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Lawmakers press to fund prison repairs and boilers as capital bill shifts cash
Summary
Committee members urged the Senate Institutions committee to preserve funding to avoid delays to a correctional facility boiler replacement and to address urgent bathroom repairs, while staff described offsets elsewhere in the draft that keep the bill even with the House overall.
Members of the Senate Institutions committee pressed BGS and counsel on the capital bill’s treatment of several corrections projects, warning that cutting certain items could delay needed work and worsen conditions.
A committee member said the boiler project has a shortfall and that missing funds could delay the project by months or up to a year, depending on bid results and lead times for equipment. "We have gone out to bid...If they come in and we don't have our estimate, we've already reduced it in this…
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