The legislature placed the money in the budget, but the final decision belongs to Governor Rick Scott.
The money made it into the budget, but do NOT start counting the chickens. The question is whether the multi-model money will survive Governor Scott’s line item veto pen.
The Multi-Modal line item was discussed at our March Regular Village
Council meeting when I set up an extraordinary telephone call in report from
our State Senator Jose Javier Rodriguez.
We also thank our Representative Michael Bileca who sponsored this appropriation in
HB 3821.
As stated:
Scott’s pen is the final hurdle for hundreds of local projects
sponsored by lawmakers for constituents back home — but it is a high hurdle to
vault. The governor has slashed more money from the budget — about $2.3 billion
in line-item spending, not counting last year’s school budget — than any other
Florida chief executive, calling much of that spending unnecessary or wasteful.
Many of those local projects are standard municipal fare, including
money for water and sewer projects, housing, transit, emergencies, and local
cultural and educational projects. They are also a fraction of the projects
proposed by legislators every year during session — others never even make it
into the state budget, blocked by legislative leaders who have final
negotiating power on its contents before it is sent to the governor.
We are working to try to survive the 2018 veto pen.
Here is a link to the 2018 legislative priorities that I prepared and sponsored this year.
It was approved unanimously See: (CLICK HERE) Palmetto Bay Resolution 2018-17.
The money made it into the budget, but do NOT start counting the chickens. The question is whether the multi-model money will survive Governor Scott’s line item veto pen.
