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Capital Development Committee
The Capital Development Committee spent a tight-budget session shuffling its capital construction priority list before sending it to the Joint Budget Committee, with sharp splits over whether public-safety projects — a Human Services utility upgrade and Delta prison fencing — should leapfrog continuation projects and crumbling college buildings.
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·Capital construction project prioritizationPassed
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“we have to play the hand that we're dealt and do what we can with the limited funds that we have.”
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Capital 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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