JFAC debates IEN funding…

Sen. Nicole LeFavour, D-Boise, said she has a “concern that things that have been put into motion perhaps improperly will just continue in motion” if JFAC approves the full $3 million in spending authority for the next stage of the Idaho Education Network. Rep. Fred Wood, R-Burley, said, “I think that the state in any manner trying to turn down private funds going to a project like this would not be appropriate. … Certainly if this were general tax dollars, I may well have a very different opinion about what’s going on here. … These are private dollars.” Wood said the Legislature can’t do much about the pending lawsuit over the contract award for the IEN.