Governor Rick Scott is in Jacksonville where he’s expected to sign the state budget. This year’s spending plan is about four-billion dollars more than what the Governor approved last year, and as Lynn Hatter reports, Scott is also expected to hand down some vetoes.
This year Governor Rick Scott will sign the budget at Cunningham Creek Elementary School in St. Johns. The Governor promised to increase education spending by a billion dollars, and lawmakers helped him follow through on that promise.
But public school advocates say the increase doesn’t make up for how much money was cut from education last year.
This marks the governor’s second budget signing ceremony. Last year he signed off on the state spending plan in Central Florida’s retirement community, the Villages.
There, he vetoed about $600 million in state spending items and “budget turkeys”- spending projects put into the budget by lawmakers that didn’t go through the full legislative hearing process.
This year, Florida TaxWatch, a state spending watchdog group, has identified more than $150 million worth of such projects.
