Indoor Practice Facility

[Hammersmith]

So who voted against phase II at the legislative budget committee meeting? The article said it wasn't 100% for approval.

https://www.inforum.com/sports/bison...ll-indoor-next

Pretty sure it was Rep. Larry Bellew(R) from Minot.

The minutes haven't been published yet, but the video is available. To my ear, it's Bellew that votes no, but I could be mistaken. The video is linked below, and the voting starts at 10:58:28AM.

This was a combined vote for budget increases for the NDSU softball project, the NDSU football IPF, and a natural gas boiler project at Mayville State. It's possible the no vote was because of the Mayville project. That project is coming out of state dollars, and Mayville went ahead with a major purchase in January without approval in order to save money. Mayville was approved x amount of dollars in June of last year. By January, the boiler company had told Mayville that the price had gone up and was about to go up again. Mayville went ahead and committed to the first increase in price to avoid the second. While that was a fiscally smart move to make, it's possible one of the committee members made a protest vote because of the end around.

The overall vote appeared to be 38 yes, 1 no, 3 abstain/absent.


Video: https://video.legis.nd.gov/en/PowerB...20402/-1/23751

[land grant bison]

Here’s a cool drone footage video showing construction progress:

https://youtu.be/u_Z60WgrKXg

[Hammersmith]

Here’s a cool drone footage video showing construction progress:

https://youtu.be/u_Z60WgrKXg

I like the raw footage, but holy hell is that a tough video to watch.

Michael Bay: I'm going to make movies with the most quick cuts ever seen.
Amdak Productions: Hold my beer.

[2011BisonAlumni]

Pretty sure it was Rep. Larry Bellew(R) from Minot.

The minutes haven't been published yet, but the video is available. To my ear, it's Bellew that votes no, but I could be mistaken. The video is linked below, and the voting starts at 10:58:28AM.

This was a combined vote for budget increases for the NDSU softball project, the NDSU football IPF, and a natural gas boiler project at Mayville State. It's possible the no vote was because of the Mayville project. That project is coming out of state dollars, and Mayville went ahead with a major purchase in January without approval in order to save money. Mayville was approved x amount of dollars in June of last year. By January, the boiler company had told Mayville that the price had gone up and was about to go up again. Mayville went ahead and committed to the first increase in price to avoid the second. While that was a fiscally smart move to make, it's possible one of the committee members made a protest vote because of the end around.

The overall vote appeared to be 38 yes, 1 no, 3 abstain/absent.


Video: https://video.legis.nd.gov/en/PowerB...20402/-1/23751

Can someone remind me again why Mayville State, Valley City State, Minot State and Dickinson State all need to exist ?

[Bison Dan]

Can someone remind me again why Mayville State, Valley City State, Minot State and Dickinson State all need to exist ?

It's called the ND constitution.

[scottietohottie]

Can someone remind me again why Mayville State, Valley City State, Minot State and Dickinson State all need to exist ?

So grand forks can be better then something.

[cbline]

Here’s a cool drone footage video showing construction progress:

https://youtu.be/u_Z60WgrKXg

Cool to see the scale of its height when the Bison Court and surrounding buildings are seen in the background.

[Hammerhead]

It's called the ND constitution.

That can be amended. Why not just turn a few of those campuses into data centers for crypto mining?

[NDSU_grad]

That can be amended. Why not just turn a few of those campuses into data centers for crypto mining?

It can be, but it won’t be.

[southcliffbison]

It's called the ND constitution.

......and the reasons that Valley City and Mayville received "normal" schools designated in the state constitution lies with good, old Imperial Cass County. Those two communities were bought off to ensure that the their voters voted to keep the state capital in Bismarck and not have it moved to Fargo.