DeSantis vetoes funding for multiple local projects
Staff report
ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – Governor DeSantis’s veto list includes almost $9 million in funding requests for local buildings, governments, and organizations.
Click here to see the full veto list.
The list includes the following:
- University of Florida Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Computer System Modernization – $350,000
- Alachua County Jail – Capital Efficiency Analysis – $225,000
- Law Enforcement Property & Evidence Hub – $350,000
- Gainesville Southwest Public Safety Services Center – $1,170,500
- City of High Springs Police Station – $250,000
- High Springs North-West Alachua County Utility Improvement – $250,000
- Fixed Capital Outlay – Construction/Renovation/Repair – Doyle Conner Gainesville – $4,967,415
- Alachua Wastewater Treatment Facility Expansion – $225,000
- Newberry Electric System Resiliency Project – $350,000
- Dance Alive National Ballet Center for the Arts – $475,000
- Save Florida Waters, Inc. Northern Springs Restoration Project – $250,000
The list includes five of the six projects championed by Rep. Chuck Brannan.
Alachua County Sheriff’s Office and the Alachua County Commission have been discussing needed renovations or an entirely new building for the Alachua County Jail and had hoped to get the state to fund the study to “guide informed, cost effective decisions for both capital investment and operational
efficiency.”
The City of Gainesville requested over $1.5 million in project design funding for a Southwest Public Safety Services Center that would also provide a property and evidence hub on the southwest side of the city. According to the appropriations request, the center “will be situated in a rapidly growing residential and commercial area that requires a new stabilizing presence for public safety and emergency services. The center will also be convenient for our fellow Floridians evacuating from south and central Florida seeking nearby shelter in advance of a major storm, thus serving as a critical staging area for resources and personnel during such crises.”
The appropriation for the Doyle Conner Building on SW 34th Street would have funded renovations to the headquarters of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Division of Plant Industry.
Dance Alive National Ballet had requested money to support its planned Center for the Arts.
Wow! A county that despises Republicans sure is wanting an awful lot from them.
@Willy Nilly
Yeah, republicans voted for a tax cut that benefits millionaires and billionaires who don’t need it and to pay for it take it out of Medicaid and SNAP food benefits, things people need you heartless b*a*s*t*a*r*d*s.
What’s not to hate?
You s*u*c*k*e*r*s just lost the midterm elections.
Did you think we would win in Alachua County?
The last time this county went Republican was Reagan and before that Eisenhower.
That’s what you get when you start charging taxpayers a fee for credit card transactions…
I wondered who bought that last copy of “Tax Your Way Out Of Reckless Spending For Dummies”…
What does being republican or democrat have to do with municipal improvements for the whole community of all persuasions? What would your Jesus do?
Because this is what happens in state budgets regardless if it’s a red state or a blue state. The comments on this page are ad nauseam.
Many other local projects were NOT vetoed.
Says the weirdo that voted for the freak gillum. You cretin.
Would not it be grand if we had a down-low male prostitute mongering meth-head for a Governor? We really did dodge a bullet.
And yet our president paid a huge judgement and was declared a rapist in court by the judge, bragged about being a sexual predator and busting in on undressed teenage girls.
Eradicate: tell me what community improvements you want…we got Grace marketplace to help the homeless… yet crime, panhandling, squatting, and littering keep getting worse. There’s bums in the RTS shelter at university & 13th…
We shouldn’t see any of this while funding Grace.
Why in the wide wide world of sports is the county commission asking for other counties money to help them with their jail?…SMDH…those people are imbeciles.
Don’t give Gainesville a cent for anything. Clearly we don’t need the money based on the frivolous, anti-citizen programs that the Gainesville City Commission chooses to waste money on.
That $3 million / year that we spend on GRACE Marketplace and the California-based / BLM-affiliated scam corporation Block by Block could have outright funded half of those requests.
Those tax dollars are laundered and end up right back in the pockets / campaigns of Gainesville City Commissioners.