FY2021 budget
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga last Thursday signed into law the American Samoa Government’s fiscal year 2021 total budget of $465.95 million — a 10% increase from the approved FY 2020 budget of $424.20 million.
The budget bill, approved by the Fono more than a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Under a new executive order dated Oct. 31st, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga temporarily continued government operations at fiscal year 2020 budget levels, while calling soon for another special session of the Fono to finalize the fiscal year 2021 budget.
The governor ordered...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Following the Fono’s Conference Committee, both the Senate and House gave final approval yesterday to the House version of an Administration’s bill, enacting a temporary funding gap appropriation for the government, with two amendments made to the original language of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate passed yesterday in second reading, its version of the Administration’s bill, enacting a temporary funding gap appropriation for the government, with one amendment, which is made to the bill’s preamble, stating that the Fono did pass the fiscal year 2021...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Administration’s bill enacting a temporary funding gap appropriation for the government went through new developments late last week in the Senate resulting in a committee hearing being re-scheduled for today, Monday, Oct. 26.
The bill provides consolidated...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While the House has approved, with two amendments, its version of the Administration’s temporary funding gap appropriation bill for the government, the Senate is holding another discussion on the measure tomorrow, with a government witness.
The bill provides consolidated...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Fono leaders have informed Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga that the Legislature is “not confident with your [revenue] projections” and have urged the governor to act on the final fiscal year 2021 budget bill now in his control.
This message was outlined in a two-page Oct. 13th...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fono has returned to Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga the final fiscal year 2021 budget — the same version passed by the Legislature last week, where $6.50 million in budget cuts were made to the Executive Branch.
Unhappy with the “drastic cuts” by the Fono to a majority...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pay increases for police officers are budgeted in the Department of Public Safety’s financial plan for fiscal year 2021 “and we request [for it] to remain as is,” declared Police Commissioner, Le’i Sonny Thompson in a public plea — which appears to be directed to the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fono is set to convene today, for a 15-day Special Session called by Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga to “reconsider the fiscal year 2021 budget and to submit a budget that is compliant with established policies and procedures, according to the governor’s latest memo to...