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Treasurer backs higher reporting threshold for municipal ‘Prairie Dog’ grants; League of Cities supports change
Summary
Senate Bill 2074 would raise the municipal reporting threshold for the Municipal Infrastructure Fund (Operation Prairie Dog) to cities with population 1,000 or more, a change supporters said would reduce administrative burden on very small municipalities.
State Treasurer Thomas Beadle told the Senate Finance and Tax Committee that Senate Bill 2074 would raise the population threshold for reporting on municipal infrastructure grants to cities with 1,000 or more residents, removing the reporting requirement for many very small cities that receive modest Prairie Dog grant amounts.
Beadle described the Municipal Infrastructure Fund—commonly called Operation Prairie Dog—as a distribution that sent $115 million in the 2021–23 biennium to 315 cities in non‑oil-producing counties. He said 76% of the dollars went to the 10 largest recipient cities, leaving many…
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