TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott signed a record-sized $74.1 billion budget Monday, but not before trimming off hundreds of millions of dollars in local projects and proposed tuition increases.

Scott vetoed nearly $368 million in spending from the budget legislators presented him two weeks ago, using his line-item authority to strike $50 million for a coast-to-coast bike trail, $46 million in college and university tuition hikes and more than 150 other projects.

Scott’s extensive veto list is more than twice as large as his list last year, and his largest since his first year in office when he slashed $615 million.

Even with the vetoes, the 2013-14 budget is still the largest on record, and includes $480 million for teacher pay raises, $8.5 billion for transportation projects, $151.8 million for Everglades restoration, $278 million for ports and $45.5 million for business incentives.

“This is our first year that we have a budget surplus in six years,” Scott said Monday during a press conference at the state’s Division of Emergency Management office. “That’s why I put so much effort this year into the budget, to make sure we had tax cuts.”

Scott said crafting the budget, and deciding what to veto, largely hinged on two things: jobs and education. He stood by his decision to veto a host of local projects, saying they did not meet his formula for effective state spending.

“My filter was this: One, is it going to help our families get more jobs?” he said. “Two, will it help improve our education system in our state? And three, will it help make government more efficient.”

The budget goes into effect July 1.

Scott struck down funding for a wide range of projects — from $400,000 to improve the drinking water in Cross City, to $300,000 for the Clay County Courthouse, to $200,000 for a Lake Wales dental clinic. Some projects backed by top Republicans, including leaders in the House and Senate, also got the axe.

“While we did not agree on every line item, he signed 95 percent of our budget, which is a resounding endorsement of the House and Senate work product,” said House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel. Weatherford had championed a 3 percent increase in college tuition, but Scott used his veto pen to strike it out of the budget.

Monday marked the first time Scott took a low-key approach to unveiling his budget message. In previous years, Scott delivered budget remarks during public appearances: a rally for supporters in The Villages in 2011, and at a high performing St. Johns County school in 2012.

This year he answered the media’s questions in Tallahassee with only members of his staff in attendance. Scott also released a detailed 58-page document that outlined the reasoning behind every veto.

Scott removed many projects from the budget that he determined did not fulfill a core role of government, didn’t have statewide impact, provided public support for private entities or weren’t properly vetted during the budget process.

He vetoed more than $25 million in local water projects, millions in spending for education programs and school construction, museums, reentry programs and other social services.

Many lawmakers hoping to include so-called “turkeys” in the budget during the first year of a surplus in years were disappointed as their hometown projects were axed by Scott.