{"id":51434,"date":"2000-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/95c8df71-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2000-05-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-05-10T00:00:00","slug":"95c8df84-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/95c8df84-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"NMC unveils CIP priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas College is seeking the Legislature&#8217;s assistance in funding NMC&#8217;s Capital Improvement Projects plan as College President Jack Sablan revealed CIP priorities which the college sees as vital necessities to address the students&#8217; needs.<\/p>\n<p>During a Board of Regents meeting this week, Mr. Sablan listed the general purpose classroom and the library as the college&#8217;s top priorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NMC is already maximizing the use of its current library resources and it needs a back up on its instructional materials,&#8221; said Mr. Sablan.<\/p>\n<p>The administration, in an informal survey, was able to zero in on a similar set of priorities from NMC students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Also included in the administration&#8217;s top priorities is the need to expedite the second phase to the multi-purpose gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Improvements at the NMC&#8217;s Tinian campus is underway, according to the president. The contractor for the proposed facilities is only awaiting the arrival of materials, he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to a NMC-commissioned economic study, 1998 CIP and Educational Specifications Plan for the college for the years 1998-2004 has been completed for the Saipan campus.<\/p>\n<p>The plan calls for Business and Tourism Learning Center with an estimated cost of $9.7 million, phase two of the multi-purpose gymnasium with estimated cost of $1.3 million, and the multi-story building to house the library collection as well as the archives and Pacific collection which cost is estimated to reach $3.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The plan also includes a facility to house baccalaureate degree program in education with an estimated cost of $1.6 million as well as student center and bookstore with an estimated cost of $300,000.<\/p>\n<p>Parking, drainage, and landscaping, with an estimated cost of $300,000 was also cited in the NMC&#8217;s 1998 CIP plan. (MM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas College is seeking the Legislature&#8217;s assistance in funding NMC&#8217;s Capital Improvement Projects plan as College President Jack Sablan revealed CIP priorities which the college sees as vital necessities to address the students&#8217; needs.<\/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-51434","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\/51434","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=51434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}