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DNR presents $98 million 2025 bonding package to address deferred maintenance, betterments and land programs
Summary
Department of Natural Resources officials told the Senate Capital Investment Committee the agency's 2025 bonding request totals $98 million, focused on asset preservation (NRAP), betterment of buildings, land acquisition/reforestation and other community investments including dam safety and flood mitigation grants.
Bob Meyer, assistant commissioner at the Department of Natural Resources, and Samantha Minkler, capital asset program manager, presented the DNR's 2025 capital priorities to the committee and said the governor's bonding proposal totals $98 million.
Meyer and Minkler described a multi-pronged request designed to address a growing deferred-maintenance backlog across parks, trails, state forests, hatcheries, roads, buildings and access sites on state-managed lands. The DNR said rates of deferred maintenance have increased and that nearly one in four DNR buildings are in "unacceptable or poor" condition; only about one in four meet modern design and accessibility standards. The DNR reported a…
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