Capital Development Committee
The Capital Development Committee, racing a same-day deadline to advise the Joint Budget Committee, unanimously backed a $1 million Colorado Mesa University maintenance request and split a Department of Human Services mental-health facilities package into two approved line items — after sharp questioning over why a 'crisis' request landed at the eleventh hour and over spending state capital dollars on leased space.
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“Specifically, they are not allowed to be in jail. That's U.S. supreme Court law. So this means they can't be in jail. And if they don't have a serious mental illness, they also cannot be treated at the state hospital. Therefore, we've realized we have this gap in service delivery which is at that intersection between public safety and health services.”
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Sign in to subscribeCapital Development committee will come to order. Ms. Forbes, please call the roll. Senators and Representatives Henriksen excused. Lindsay excused. Pelton B. Present. Winter here. Story here. And Mr. Chair here. Welcome. This morning, members, we have two items on our agend agenda. The first is the consideration of a regular supplemental request from Colorado Mesa University. Is Kent Marsh with us or online? You want to pull them up for us? Good morning. Yes, I am online. Good morning. Vice President Marsh. Do you want to start us off? Absolutely, it's my pleasure. I'm here this morning to do a couple of things. The first is to update the Capital Development committee on the progress of construction of performing arts. And we are in fact well underway and expect to be ready for the start of the summer semester. So we had it offline last summer, but we're going to be ready for the start of all of the summer camps that they have in our performing arts building. Really, the primary purpose of my conversation and my request this morning is to seek spending authority and increase in spending authority that would allow CMU to complete numerous deferred…
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