10 Broadcaster Press Infrastructure Investments: Building Blocks For A Healthy Economy Book 59 Sudoku #5 5 1 6 7 6 2 5 1 7 9 8 September 1, 2015 www.broadcasteronline.com ‘Streaming’ Of ’16 Legislative Session Can’t Be Guaranteed, SDPB Exec Says that also uses the system from other parts of state for its meetings, she said. government. Those details A variety of legislators aren’t in place yet. The root problem is the PIERRE – The technology on the Executive Board said they want the present system relies on used to provide free BY REP. KRISTI NOEM situation to be considered the Windows XP operating Internet streaming of audio system that isn’t being and video from proceedings by the Legislature’s There’s hardly anything Joint Committee on supported any longer. of the Legislature is our family consumes that Appropriations that Overgaard said SDPB’s outdated and won’t be isn’t somehow impacted Easy oversees by KrazyDad supported any longer by Sudoku Puzzles state government’s system “probably” could by rail. From the food we spending. last through the 2016 its providers, the executive eat to products we use in If that means going legislative session but she director for South Dakota our homes, the reliability through the standard couldn’t guarantee it. of our nation’s railways is PublicSudoku #6 Broadcasting said legislative appropriations “Should we run into critical. In South Dakota, Monday. 4 1 6 7 process,2 money that importance is even more the a hiccup, there’s not Julie6 Overgaard told prominent. Nearly every wouldn’t become available necessarily anybody to call the Legislature’s Executive 7 3 is 1 3 8 the commodity we produce6 ex- Board her agency has found until next spring at7 for a spare part or to fix it,” ported and shipped via rail. earliest, after the close of she said. a new provider willing to 3 8 5 1 9 8 9 4 1 Disruptions or delays have an write new software and legislative session in late Overgaard said the new immediate and costly impact, contract for a five-year lease March, or until the July system would come from 5 8 5 6 7 1, 2016, start of the next 1 2 as we saw early last year. If Haivision, an international in time for the 2016 session our infrastructure crumbles, that opens in January. budget year. firm based in Montreal and so does our economy. 1 2 8 Several legislators said Chicago. But SDPB can’t afford Earlier this month, I Monday there’s a possibility She said there would the deal without financial met with the Rapid City, 8 and Eastern Railroad 7 help from the9 4 of seeking a supplement 5 1 7 be an $80,000 cost up-front governor’s Pierre, in the short term but they to install new equipment office and the Legislature, (RCP&E), which covers 670 2 and possibly from 5 state 4 9stretching from 59: Answers the 8 need firm numbers on Puzzlesand write new software, 9 3 Book Challenging Sudoku by KrazyDad miles of track the funding commitments followed by a monthly lease Public Utilities Commission Minnesota to Wyoming and 6 Sudoku #1 Sudoku #2 1 1 6 8 9 2 8 1 5 9 6 3 7 4 8 3 9 5 4 6 1 7 2 running straight through 6 5 4 7 2 1 3 9 8 4 5 6 3 7 2 1 9 8 the middle of South Dakota. 2 8 7 7 5 3 9 7 4 1 8 5 6 2 7 2 1 3 84 5 4 6 9 Railroads like RCP&E along © 2008 KrazyDad.com © 2008 KrazyDad.com 2 8 4 7 6 8 1 5 3 2 4 9 1 7 6 9 5 3 with the state government 5 1 4 9 2 7 6 8 3 9 4 5 8 7 2 6 1 3 are making meaningful 7 5 1 9 3 2 8 6 4 roadcaster ress 2 8 3 6 1 4 9 5 7 investments to help avoid the 5 1 2 4 3 7 8 6 9 8 2 3 6 4 5 9 1 7 backlogs that occurred last Fill the puzzle so that every row, every column, 1 6 every 2 5 and 8 4 6 4 9 7 3 1 8 2 5 3 9 7 year. 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Overgaard said SDPB seemed to have a solution with another provider but that company suddenly walked away from the deal. The Haivision proposal came together about 30 days ago. She described Haivision’s offer as “quite, quite, quite a good deal” and the company would benefit by developing a product that could be sold to other governments. “I think $131,000 to open up state government even further is a good deal,” she said. The current system costs approximately $67,000 annually to operate plus personnel expenses covered directly by SDPB, according to Overgaard. Several legislators who serve on appropriations said the issue wasn’t brought to them last winter during SDPB’s budget hearing. Let The Broadcaster and Plain Talk Make Cash For You! 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