{"id":70703,"date":"2015-04-23T07:34:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T12:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=70703"},"modified":"2015-04-23T16:08:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T21:08:02","slug":"legislature-working-on-higher-ed-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=70703","title":{"rendered":"Legislature working on higher ed budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Robinson07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10256\" alt=\"Robinson07\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Robinson07.jpg\" width=\"129\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota Senate and House negotiators working on the higher education budget are delving into a proposal that would beef up funding to fix crumbling buildings on college campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Mark Sanford says a new deferred maintenance schedule that cobbles together money from various sources and includes a 2-for-1 match by each institution could result in a pool of about $70 to $85 million meant for capital projects.<\/p>\n<p>A report released last summer showed the total deferred maintenance liability for the state\u2019s 11 colleges and universities to be more than $800 million. <strong>Sen. Larry Robinson<\/strong> says not everyone agrees with that dollar amount, but most lawmakers see the need for a new plan to maintain the facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson says it\u2019s important to \u201cget the ball rolling\u201d on deferred maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota Senate and House negotiators working on the higher education budget are delving into a proposal that would beef up funding to fix crumbling buildings on college campuses. Representative Mark Sanford says a new deferred maintenance schedule that cobbles together money from various sources and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70703","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=70703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70791,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70703\/revisions\/70791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}