capital budget

Over the weekend, Washington lawmakers approved a two-year state capital budget, House Bill 1080. Several farm focused projects across the state will get funding in the upcoming biennium, including: $4.2 million for Sunnyside Valley Irrigation District $300,000 for the Selah-Moxee Irrigation District $235,000 for the Yakima Valley Fair in Grandview $5 Million in Funding for East Low 22 ... Read

Washington State University’s Board of Regents recently approved the university’s 2019-21 operating and capital budget, which included several agriculture related requests.  In the Capital Budget the school approved $36.4 million for Phase II of the Global Animal Health Building.  The capital an...

Earlier this month, the Washington legislature approved a capital budget, which means a host of projects across the Evergreen state will now get the needed funding to move forward.  Washington State University can now move forward on several projects that will benefit the ag industry.  ...

When lawmakers in Olympia announced a compromise on the Hirst decision had been reached, leading to the passage of the Capital Budget, few were happier than Senator Judy Warnick.  The Moses Lake Republican led a charge to address the ruling since the court decision came down in late 2016.  In...

After nearly a year of intensive negotiations, an agreement was reached on a Hirst water rights fix and Thursday evening, lawmakers passed the bill from the House floor.  The decision last week was not only a relief in Olympia, but across the entire Evergreen state.  ...

If you ask lawmakers in Olympia the biggest issue for the 2018 session, the answer most likely will depend on where they live.  Representative Vincent Buys, the ranking Republican on the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee said for rural Washingtonians, Hirst is the biggest ag issue, if not one of the biggest issues of the session.  ...

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is touring the state highlighting projects that will not be funded due to the absence of a capital budget that was held up over negotiations on water rights.   As a last-second measure to get Senate Republicans to vote on the capital budget, Inslee and House Democrats pushed for a temporary two-year fix that he says would include some stability.  ...

One of the most heated issues during the 2017 legislative session has not been addressed, at least not to the linking of many Republicans across Washington.  The Hirst Fix, which would have addressed October’s Hirst Decision on Water Rights, passed the state Senate four times this session, by failed to get a vote in the House.  Senator ...

When the Washington State Legislature failed to pass a capital budget, the state’s Department of Ecology said there are now some water projects that will need to be put on hold.   Joye Redfield-Wilder of DOE said the lack of a capital budget will impact more than $640 million of projects for water use in Eastern Washington.   “...