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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />8 <br /> <br />1 various businesses and professions throughout the state to <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />review the spending requirements of the state capital improve- <br /> <br />3 ment, primarily over the coming years. <br /> <br />4 The panel has had a number of meetings and this <br /> <br />5 coming Friday will make its recommendations concerning the <br /> <br />6 amount of funds which it believes that the state should devote <br /> <br />7 to capital improvements in the future. <br /> <br />8 I've been on the panel, obviously, for the water <br /> <br />9 part of it. The panel is, I think, pretty firmly committed to <br /> <br />10 recommending that the state investment in water resource devel <br /> <br />11 opment be expanded. I think the figures show that the total <br /> <br />12 investment required for the next--what was it, Bob? <br /> <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br /> <br />MR. JACKSON: Ten-- <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: --ten years, I believe, in the state <br /> <br />water resources of all types and improvements was something <br /> <br />in excess of $2 billion. Now, this is everything, and the big <br /> <br />portion is ,to be used by municipalities. So the committee <br /> <br />will, I think, recommend that the state get into this on an <br /> <br />ever-increasing scale, and I think that's the purpose of the <br /> <br />bill that Bill McDonald has mentioned. <br />Last year, the Board and I prepared a bill, and the <br /> <br />Board endorsed a bill that was considered last year to devote <br /> <br />2 percent of the sales tax revenues to the board's construc- <br /> <br />tion fund. That got caught up in a struggle with people who <br /> <br />are arguing that part of the sales tax be devoted to highway-- <br />