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NMI Museum asks for consistent funding
“We are not lobbying for increased funding. …Just…a constant source of funding.”
Thus argued NMI Museum director Daniel Aquino Jr. during a stakeholders’ meeting with legislators yesterday at the NMI Museum of History and Culture.
This comes against a backdrop of a proposed $214,207 funding for the museum in fiscal year 2020. That is a steep drop from the museum’s fiscal year 2019 budget of $462,984 and fiscal year 2018’s budget of $245,478.
Aquino fears that, without sustainable funding, the museum will not be able to maintain its current condition and even worsen in five or more years.
Read more: https://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/nmi-museum-asks-for-consistent-funding/