House budget writers today chopped out money for a proposed drag racing museum, a culinary school in Charlotte and other projects that some critics have labeled pork.
The roughly $20 million in cuts were redirected to other programs. The home furnishings industry would receive an additional $875,000 in marketing money, the One North Carolina Fund of economic incentive grants would gain another $1 million, and an education building at UNC-Asheville would receive an additional $8.5 million, Dan Kane reports.
Viticulture promotion and an incubator for national defense and homeland security related businesses would each receive $1 million.
The cuts were adopted by the House Appropriations Committee as it began combing through the 227-page proposed budget.
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Here's a list of the other cuts:
* $1 million from the drag racing museum which is being proposed for Vance County.
* $875,000 from the Natural Science Center in Greensboro, leaving it with $125,000 in the House budget proposal.
* $2 million from an aid package that helped lure Johnson & Wales University to Charlotte. The cooking and hospitality university would still receive $1 million.
* $3.9 million in renovation money for the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum in Guilford County, which originally was to receive $7.8 million.
In addition, two renovation projects and a land purchase totaling $12 million for Winston-Salem State University were chopped out of the budget. Those projects were not recommended by the UNC Board of Governors.
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