their housing and transportation if a local bill offered by Rep. Edwin Aldan is signed by the governor.
House Local Bill 16-17 appropriates $16,000 from the local license fees collected for pachinko slot machines and poker machines on Tinian.
The amount will also be used for the purchase of the computer equipment needed by the Department of Labor on Tinian.
The bill names the president of NMC as the expenditure authority of the $9,000 assistance for Tinian students, while the resident director of the Tinian’s labor department will be the expenditure authority for the $7,000 allotted for the computer equipment.
Early this year, NMC shut down its academic programs on its Tinian and Rota campuses in an aim to address the concerns of the accreditation commission.
What’s left at both instructional sites are federal programs.
NMC said the suspension of certain academic programs on Rota and Tinian was necessary to meet the strict standards of accreditation.
NMC had been noncompliant with the accreditation requirements for the academic programs on Rota and Tinian.
The college, which is still in a “state of exigency,” has until Oct. 15 this year to address the concerns identified by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
