill 18-201 that committee chair Antonio P. Sablan (Ind-Saipan) and five other members signed, the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. will get $50.33 million for personnel and operations\u2014the highest budget among eight government corporations and agencies.<\/p>\n
The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. will get the second highest with $41.56 million. The Northern Marianas Housing Corp. will receive $2.44 million; Office of the Public Auditor, $2.06 million; Commonwealth Ports Authority, $1.92 million; Commonwealth Development Authority, $1.29 million; and Northern Mariana Retirement Fund, $612,723.<\/p>\n
The Public Utilities Commission did not make any budget submission.<\/p>\n
The Judicial Branch will be appropriated $4.63 million; the Legislature, $5.57 million; and the Executive Branch, $4.70 million. The Office of the Attorney General will get $581,212.<\/p>\n
For government departments, Public Safety will get $7.19 million; Finance, $4.43 million; Corrections, $3.88 million; Public Works, $3.62 million; Land and Natural Resources; $2.49 million; Community and Cultural Affairs, $1.86 million; Commerce, $922,439; and Labor, $848,794.<\/p>\n
The Rota municipal government will get $5.54 million; for Tinian and Aguigan, $5.52 million; and for the Northern Islands, $2.16 million.<\/p>\n
Independent programs will get $39.69 million, including $27 million for the Retirement Settlement Fund. For boards and commissions, $1.42 million will be appropriated.<\/p>\n
The Public School System is appropriated $32.27 million; the Northern Marianas College, $4.24 million; $1.34 million for CHC subsidy; $1.16 million for the Marianas Visitors Authority; and $172,257 for the PSS Board of Education.<\/p>\n
In the bill, Sablan recommended that Gov. Eloy S. Inos reallocate the distribution of the Commonwealth Worker Funds: $600,000 each for PSS and NMC, and $200,000 to the Northern Marianas Technical Institute. <\/p>\n
Sablan said the CW funds are subject to appropriation and should have been identified by the governor as available for appropriation.<\/p>\n
Inos\u2019 proposed fiscal year 2015 budget is $134.33 million, which is lower than the fiscal year 2014 budget of $135.786 million after he recently signed a $12.386 million supplemental budget law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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