FY 2011 Appropriations Requests

After School Program
Recipient: Push To Win Outreach, Inc
Address: P.O. BOX 330349, Houston, Texas 77233
Amount: $110,000
Description: To provide year-round after-school activities for 100 low-income, at-risk youth in the Sunnyside Community as well as a four-week summer youth program for an additional 80 students. This project will reduce the high school dropout rate, juvenile delinquency, and teen pregnancy rate.

Bayou Greenway Parks & Trails Initiative
Recipient: Greater Houston Partnership
Address: 1800 Post Oak Blvd, Suite 400, Houston, Texas 770
Amount: $5.5 million
Description:  To enhance the structure supporting 9 major bayou arteries which run through the City of Houston and surrounding counties by implementing an initiative providing flood control, improved water quality and linear parks.   This project will help protect ground and surface water, safeguard residents’ heath, & provide critical flood control along the corridors.

Bethel’s Place Capital Building Campaign
Recipient: Bethel’s Place
Address: 12525 Fondren Suite A, Houston, Texas  77035
Amount: $4,500,000
Description: To construct a 65,000 sq. foot facility which will serve as a new site to provide a “one-stop” shop for youth and community outreach programs that provide economic empowerment, career development, job placement, education and health care opportunities.

Blood Conservation Institute
Recipient: St. Joseph Medical Center
Address: 1401 St. Joseph Parkway, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $300,000
Description: To update and expand the current Blood Conservation program at St. Joseph Medical Center to train physicians in bloodless surgery procedures and promote preparedness in natural and man-made disasters. This project will help promote disaster preparedness and prevent the spread of bloodborne pathogens through the increased use of blood conservation techniques and training in bloodless surgery.

Brays Bayou Flood Damage Reduction Project
Recipient: Harris County Flood Control District
Address: 9900 Northwest Freeway, Suite 220, Houston, TX, 77099
Amount: $19,000,000
Description: To construct the Brays Bayou Flood Damage Reduction Project consisting of 21.2 miles of channel conveyance improvement, 4 stormwater detention basins, and 30 bridge replacements/extensions to reduce flood damages along Brays Bayou for over 15,000 homes. 

Cancer treatment through laser-generated proton beams
Recipient: The University of Texas Health Science Center, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Address: 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $3,454,229
Description: To demonstrate utility of laser generated proton beams and determination of their biological effectiveness in treatment of glioblastoma and other cancers. The results of these studies will allow for widespread implementation of proton therapy for cancer treatment and play a major role in reducing health care costs.

Center for RNA Interference and Non-Coding RNAs
Recipient: The University of Texas Health Science Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Address: 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $2 million
Description: To purchase equipment, supplies, models, and personnel to develop and sustain research into the role that manipulating gene expression at the cellular level holds in disease treatment. Understanding the role of genes in cancer development and therapies offers enormous potential for helping cancer patients and reducing mortality in the near term.

City of Houston Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction
Recipient: City of Houston
Address: 901 Bagby, Third Floor, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $5,700,000
Description: To purchase robotic technology to upgrade DNA analysis capabilities and to hire additional personnel for its Crime Lab to reduce the backlog of DNA evidence used in the arrest and conviction of violent criminals. This will improve the Houston Police Departments capacity to investigate crime.

City of Houston Interoperability - Reed Road Communications Site
Recipient: City of Houston
Address: 901 Bagby, Third Floor, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $786,325
Description: To upgrade an existing communications tower in southeast Houston to achieve interoperability between the legacy communications systems used by the region’s first responders.  This will facilitate communications between public safety agencies, the Police Department and numerous law enforcement agencies throughout the area.

College Bound Initiative
Recipient: Derrick Thomas Foundation, Inc.
Address: 5314 Holly View Drive, Houston, TX 77091
Amount: $100,250
Description: To support the College Bound Initiative program which provides motivation and training to youth and parents to increase their knowledge of post secondary opportunities and the many facets attending college entails. 

