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Panel reviews North Dakota State Fair requests for security upgrades and new restrooms
Summary
A legislative appropriations panel reviewed two capital requests from the North Dakota State Fair: security upgrades, including cameras and license-plate readers, and a restroom replacement project estimated at about $1.2 million. Lawmakers asked about local cost-share, timing and prioritization but made no decision.
The Appropriations - Education and Environment Division on the State Fair reviewed two capital requests: a restroom replacement project and a security upgrade package, including cameras, license-plate readers and barriers.
The restroom project’s cost was clarified during testimony as $1,200,000. Darren Otmar, assistant general manager at the North Dakota State Fair, told the committee, “After we received, the basic architectural, everything they had to do with that, they came back in just under 1200000.0.” Committee members noted the fair previously completed a similar restroom project using fair reserves and local contributions and asked whether the city or county had been asked to cost-share the current request;…
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