Bill To Increase Funding For Kinsman Expansion Still Moving Through Legislature

Bill To Increase Funding For Kinsman Expansion Still Moving Through Legislature

PIERRE — A bill to fund expansion of the Kinsman Building in Pierre continues to gain favorable approval from South Dakota legislators. House Bill 1006 would amend legislation passed last year to increase funding for the project to three-million dollars from one-point-four-five million. Andy Gerlach with the Bureau of Administration brought the bill to appropriators last week…

Senator Jean Huhhoff asked Gerlach about the needed wiring change to the Kinsman Building project…

The current maintenance shop on Garfield Avenue would be sold to the Department of Transportation to help fund the Kinsman project. Expanding the Kinsman Building will consolidate building and grounds operations to one building. Senator Jim Bolin…

House Bill 1006 passed Joint Appropriations 18 to zero and cleared the full House 58 to ten.