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Appropriations committee presses DAS on MGFA requests, certificates of participation for fleet and public-safety equipment
Summary
Committee members asked Commissioner Kirsten Figueroa to provide updated debt schedules and details for Maine Governmental Facilities Authority borrowing and certificates of participation; the administration sought authority for several financing options and requested ongoing MGFA funding increases.
The Appropriations Committee pressed the Department of Administrative and Financial Services on April 1 for more detail about borrowing authority in LD 210, including Maine Governmental Facilities Authority (MGFA) requests and certificate-of-participation financing for state vehicles, radios and information-technology modernization.
“Kirsten Figueroa, the Commissioner of the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, said MGFA is specifically about state owned buildings and the work that we need to do on that,” committee members heard. “We are still in a catch up phase of maintenance on some of our buildings,” she added, describing a request for additional ongoing funding.
What was presented: the administration’s written materials (a response packet referenced in committee discussion) outline a request…
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