The Capital Development Committee debated and voted on the ordering of a capital construction prioritization list to submit to the Joint Budget Committee (JBC), with the most contentious fight centering on whether to move Delta Correctional Facility's perimeter security fencing from #47 to #8 — a motion that passed 4–2 over Madam Vice Chair's objections and a failed substitute motion to place it at #31. The final prioritization list, following multiple reordering motions, was approved unanimously (6–0) for submission to the JBC.
Representative Ty Winter argued the project was a public safety matter and should move to #2, stating 'it's hard for me to put business in front of public safety on this.' Madam Vice Chair opposed moving it to #2, arguing the Clark Building held that position as a continuation project underway for '5ish years' and used the analogy of abandoning home construction mid-build to illustrate the cost of not continuing such projects. Winter ultimately amended his motion to #3, which passed 5–1, though he stated for the record he believed it should be #2.
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“Vice Chair, I'd just to offer a few comments before we have a motion. Maybe others do, too. Maybe you make a motion, then we can all go around if people have comments. Sure. So I move that we submit the prioritization list that we have discussed and that staff is rearranging for us along with, , letter of explanation to the jbc. Perfect. That's a proper motion. Any comments, Madam Vice Chair? Yes. So I just want to add to the comments that Senator Mullica provided at the beginning of the meeting. , even though we have very little revenue, very little wiggle room in terms of identifying projects to prioritize”
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Sign in to subscribeCapital Development Committee will come to order. Mr. Pogue, please call the roll. Senator Henriksen. Here. Representative Lindsey. Here. Senator Pelton. Present. Representatives Winter. Morning story here. Mr. Chair. Here. Thank you, Mr. Pogue. Members, today on the agenda, we have the capital construction project prioritization first step. If we can get staff to put that list and project it up onto the screen for the committee. Perfect. Thank you, Ms. Forbes. Members, I think we've all been on this committee long enough. We kind of know the, the. The way this is done. Obviously, this year has been a challenging year from a budgetary standpoint. We have a little less to work with than we have in the past, and we know that the JBC has some difficult decisions in front of them. I think the committee would all agree that if we had unlimited funds, we would love to have a bigger list than we have up there, but we have to play the hand that we're dealt and do what we can with the limited funds that we have. And so if the committee has any questions or wants to make any comments about the list, we…
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