Panel offers $3 million for recreation grants, no breakdown for large vs. small communities
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Summary
Committee discussion reduced proposed recreation grants from $4.5 million to $3 million but did not include a breakdown between large and small communities; committee members said they were not supportive of adding local grants to the state budget.
Speaker 1, Staff member, said the proposal would provide recreation grants to communities, "and, we are, offering today $3,000,000 bringing it down from 4 and a half."
Speaker 2, Committee member, asked whether the revised proposal kept the same language as the prior plan and whether it included a breakdown between large and small jurisdictions: "Mr. Chairman, you're offering the same language with 3,000,000 for outdoor grants to local park districts. Is that Yeah. Kind of a consideration?"
Speaker 1 responded that there was no specific breakdown in the new proposal: "There isn't, yeah. Mr. Chairman?"
Speaker 3, Committee member, also referenced an earlier exchange with a senator: "We were asked that question by Senator Scribe before. Did you forget what the answer was?" and later confirmed, "The answer was no."
The committee discussed caps and allocation details but no cap or distribution formula was included in the remarks on the record. Speaker 2 summarized the committee's position going into the discussion, saying they had not supported adding local grants to the state budget: "Well from our point again, committee, we're I mean, we'll certainly visit about it but, you know, coming into this, we were not supportive of adding local grants onto the State budget."
No formal motion or vote on the grants was recorded in the available transcript excerpt. The meeting proceeded to other business and was adjourned later in the session.