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Excerpt: ”Scott’s “Jobs Budget” would move the Division of Community Planning at the Florida Department of Community Affairs to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. DEP would retain only 10 of the 61 planning positions now at DCA as it focuses less on overseeing growth management decisions by local government, according to the governor’s budget staff.”
“Scott also proposes moving the Division of State Lands from DEP to the Department of Management Services, which manages office buildings and state lands other than conservation lands.
That recommendation suggests that Scott thinks the role of managing Florida’s “vast” public lands for people and wildlife is unimportant, said Eric Draper, executive director of Audubon of Florida.”
“I would say taking it (Division of State Lands) and putting it over with the people who run office buildings its a recipe for neglect,” Draper said.
