B- The more money you have, the easier capital management becomes. Indiana isn't the best when it comes to tracking maintenance needs, but thanks to the budget surplus, its agencies are doing a good job at decreasing their maintenance backlog. Preventive maintenance is funded first, followed by rehabilitation and repair, and finally major construction. Historically, that's meant the state has been inclined to renovate old buildings rather than construct new ones. But the influx of cash has allowed it to build three new prisons, with two more under construction.
Health is the next area to be addressed.
A new state mental hospital is under construction, while the others will undergo rehabilitation. The state's facilities efforts are rather decentralized. Indiana doesn't pull its inventory information together on a statewide basis, arguing that there is little value in a process that places hospitals and parks side by side. On the transportation side, the state keeps a complete inventory of bridges and roads, updated annually. B Indiana's legislature has chosen to take work-force planning seriously.