Committee approves late, sub‑$1,000,000 non‑state capital outlay submissions; clerk sets Feb. 1 deadline for additional filings

The Joint Legislative Committee on Capital Outlay voted on Jan. 15 to approve consideration of late non‑state capital outlay requests with a total cost under $1,000,000, provided each application met statutory requirements and included a letter of support.

"As was mentioned, we have 5 5 non state projects that were submitted after the November 1, deadline, and they are under $1,000,000 in value," Matt Baker, director of the Office of Facility Planning Control within the Division of Administration, told the committee. "They include all of the required statutory information, and we are presenting these for your consideration." The transcript reads "5 5," and the exact number of projects was not specified elsewhere in the meeting record.

A committee member moved "to approve non state entity capital outlay requests with a total cost of less than $1,000,000 which meet all the legal requirements," covering also any fully submitted non‑state capital outlay applications with letters of support filed between Jan. 15 and the committee's Feb. 1 deadline. Seeing no objections, the motion passed by acclamation; no roll-call vote was recorded.

The action covers items submitted after the Nov. 1 filing deadline; committee members were told they could request separate consideration of any individual project by raising their request during the meeting. No further details about the individual projects (applicant names, project descriptions, or exact dollar amounts per project) were provided in the transcript.