Investment Requests

Taxpayer dollars must be used wisely and responsibly to create jobs and invest in the future. The following projects have been submitted to the House Committee on Appropriations to boost the economy in central Ohio. They have been requested through funds sets aside each year for local projects in the budget process. Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy’s priorities for selected federally funded projects include economic development, health care, education and new energy technologies that make our nation stronger, healthier and safer.

The 111th Congress has made transparency paramount to the process. Each projected lists the grantee, the grantee’s contact information and why the project is a good use of our tax dollars.

For further information about these requests, please use the contact link.

Project: 5th Ave Dam Removal
Requestor: Army Corps of Engineers Huntington District
502 Eighth Street
Huntington, WV 25701
Amount Requested: $1,310,000
Description: The DPR has evaluated restoration alternatives for improving the aquatic ecosystem including removing or modifying the 5th Avenue low head dam and including restoration work for the stream such as the addition of natural stream features such as riffle and pool sequences. The report addressed the change in the associated floodplain to determine associated impacts with the change in the channel hydraulics.

Project:  Action for Children
Requestor:  Action for Children
78 Jefferson Avenue
Columbus, OH 43215
Amount Requested:  $150,000
Description:  Action for Children proposes to move the training classroom from the second floor down to the first floor level, accommodating physical limitations by our visitors and classroom participants (the first floor is ADA compliant). This will involve reconfiguring a large portion of the first- floor office space (currently cubicle area for staff) into a large flexible training space; similarly, the training space on the second floor would be converted into office space.

Project:  Additive Manufacturing Consortium
Requestor:  EWI (Edison Welding Institute)
1250 Arthur E. Adams Drive
Columbus, OH 43221
Amount Requested:  $3,000,000
Description:  The project will establish a U.S. center of excellence which engages a national technology network to provide unbiased advice, development, performance-testing, and qualification of additive processes.

Project:  Alternative Energy Fuel Cell Power Generation
Requestor: Battelle
505 King Avenue
Columbus, OH 43201
Amount:  $3,500,000
Description:  This project will design, develop, demonstrate, and make ready for manufacturing a clean, fuel-efficient, quiet, and reliable electric power generator capable of replacing the diesel generators currently used by the Air Force for Basic Expeditionary Airfield Resources deployment and other portable power requirements.

Project:  American Red Cross Ohio Bloodmobile Acquisition
Requestor:  American Red Cross
2025 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Amount:  $500,000
Description:  Funding would allow the Ohio-based blood regions of the American Red Cross to purchase bloodmobiles (estimated cost $250,000 per unit) to be placed throughout Ohio) to replace an aging fleet of bloodmobiles.

Project:  BC&I Forensic Chemistry - Expansion of a Paperless System and Addition of Essential
Equipment
Requestor:  Ohio Attorney General
30 East Broad Street
17th Floor
Columbus, OH 43125
Amount:  $300,000
Description:  The Chemistry Section of the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation's (BCI&I) Laboratory Division examines physical evidence that can link a suspect or material to a crime scene through chemical analysis. The purchase of additional instrumentation will enhance the throughput and aid in the reduction of the current backlog of cases.

Project:  BCI&I Computer Crimes Unit - Technology Expansion to Combat Serious Crimes
Requestor:  Ohio Attorney General
30 East Broad Street
17th Floor
Columbus, OH 43125
Amount:  $460,000
Description:  The Computer Crimes Unit of BCI&I needs digital evidence servers, consulting, and training.  The BCI&I Computer Crimes Unit (CCU) serves the Ohio law enforcement community by processing digital evidence and providing special agent support for complex investigations.  Approximately 70% of the work conducted by CCU involves crimes against children.

Project:  Bio-Manufacturing Transition Assistance Pilot Program
Requestor:  BioOhio
1275 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212
Amount:  $750,000
Description:  BioOhio proposes a pilot providing qualified manufacturers $10,000 matching grants to create comprehensive business plans for transitioning to the medical device industry.

Project:  The Buckeye Ranch Visitation and Exchange Program
Requestor:  The Buckeye Ranch, Inc.
5665 Hoover Road
Grove City, OH 43123
Amount:  $605,000
Description:  The project would enable The Buckeye Ranch to expand its services for families involved with domestic violence.

Project:  Cancer Survivorship Navigator Model/Center
Requestor:  The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Richard
Solove Institute
300 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Amount:  $4,994,634
Description:  The project will develop and implement a cancer survivorship navigator model to improve communication with survivors and families and follow-through on post-treatment plans and compliance with risk reduction and early detection recommendations.

