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Local bill re-allocates $180K for Saipan projects
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Posted on Dec 23 2011
By Haidee V. Eugenio
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A local bill that has already undergone a few revisions seeks to re-appropriate over $180,000 in previously allocated funding for several programs.
Rep. Ray Yumul (R-Saipan) and Rep. Sylvester Iguel (Cov-Saipan) offered their latest version of House Local Bill 17-52, Draft 1, Substitute 1 during Tuesday’s session of the Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation. The delegation has yet to act on the local bill.
The original bill only seeks to re-appropriate funds from various Saipan local laws and business units to the Northern Islands Mayor’s Office for the First Northern Islands Development Summit and for the Saipan and Northern Islands Municipal Council.
But Saipan lawmakers kept adding items to the list.
The latest version of the bill seeks to re-appropriate $5,000 from Saipan Local Law 16-21 to the Northern Islands Mayor’s Office for the First Northern Islands Development Summit.
It also re-appropriates $2,000 from SLL 15-12 to the Saipan and Northern Islands Municipal Council for the drafting and promulgation of the necessary rules and regulations associated with the Leadership Memorial Courtyard also known as the Kios-ku project.
Also re-appropriated are $6,250 from SLL 15-12 and $5,000 from business unit number 3752A to the Department of Public Works for the purchase of a mower for the maintenance and upkeep of various roads on Saipan.
The local bill also re-appropriates $2,000 from SLL 14-31 for the payment and the completion of the Dandan Children’s Park playground equipment.
It also re-appropriates $1,325 from SLL 17-6 to DPW for right-of-way projects.
Also re-appropriated is $10,750 from SLL 15-12 for the reconnection of power to the basketball courts in San Roque and As Matuis, for the payment of utility bills resulting from the use of such basketball courts, and facility improvements. Yumul and Iguel’s bill also re-appropriates up to $4,658 from SLL 15-16.
Lastly, the bill amends Section 2(b) of SLL 17-6 to allocate $143,235.60 for “various” projects instead of only road paving projects in Precinct 2.
