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Flores seeks $45K to pay for two judgments
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Posted on Feb 23 2012
By Clarissa David
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Mayor Donald G. Flores has asked the Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation to allocate the needed amount to allow the Saipan Mayor’s Office to settle two judgments against it.
Flores wrote to delegation chair Ramon A. Tebuteb last Feb. 2 saying that the judgments are still outstanding and no payments have been made in the last four years.
These two judgments are in the amount of $26,316.94 to Guangdong Development Co., Ltd. and $18,794.57 to Kaylene C. Reyes. Both Guangdong and Reyes are represented by the Law Offices of S. Joshua Berger.
“As these judgments are still active and payments must be made, we respectfully urge the delegation to consider appropriating an amount to pay them,” Flores said in his letter.
Meanwhile, Flores welcomed the decision of the delegation to earmark $37,000 for the repair and maintenance of the heavy equipment owned by the Mayor’s Office.
If passed, House Local Bill 17-68 will authorize the appropriation which Flores said “could not have come at a better time” given the state of the heavy equipment at the Mayor’s Office, many of which need constant repair and maintenance.
Flores told Tebuteb in the Feb. 2 letter that all of their equipment “are more than 10 years old, hand-me downs, or rebuilt from salvaged parts.
“In their condition, the appropriation of $37,000 should help us keep the old heavy equipment going until we decide it is time to put them out of commission for good,” added Flores.
