House Corrections & Institutions subcommittee trims, reallocates items in capital bill draft, finds $1.8 million

The House Corrections & Institutions subcommittee on Thursday, March 13 reviewed a revised Joint Fiscal Office spreadsheet for the two-year capital bill and approved a series of line-item trims and reallocations that the staff say net $1,800,000 in additional funding compared with the governor’s recommendation.

The subcommittee’s review centered on a spreadsheet prepared by Scott Moore of the Joint Fiscal Office that reorganized the governor’s recommendation into new line numbers, split FY26/FY27 bonded and cash columns, and added the House’s proposed changes. Moore told the committee the spreadsheet is intended to be a working document and will be updated with Senate recommendations later.

Committee members and staff used the sheet to reallocate several prior-year project balances into active needs. Among the specific changes recorded: a $58,000 reallocation to an uninterruptible power supply upgrade at the Middlesex facility (bringing that project’s total recorded expenditure on the sheet to $308,279), a $200,000 trim to the Saint Albans Northwest State Correctional Facility roof replacement (from $1.2 million to $1.0 million in FY26 bonded), and added funding for the Bennington…