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Lawmakers weigh switching higher-education capital allocations from credits to square footage

2166716 · January 29, 2025
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Summary

Committee members asked system staff to compare using campus square footage — excluding athletics and vacant buildings — instead of credit production to allocate Tier 2 capital building funds (state SIF dollars), and discussed implications for Tier 1 and Tier 3 funding and institutional matching requirements.

Members of the Appropriations - Education and Environment Division pressed staff to model a square-footage-based allocation for state capital building funds at a meeting that focused on Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 capital categories.

The committee asked North Dakota University System staff to provide a comparison showing how the $15,000,000 state portion of Tier 2 capital building funds (and related match requirements) would distribute across campuses if allocations were based on usable square footage rather than credit production. Dave Krevzak of the North Dakota University System presented the…

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