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Eye On Olympia

Senate capital budget…

...is here.

Local highlights:

-$28 million to renovate and expand Eastern Washington University's Patterson Hall.

-$32 million for a new technical education building at Spokane Community College.

-$29 million fora  new life sciences and chemistry building at Spokane Fall Community College.

-$39 million for a new electronics engineering building at WSU's Vancouver campus.

-$7.4 million for WSU's Biomedical Sciences facility in Pullman.

-$4.3 million for work on a WSU biomedical and health sciences building at Spokane's Riverpoint campus.

-$9.7 million to renovate Spokane Community Colleges' Building 7.

-$13.8 million to renovate Music Building 15 at Spokane Falls Community College.

-$223,000 for an expansion in KSPS public broadcasting.

-$400,000 for the Emmanuel Family Life Center in Spokane.

-$79,000 for the Spokane Neighborhood Action Program for a Riverwalk Point community building.

-a total of $4.3 million ($3.5 million plus $800,000) for the YMCA/YWCA facility in central Spokane.

-$1 million for work on the Airway Heights Water Treatment Plant.

-$6.5 million for the Fish and Wildlife Department for a project (land purchase?) on the west branch of the Little Spokane River. (It's unclear in the budget summary I'm combing through.)

-$40,000 for lighting at Colfax's McDonald Park.

-$7,000 for "aquisition and development" of land for Liberty Lake's Rocky Hill Park.

-$198,000 for a Centennial Trail realignment at Gateway Park.

-$500,000 to restore historic features of Spokane's county courthouse.

-$350,000 to replace elevators in Spokane's Masonic Temple building.

CORRECTION: Earlier, I accidentally posted an incorrect figure re: Mt. Spokane State Park in an earlier version of this post.

Mt. Spokane would get $144,000 to help relocated a maintenance facility and buy some land, NOT the much larger figure that happened to be for the project listed right above it. Mea culpa.


 



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