The Marion County Hospital District trustees passed on a multimillion-dollar plan to renovate the College of Central Florida s gym into a nursing school facility.
CF President Jim Henningsen brought the idea to the trustees in June after the prospects of state money for a new health science building at the college dwindled thanks to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic.
State officials expect deep cuts to the budget during the coming legislative session because of drops in tax revenue. But the Legislature had already frozen out the CF building project, appropriating nothing to the planned building for the last two years.