Florida Senate renovations on schedule

Florida lobbyist Senate (Large)

The Florida Senate’s renovations are on track, spokeswoman Katie Betta told FloridaPolitics.com Wednesday.

“Construction is right on schedule,” she said. “We expect the dome to be completed by early next week.”

Workers dismantled the chamber’s ceiling and put up scaffolding to install a new dome, modeled after one in the Old Capitol.

Outgoing Senate President Andy Gardiner pulled the trigger on the upgrade, recognizing that the chamber “has received only minimal updates since its original construction in the 1970s,” he said in a memo.

The renovation project will cost nearly $5 million.

The final product in the Senate will be similar to an artists’ rendering released earlier this year, Betta says.

It shows the proposed new ceiling dome and other design elements that echo the Old Capitol’s exterior, such as a pediment on top of columns over the president’s rostrum and the words, “In God We Trust.”

Construction is still planned to be wrapped up before the 2016 Organization Session this fall.

(Photos courtesy Florida Senate)

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Jim Rosica

Jim Rosica is the Tallahassee-based Senior Editor for Florida Politics. He previously was the Tampa Tribune’s statehouse reporter. Before that, he covered three legislative sessions in Florida for The Associated Press. Jim graduated from law school in 2009 after spending nearly a decade covering courts for the Tallahassee Democrat, including reporting on the 2000 presidential recount. He can be reached at [email protected].



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