Indoor Practice Facility

[tony]

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

https://youtu.be/u_Z60WgrKXg

Man. those prefab panels are HUGE.

[AKBison]

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

Mayville, Valley, and Bottineau all need to be shuttered. Dickinson State needs to be privatized. Williston, Wahp, and Bismarck need to be combined into a new system called ND Tech. I'm good with Minot as is and I will entertain arguments on keeping Bottineau around due to it's unique location as the forestry /wildlife branch for the NDUS.

[El_Chapo]

why didn't we just build a 35,000 seat stadium in that spot?

[Bison Dan]

why didn't we just build a 35,000 seat stadium in that spot?

Not even close enough room.

[bajadanny]

Not even close enough room.

I-29 y 19th

[HerdBot]

why didn't we just build a 35,000 seat stadium in that spot?

Now your just trolling lol

[El_Chapo]

Not even close enough room.

huh? to the west of it there's room with that parking lot..
shut down university and buy out a block or 2 of houses and let's goo

[ByeSonBusiness]

huh? to the west of it there's room with that parking lot..
shut down university and buy out a block or 2 of houses and let's goo

What??????

[tjbison]

What??????

Lol..trolling more than a guy running crank bait on Devils Lake

[Hammersmith]

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

It took forever for the minutes of the meeting to be posted online, but it was indeed Bellew from Minot that voted no. And vote was also indeed 38-1-3.

Not that anyone actually cares, lol, but I just wanted to wrap the previous post up. My light OCD appreciates it.