By Doug Barrett
Mar 1, 2021 8:25 AM
It’s far from being a done deal but the Grand Forks School District has made some progress in the North Dakota House in capturing additional Federal Impact Aid dollars.
The House voted 94-0 last week to a revised funding formula for educating military base students. The local district has long argued the current formula falls short for maintenance and tuition needs.
Representative Ron Guggisberg carried the bill on the House floor. “Federal Impact Aid is provided to the military based school districts to provide things like maintenance on buildings and special needs. Right now our current practice is to treat the aid as tuition. That means the state collects 75% of the money and the schools get 25%.”
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Council President Dana Sande sees potential deals as a big opportunity to move the city ahead.
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In City Council President Dana Sande’s telling, the Grand Forks City Council took a step into the future on Monday night offering, in a committee meeting, early 7-0 approval to tax plans for big projects that will help transform UND and downtown.
City leaders describe those projects as important investments in the community. They range from redevelopment at St. John’s Block downtown to big plans for retail, apartments and a public plaza at what’s now the Townhouse Hotel. There’s a project to build apartments on UND’s Memorial Stadium at UND while keeping the track and field and plans to build a five-story mixed-use building downtown near City Hall.