Capital Development Committee
The Capital Development Committee cleared a slate of routine property and school-finance items unanimously, but drew a line at the Department of Corrections: it refused, six to zero, to recommend an $8 million cost overrun on a fire-suppression project at the Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center, with the chair demanding answers about a deadly incident at another DOC facility.
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Sign in to subscribeCapital Development Committee coming to order. Please call the roll. Senators and Representatives Henriksen? Present. Lindsay. Here. Rich. Here. Winter. Here. Madam Vice chair here. And Mr. Chair here. Thank you, Ms. Forbes. Members, we're going to go out of order here just a little bit because the first item on the agenda, they are waiting for a person to get here. So we will go to the consideration for 26, 27 lease purchase finance best grants online. We have Executive Director Stein if you want to start us off. Hello, board members, Mr. Chair, thank you for having me. I did not make a presentation for you today, but you should have received a packet with a memo, a list of one project under consideration this year, and then a map with that one project on it as well in your memo. I'll just summarize some of what it says. In case you're not aware, Building Excellent Schools Today Grant Program or BEST is a competitive grant program that's focused on improving health, safety and security in Colorado schools. It's available to all public schools, charter schools Institute charter schools, boards of Cooperative Educational Services, and the Colorado School…
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