Legislative grant program update local support grants
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But I will talk to him and well maybe I'll I'll I'll bring it up next time. Um Ralph, do you wanna come up? Um Ralph is gonna come up and give us a um update on the legislative grant uh program. We talked I think we all probably I'm pretty sure you guys all probably talked to him yourselves. Um but he has an update on the budget request for the summer summer legislative grant program that some people applied for.
Uh good morning Ralph Lair, Intergovernmental Affairs Officer. So as a reminder, during the legislative session this past year, um the Speaker put in a pot of money for local support grants for $175 million. Uh this will be money that Um the Joint Legislative Auditing Commission, which is made up of both House and Senate members, uh, will consider. Uh and these projects do not have to go to the governor, so he he doesn't
have veto over this particular pot of money. So on Friday, the Joint Legislative Budget Commission notice a meeting for this coming Friday, September 9th. Um and one of the items on there is to consider local support grants for fiscal year 22, 23, among their other businesses. 238 projects made the cut out of 971 projects requested. Uh and the total is $175
million. So we submitted two projects. Um the Anclove Park project for additional boat ramps for one point eight million dollars and the Strickland Park 1.85 million dollars. Out of those two, we are getting one partially funded for Strickland Park, for the seawall and additional uh beach sand for one milyen dollars. In addition, Pasco County other projects, AMSkills is
looking to receive $350,000. The Pasco Sheriff's Office Cybersecurity Center, $1.5 million. The Pasco Sheriff's Office Firearm Range Expansion for $1.1 million. Uh the Academy at the farm, big winner, thirteen point one million dollars.
Is that for the aquatic center?
For the one
that was
at the academy? I think that's what I was saying.
For
water and sewer?
No,
pool. Swimming.
No, not a pool. This is for their high school.
A high school? Yeah. Yeah they're gonna build a high school. They have they're in modulars out there right now.
And then for the school board, uh Epic at Angeline, which is the uh school connected to the Moffitt, uh, will receive $1 million. And last but not least, Sarah Vandenberg Tennis Center, $2.75 million. So Pasco did quite well out of that $175 million pie. Uh again, not official until Friday. It it's on their like consent agenda. Um so
What is
what
did that total?
For a total amount. Um I didn't add it up so one
About twenty million? Dang. That's pretty out of a hundred and seventy five?
Huge. Okay. Hey, um, while he's up there and we have time, uh or I could call you back up during mine. Whatever you want to do. Um so when would you like us to start thinking about what our ask would be for this year?
So
and
So because it's an election year, um as required in the state constitution, session will begin in March. Um We don't anticipate the delegation having their meeting until January. Uh so I want those projects ready to go by the end of the year. uh so we can start having meetings with with our delegation. uh as they as they decide. So I would say if you have something in mind and you need to meet with staff uh to to talk about
projects that you would like to see funding for start doing it now or or in the next couple of months so we can bring that in for a landing and and I can uh try to get sponsors within Pasco Legislative Delegation to to submit those. And as a reminder, our delegation structure uh our delegation is changing. We're gonna get um We still have three house members. Um we will be getting two new House members, one on the west side and
one in the central portion of our county. Um
three because we have Holcombe. Holcomb too. Yeah.
What was that?
Steele.
Oh that's right. We do have four so we did increase one. Take that back. So our delegation is growing, so we have one from Hernando County that will dip in just into Pasco County. Uh and then we have Um three commissioners. Or three senators.
When um when will they get their assignments?
Oh, they won't get that until end of December, maybe beginning of January, they'll start getting uh information.
The same goes for leadership assignments?
Correct.
I I think that Hooper's getting Ted appropriations chair
so It it's a perfect fit for Okay, so we have time. So you have time, but you know, uh again, start thinking about those. Let's get 'em in a posture. Um
I'm not gonna say don't put in big high ticket items, but I think the days of Pasco County receiving high high numbers is uh might not be in this upcoming session, but you never know.
Well, maybe our chances of being vetoed have gone down too. Yeah. Um so I think the state got some infrastructure money that has to be spent by
Um that's a little bit independent of the regular budget money, if I'm not mistaken.
From the feds?
Yeah. And um
So normally when they receive funding from the Fed, sometimes it uh it's discretionary and I'm not aware which pot of money this is. Um It's given to the dip the department and the governor to to s uh disperse that funding or it's get put into a particular grant program. And again, right offhand I cannot think of any recent money coming down from Washington except for um environmental dollars going into FDEP for their grant programs.
I gotta go back and check and I'll go back in and look.
I I thought in the infrastructure bill they got some money that could only be used on On roads and bridges.
Oh yeah. Yeah, so and that's part of the RAISE grant.
And we um we I thought that's where some of that money was com we the Ridge Road Ask was gonna be coming from that pot that has a time certain to be spent. No?
I'm not familiar with that. No.
No, and we're pursuing a different avenue for the Ridge Road extension, so we'll we'll have that worked out. If I could just add one thing to what Ralph said, I would I would encourage you to, if you have projects in mind, talk with the assistant county administrators over those you know uh over those areas and then work with the directors, because again, we'll want to make sure there's probably some back-end work that needs to be done in order to properly cost and and model the projects or you know, and a lot of projects we already have on the books. So please have those discussions with those individuals first.
Start working online. Okay, well that was my legislative question. Okay.
Thank you. Thanks for helping.