The Red Wedding of Tampa Bay

Ron DeSantis vetoed millions in Tampa Bay area programs. Here’s what got cut. It's been referred to as the "Red Wedding" of budget cuts.
Hillsborough County

$1.5 million for Tampa Bay Area Regional Transit Authority Operations
$1 million for the Straz Center for the Performing Arts

$1 million for the Italian Club of Tampa

$500,000 for the renovation of the Jackson House in Tampa

$200,000 for the Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative

$1 million for a new boardwalk and path near the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital

$300,000 to make Lois Avenue in Tampa safer for pedestrians and cyclists

$500,000 to expand the Florida Aquarium’s threatened coral archive and

 reproduction program

$500,000 for ZooTampa

$958,000 (Cut) for a new irrigation sprinkler system at the (Private) Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club

$250,000 that would have shored up the wastewater system in some of

Tampa’s older homes

$250,000 to improve the draining system in Tampa’s Anita subdivision

$500,000 for a master water plan for Plant City’s McIntosh Park

$250,000 for a new vehicle for Tampa Police Department’s bomb squad

$546,250 for a new vehicle for the the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office explosive ordinance disposal team

$950,000 for Hillsborough Community College’s a day on service initiative

$50,000 for the Tampa Museum of Art’s community outreach program

$255,000 for a job training program through Feeding Tampa Bay

$500,000 to enhance a county’s STEM education program HERE