Universities push to restore campus maintenance funding after $9 million legislative cut

Universities push to restore campus maintenance funding after $9 million legislative cut

South Dakota Board of Regents member Pam Roberts participates in a December 2023 board meeting in Brookings. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)South Dakota public university leaders called on lawmakers Thursday in Brookings to restore $9 million in campus maintenance funding after a cut enacted by the Legislature earlier this year. “As I stated in the past, and will state in the future, I think it was very shortsighted and disappointing t…