Turkey list: Cape Coral EOC expansion among sprinkle list items flagged by Florida TaxWatch

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Turkey list: Cape Coral EOC expansion among sprinkle list items flagged by Florida TaxWatch

Lawmakers budgeted $9 million to expand the Emergency Operations Center in Cape Coral two years after Hurricane Ian struck. But Florida TaxWatch just labeled the member project as a “budget turkey.” The fiscal watchdog took issue primarily with the fact that lawmakers included the massive spend in the Legislature’s “sprinkle list,” discretionary funding that each chamber of the Legislature budgets in supplemental funding. The House ultimately de…