Politics

Mapp Line-Item Vetoes Portion Of Bill Barring Purchase Of Limousines

ST. THOMAS -- Intent on purchasing new "ceremonial vehicles" for the Office of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor -- as he'd requested last August -- Governor Kenneth Mapp line-item vetoed a portion of the Emergency Vehicles bill that sought to prevent the executive branch from spending upwards $300,000 on three limousines: one for the governor on each island, and one for the lieutenant governor. On March 30, Senator Janette Millin Young offered amendment No. 31-944 to bill No.  31-0224, which added a section that said, “Nothing in this Act is intended to authorize the purchase of official or ceremonial vehicles for the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor. The commissioner of the Department of Property and Procurement is prohibited from using the monies authorized in this Act to purchase ceremonial or official vehicles for the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor.” But Mr. Mapp, in his transmittal letter to Senate President Neville James on recent actions ...