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House committee hears bill to replenish BDPI grants for Greater Minnesota industrial parks
Summary
Representative Pete Johnson presented House File 335 to restore funding for the Greater Minnesota Business Development Public Infrastructure (BDPI) grant program; city administrators from Hermantown and Fosston testified that past grants enabled large projects and private investment. The committee laid the bill over for further consideration.
Representative Pete Johnson introduced House File 335 to a House committee as a bipartisan measure to restore funding for the Greater Minnesota Business Development Public Infrastructure grant program.
"House file 3 35 is a bipartisan effort to keep the Greater Minnesota Business Development Public Infrastructure Grant Program operating so that it can continue to deliver investments to Greater Minnesota," Representative Pete Johnson said, describing the bill as a request for $2,500,000 per year of the upcoming biennium to support public infrastructure investments that underpin local economic development.
The BDPI program, Johnson said, was created after an effort by the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities and enacted in 2003. Johnson told the committee…
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