The Senate budget cuts $72 million of projects to be paid for in cash.
The House had set aside $126.9 million in the general fund for renovations at the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum, a new barn at the N.C. Zoo, courthouse improvements and new buildings at state universities.
The Senate budget cuts that list to just $54.8 million for renovations at the Deerfield Cottage, an emergency responders' phone system, some water resources development projects and fire sprinklers in college dorms.
That's not to say the projects won't be funded. Several of the college improvements are included under state bonds, but not the zoo or the museum projects, for example.
See section 29.2 of the House budget and sections 29.2 and 29.13 of the Senate budget.
