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Legislature advances bill to purchase private land used as a Mahina drainage basin; payment and funding amended on floor
Summary
Sponsors moved Bill 337 into the third‑reading file after floor amendments set the purchase price at $87,300 and directed payment no later than Jan. 2, 2025, from FY24 excess revenues for a parcel used as drainage in Mahina.
Sponsors moved Bill 337 (referred to in the text as Bill 33/337, 37th Guam Legislature) into the third‑reading file after floor amendments set a purchase price and funding source for private land being used as public drainage in the village of Mahina.
Senator Roy A.B. Kanata, the bill’s author, told colleagues the parcel — Lot 215‑2‑1‑2 in Mahina — has been used for drainage and a ponding basin for decades and that recent rains underscored the need to repair and upgrade the infrastructure. He said the owner had allowed the government to use the land without compensation and prefers a land purchase rather than a land…
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