Project:  Center of Excellence in Layered Sensing
Requestor:  The Ohio State University
College of Engineering
161 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Amount:  $9,000,000
Description:  The project will train thought leaders in surveillance systems and accelerate laboratory-to-commercialization of ideas.

Project:  Central Ohio Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS) Columbus, OH
Requestor:  Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
111 Liberty Street
Suite 100
Columbus, OH 43215
Amount:  $3,000,000
Description:  This project will develop a regional, web-based Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS) to provide comprehensive real-time traffic, emergency, construction, and weather information for logistics and other businesses, commuters, tourists and visitors, and other travelers across various modes of transportation. The system will utilize and consolidate over 15 existing travel information sources to provide a single access point of travel information.

Project:  Columbus Bicentennial Bikeways - West Side Improvement, Columbus, OH
Requestor:  City of Columbus
90 West Broad Street
2nd Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
Amount:  $3,001,000
Description:  The project will construct dedicated bikeway facilities on the west side of Columbus.

Project:  Columbus Joint Emergency Operations and Preparedness Center
Requestor:  City of Columbus
90 West Broad Street
2nd Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
Amount:  $1,000,000
Description:  The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is a collaborative effort among the City of Columbus, Franklin County, and other smaller municipal governments in Franklin County. This center will co-locate emergency preparedness operations into one location including police, fire, communications, health, and related activities to more efficiently serve the central Ohio
community in the event of a major incident.

Project:  Columbus Region Work Experience Mentoring Initiative
Requestor:  Columbus Chamber of Commerce
150 S. Front St. Suite 200
Suite 200
Columbus, OH 43215
Amount:  $663,900
Description:  The Chamber seeks funding to establish a Work Experience Mentoring Program to educate and immerse current college students (and recent graduates) in a range of advanced and career opportunities present in the central Ohio area, and to link them with local employers.

Project:  Community Based Treatment Centers for Juvenile Re-Entry
Requestor:  Starr Commonwealth Ohio
301 Obetz Road
Columbus, OH 43207
Amount:  $1,000,000
Description:  Starr will collaborate with the University of Cincinnati and Ohio Department of Youth Services to expand residential re-entry and transitional services for at-risk youth in Ohio. At-risk youth will participate in structured community based treatment programs including group treatment, individual sessions, case management, and family intervention under the supervision of highly trained clinical and youth specialists.

Project:  Completion of Ohio 2-1-1
Requestor:  Ohio United Way
88 East Broad Street
Suite 620
Columbus, OH 43215
Amount:  $600,000
Description:  This project will complete the expansion of Ohio's 2-1-1 services into all 88 counties, with most of the funds directed toward Northwest Ohio and the Appalachian region of Ohio.

Project:  COTA Electronic Fare Payment System, Columbus, OH
Requestor:  Central Ohio Transit Authority
1600 McKinley Avenue
Columbus, OH 43222
Amount:  $3,520,000
Description:  The Electronic Rare Payment System project will equip COTA vehicles with state-of-the-art fareboxes and related computer systems and software to support fare collection on COTA revenue service vehicles.

Project:  COTA Street & Remote Facility, Columbus, OH
Requestor:  Central Ohio Transit Authority
1600 McKinley Avenue
Columbus, OH 43222
Amount:  $2,160,000
Description:  This project would support the completion of a facility that provides the necessary infrastructural support for inventory storage, non-revenue vehicle parking/storage and general administration offices and other related amenities.

Project:  Cross Street Caps, Columbus, OH
Requestor:  City of Columbus
90 West Broad Street
2nd Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
Amount:  $5,000,000
Description:  This project involves the construction of enhancement features such as cross street caps, gateway treatments, wider pedestrian ways, and bicycle and mass transit accommodations in conjunction with the FRA 70/71 Split reconstruction project.

Project:  Early Literacy Intervention
Requestor:  Reading Recovery Council of North America
500 W. Wilson Bridge Road
Suite 250
Worthington, OH 43085
Amount:  $1,000,000
Description:  The goals of this project are to further develop, implement and expand Reading Recovery and to deepen the understanding of teachers and administrators about effective approaches to improving the literacy learning of K-3 elementary students.

