Inos OK’s $212k for Tinian projects, dialysis patients

By Cherrie Anne E. Villahermosa - [email protected] - Variety News Staff

GOVERNOR Eloy S. Inos has signed into law a local measure appropriating $212,000 for various projects on Tinian including allowances for dialysis patients.

The funding source of House Local Bill 19-11, now Tinian Local Law 19-1, is the local license fees collected from pachinko, slot machines and poker machines on the island.

The measure was authored by Rep. Edwin Aldan and passed by the Tinian and Aguiguan Legislative Delegation on March 17.

The governor approved it on March 26.

Of the $212,000 appropriated by the new law, $5,000 will go to the Tinian Little League; $55,000, Tinian Municipal Scholarship; $66,000, monthly subsistence allowances of $200 each for dialysis, cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and seizure disorder, dermatomyositis and post-cerebral vascular accident patients; $20,000 for the delegation’s operational costs; $56,000 for the Tinian mayor’s office operations including fuel and lubrication; and $10,000 for the Tinian Agricultural Fair.

The secretary of Finance will disburse a check payable to the Tinian Little League and the expenditure authority will be the resident director of the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs.

The Tinian Municipal Board is the expenditure authority of the scholarship funds while the allowances for patients will be disbursed by the secretary of Finance, the amount not to exceed $11,000 each month for a period of six months or until the entire $66,000 is expended.

For the other remaining appropriations, the delegation chairman and the mayor are the expenditure authorities.

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