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But The Other Thing That We Fought
for was the recognition that when the coronavirus pandemic hit you you had some people and I don’t begrudge them from doing this, But you had some people working in for different companies. Whatever they would just work on zoom from their from their bedroom or from their living room. a lot of them were were not even out and about doing stuff well the people that wear the uniform they didn’t have that luxury okay They were out there every single day our our police our fire our emts and they had to work more than they ever have not just to deal with protecting us on the pandemic kit. But then obviously how police were treated. Last year in many parts of the country was a total disgrace and and they had to put the uniform on yes they knew.
That The State Of Florida Had
their back and I think we did much better in Florida, but if you look at what a lot of these police officers are dealing with now, It’s terrible, so I thought it was important to recognize the service to recognize the sacrifice and I asked the legislature. In this legislative session. We need to do bonuses for law enforcement. Some wanted to fund some want to defund the police. We’re funding the police and then some and that’s what we’re here today to say and so thanks to the the great work of our legislators who are here with us as well as the speaker of the House Chris Sprouls the Senate President Wilton Simpson.
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We Asked And They Delivered And
so the legislature has passed and I will when I sign the budget, which will hopefully be relatively soon, We’ll sign into. Law one thousand dollar bonuses for every sworn law enforcement officer, every Emt, every firefighter and every paramedic in the state of Florida. NK] it’s really great to be here to celebrate some of these victories, particularly as we head into national police week next week, but it’s also the victories were way broader than just simply this bonus or or any rioting if you look at at the budget. If you look at our economy.
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You Go Back To The End
of April beginning of May last year and you look at every prediction all the doomsday scenarios and you know we knew it was going to be difficult. But we also knew that Florida had what it took to bounce back and the result has been if you look now we’ve we never took one penny out of our rainy day fund throughout all of Covet not one. One and now today now today our rainy we’ve doubled our rainy day fund from when I became governor. If you look at the amount of revenue that’s pouring into the state.
Because Of All The Economic Activity The
forecasters can’t keep up with it. They actually just did a revised forecast second week of April, saying you know what this revenue’s coming in the economy is doing good so they did all these big upward revisions and then even with that in April which they had just did like three weeks ago we’re 750 million dollars pouring in above that because things are going so well so so there’s going to be a billion there’s going to be there’s going to be a billion dollars a billion, five maybe even two billion over the next three months that none of us even included in the budget at all and. So we’re probably going to end up with total reserves close to 10 billion dollars, which I think has got to be a record for the state and so you had the ability.
Summary
Florida passed a bill to give law enforcement bonuses for every sworn law enforcement officer, every Emt, every firefighter and every paramedic in the state of Florida . The bill includes a $1,000 bonus for each sworn officer and a $2,000 for each firefighter and a paramedic . The budget was passed and I will when I sign the budget, which will hopefully be relatively soon, We’ll sign into.&NK] it’s really great to be here to celebrate some of these victories, particularly as we head into national police week next week, but it’s also the victories were way broader than just simply this bonus or or any rioting if you look at at the budget . Some people would just work on zoom from their from their bedroom or from their living room.& a lot of them were not even out and about doing stuff well the people that wear the uniform they didn’t have that luxury okay. They were out there every single day, but they didn’t…. Click here to read more and watch the full video