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Native Inc. seeks modification to HB 10-12 funding language and requests $900,000 for cultural programming in Bismarck
Summary
Native Inc. testified in support of House Bill 10-12 and asked the Senate Appropriations — Human Resources Division to change a land‑purchase trigger in section 7, and to add $900,000 for cultural programming in Bismarck to sustain services when federal grant funding ends.
Lorraine Davis, founder and CEO of Native Inc., asked the Senate Appropriations — Human Resources Division to amend House Bill 10-12’s cultural center language to release the bill’s $1 million line item when at least half of the funds needed to purchase the land are raised, rather than when half of the total project cost is raised.
Davis told the committee the cultural center is a roughly $40 million project; the land alone has an estimated cost of about $5 million and the organization expects to raise a large portion of the land cost through private and tribal donations and philanthropy. Davis described program elements that would be housed in the center — a gymnasium available for public use, auditorium space, community kitchen, storefronts for Native…
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