{"id":53554,"date":"2014-09-03T16:48:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53554"},"modified":"2014-09-03T16:48:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:48:46","slug":"board-appoves-vcsu-heating-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53554","title":{"rendered":"Board approves VCSU heating plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The North Dakota Board of Higher Education took a $69-million chunk out of its $808 million backlog in deferred maintenance projects, and some board members say it&#8217;s not enough.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The board during a conference call meeting Wednesday approved more than $200 million in capital projects, including a new heating plant at Valley City State and new water and sewer lines at North Dakota State College of Science.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Board member Kevin Melicher, of Fargo, calls the need for building improvements &#8220;enormous&#8221; and believes the oil-rich state has the ability to fund more of them.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The board also approved 3 percent raises for most of the university presidents. Williston State College President Raymond Nadolny received a 5-percent raise mainly because of the high cost of living in the oil patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The North Dakota Board of Higher Education took a $69-million chunk out of its $808 million backlog in deferred maintenance projects, and some board members say it&#8217;s not enough. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The board during a conference call meeting Wednesday approved more than $200 million in capital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53557,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53554\/revisions\/53557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}