Submitted by Susan Hardee Steger
Governor Rick Scott vetoed a $500,000 request to fund construction of a 10 million Nassau County Sheriff’s facility despite approval from the state legislature.
“The following [$500,000 request] is vetoed because funding for planning and construction of county buildings is the responsibility of local government,” according to Scott’s announcement. (Click here for message from governor.)
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May 20, 2013 2: 10 p.m.
Didn’t Scott realize the local government is contributing???
Governor Scott has also let down Nassau County with the cuts to the Health Department and the closing of the Outward Bound program center.
According to Dr. Seidel at the Nassau County Health Department, Nassau County was not impacted by Governor Scott’s veto. A request for funding of a new county health department facility was not in the budget.
I apologize, it was the Florida State Legislature who were responsible for the $200,000 in cuts to the Nassau County health department in 2011, not Gov. Scott.