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State Rep. Dana Trabulsi details budget wins, local appropriations for Fort Pierce
Summary
State Representative Dana Trabulsi briefed the Fort Pierce City Commission on the 2025 legislative session, summarizing the final state budget, program renewals and local appropriations that include funding for Fort Pierce wastewater, seagrass restoration and police infrastructure.
State Representative Dana Trabulsi gave the Fort Pierce City Commission a detailed account of the 2025 Florida legislative session, the state budget and programs that she said will affect Fort Pierce.
Trabulsi said the Legislature completed a 105-day session and approved a budget she characterized as balanced, with roughly $115 billion in appropriations and sizable reserves. She highlighted state priorities that she said were maintained in the final bill: teacher pay increases, law-enforcement bonuses, an expanded K–12 per‑pupil funding allocation, Everglades restoration and transportation projects. Trabulsi told the commission that the budget also continues the My Safe Florida Home grant for hurricane-hardening of single‑family homes and added a pilot My Safe Florida condo program for condominium owners within 15 miles of the coastline.
Trabulsi summarized local appropriations she said she helped secure for St. Lucie County and Fort Pierce: $5 million for removing the wastewater treatment plant from the island, $600,000 for seagrass restoration, $500,000 toward the Thirteenth Street restoration project, and $241,000 for Fort Pierce Police Department investigative infrastructure. She said her total appropriations for the county were about $33 million, with the exception of $1 million she designated to AIDS research at the University of Miami, a personal priority.
The commission and Trabulsi also discussed election‑initiative petition rules enacted this year requiring petition signers to provide a driver license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number and to submit signatures within 10 days, and broader condominium‑safety and reserve funding measures adopted in response to the Surfside collapse. Trabulsi encouraged continued local advocacy on budget and tax matters and invited the commission to continue direct conversations during next year’s session preparation.
“Florida continues to achieve record economic and educational success,” Trabulsi said, listing job growth and state rankings she cited during her presentation.
Trabulsi’s comments were followed by commission acknowledgement and requests for continued coordination between the city, county and state as budget and ad‑valorem matters are discussed in coming months.
