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Joint Budget Committee

Monday, January 5, 2026·7h 27m·▶ Watch / Listen

State Architect's office briefed the Joint Budget Committee on Capitol Complex renovations and floated a possible public-private conversion of 1313 Sherman into housing and childcare — an idea that drew sharp bipartisan skepticism over its cost, its roughly million-dollar-per-unit math, and whether it ever had proper sign-off.

Key Actions

·Capitol Complex construction and possible P3 conversion of 1313 ShermanAction

Notable Quotes

I'm just struggling to understand how something that costs a million dollars to build is considered then affordable housing that feels like unaffordable housing.

a memberCut to the central objection to the 1313 Sherman conversion — that per-unit conversion costs undercut the 'affordable' label.

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TranscriptPreview
All right. Good morning. The Joint Budget Committee Got it. Will come to order. We have a full day today, starting with a presentation by the State Architect regarding Capitol construction. So we've got four of you here. I will turn it over to whomever would like to begin. Please introduce yourself and then you can start. Start. Thank you. Madam Chair, members of the committee, my name is Tobin F. Wender. I'm the Deputy Executive Director of Operations for Department of Personnel Administration. Before we have Tana Elaine come up and present, we. We would. We appreciate the opportunity for us to provide an update on the Capital Complex renovation projects as well as an opportunity, a potential opportunity for us to save tens of millions of dollars of capital construction money through a potential P3 of one of our buildings. That'll be part of our presentation. I will. I will turn this over to my colleagues to introduce themselves when they do their part in the presentation. So I'll start with Steven Jobs. I mean Rickley. Thank you. Madam Chair. Good morning. My name is Richard Lee. I'm the Division Director for Capital Complex. Thank you for the
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