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Committee approves use of remaining Hall Street purchase funds and transfers $221,632 to cell-block renovation
Summary
The Capital Budget and Capital Project Overview Committee voted to allow the Department of Administrative Services to use a $713,677 remaining balance to address deficiencies at a Hall Street building and to transfer $221,632 from completed projects to a Hillsborough County South cell-block renovation.
The Capital Budget and Capital Project Overview Committee voted to allow the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) to use a $713,677 remaining balance from last year’s purchase appropriation to address deficiencies at a building on Hall Street and separately approved transferring $221,632 from completed capital projects to a Hillsborough County South cell-block renovation.
Karen Rantomaki, director of plant and property for the Department of Administrative Services, told the committee the state used $36,333 of the original appropriation to do an engineering study after buying the Hall Street building and negotiated the purchase price to $6,250,000 based on that study. Rantomaki said the department requested use of the remaining $713,677 to…
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