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Appropriations committee recommends confirmation of five water‑management appointees
Summary
The Senate Appropriations Committee recommended confirmation of six appointees to regional water‑management and basin boards on a single roll‑call vote; Senator McLean moved the recommendation and the committee recorded affirmative votes from multiple members.
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government voted to recommend confirmation of several gubernatorial appointees to regional water‑management and basin boards. Senator McLean moved to recommend confirmation of the nominees on tabs 1 through 5, covering trustees and governing‑board candidates for multiple water management districts.
Committee members answered roll‑call questions on the motion and several members recorded affirmative votes; the chair announced the confirmations were recommended favorably. The nominees named during the meeting included Ted Everett and Jerome Pate (Northwest Florida Water Management District), Michael Romano (Big Cypress Basin/ South Florida Water Management District), Paul Bismem and John Hall (governing board of Southwest Florida Water Management District), and Virginia Johns (SWFWMD).
The motion to recommend the confirmations passed without recorded dissent in the committee and no separate votes were requested on individual appointees. The committee proceeded to the budget presentations that followed.
