The Senate Appropriations Committee is recommending that UND’s Medical School build a new building.
Governor Dalrymple’s budget contains money for an addition to the existing building. But on a 7 to 5 vote, Senate Appropriations is recommending the Legislature approve $124-million for a completely new building.
Sen.ator Robert Erbele (R-Lehr) made the motion in committee for the “do-pass.”
"I like to do the Biblical analogy of not wanting to attach a new patch to an old cloth, because it will shrink and tear away," said Erbele. "It also talks about not putting new wine in old wine skins. And there are some efficiencies in building new."
If the bill passes both chambers, and signed by Dalrymple, UND plans to move classes from some older buildings on campus to the existing medical school building, and use the upper floors for student housing. Those older buildings would then be torn down.