STATE OF MINNESOTA TWENTIETH MEETING
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-SIXTH SESSION
CAPITAL INVESTMENT FINANCE DIVISION
Chair, Representative Alice Hausman
MINUTES
Representative Alice Hausman, Chair of the Capital Investment Finance Division, called the meeting to order at 2:52 p.m. on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 in the Basement Hearing Room of the State Office Building. The Committee Legislative Assistant noted the roll.
Members present:
HAUSMAN, Alice, Chair
SCALZE, Bev, Vice Chair
HOWES, Larry, GOP Lead
ANDERSON, Bruce
CARLSON, Lyndon
CLARK, Karen
DAVIDS, Greg
EASTLUND, Rob
JUHNKE, AL
LANNING, Morrie
LIEDER, Bernie
MAHONEY, Tim
MULLERY, Joe
MURPHY, Mary
PELOWSKI, Gene
RUKAVINA, Tom
SCOTT, Peggy
SOLBERG, Loren
URDAHL, Dean
WAGENIUS, Jean
Members excused: Hansen, Dean
A quorum was present.
Rep. Phyllis Kahn presented on geographic mapping of bonding projects.
Rep. Davids moved approval of the minutes from the meetings of February 9, 2010. MOTION PREVAILED.
HF 2182 (Gardner) Rating criteria required for capital project funding requests.
(Informational hearing, no action was taken.)
HF 2909 (Anderson, S.) State agencies required to track and report on the number of jobs created or retained as a result of capital project funding.
(Informational hearing, no action was taken.)
Discussion of policies included in HF 2700 as passed on the House Floor:
Buy American/Buy Local Certification (Rukavina amendment
A10-2054)
Dave Hallas, United Steelworkers Local 7263
Justin Hoffman, MN Dept of Administration
Rep. Tom Rukavina
HF 3105 (Downey) Information required to determine return on investment for capital requests
John Spry, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Opus College of Business, Finance Dept., St. Thomas University, testified in support of the bill
(Informational hearing, no action was taken.)
Giving reaction to the above bills:
Jeff Freeman, Public Facilities Authority
Kathy Kardell, Assistant Commissioner, Treasury Division, MN Management and Budget
Rep. Scalze assumed the chair.
HF 2590 (Hausman) Appropriation and bond authorization for capital investment projects procedures clarified.
Kathy Kardell, Assistant Commissioner, Treasury Division, MN Management and Budget, testified on the bill.
(Informational hearing, no action was taken).
HF 3492 (Hausman) Higher education asset preservation and replacement funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
Rep. Hausman moved that HF 3492 be recommended to pass and returned to the Committee on Finance. MOTION PREVAILED
Rep. Jeremy Kalin presented on capital projects encouraged to meet state climate goals (Knuth provisions)
The meeting was adjourned at 4:28 p.m.
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Representative Alice Hausman, Chair
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Laurie Nistl, Committee Legislative Assistant