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Two senators have expressed concerns about delays in the procurement of a financial management system for the government.
Last week, Vice Speaker Tina Muña Barnes submitted a letter to Department of Administration Director Edward Birn, requesting that his agency provide her with any and all records pertaining to the procurement of a new financial management system replacement for GovGuam.
The vice speaker s letter indicates that she became aware of the procurement through the audits of the Guam Highway Fund and Tourist Attraction Fund, which were conducted by the Office of Public Accountability. One section of the audit indicated that Fiscal Year 2020’s books were not closed on a timely basis, due to the current financial management system which “was not updated to include financial year closing as a standard feature.”
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In an effort to protect infants from unsafe abandonment, lawmakers will be hearing a bill next Tuesday to expand the Newborn Infant Safe Haven Act by adding a lifeline for mothers and streamlining the adoption process for infants.
Bill No. 109-36 would allow for mothers who are unwilling or unable to care for their newborn child to relinquish them to emergency 911 personnel. It would also allow for independent adoption agencies authorized by Child Protective Services to take physical custody of the newborns until permanent homes can be arranged.
The original legislation was authored in 2018 by Sen. Mary Camacho Torres, following the highly publicized abandonment of a baby on a doorstep in the village of Dededo. Public Law 34-120 allows for a mother to relinquish a child less than 30 days old to personnel at a ‘safe haven’ such as a hospital, fire station, birthing center, or community health center, and be safe from arrest, provided that the child is unharmed. Safe haven or ‘