So there's an ongoing process in order to close Lincoln Hills. Now the Dane county facility is in the planning design stage. It's designed to be completed in 2029. The original funding request that the Department of Corrections requested to build that facility was $93 million, $83 million. They denied that request because of the cost of inflation and the cost of labor and supplies and materials. The eventual funding cost to taxpayers that was approved is 130, $30.7 million. (13:10–13:24)
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States the original funding request by the Department of Corrections for a facility.
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