The seawall on Hutchinson Island will move ahead but not requested projects at Armstrong State University and Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in the governor’s budget proposal released Thursday.
And the prolonged shortage in education funding gets smaller but doesn’t disappear in a spending blueprint Gov. Nathan Deal is recommending to the General Assembly.
His proposed budget addition for the current fiscal year includes $3.5 million for the seawall near the site of the state-owned Savannah International Trade & Convention Center.
Deal vetoed the project last year when lawmakers added it to the budget they passed. At the time, he said the state couldn’t spend money on land it didn’t own.
His proposal for this year also includes $1 million to design a new crime lab in Savannah and $2 million to equip a science classroom building just constructed at Savannah State University.
