Governor signs state budget after removing some area projects

Florida Governor Rick Scott signed Florida’s 74 billion dollar budget on Monday but not before vetoing $368 million in spending, including a few projects from our area.

Even with the vetoes, the 2013-2014 budget is still the largest on record, and includes $480 million for teacher pay raises, $8.5 billion for transportation projects, $151.8 million for Everglades restoration and $273 million for ports.

But items that were cut from the budget include 2 million dollars to repay bank loans for the Port St. Joe Port Authority.

The governor also vetoed a 100 thousand dollar request for a sheriff’s administrative building in Liberty county, and a 472 thousand dollar line item to replace a water main along state Road 20 in Blountstown.

A 14 million dollar line item to construct a Science, technology, Engineering and Mathematics building at the main campus of Gulf Coast State College in Panama City was also vetoed.

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