Utah nonprofit groups will be allowed to continue to use meeting space at the state capitol for free, thanks to a lobbyist association’s rental deal with the building, writes The Salt Lake Tribune.
For months, the board that governs use of the capitol building had wrangled over whether to institute fees for advocacy, social-service, and other nonprofit organizations, which for decades have been given free use of the building for meetings and strategy sessions. But revenue from a new agreement with the Capitol Hill Association, a group of lobbyists that will lease space in the building, lessened the need for the fees.






