Post by Logan on Feb 19, 2016 0:23:17 GMT -6
Responding to criticism from lawmakers Thursday, Gov. Larry Hogan said money he proposed for a new Baltimore jail should instead pay for projects at state universities.
In a letter to leaders of the General Assembly's budget committees, Hogan asked that $18.3 million budgeted to design a new jail be spent elsewhere because "there is clearly no longer support for this project in the General Assembly."
Hogan asked lawmakers to keep $16.6 million in the budget for demolishing buildings at the jail site, where he shuttered facilities dating to the Civil War last year.
The governor cannot move the money himself — the legislature controls changes to state construction spending after the governor introduces his budget.
Read more: www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-minorities-20160218-story.html
In a letter to leaders of the General Assembly's budget committees, Hogan asked that $18.3 million budgeted to design a new jail be spent elsewhere because "there is clearly no longer support for this project in the General Assembly."
Hogan asked lawmakers to keep $16.6 million in the budget for demolishing buildings at the jail site, where he shuttered facilities dating to the Civil War last year.
The governor cannot move the money himself — the legislature controls changes to state construction spending after the governor introduces his budget.
Read more: www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-minorities-20160218-story.html