Community Outreach Program
Recipient: Push To Win Outreach, Inc
Address: P.O. BOX 330349, Houston, Texas 77233
Amount: $85,000
Description:     To provide year-round training and assistance to 300 economically challenged children and families in the Sunnyside Community of Houston, Texas.  This project will reduce the high school dropout rate, juvenile delinquency, and teen pregnancy rate as well as strengthen families, reduce family violence, and facilitate the transition from welfare to work.

Continous Learning Program
Recipient: The Kingdom Builders' Center of Houston, Texas, Inc.
Address: 6011 W. Orem Drive, Houston, TX, 77085
Amount: $270,000
Description: To provide around-the-clock access to education and information through on-site and distance-learning classes, workshops, and training modules on a wide range of subjects. This will offer professional and personal growth of socio-economically disadvantaged, unemployed, underemployed, undereducated, underserved and dislocated individuals.

Dropout Prevention Initiative
Recipient: HoustonWorks USA
Address: 2118 Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002
Amount: $2,000,000
Description: To support a dropout prevention initiative that engages youth and young adults in activities and opportunities to assist them in becoming productive citizens. This program will increase the number of youth that participate in post secondary educational opportunities whereby decreasing the probability of unemployment, living in poverty, receiving public assistance, going to prison, being unhealthy and parenting children to repeat the cycle.

Employment Services for Veterans Initiative
Recipient: HoustonWorks USA
Address: 2118 Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002
Amount: $1 million
Description: To assist veterans with their employment and training needs by providing career counseling, individual job development, job preparation, case management, labor market information and job referrals.

Energy to Science Education Initiative
Recipient: HoustonWorks USA
Address: Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002
Amount: $3 million
Description: To support a two- phase program for middle school youth that would introduce them to recruit, engage and assist in bridging youth into energy science careers.  It will also provide access to critical information to help prepare students for college prerequisites in these four majors.  

Facilities to Research New Hormonal Drugs that Prevent Cancer and Treat Other Diseases
Recipient: University of Houston
Address: 1005 Congress Ave., Suite 820, Austin, TX  78701
Amount: $4.1 million
Description: To equip research facilities to develop new hormone replacement therapy drugs for women that do not increase the risk for cancer, as well as develop drugs that treat prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia in men – both major medical challenges in the United States.  Access to modern equipment within these areas is necessary for advances in medical sciences. 

Fort Bend County Fresno-Arcola WRDA project
Recipient: Ft. Bend County
Address: 301 Jackson St., Richmond, TX, 77469
Amount: $1,250,000
Description: To implement portions of the public water and wastewater systems within the Fresh Water Supply District and the City of Arcola.  The construction projects involved are 1) wastewater collection lines and a lift station and force main within the District, and 2) water distribution lines within the City of Arcola.

Harris County Constable Precinct 7 Sex Offenders Program
Recipient: Harris County Constable Precinct 7
Address: 5290 Griggs Houston, Texas  77021
Amount:  $300,000
Description:     To direct patrols to target and identify sex offenders, ensure that identified offenders are in compliance, apprehend non-compliant offenders and help prevent offenses in the precinct. Unregistered and non-compliant sex offenders pose a risk to the safety and well being of our children, women, and the general public.

Harris County Sheriff’s Office Contract Aviation For Law Enforcement
Recipient: Harris County Sheriff’s Office
Address: 1200 Baker Street, Houston, Texas 77002
Amount: $1,007,794.00
Description: This project will fund contract aviation to support law enforcement, Homeland Security, and public safety missions for the third largest county sheriff’s office in the United States. These aviation assets will be instrumental in securing the population while improving the Sheriff’s crime fighting abilities by supporting law enforcement missions such as observation, command and control, patrol, traffic management and search and rescue.

Harris County Website Portal Renovation
Recipient: Harris County, Texas, Office of County Judge Ed Emmett
Address: 1001 Preston 9th Floor, Houston, TX 77002
Amount: $1.1 million
Description: To fully integrate the Harris County web portal with IT infrastructure that will make it possible for Harris county to fully use e-Government to conduct business and connect the peoplewith the services they need.

