St. Mary group tries to trigger $10 million bond authority

The St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group (SMRWG) met on January 16 in Havre to discuss the repairing of the 100-year-old facility. The SMRWG discussed the upcoming legislative session. Right now, the state is short of funding. In the past, the Coal Trust fund had yielded large volumes of revenue to address infrastructure need in the state. Now coal revenue is greatly reduced, and the state is looking for other streams of revenue.

The SMRWG will continue to look at all revenue to be used for construction for the contract holders. For now, we will be using the remainder of the grant tha...