$250 million for repairs to go to SC colleges and tech schools
S.C. Technical colleges and schools were the largest winners within the first draft of the nearly $500 million funding offer, revealed.
Almost $251 million in restoration projects and university preservation created the slice after legislators whittled down significantly more than $2 million in demands by state agencies, most from schools.
“It was hard, really, to pare down said state Rep. Brian White, R-Anderson, who chairs the Home budget-writing committee. “The needs are great.”
Home budget writers recommended credit $80 million to correct state-owned properties, $30 million to restore aging school coaches and $15-million to modernize the state’s difficult armories.
Budget authors sifted through a “logjam” of demands which have accumulated because the state’s final bond bill in 2001, state Rep. Murrell Smith said.
“This will be the result whenever we don’t handle the money requirements within the state-of Sc,” said the Sumter Republican, who chairs a Home section on health financing.
Some lawmakers winced at tasks that struck the cutting room floor.
S.C. State University, for instance, had asked lawmakers for almost $35.5 million, including $5.7 million to correct or change the homes of about $8.5 million and the dozen structures to modernize A400-bed residence hall.
The Orangeburg college – within the middle of the fiscal transformation – was accepted for only $8 million, many to improve its it.
State Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, N-Orangeburg, said leaky homes just could just more maintenance issues, S.C. Condition wants the residence hall renovation since registration is rebounding, she added. Disappointed that in a statement of the degree, $500 million, that we are able to find for S.C. Condition is $8 million.”
Other companies are also doing without, her GOP counterparts responded. They included they need their state to have back to the practice every couple of years of moving “manageable” bond payments to prevent another logjam.
“We’re attempting to yet again create this in stages,” White said.
WHAT ELSE WILL THE BOND BILL PURCHASE?
Not all the income will S.C. schools. Home budget writers proposed credit:
▪ $80 million for deferred maintenance of state-owned properties
▪ $30 million to restore aging school buses
▪ $25 million for that Business Department’s economic development efforts
▪ Almost $14.2 million to keep Division of Mental Health buildings
▪ $12 million for Division of Liquor and Other Drug Abuse Services behavioral health clinics
▪ $10 million to modernize or repair five welcome centers
▪ $10 million for that State Ports Authority to improve cargo volume in the Wando Welch Terminal
▪ $10 million for preservation and restoration of S.C. Section of Natural Resources marine facilities and hatcheries
▪ $3.8 million for Division of Juvenile Justice maintenance
▪ $3.5 million for S.C. Fire Academy features
▪ $3 million to update the Judicial Department’s court case management system
WHICH SCHOOLS STAND TO BENEFIT?
S.C. Technical colleges and schools are planned to obtain almost $251 million for preservation tasks Internally budget writers’ first draft of the proposed bond bill. A glance at how much cash is headed to each school.
1. Computer schools: $87 million
2. USC-Columbia: $25 million
3. Medical University of Sc: $25 million
11. USC-Beaufort: $8 million
12. USC-Upstate: $8 million
13. USC-Palmetto College: $7.94 million
14. Lander University: $7.5 million
15. USC-Aiken: $3.5 million
SOURCE: Means Committee and S.C. House Ways