Legislative budget update and Pasco project funding

1:56:21Um can we have Ralph come up in the next five minutes and report? Sure,

1:56:25that'll make him no cut his time 'cause he'll make it fit. I have three minutes so I will say while he's on his way up, I just wanna you know recognize on the good news stuff the public works on solid waste, uh our keep Pasco beautiful did some work at uh Florida Arbor Day a couple weeks ago and gave out about two hundred trees to people who were there and then ent talked to 'em about recycling s and stuff like that. So a lot of good work happening out there. So With that I'll give it to Ralph and he can talk about what our friends in Tallahassee are doing.

1:56:55Thank you. Good morning, uh Ralph Lair, Intergovernmental Affairs Officer. So I emailed this information to you yesterday morning so you'll have it. Uh but on Friday the Senate and House rolled out their uh preliminary budgets. Uh the Senate came in at $108.6 billion and the House at $105.3 billion. Their bills will be considered in the appropriations committer committee both in the House and the Senate tomorrow. Uh and then it will go to the

1:57:25floor next week. and then the conference. So going into uh the preliminary budgets with our um

1:57:40Where we are on our projects that we submitted. Just a moment.

1:57:49Okay, I'll just I'll just tell you where we are at so you'll know.

1:57:58Uh Ridge Road Extension. We put in for uh Ridge Road Extension Phase 2B. It is in the uh Senate budget, fully funded at $14 million. Our Pasco County Green Key drainage improvements we put in for two million dollars. Uh there's a placeholder in the house for one million dollars. Okay,

1:58:16you passed over the boat ramps and parking.

1:58:18So so far with the boat rants, well the one point eight million dollars did not make either side. Uh so we'll uh you know, we still have conference. Uh so we

1:58:27it didn't make it in anywhere?

1:58:28It did not get in the House. It did not get in the Senate, no.

1:58:32That's a bummer.

1:58:34There's a placeholder of $1 million in the Senate for a sports training and youth tournament complex. It's a $35 million ask. Again, $1 million placeholder.

1:58:46Uh there are um Two projects that the County Sheriff's Office got in. Uh a uh community outreach and engagement initiative for $150,000 uh and that was fully funded in the Senate, partially funded in the House at $125,000. and a Center for Recovery uh of Endangered and Missing Persons. Uh three million two hundred th uh thousand in the uh Senate, uh not in the House right now. Uh I gotta say also that our municipalities

1:59:16on the east side Uh did put in requests so Uh San Antonio, Dade City and Zephyrhills have some requests uh uh in both sides of the budget. Thank you. So uh again Early. Still have a ways to go. Um So we will uh go in

1:59:38it vote uh the House and the Senate voting out their budgets next week. Uh and then they'll uh be uh in posture to uh go into conference and negotiate uh the outcome for the final budget. And as you know, we only have a couple more weeks left. We end March eleventh with session. Uh, so I'll be going up there on those last final weeks to see if what we can do.

1:59:59So Ralph, uh I'm looking at a bigger um I was looking on my phone, so it really wasn't loading up right.

2:00:06Yeah.

2:00:06Now I'm looking on my giant iPad.

2:00:08Okay.

2:00:09Are you saying that only things in parentheses are funded? 'Cause it's not clear on here.

2:00:14No, it's in color and you don't see that.

2:00:16No.

2:00:17So so basically there's an amount. That was the full ask. And then um The Senate w when you when you see it it was in green. Uh that was in their budget. House was in yellow. Partially funded was in parentheses. You don't see it, I will get one printed up for you uh you know during break and then uh uh I'll give each of you a copy. So again, and I did have a breakdown saying that again, Senate in green, house in yellow, parentheses is partial

2:00:47amount. This

2:00:48is how it's showing up like that.

2:00:50Yeah.

2:00:51I can't so Okay.

2:00:52I'll print up a a sol a copy for you.

2:00:55Well we have some unusual big n things in there.

2:00:59This year's.

2:01:02I'm bothered about the boat ramps. But

2:01:04So at the end of the you know, end of the day I think we'll uh hopefully we'll fare well and then we have the governor to uh deal with and hopefully it'll be a year where he's not uh using the red pin as much because it's an election year. Yeah.

2:01:16Um Madam Clerk. Ralph, quick question. Waste energy. Did they have any luck with that? Any anything on the dirt roads?

2:01:23Waste energy is not moving uh in the house. Um We only have one more week of committees. Uh if it's gonna get its chance, it's gotta le at least be heard in one committee. It is moving in the Senate. Uh this week I think it was in appropriations, which is the final stop on the Senate side. So very much aware of this. We've got other counties, our county to the south, Pinellas County, it's important to them. And I know our guys, Justin, is really working really hard I'm getting that done. Um

2:01:53I spoke to the sponsor, Representative Mariano this week about it. She was gonna go speak to the uh um chair of the committee its reference to to try to get it one more time to get it heard so we get at least heard of one committee in the house. And anything on the dirt roads that Senator Simpson

2:02:09was

2:02:09talking about? So That's an issue. that was discussed in the end, he decided not to move forward with that one. Um however there is a project that uh was discussed. Uh Hernando County put a project in uh to pave County Line Road. Uh and and that was fully funded, it's a fifty million dollar project. Um and that was fully funded in the Senate, not in the House, again to pay that section uh you have been discussing. So hopefully at the end of the day,

2:02:40that project may get in. What

2:02:42about Metapalm Nestries? Because I can't tell in here if they received any funding.

2:02:46If I recall right, I think they did give an they they have a line item.

2:02:50They do have a line uh they do have an issue in there. Um miracle for Pasco Homas campus expansion. They asked for two million dollars. It's fully funded in the Senate, nothing in the House at this point in time. House did not do that many projects uh that impacted Pasco as much as the Senate did.