Haley Vetoes Would Effect Garrison Arena, Parks

Gov. Nikki Haley unveiled Thursday 51 line-item vetoes that strike $41.1 million from the Legislature's $7.5 billion spending plan for state taxes. Her plan would cut $1 million earmarked for the T. Ed Garrison Arena and another $5 million from "unspecified" parks, tourism and recreation. The Legislature will return next week to decide whether to overturn the vetoes. Fifteen vetoes have no price tag. Others would cut:

$200,000 for the Colleton County Bookmobile

$300,000 for the Sumter Environmental Center

$50,000 for Greenwood Promise Scholarships

$1 million for the T. Ed Garrison Livestock Arena at Clemson University

$300,000 to the Department of Health and Environmental Control for air quality improvements

$25,000 to the Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation for fire suppression

$150,000 to the Division of Aeronautics for airline recruitment and retention

$2.3 million for unspecified architectural heritage preservation

$500,000 to the Department of Social Services for after-school and summer reading programs

$1.6 million for unspecified "outreach education" through the Department of Natural Resources

$100,000 for unspecified economic development through the Department of Commerce

$6.4 million for unspecified "parks, recreational and tourism revitalizations"

$100,000 for Community Development Corporations

$75,000 to the Human Affairs Commission to create more Community Relations Councils

$200,000 for the planned Osprey Village in Beaufort County for adults with disabilities

$100,000 for engineering to expand Coastal Carolina University's football stadium

$7 million for the State Aviation Fund for airport infrastructure

$1.6 million to the Department of Natural Resources for the Upper Coastal Waterfowl Project

$100,000 for a Richland County indoor swimming center

$150,000 for the networking and professional development group Leadership South Carolina

$500,000 for the South Carolina Artisans Center in Walterboro

$3 million to the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism for sports marketing

$5 million for unspecified parks, recreation and tourism development

$100,000 to develop driving tours of historic African-American sites

$400,000 to IT-ology for a college computing course

$350,000 to the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston

$380,000 to the South Carolina Military Museum in Columbia

$3 million toward a new Medal of Honor Museum in Charleston Harbor

$1 million to the Children's Museum of the Upstate

$10,000 for State Museum collections

$250,000 for the Department of Commerce's Council on Competitiveness

$100,000 for Commerce's small business development centers

$2.5 million for agribusiness development at the Department of Agriculture

$2 million for Commerce's Office of Innovation

$270,000 for the State Aquarium

$50,000 for USS Laffey at Patriot's Point

Source: Gov. Nikki Haley's veto messages on the budget package:

http://governor.sc.gov/Documents/R275,%20H.5001%20-%20General%20Appropriations%20Act.pdf

http://governor.sc.gov/Documents/R276,%20H.5002%20-%20Capital%20Reserve%20Fund.pdf