Project:  Electronic Health Records and Tele-Health Integration - Amethyst, Inc.
Requestor:  Amethyst, Inc.
455 East Mound Street
Columbus, OH 43215
Amount:  $344,920
Description:  An electronics health record (EHR) system would allow Amethyst to provide services to clients in a more effective and efficient manner, as well as improve internal data management and external reporting. Additionally, Amethyst seeks to implement a tele-health system that will allow clients contact with staff via secure video-chat during moments of crisis.

Project:  Expansion and Update of the Department of Radiation Oncology at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute
Requestor:  The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
300 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Amount:  $2,000,000
Description:  The build out plan for The James Department of Radiation Oncology includes two additional vaults to accommodate two linear accelerators which would give the ability to treat more patients on a daily basis. This request would also help offset the costs to purchase a PET/CT simulator to enhance OSUCCC-James' ability to target the treatment plan on the exact location of disease site, as well as, the purchase of a Varian Trilogy Linear Accelerator with Rapid Arc to assist in increasing the ability to treat with the most advanced equipment available today.

Project:  Growing Healthy Kids into Healthy Teens
Requestor:  Children's Hunger Alliance
370 S. Fifth Street
Columbus, OH 43215
Amount:  $785,000
Description:  Growing Healthy Kids into Healthy Teens will improve the nutrition, health, and academic performance of low-income children in Ohio by expanding participation in school breakfast and summer meal programs and youth-led initiatives promoting healthy living.

Project:  Healthy Athletes
Requestor:  Special Olympics International
1133 19th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Amount:  $8,500,000
Description:  This program provides free health screenings, education, preventive service, and referrals to athletes.

Project:  I-270/US 33 Interchange Upgrade, Phase 1, City of Dublin, OH
Requestor:  City of Dublin
5200 Emerald Parkway
Dublin, OH 43017
Amount:  $2,000,000
Description:  This funding request asks for consideration to complete Steps 5 and 6 and portions of Step 7 of the ODOT Project Development: develop the feasible and conceptual alternatives reports; perform necessary traffic analyses and complete environmental documentation and
Reports; engage the public; select the preferred interchange footprint; and develop the scope of services for detailed design.

Project:  Integrated Chemical and Biological Detection System Technology Demonstration
Requestor:  Battelle Memorial Institute
505 King Avenue
Columbus, OH 43201
Amount:  $3,000,000
Description:  Emerging technology maturation and demonstration will be accomplished by completing the integration of a system that can perform airborne chemical and biological detect-to-protect functions. The project will conduct detailed technology demonstrations on the fully integrated mixed chemical and biological detection system in preparation to replace currently deployed detection technologies that are antiquated and expensive to maintain.

Project:  Jobs for Ohio's Graduates Dropout Prevention Initiative
Requestor:  Jobs for Ohio's Graduates, Inc.
21 E. State Street
Suite 320
Columbus, OH 43215
Amount:  $600,000
Description:  This project expands Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG) Dropout Prevention and Recovery programs in Ohio by implementing JAG programs in a minimum of 20 high schools and community sites serving 800 at-risk youth throughout Ohio. This will allow implementation of High School and Dropout Recovery programs in areas not currently served or in danger of
losing services. The addition of these sites will result in services to at-risk and disadvantaged
youth between the ages of 14 and 19 identified by their schools as at-risk of dropping out.

Project:  Kenyonbrook Sanitary Sewer Replacement
Requestor:  City of Worthington
6550 North High Street
Worthington, OH 43085
Amount:  $1,302,112
Description:  The replacement of 3,722 linear feet of sanitary sewers that were installed in 1920. The project was identified in a study undertaken as a result of EPA Directors findings and orders.

Project:  Lower Lights Christian Health Center Required Facility Expansion Project
Requestor:  Lower Lights Christian Health Center
1251 W. Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43222
Amount:  $500,000
Description:  Funding this project will allow LLCHC to renovate/alter 10,981 square feet in an abandoned, blighted warehouse one block east of our current location into a state-of-the art health center.

Project:  Marysville Water Treatment Facility
Requestor:  City of Marysville
125 East Sixth Street
Marysville, OH 43040
Amount:  $1,500,000
Description:  This project will replace the existing City Water Treatment Plant, which has been in operation for nearly one hundred years, with a modern facility. This project also will provide the necessary infrastructure, including water supply and distribution improvements, required to update the water system to current standards.

Project:  Millcreek Estates Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements
Requestor:  Union County Commissioners
233 West Sixth Street
Marysville, OH 43040
Amount:  $2,750,000
Description:  The project would decommission and replace the Millcreek Estates Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Project:  National Center of Excellence for Energy Storage Technology
Requestor:  The Ohio State University
208 Bricker Hall
190 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
Amount:  $1,500,000
Description:  This program continues funding of the National Center of Excellence in Energy Storage Technology to develop a technology base to enable the manufacturing of a new generation of energy efficient vehicles in the Ohio region.

