HB 2539 - Lively Technical Center - Instructional Aircraft - $250,000 The pumps will be operated by an independent set of float controls
To install emergency bypass pumps at four locations throughout Chattahoochee. HB 2537 - Chattahoochee Emergency Serv-Lift Stations - $340,000 Tallahassee Engaged in Meaningful Productivity for Opportunity program provides workforce training scholarships to disconnected youths. HB 2451 - TEMPO Workforce Training Disconnected Youth - $650,000 HB 2449 - Florida Youth Leadership, Mentoring Pilot - $425,000Ī program designed to provide educational and life skills instruction and mentoring support for youth. will be able to serve as an emergency shelter location for citizens with special needs. The money would purchase a backup generator so the Florida Department of Health facility on West Orange Ave. HB 2271 - Backup Generator - Secondary Special Needs Shelter - $300,000 The project would remodel 69,617 square feet of classroom into technology labs suitable for business enterprise instruction for 676 student stations. To provide pediatric behavioral counseling for up to 200 traumatized children in Leon, Gadsden and Jefferson counties. HB 2195 - Living Stones' COVE Learning Academy - $305,000
The money would be spent on support services to reintegrate into society up to 100 county residents after their release from state prison. HB 2093 - Leon County - Offender Reentry Assistance - $300,000 The project to connect Harbinwood Estates to the City of Tallahassee central sewer system would reduce the nitrogen load to Wakulla Springs by 8,000 pounds per year, according to Alexander. HB 2079 - Leon County Harbinwood Estates Septic to Sewer - $2,500,000
Florida’s first privately-funded toll road. The project will create recreational trails adjoining the Orchard Pond Parkway in Northeast Leon County. HB 2077 - Leon County Orchard Pond Greenway - $300,000 The dredging project would remove sediment and litter to improve water flow to Wakulla Springs. HB 2075 - Leon County Lake Henrietta Renovation - $1,500,000 The money would provide grants to the network of more than 30 museums. HB 2049 - Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network - $475,000 With that in mind, here’s the list of special project requests filed by Tallahassee representatives Ramon Alexander and Loranne Ausley. “The governor has been committed to water projects and infrastructure, so if there is additional funding for hurricane-impacted counties some additional revenue flows to some of these projects,” said Sharkey. “The backup generators we’re going to push hard for and for any septic-to-sewer projects we can get,” said Jeff Sharkey, of the Capitol Alliance Group, which lobbies for Leon County. After Michael and three consecutive years of major hurricanes hitting the state, the county expects requests for storm readiness and recovery money to be well received by the Legislature. One of the programs is the licensing of septic tank contractors.And there is another $2 million in storm-related requests that don't involve water-related infrastructure. Environmental Health professionals in the onsite sewage program develop guidelines and provide training and standardization for County Health Department employees. This program area helps ensure the safety of the installation and repair of all onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems within the state. In addition, it sets standards for the operation of public swimming pools and monitors water quality at selected beaches and public bathing places. The Water Programs area also manages Department responsibilities under the State Underground Petroleum Environmental Response Act (SUPER Act), Drycleaner Solvent Surveillance Program, and the Drinking Water Toxics Program. This program area ensures the safety of drinking water for approximately 50% of Florida's residents. The section also sets standards for and certifies environmental health professionals. This section coordinates programs on a statewide basis include helping ensure the safety of selected food service facilities migrant labor camps group care facilities biomedical waste generators, storage facilities, and transporters tanning facilities and mobile home and recreational vehicle parks.