The Senate Bill 1154, UNC Non-Appropriated Capital Projects, is on the Senate calendar today, see my post from yesterday. In the Senate session, Senator Stevens says that this is not a big deal and we do it every year- John Kerr used to run this. Stevens claims that the projects are all self funding and does not count towards the state’s debt. Stevens then gave gives examples of self funding and claims it will create 8000 jobs. The bill includes 21 projects and the fiscal note says that will cost $557 million. Stevens is sure to emphasize there is no general funds being used and the projects will not doesn’t increase debt. The final vote for the bill is 46-0.
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