{"id":44645,"date":"1998-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/93afeaa5-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1998-12-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1998-12-02T00:00:00","slug":"93afeab5-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/93afeab5-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"NMC board suspends honorarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas College board has suspended honorarium payment for its members.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was relayed in a letter to Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio.<\/p>\n<p>By law, board members are given honorarium for attending official meetings. Each member reportedly receives between $40 to $50 for each meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Although the action does not realize substantial savings, Board Chairman Manuel Sablan said it reflects the board&#8217;s commitment to voluntary service.<\/p>\n<p>He called on other agencies to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>The college has also instituted cost-cutting measures to live within the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas College board has suspended honorarium payment for its members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44645","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\/44645","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=44645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}