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Vocational Rehabilitation requests $373,750 in state funds for campus repairs; seeks timeline to rebuild Upstate center
Summary
Commissioner Felicia Johnson told the Senate subcommittee VR seeks $373,750 in state funds (to be paired with federal funds) for two parking lot repavings and heat pump replacements at the West Columbia campus, and asked for a timeline to seek federal prior approval and rebuild the Upstate Holmesview treatment center destroyed by fire in 2016.
FELICIA JOHNSON, Commissioner of the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department, told the Senate Finance Committee Health and Human Services Subcommittee on March 19 that the agency is requesting $373,750 in state funds for three capital projects and will use federal funds for the balance.
Johnson described three projects on the West Columbia campus: two parking lot repaving projects (each estimated at $600,000 total, proposed to be split roughly 75% federal and 25% state with $150,000 state per lot) and replacement of 23 outdated heat pumps at a dorm building (project cost split of $73,750 state and…
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