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Committee eases reporting for smallest cities receiving Prairie Dog infrastructure funds
Summary
Senate Bill 2074 received a due‑pass recommendation after testimony from the state treasurer that raising the reporting threshold to cities of 1,000 or more would reduce administrative burden on volunteer‑run small towns that received small distributions from the municipal infrastructure ("Operation Prairie Dog") fund.
Senate Bill 2074, which would exempt cities with populations under 1,000 from a biennial reporting requirement tied to the Municipal Infrastructure Fund (commonly called the Operation Prairie Dog distribution), earned a due‑pass recommendation from the Senate Finance and Tax Committee following testimony from the state treasurer and municipal representatives.
Thomas Beetle, the state treasurer, told the committee the municipal infrastructure program disbursed about $115 million to roughly 315 cities during the 2021–23 biennium and that many of the smallest recipients received only a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. He said the…
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