The House Capital Budget Committee held an executive session on the House’s proposed 2010 supplemental capital budget this afternoon.

In a concise and directed session, the House Capital Budget Committee moved House Bill 2836 to the floor.

No changes were made to higher education or Evergreen. 

The House Capital budget reduces bond appropriations for the College’s Laboratory and Art Annex Building by $727,000.

The bill was amended by the Committee as follows:

• Made technical corrections
• Increased the Department of Commerce’s Housing Trust Fund set aside for building low-income housing units in underserved communities and to concurrently develop capacity in the same communities from $5 million to $10 million.  There was no change in the total appropriation.
• Added $600,000 to complete school mapping for the remaining community colleges. Reduced the Everett Community College Infrastructure project by $309,000. Increased the negative allotment for the Office of Financial Management by $42,291,000. As a result the State Building Construction Account is increased by $291,000.
• Allowed for the 2009 capital budget appropriation for the Kittitas Groundwater Study to be used for the purchzse of water for domestic groundwater users in the Yakima Basin Water Resource Inventory Area 39 that have a groundwater right with a priority date later than May 10, 1905 and for all out-of-priority groundwater users in the Yakima Basin, pending an agreement between the Department, Ecology, and Kittitas County.  Created the Kititas County Domestic Groundwater Users Drought Preparedness Account. There was no change in the total appropriation.