Bill Backing Capitol Lake Improvements Survives Joint Committee On Appropriations

Bill Backing Capitol Lake Improvements Survives Joint Committee On Appropriations

PIERRE — A bill to continue funding improvements around Capitol Lake has passed the Joint Committee on Appropriations of the South Dakota Legislature. The bill seeks three-point-two million dollars from the state general fund and two million of other fund authority to among other things, cap the well feeding the non-Flaming Fountain….

Senator David Johnson asked Bureau of Administration Commissioner Scott Bollinger what the capping of the well means for the future of a flaming fountain…

Representative Tony Venhuizen moved passage of House Bill 1196…

The bill moves to the House on a 17-zero vote.