ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed the state’s largest budget in history.

The total is $101.5 billion.

But what does this mean for Tampa Bay?

For starters, DeSantis cut $9 million from Bay area projects.

The biggest cut locally was $1.5 million that would have went to the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transit Authority

Other notable cuts include $500,000 to Hillsborough County Public Schools’ summer bridge program, $400,000 to Feeding Tampa Bay’s FRESHforce program, and $350,000 to both the Lois Avenue complete streets project and safety improvements for crosswalks near Tampa schools.

In Pinellas County, cuts included St. Pete College improvements and projects for All Children’s Hospital, as well as parks and an urban youth farm.

The state budget includes $22.8 billion for K-12 schools. In that, is $120 million for mental health programs, and a salary increase for teachers.

Projects involving the environment and water resources got more than $625 million while projects for transportation and infrastructure topped $10 billion.

Other items include raising the minimum wage for state workers to $13 an hour and the $1,000 bonus promised by DeSantis for teachers and first responders. This includes police and firefighters.

And the budget dedicated $100 million to go toward the Piney Point cleanup.

“We understood that when Covid hit and those in white collar jobs could work from home remote,” Gov. DeSantis said Wednesday during the budget signing. “And God bless if you did, people in uniform have to show up every day.

“They can’t keep the street safe on zoom you can’t put out a fire on zoom.”

So a lot of the additional money this year is coming from the federal government and those federal bailout plans.