SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

Two weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized the California Legislature's lack of transparency with the California Capitol Annex Project and said he would help with the issue , the project's leaders are still refusing to say how much it's estimated to cost taxpayers.

It has been at least three years since the Legislature's Joint Rules Committee overseeing the project provided a cost estimate of $1.1 billion for the new 525,000 square foot office building and parking garage that will house the offices of California's 120 state lawmakers, governor and lieutenant governor.

The committee, led by Assemblymember Blanca Pacheco and State Senator John Laird, continues to withhold key financial records KCRA 3 asked for in a Legislative Open Records Request in August that

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