Project:  National Vaccine Manufacturing and Logistics Center Feasibility Study
Requestor:  BioOhio
1275 Kinnear Rd.
Columbus, OH 43212
Amount:  $250,000
Description:  A vaccine manufacturing and distribution center based in Wilmington, Ohio, has the potential to serve as a hub for the production of vaccines in the case of a pandemic or bioterror attack.

Project:  New Cannon Drive Sewer Alignment
Requestor:  The Ohio State University Medical Center
370 West 9th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Amount:  $1,650,000
Description:  ProjectONE is a $1 billion transformation of the Ohio State University Medical Center that will create a new state of the art cancer hospital and critical care tower. As part of the infrastructure improvements many of the existing roads and utilities will be relocated to accommodate the future increases in capacity and to enable greater access. One major change, building a new Cannon Drive will accomplish several purposes: create a new flood barrier for the Olentangy River; divide the current floodplain into areas for recreation and 12 new acres of land for future development; and increase access to & egress from State Route 315.

Project:  Nuclear Reactor Research and Education Facility Expansion
Requestor:  The Ohio State University
142 Hitchcock Hall
2070 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Amount:  $2,000,000
Description:  The goal of the proposed project is to expand The Ohio State University Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (OSUNRL) for enhanced education, research, outreach, and service.

Project:  Ohio Advanced Energy Manufacturing Center (OAEMC)
Requestor:  EWI (Edison Welding Institute)
1250 Arthur E. Adams Drive
Columbus, OH 43221
Amount:  $5,000,000
Description:  The Advanced Energy Manufacturing Center has developed a new approach to technology innovation & technology-based economic development. To assist advanced energy companies to overcome the product development, process engineering and manufacturing technology challenges impeding successful and timely transition to market, the Center will:
    1. Support businesses by providing assistance in identifying & evaluating advanced     energy markets, customers, and opportunities.
    2. Maintain a repository of data, knowledge & best practices.
    3. Invest in new manufacturing process innovations on a rolling 3- to 5-year time horizon
    4. Provide access to expertise and capital equipment to develop manufacturing solutions
    5. Transition these new developments and approaches into engineering education and training curricula and programs at Ohio educational institutions to assure there is a qualified, professional workforce ready to support new Ohio manufacturing opportunities.
    6. Identify and develop new materials and manufacturing technology that will have broad
    applicability across several advanced energy market segments.

Project:  The OhioHealth "Green Light!" Initiative
Requestor:  OhioHealth Corporation
180 East Broad Street
34th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
Amount:  $1,677,000
Description:  This project will systematically replace the current high wattage ballast, bulbs, and switches used in OhioHealth's hospitals and parking garages with low wattage ballast, high-efficiency bulbs, and light sensors.

Project:  The Ohio State University - Neurotrauma: Battlefield Wound Healing
Requestor:  The Ohio State University Medical Center
370 West 9th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Amount:  $2,900,000
Description:  The project will further study improved healing and synergistic benefits between alginate oligomers and antibiotics in the treatment of burns and wounds.

Project:  Ohio Women in Sustainable Employment (OH-WISE)
Requestor:  Hard Hatted Women
Electrical Trades Center
947 Goodale Blvd.
Columbus, OH 43212
Amount:  $600,000
Description:  The project is for the Ohio Women in Sustainable Employment (OH-WISE) project in Columbus, a program that links women to opportunities in high-wage, trade and technical fields with an emphasis on green jobs.

Project:  Our Military Kids
Requestor:  Our Military Kids
6861 Elm Street
Suite 2A
McLean, VA 22101
Amount:  $3,500,000
Description:  Our Military Kids provides grants to cover fees associated with tutoring, athletic, or fine arts programs for children of deployed National Guard and Reserve forces and of severely injured service members of the active and reserve military.

Project:  Passenger Rail Manufacturing Initiative, Columbus, OH
Requestor:  EWI (Edison Welding Institute)
1250 Arthur E. Adams Drive
Columbus, OH 43221
Amount:  $1,000,000
Description:  This project would create a Passenger Rail Manufacturing Initiative whose charter is:
•    Promote Buy American policy to maximize job creation and economic benefit
•    Work with pre-qualified high speed train manufacturers (OEMs) to develop a USA supply chain
•    Develop and deploy advanced manufacturing technology to assure affordability and
    minimize learning curve for American suppliers.
•    Support FRA rule making to develop requirements and specifications enabling
    deployment of advanced joining and manufacturing methods driving affordability.
•    Foster public-private partnerships to accelerate high speed rail train manufacturing
    technology development and commercialization.

