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DPW allowed to buy copying equipment as part of admin costs for local projects
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Posted on Aug 10 2016
Acting governor Victor Hocog has signed into law a local bill to allow the Department of Public Works to include the purchase of copying equipment under administrative costs allowed under capital improvement project funding.
Saipan Local Law 19-22 amends a provision of local law that authorizes the director of DPW’s Technical Services Division to use 5 percent of total funds allocated for each locally appropriated project in the Third Senatorial District, or Saipan, for administrative costs provided that these are limited to $15,000 regardless of project amount.
Funds allocated from each project are strictly for administrative costs and the new local law adds “copying equipment” to these costs that include copying costs, certification costs, advertisements, architectural and engineering design, and other costs directly related to the specific project except for personnel hires and travel.
In passing the bill, House Bill 19-64, the Saipan Northern Islands Delegation found that the costs associated with copying documents over the years would have been better invested in procuring copying equipment.
