The city of Champaign has pledged to contribute $3 million to the project,

We actually collected about 40.5 million with about 7 million dollars pledged

If he won, it would have been a $3 million prize, which he was going to contribute to his charities.

We are excited that the scope of this project and the team's work on this topic will contribute to the body of knowledge in this critically important field.

I'm not prepared to go up to $30 million for this project. The process has been subverted and the will of this board has been subverted. I don't want to be associated with this package and the way we're being forced into it.

Brownback has been great upfront when he appropriated $2 million for the St. Peter's Waterway Redevelopment project. He recently appropriated funds to begin work on the Bethany Development project.