TALLAHASSEE — Florida legislators late Monday night completed work on a new state budget, securing $29 million for two major construction projects at the University of South Florida and rejecting a third.
In an avalanche of spending deals ratified shortly before midnight, lawmakers agreed to give $17 million to USF to move the Morsani College of Medicine to a new downtown Tampa location and to contribute $12.3 million to USF St. Petersburg’s College of Business.
“It’s great news,” Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn said Tuesday morning.
A third USF request for a little less than $16 million for a Heart Health Institute will receive no money in the new budget.