Edgewater Update

It looks as if Governor Pawlenty has come to the realization that we just might be in a recession and has signed the bonding bill. but he did trim 208 million from the bill, bring the total bonding to S717 million dollars. I am glad to see that money for the Edgewater cleanup was left in the finial bill . It is yet unclear if the money's for Riverland Community College and the Manchester and Myrtle projects were included in the bill according to the Albert Lea Tribune.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty approved bonding for the $2.5 million North Edgewater Park
landfill project Monday as part of the $717 million state bonding bill.

There were many of projects that did fall to the governors veto pen. according to the Mpls star Tribune website some were

—$46.7 million for property acquisitions and classroom renovations on Minnesota State Colleges and Universities campuses.
—$16 million for a loan to the Red Lake school district for a new school.
—$6 million toward sports centers in Moorhead and Rochester.
—$5.5 million to study or plan for passenger rail routes connecting the Twin Cities to Duluth and another to Chicago.
—$5 million for a St. Paul Asian Pacific Cultural Center.
—$3 million toward planning for a Minnesota Orchestra Hall renovation.
—$400,000 for a music lending library in Chatfield

I am a little taken back that the Governor would cut $16 Million in a loan for building a new school in the Red Lake school district. One has to wonder why, since T-Paw would still have been $92 Million under the max that he wanted to bond. this one has me scratching my head.