Bonding bill talks affecting area projects
Democratic House and Senate capital investment committee chairs yesterday presented a reworked $986 million bonding bill.
Funding for some area projects has been altered in the latest version of the bonding bill.
The City of Princeton is still slated money for its proposed public safety facility but at a lesser amount — funding for the emergency management training facility at Camp Ripley has also been lowered.
The Anoka-Ramsey Community College bioscience and health addition, that was slated about $11 million, has been knocked down to planning money — $267,000.
The Dakota County Technical College transportation and emerging tech lab project has been knocked down from close to $5 million to $200,000.
Items Gov. Tim Pawlenty wants but were absent from the first bonding bill are found in the reworked bill version.
It’s possible the reworked bonding bill could be on House and Senate floors this coming week.
This includes funding for the Moose Lake sex offender facility expansion — less than what the governor wants but it’s there — plus other funding for prisons, and language pertaining to the proposed Lake Vermilion state park.
