{"id":5792,"date":"2012-03-21T15:53:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=5792"},"modified":"2012-03-21T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:53:26","slug":"board-of-governors-seeking-solutions-for-construction-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/03\/21\/board-of-governors-seeking-solutions-for-construction-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Of Governors Seeking Solutions For Construction Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4881\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 193px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"State universities have seen construction funding nearly disappear.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/money.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4881\" title=\"money\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/money.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">borman818 \/ flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">State universities have seen construction funding nearly disappear.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida universities say declining money for construction and maintenance is possibly the <a href=\"http:\/\/m.jacksonville.com\/news\/metro\/2011-09-23\/story\/colleges-florida-worry-bricks-and-mortar\">biggest budgetary challenge <\/a>the schools are facing.<\/p>\n<p>As Florida homes have become <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/04\/saving-energy-also-means-less-money-for-florida-schools\/\">more energy-efficient<\/a>, the state is collecting less in taxes for the Public Education Capital Outlay fund that funds building projects.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Board of Governors will put together a a task force to study the issue, according to the <em>Tampa Bay Times<\/em>. Here&#8217;s the scope of the problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Legislators did manage to find some PECO money for universities by the end of the session &#8212; $30 million all told, and about $7 million for maintenance, but the board says it needs between $200 million and $400 million each year to maintain and modernize university buildings across the state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida universities say declining money for construction and maintenance is possibly the biggest budgetary challenge the schools are facing. As Florida homes have become more energy-efficient, the state is collecting less in taxes for the Public Education Capital Outlay fund that funds building projects. The Florida Board of Governors will put together a a task [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1131,1089,1132,1130],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5799,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions\/5799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}