We All Do Better

Greetings,
Thanks for providing the spreadsheet listing a summary of the projects that will be funded.
The Governor has proposed monies to establish Lake Vermillion State Park however I do not see any reference to that on the listing. Is this being funded in another way ?
Secondly, the listing states $30,000,000 in General Obligation bonds for Wastewater Infrastructure Funding Program. I understand that Backus, Biwabik, Chisholm, Duluth, Eveleth, Gilbert, Hamburg, Hibbing, Mora, North Branch, Vernon Center, Waldorf, Willmar or any of the more than 30 communities submitted requests for funding through the bonding proposal for the 2010 legislative session. Do you know which programs are included in the $30million.
IMO, funding for wastewater treatment facility (WWTF) and Inflow & Infiltration (I&I) projects will help communities in the long term while producing jobs in the short term … families are more concerned about safe, clean water in their local communities than a State Park that many will never visit.
Thanks for your work on these issues.
Mac Hall

Just what we need $39 million more for trails not including the $10.5 million in Met Council funds, $32 million more for the zoos, $4 million for volleyball center in Rochester, $16 million for airport hangers, and over $9 million for Oliver Kelley Farm. Heck I can build a farm for way less than that!

Dont even tell me that the Ordway, Mayo Civic, Mankato Civic, Orchestra Hall, Chatfield Arts Center, and Asian Pacific Cultural Centers are priorities!

And enough already with training centers for public safety. Just exactly how many of these do we think we need in Minnesota? This list is a joke in the face of budget cuts we are funding all sorts of un-needed and projects that are not priorities. And how many permanent jobs will be created anyways? Of there is the magic word – “could” but it wont because not a single bonding bill before this year has created permanent jobs and that is a fact.