As state budget "cools", a look a local projects in it
- June 17, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / government
While the state budget is in its “cooling off” period. Lawmakers can’t make it final until the vote on Friday.
To go through the entire document — all 439 pages — click here.
State Rep. Clay Ingram, R-Pensacola, noted a couple of things of local interest that made it into the budget document that the Legislature will make final. Ingram is chairman of the Transportation & Economic Development Appropriations Subcommittee and is a member of the Appropriations Committee, Economic Development & Tourism Subcommittee, Education Committee and the Joint Legislative Budget Commission
Highlights of the state budget for the Pensacola metro area include:
— $1 million from the economic development and tourism committee for the National Flight Academy. “To me that is a legitimate STEM development initiative,” Ingram said. The education committee put $500,000 in for it.
— $3 million for land acquisition near Pensacola International Airport “to make sure that the airport commerce park (Pensacola Mayor) Ashton (Hayward) is working on has the room it needs,” Ingram said.
— $1.5 million for the Whiting Field Aviation Park.
— PALS, a program at Pensacola State College to give developmentally disabled young people the chance to get education and job skills training survived the budgeting process as well, Ingram said.
— $1 million for a water and sewer project on Innerarity Point.
— $2,750,000 for Navarre Beach Renourishment.
— $688,173 for the City of Milton’s Riverwalk.
— $50,000 for the Re-entry Alliance Pensacola Inc. offender re-entry program.
— $13,429,483 for the School Readiness Program in Escambia County; $3,641,217 for the program in Santa Rosa County.
— $5,420,650 for voluntary prekindergarten in Escambia County; $2,478,238 for the program in Santa Rosa.
— $4,449,197 for workforce education programs in Escambia County Schools; $1,778,913 for such programs in Santa Rosa Schools.
— $4,289,184 for the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.
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