I want you to please read this "Policy Highlighter" or more accurately expose by Amber Gunn of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation.  Here's a taste of what she had to say:

…A JLARC performance audit of the capital budget process revealed that OFM was failing to provide oversight of large capital projects in “the manner required by statute and [OFM’s] own process as outlined in the Capital Budget Instructions.” The JLARC audit noted that “rising capital investment in local government and community-based projects” resulted in “less time available to work on advancing state facility projects.” In other words, proper prioritization is not taking place at the state level because OFM is overburdened by local pet projects.

State funding priorities?
Here is a sampling of such projects in the 2007-09 Capital Budget:

Right Here, Right Now (Jesus Jones)

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A woman on the radio talks about revolution

when it’s already passed her by

but Bob Dylan didn’t have this to sing about you

you know it feels good to be alive

I was alive and I waited waited

I was alive and I waited for this

Right here, right now, there is no other place I want to be

Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history

I saw the decade in, when it seemed

the world could change at the blink of an eye

And if anything

then there’s your sign of the times

I was alive and I waited waited

I was alive and I waited for this

Right here, right now

I was alive and I waited waited