{"id":159482,"date":"2018-12-05T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=159482"},"modified":"2019-01-22T11:07:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:07:57","slug":"burgum-budgets-for-new-state-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=159482","title":{"rendered":"Burgum budgets for new State Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32653\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/stateHospital1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/stateHospital1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/stateHospital1-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/stateHospital1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has unveiled <a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=159421\">a $14.3 billion budget <\/a>that raises state spending 5 percent and seeks to replenish reserves that were used to balance previous budgets. His two-year blueprint presented to the Legislature Wednesday offers state employee pay raises, and spending increases on education, human services and infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The budget calls for $35 million from Legacy Fund earnings to replace the aging State Hospital in Jamestown<\/strong> and eventually repurpose it as a minimum-custody correctional facility for men, which in turn would allow the state to relocate women\u2019s prison services from New England to the Missouri River Correctional Center south of Bismarck.<\/p>\n<p>Together, these changes will allow for consolidation of facilities and more efficient operations that will provide long-term savings of at least $7 million per biennium.<\/p>\n<p>Prairie Public Radio reports, Democratic Senator Kathy Hogan says Burgum\u2019s recommendation that a new State Hospital and Clinic be built in Jamestown means lawmakers will have to look closely at the details of that proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan says she thinks the idea of consolidating the corrections activities on the facility grounds in Jamestown makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has unveiled a $14.3 billion budget that raises state spending 5 percent and seeks to replenish reserves that were used to balance previous budgets. His two-year blueprint presented to the Legislature Wednesday offers state employee pay raises, and spending increases on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159482"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162734,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159482\/revisions\/162734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}