Committee reviews version 4 of capital budget spreadsheet, flags $1.5 million reallocation for American unit renovation

Committee members reviewed a fourth version of the Corrections & Institutions capital budget spreadsheet and discussed reallocations that fund a $1.5 million cash allocation for renovation work on the American unit.

Scott Moore, fiscal officer, walked the committee through the changes and said, “This does say version 4 at the top,” while explaining updates to columns that now include placeholder house-bill section numbers. Moore told the committee, “We put $1,500,000 in cash” for design and construction of the American unit renovation and said that cash is shown in column H of the spreadsheet.

Why it matters: the spreadsheet ties project-level changes to two-year bonding capacity and cash balances that will be part of the bill presented to…