Senate Committee reviews H.50 to inventory underused state buildings and land

Commissioner Wanda Manoli, commissioner of the Department of Buildings and General Services, told the Senate Committee on Institutions on March 19 that H.50 would create a consolidated inventory of underused state buildings and land and require the department to collect additional fields and report to the legislature.

Manoli said the department already compiles an annual “space book” that lists buildings the state owns, operates or leases, including location, occupancy and square footage, and that H.50 would add information such as whether a building is vacant or whether land is “necessary for state purposes.” “Every July, [we] issue what is known as the Buildings and General Services space book,” Manoli said. “I will present it in the space book in the format that we we use today.”

The bill would expand data collection beyond properties managed…