Hope through Grace Foundation early detection/prevention of colorectal cancer
Recipient: Hope through Grace Foundation, Inc. 
Address: 4660 Beechnut Street, Suite 102 Houston, TX 77096
Amount: $250,000
Description: To increase access to education for the prevention of colorectal cancer (CRC), screening for early detection of the disease, and survivorship support to low-income, uninsured and underinsured citizens in Harris County. CRC is the second leading cancer killer of men and women in the nation and this project will reduce colorectal cancer incidence and mortality rates. 

Houston A+ Challenge Teacher Training/Transformation Initiatives
Recipient: Houston A+ Challenge
Address: 2700 Southwest Freeway, Suite B, Houston, TX, 77098-4607
Amount: $250,000
Description: To provide customized teacher and principal training to educators in low performing schools in school districts in the region. This project will help the students in TX-09 be successful in their educational pursuits and will result in raising the level of the educated workforce in our district

Houston Area Urban League Bland Street Construction Project
Recipient:  Houston Area Urban League
Address:  1301 Texas Avenue Houston, Texas 77002
Amount:  $3 million
Description: To renovate and rebuild a  5,100 square foot one story building on 1620 Bland Street, to house Houston Area Urban League activities. This project will address core neighborhood challenges like education/youth development and issues impacting senior citizens and others in need in this community.

Houston Baptist University Academic Support Programs to Promote Student Retention
Recipient: Houston Baptist University
Address: 7502 Fondren Road Houston, TX 77074
Amount: $560,000
Description:     To purchase equipment and technology to promote retention of first-generation and minority college students at Houston Baptist University (HBU). 

Houston Baptist University Equipment Upgrades/Renovations for Nursing Skills Lab
Recipient: Houston Baptist University
Address: 7502 Fondren Road Houston, TX 77074
Amount: $700,000
Description: To purchase equipment and make renovations to the nursing skills lab to increase the number of students trained in nursing each year Houston Baptist University’s (HBU).  Providing these renovations now will help ensure the projected growth of nursing students is met with the necessary infrastructure.

Houston Community College EMT Training Program
Recipient: Houston Community College
Address: 13803 Bissonnet, Houston, TX, 77083
Amount: $300,000
Description: To provide training for approximately 600 new emergency medical technicians annually.  This project will address the growing shortage of emergency personnel by expanding the program to more students. 

Houston Department of Health & Human Services Laboratory Improvement
Recipient: City of Houston
Address: 901 Bagby, Third Floor, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $10,000,000
Description: To renovate and equip a laboratory building, located in the Texas Medical Center, to accommodate and expand the services of the Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) laboratory.  These improvements will protect specimen integrity at the laboratory and also the staff health.

Houston Independent School District DIIMSA-EXPERT Initiative
Recipient: Houston Independent School District
Address: 4400 West 18th St, Houston, TX 77092-8501.
Amount: $8.8 million
Description: To provide for equipment, materials and professional development of secondary science teachers to meet the need for continuous training of highly qualified teachers. The Initiative will support up to 2,250 teachers and specialists of science, which in turn will impact over 80,000 students. 

Houston Ship Channel Operations and Maintenance
Recipient: Port of Houston Authority
Address: P O Box 2562, Houston, TX  77252-2562
Amount: $41,573,000
Description: To maintain the Houston channel at it federally authorized width and depth. As a result of not having the full depth and width, some larger vessels cannot enter the channel requiring them to lighten loads, which means offloading their cargo to a smaller ship. Significant costs are incurred because a reduction in the amount of cargo carried per trip slows the movement of commerce and increases the cost of both imports and exports. 

Houston Commuter Rail Service in Harris and Fort Bend County (US 90A)
Recipient: Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO)
Address: 1900 Main, P.O. Box 61429, Houston, TX 77208-1429
Amount: $125,000,000
Description: To design and construct the US 90A Rail Corridor, an 8.2 mile, 4 station, extension of the existing light rail from the Texas Medical Center to Missouri City. This project will provide residents with a one seat ride from Missouri City to the Texas Medical Center in less than 30 minutes, improve air quality, promote economic development, and create jobs.

