• Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida won’t be able to use CARES Act money to pay for an extension of unemployment benefits under President Donald Trump’s executive order.
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• The Florida Legislature is going to overtime to complete the state budget while wrapping up other business on the last day of its 60-day session.
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• The Orlando Fire Department will see the biggest increase in money from the general fund this year but won’t pay for more firefighter positions.
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• If it passes, the measure would generate 1.8 billion dollars in tax reform that it would reinvest in social programs.
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• Governor Ron DeSantis has released his $91.3 billion budget proposal for the Florida Legislature to consider when its session begins next month. Economic analyst Hank Fishkind says he finds a lot to like in the governor’s proposed 2019 budget…for both what it does include, and what it does not include.
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• Arts funding from the state of Florida has gone down in the past four years. In 2015, the Legislature earmarked $43 million for cultural grants. Just three years later, in 2018, funding slid to $24 million. And that decrease by almost half is alarming – until you look at the 2019 budget. Then you see that slow downward drift plummet off a cliff. The most recent state budget is the highest in Florida’s history. It’s $88.7 billion (with a B). And for the arts and cultural grants program, our lawmakers have set aside: $2.6 million. Not $26 million, which would be a small increase over last year. No, the state has slashed funding by 90 percent. Another way of putting …
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• Commissioners will work through a $3.96 billion budget proposal for Orange County for the 2017-2018 fiscal year.
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