BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - The North Dakota Board of Higher Education says the university system should not have to foot the bill for the decision to scrap plans to build the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library at Dickinson State University.
A nonprofit foundation board had originally planned to put the library in Dickinson and a museum in Medora. The board last week decided to put the entire project in Medora, located about a half hour’s drive from Dickinson in the North Dakota Badlands.
Dickinson State has already spent $2.2 million of state money on the project and board member Nick Hacker says the reimbursement should come from somewhere “other than higher ed.”
The higher education board on Wednesday approved a motion to have university system representatives negotiate a termination agreement with the Roosevelt foundation.
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