Houston Early Age Risk Testing & Screening Program (HEARTS)
Recipient: Memorial Hermann Foundation
Address: 929 Gessner, Suite 2700, Houston, TX 77024
Amount: $500,000
Description: To purchase equipment to expand the Houston Early Age Risk Testing & Screening Program (HEARTS) Program into more schools, and, in turn, to cardiac test more students. HEARTS is an integrated, at-risk youth cardiac screening program, targeting underserved middle schools within HISD, and designed to identify children who are at risk for life-threatening, but correctable heart abnormalities.

Ibn Sina Foundation Community Medical Center
Recipient: Ibn Sina Foundation Community Medical Center
Address: 11226 S. Wilcrest Drive, Houston, TX  77099
Amount: $250,000
Description:     To increase medical treatment to an additional 5,000 medically uninsured and underinsured patients. The service area of Ibn Sina Foundation is a Medically Underserved Population (MUP) and a recent poll indicates that 95% of the clinic’s patients currently live below the federal poverty level.   In 2010, Ibn Sina expects to treat over 40,000 patients.

Inpatient Mental Health facility for women in underserved populations
Recipient: St. Joseph Medical Center
Address: 1401 St. Joseph Parkway, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $350,000
Description: To retrofit a medical floor to develop an inpatient mental health unit exclusively focused on the needs of women in underserved populations. This project will help address the growing and unique mental health needs of women who would otherwise not obtain care. 

I-69 Construction
Recipient: Texas Department of Transportation
Address: 125 East 11th Street, Austin, TX, 78701
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: To complete the Tier  II Environmental Impact Study for the I-69 Corridor which has been consistently recognized by Congress as a national transportation priority. When completed, I-69 will enhance economic development and provide for more efficient access to the Port of Houston, thereby improving safety and mobility in the Houston area.

Juvenile Justice Initiative
Recipient: HoustonWorks USA
Address: 2118 Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002
Amount: $2,000,000
Description: To reclaim juveniles through preventive, educational and rehabilitative services.  It provides the necessary tools for youth to identify their weak areas, address them, and get back on track towards graduation.

Kingdom Builders Center of Houston STEM-ulate Exploration Lab
Recipient: Kingdom Builders' Center of Houston, Texas Inc.
Address: 6011 W. Orem Drive, Houston, TX, 77085
Amount: $170,000
Description: To use interactive technology to make Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) relevant in the lives of children and youth – 3rd grade to 8th grade – beyond their classroom education in an after school setting, weekends and during summer. 

Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program
Recipient: Harris County Constable Precinct 7
Address: 5290 Griggs Houston, Texas  77021
Amount: $400,000
Description: To target and perform direct patrols to chemical plants, pipelines and rail cars that travel throughout the 94.57 square miles of the Harris County Constable Precinct Seven jurisdiction. This will help build and sustain the Constable’s Department’s ability to reduce vulnerabilities, prevent, respond to, and assist in the recovery from acts of terrorism within the Precinct Seven and/or surrounding jurisdictions upon request

Life Sciences Center for STEM Programs and a School of Nursing
Recipient: University of St. Thomas
Address: 3800 Montrose Blvd., Houston, Texas  77006
Amount Requested: $2.5 million
Description: To construct the Life Sciences Center for Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math (STEM) Programs and the School of Nursing at the University of St. Thomas (UST) campus.  This project will position UST to increase the number of nurses needed to provide health care to a rapidly-growing population. 

Methodist Hospital Plato’s CAVE for Real-Time 3D Remote Surgical Planning
Recipient: Methodist Hospital
Address: 1707 Sunset Blvd.Houston, TX 77005
Amount: $4,450,000
Description: To purchase and upgrade of equipment and software to further work in the ground breaking, computer- augmented virtual environment (CAVE) known as Plato’s CAVE which consists of an integrated suite of medical imaging technologies that are able to produce an actual cyberspace image of a patient. The use of this technology by diagnosticians and providers is expected to have significant impact on reduction of medical errors.

