Proposed House Budget FY 2010 & Joint House/Senate leadership letter on healthcare crisis

Posted on 18-09-2009

Filed Under (Public Notice) by admin

Attached in this post is House Bill 16-275, the proposed budget for Fiscal

Year 2010 for public review and comment. The bill was prefiled today by
Ways and Means Chair Rep. Ray Yumul and others, and is expected to be
formally introduced on the floor sometime next week.

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Also, the Senate President and House Speaker issued today a joint letter on
behalf of the Legislature to the Governor, expressing grave concerns about
the worsening healthcare crisis, urging the Governor to prioritize the
retention of qualified managers to oversee operations at the Department of
Public Health and the Commonwealth Health Center, and notifying the Governor
of the decision to convene joint House and Senate public input and CHC
oversight hearings beginning next week. The letter is attached in this
email.

The first public hearing to solicit written and oral testimonies on the
state of healthcare in the CNMI is scheduled for *Tuesday, September 22,
2009 @ 10am in the House Chamber, and at 6pm at Garapan Elementary
School*. For
more information, contact the Office of Rep. Ralph Torres at 664-8923 or
rep.rtorres@gmail.com .

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Finally, I have accepted an invitation to participate in a workshop in
Honolulu titled, “Pacific Responses to the Economic Crisis: ‘Business as
Usual’ or “Getting Growth Right?’” The workshop will take place next week
and is sponsored by the Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) of the
East-West Center,and the International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN). I received the invitation last month from Dr. Sitiveni Halapua,
PIDP Director; the invitation is attached and provides more information
about the workshop. Travel, accommodations, and related expenses for
workshop participants will be funded by the PIDP. I leave this weekend
and expect to return to Saipan on Monday, September 28.

For more information, or to contact me while I am away, please email me at
tinasablan@gmail.com or call me at (670) 285-3935.

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Thanks very much and have a good weekend,

Tina Sablan