Legislature Approves VCSU Funding, Study

Bismarck (CSi) –North Dakota legislature’s Interim Budget Committee has narrowly approved funding for Valley City State University to study costs to demolitsh and replace the music building along the Sheyenne River as part of Valley City’s flood protection project.

Legislators voted 19-15 to approve the $79,000 in funding on a motion by Democratic State Senator Larry Robinson, of Valley City.

Senator Robinson says the city, has purchased and removed homes on both sides of VCSU’s Foss Hall, leaving it the only structure remaining along the river in that area.