ASG budget
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The deteriorating condition of the Executive Office Building (EOB) in Utulei was raised by lawmakers during the budget hearing of the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) at the Fono yesterday morning.
House of Representatives Vice Speaker Faipule Fetui Fetu, Jr....
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata on Friday welcomed a successful first step this week for the major appropriations bill that will fund Interior Appropriations for American Samoa, and said the House bill writers have included her request for a fourth straight yearly increase for American...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Direct-aid of almost $40 million for American Samoa under of one of the new federal laws dealing with coronavirus relief funding, will cover ASG’s COVID-19 proposed budget of $16.9 million, says Congresswoman Aumua Amata, who also explained that other coronavirus related...

![At Wednesday’s FY2025 joint budget hearing, Director of DAS Afalava Eliki Afalava revealed that ASG is looking at moving EOB offices all in to one building when renovations begin on the executive building that many claim is a health hazard to people who work there. He said ASG is currently looking at a building in Tafuna near the road from Nu'uuli on the way to the airport still under construction and owned by ‘Lauli’i’. [photo: Asi A. Fa'asau] a building in Tafuna near](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/7592.jpeg?itok=dokLFuiM)
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