{"id":7546,"date":"2015-06-23T16:10:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/?p=7546"},"modified":"2018-05-09T13:33:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T13:33:54","slug":"legislative-session-report-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/2015\/06\/23\/legislative-session-report-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Session Report 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the\u00a0Florida Legislature provided nearly $30 million in new and restored funding for FIU. Governor Rick Scott signed the 2015-16 budget Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the $21.8 million in FIU projects that were newly funded by the Legislature and approved by the Governor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>$11 million\u00a0<\/strong>net increase in Performance Funding<\/li>\n<li><strong>$2.3 million\u00a0<\/strong>for the Satellite Chiller Plant Expansion at MMC<\/li>\n<li><strong>$3.9 million\u00a0<\/strong>recurring for FIUnique, which includes: $1.5 million for the Center for Children and Families, $1.5 million for the College of Medicine EMBRACE program, $600,000 for the College of Education Panther LIFE program, and $300,000 for the Fostering Panther Pride program.<\/li>\n<li><strong>$600,000\u00a0<\/strong>for the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars of which half is recurring dollars<\/li>\n<li><strong>$300,000<\/strong>in additional funding for the FIU Center for Democracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>$3.7 million\u00a0<\/strong>for Hurricane Research and Mitigation Projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to these new funds, the legislature also restored proposed budget cuts to FIU:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>$2.5 million\u00a0<\/strong>for the College of Medicine\u2019s Neighborhood HELP program<\/li>\n<li><strong>$1 million\u00a0<\/strong>for the College of Law\u2019s Center for Ethics and Professionalism<\/li>\n<li><strong>$500,000\u00a0<\/strong>for The FIU Center for Democracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>$250,000\u00a0<\/strong>for The FIU Center for Leadership<\/li>\n<li><strong>$331,451\u00a0<\/strong>for the College of Medicine Primary Care Residency Program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following FIU items were funded by the Legislature but vetoed by the Governor, among the $500 million in vetoed projects statewide.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>$5 million\u00a0<\/strong>for Strategic Land Acquisition (FIU Expansion)<\/li>\n<li><strong>$3 million\u00a0<\/strong>for the FIU-Royal Caribbean BBC housing mold remediation<\/li>\n<li><strong>$500,000\u00a0<\/strong>for the West End Tech Center, an FIU partnership with Topp Solutions<\/li>\n<li><strong>$200,000\u00a0<\/strong>for the Applied Research Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The FIU expansion project has a lot of momentum based on the overwhelming voter support we received in November. In addition, we have received $10 million toward the relocation project, which was allocated by the Legislature and approved by the Governor last year.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us\u00a0in thanking the State Legislature, especially\u00a0our Miami-Dade delegation, for championing FIU\u2019s priorities and for recognizing that FIU\u2019s success is our community\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0also would like to thank all of you for your support during this legislative session and for being engaged members of the FIU community.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to you, FIU will continue to be Worlds Ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the\u00a0Florida Legislature provided nearly $30 million in new and restored funding for FIU. Governor Rick Scott signed the 2015-16 budget Tuesday morning. Below are the $21.8 million in FIU projects that were newly funded by the Legislature and approved by the Governor: $11 million\u00a0net increase in Performance Funding $2.3 million\u00a0for the Satellite Chiller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-7546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15271,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions\/15271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}