Post by Logan on Feb 1, 2016 0:54:43 GMT -6
Senate: Proposed annual budget doesn’t include payments for judgments
The law does not mandate the governor’s proposed annual budget to include the payments of courts’ judgments owed by the government, according to Senate legal counsel Jose A. Bermudes.
Bermudes said it is also equally true that the Planning and Budget Act does not provide that the courts’ judgment payments be included in the government’s annual budget.
The Senate issued in negative in response to Superior Court’s question whether a CNMI annual budget is unconstitutionally unbalanced if it does not specifically name the judgments owed by the government.
Bermudes submitted on Friday in Superior Court the Senate’s briefs on the annual budget-related issues after Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho last December invited the CNMI Legislature, the Office of the Governor-Office of Management and Budget, and the Department of Finance to submit briefs or declarations over the government’s failure to pay a judgment of $35,000 that was entered in 2013 as a settlement of a wrongful death lawsuit.
Read more: www.saipantribune.com/index.php/senate-proposed-annual-budget-doesnt-include-payments-for-judgments/
The law does not mandate the governor’s proposed annual budget to include the payments of courts’ judgments owed by the government, according to Senate legal counsel Jose A. Bermudes.
Bermudes said it is also equally true that the Planning and Budget Act does not provide that the courts’ judgment payments be included in the government’s annual budget.
The Senate issued in negative in response to Superior Court’s question whether a CNMI annual budget is unconstitutionally unbalanced if it does not specifically name the judgments owed by the government.
Bermudes submitted on Friday in Superior Court the Senate’s briefs on the annual budget-related issues after Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho last December invited the CNMI Legislature, the Office of the Governor-Office of Management and Budget, and the Department of Finance to submit briefs or declarations over the government’s failure to pay a judgment of $35,000 that was entered in 2013 as a settlement of a wrongful death lawsuit.
Read more: www.saipantribune.com/index.php/senate-proposed-annual-budget-doesnt-include-payments-for-judgments/