Project:  ProjectONE
Requestor:  The Ohio State University Medical Center
300 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Amount:  $5,000,000
Description:  The Ohio State University is transforming its Medical Center and James Cancer Hospital into an internationally renowned region excellence in therapy, prevention and translation of research into clinically and commercial relevant treatments.

Project:  Reading is Fundamental
Requestor:  Reading Is Fundamental
1825 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20009
Amount:  $25,000,000
Description:  The funding would be used for purposes authorized in Section 5451 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Project:  Ready to Grow - Ready to Learn
Requestor:  Children's Hunger Alliance
370 South Fifth Street
Columbus, OH 43215
Amount:  $845,000
Description:  As part of its core Early Childhood programming, Children's Hunger Alliance conducts outreach and recruitment activities targeted to reach low-income, home-based childcare providers. Its Field Representatives work directly with these providers to disseminate educational materials, provide professional development opportunities, and train them in early childhood nutrition and education, proper certification, and professional standards.

Project:  Somali Youth Project
Requestor:  Horn of Africa Community Center, Inc.
2154 Eddy Stone Avenue
Columbus, OH 43224
Amount:  $335,080
Description:  The Somali Youth Project seeks to alleviate excessive scholastic and peer pressures leading to juvenile delinquency by providing supplemental training, assistance, capacity building and communication skills.

Project:  Starr Commonwealth's Structured Transitional Living (STL) Columbus
Requestor:  Starr Commonwealth Ohio
301 Obetz Road
Columbus, OH 43207
Amount:  $500,000
Description:  The project will allow Starr to expand the Structured Transitional Living program in Columbus which serves youth ages 15-21. The STL program will assist students as they transition from Starr's residential programs to independent living. The most unique aspect of this program is the 24-hour support system that is provided to the students. Students live in well-maintained apartment buildings and are responsible for attending counseling programs, and pursuing educational and employment goals (Same request made in two appropriations bills).

Project:  Union County Public Safety Training Facility
Requestor:  Union County Sheriff's Office
221 West Fifth Street
Marysville, OH 43040
Amount:  $1,157,207
Description:  The proposed Public Safety Training Facility will centralize and meet the training needs in the public safety field that are not currently being met because the resources and equipment are not readily available or accessible to local/surrounding public safety services. Examples are water rescue, dive training, WMD response, and Emergency Management Response.

Project:  Upper Arlington Area Fiber Network
Requestor:  City of Upper Arlington
3600 Tremont Road
Upper Arlington, OH 43221
Amount:  $1,000,000
Description:  The project creates a community-owned fiber optic network benefiting the citizens, businesses and public entities within the Upper Arlington area.

Project:  US 33/US 36/SR 4/SR 31 Interchange Improvements, City of Marysville, OH
Requestor:  City of Marysville
126 East 6th Street
Marysville, OH 43040
Amount:  $955,000
Description:  This project will convert the US33/US36/SR4/SR31 interchange to a modern urban interchange.  The new interchange configuration will remove geometric deficiencies to improve the safety, capacity and operation of the interchange for existing and future traffic volumes.

Project:  West Jefferson SR29/I70 Logistics Corridor Improvements
Requestor:  Madison County Future, Inc. Community Improvement Corporation
730 Keny Boulevard
London, OH 43140
Amount:  $700,000
Description:  This project is for the environmental studies, design, and right-of-way acquisition (if any) for the improvement of SR 29 in the village of West Jefferson.

Project:  Workforce Development
Requestor:  Goodwill Columbus
1331 Edgehill Road
Columbus, OH 43212
Amount:  $100,000
Description:  Participants in this program will receive an individualized plan of Workforce Development Services that will move them from unemployment/underemployment to employment on a career path that pays a living wage.

Project:  YWCA Columbus At-Risk Youth Initiative
Requestor:  YWCA Columbus
65 S 4th Street
Columbus, OH 43215
Amount:  $750,000
Description:  The project will strengthen YWCA's out-of-school programming and housing and employment services to effectively help at-risk youth and their families overcome barriers and foster opportunities for self-sufficiency.

 


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