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Committee raises reporting threshold for municipal 'Prairie Dog' grants for small cities; bill advances
Summary
Senate Bill 2074 would exempt cities with population under 1,000 from the Municipal Infrastructure Fund reporting requirement. The Senate Finance and Tax Committee gave the bill a 'do pass' recommendation after testimony from the state treasurer and the League of Cities about compliance burdens for very small municipalities.
Senate Bill 2074, which would raise the population threshold for municipal reporting on the Municipal Infrastructure Fund (commonly called Operation Prairie Dog) to cities with at least 1,000 residents, advanced from the Senate Finance and Tax Committee on Jan. 8, 2025.
North Dakota State Treasurer Thomas Beadle told the committee the historic Operation Prairie Dog distribution sent $115 million to 315 cities in the 2021–23 biennium. He described the administrative burden his office encountered tracking compliance for many…
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