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Senate committee advances $3 million county-fair resiliency grant bill for referral to appropriations
Summary
Representative Mitch Ausley introduced House Bill 15 91 seeking $3 million to fund county fairground infrastructure repairs, and the Senate Agriculture and Veterans Affairs Committee voted to give the bill a due-pass recommendation and re-referred it to Appropriations.
Representative Mitch Ausley, introducing House Bill 15 91, told the Senate Agriculture and Veterans Affairs Committee the bill would create a County Fair Resiliency Grant Program to help local fairgrounds upgrade aging facilities and improve safety and accessibility.
The bill would appropriate $3,000,000 to the Agriculture Commissioner, the Department of Agriculture testified. "The bill would provide an appropriation of $3,000,000 to the agriculture commissioner, to be used for projects to improve infrastructure in county fairgrounds," John Schneider, business marketing and information division director for the North Dakota Department of Agriculture, told the committee. Schneider said awards would be a 50% cost share and…
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