Methodist Hospital Universal Color Mapping for Dual Reality Imaging
Recipient: Methodist Hospital
Address: 1707 Sunset Blvd.Houston, TX 77005
Amount: $500,000
Description: To develop a color coding system that would create a universally recognizable assignment of specific color to specific abnormality observed on existing imaging modalities such as CT, MRI and PET. This project will enhance the quality of medical diagnosis.

METRO Solutions Light Rail Program – North Corridor LRT
Recipient: Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO)
Address: 1900 Main, P.O. Box 61429, Houston, TX 77208-1429
Amount: $100,000,000
Description: To design and construct the North Corridor light rail transit (LRT) project, a 5.2-mile, eight station, double-track LRT line from the existing University of Houston-Downtown station to the Northline Mall Transit Center. This project will increase mobility, improve air quality, promote economic development, and create jobs.

METRO Solutions Light Rail Program – Southeast Corridor LRT
Recipient: Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO)
Address: 1900 Main, P.O. Box 61429, Houston, TX 77208-1429
Amount: $100,000,000
Description: To design and construct the Southeast Light Rail Transit (LRT) Corridor, a 6.2-mile LRT line from the Houston central business district to the Palm Center.  This project will increase mobility, improve air quality, promote economic development, and create jobs.

METRO Solutions Bus Program
Recipient: Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO)
Address: 1900 Main, P.O. Box 61429, Houston, TX 77208-1429
Amount: $75,000,000
Description: To replace buses that have exceeded their useful life, expand bus service, construct passenger and maintenance facilities, and to purchase vehicle and systems related to support expanded service.  This will expand travel choices for 9th District residents and workers, reduce demand for automobile use, reduce network congestion and decrease travel delays. 

Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC)
Recipient: Mickey Leland Urban Air Toxics Research Center
Address: 7000 Fannin Street, Suite 700, Houston, TX 77225
Amount: $3 million
Description: To conduct research to assess neighborhood air toxics and particulate matter impacts of Port activities in selected cities including Houston. The NUATRC was chartered by Congress to sponsor and gather scientific information on the human health effects caused by exposure to air toxic compounds. 

Mobile Community Health Clinic
Recipient: Bee Busy Learning Academy, inc
Address: 9898 Bissonnet Street, Suite 330 Houston, TX 77036
Amount: $120,000
Description: To purchase and renovate/retrofit a 36’Landau RV to serve as a Mobile Health Clinic, equipped with exam table, Management Information System (MIS), mobile processing lab, and private area for pre/post test counseling that will provide health awareness and free health screenings. This will improve access to quality health care in District 9.

North American Clinical Trials Network
Recipient: Christopher Reeve Foundation
Address: 636 Morris Turnpike, Suite 3A, Short Hills, NJ 07078
Amount: $4.8 million
Description: To provide for the maintenance of the existing NACTN Centers, adding new centers to the Network, upgrading and maintaining the Pharmacology Center and the Data Management/Statistical Center and continued clinical trials for spinal cord injury (SCI) research. SCI with resulting paralysis occurring in military and civilian life is a major medical and societal problem and this project can help create better therapies. 

Office of Community Empowerment
Recipient: Higher Dimension Church
Address: 9800 Club Creek Drive, Houston, TX 77036
Amount: $1 million
Description: To create an office of community empowerment that will coordinate community revitalization programs and activities such as business recruitment and retention, neighborhood development, workforce development, family support services and youth development programs.  This project will result in more appropriate application of federal resources where the greatest impact will be realized and; as a result, a significant increase in efficiency and effectiveness

Partial hospitalization programs for psychotic, geriatric, and female populations
Recipient: St. Joseph Medical Center
Address: 1401 St. Joseph Parkway, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $400,000
Description: To retrofit space for group rooms to accommodate specific needs for psychotic, geriatric, and female populations. This project will provide greater access and a better delivery model of care for those patients who require mental health services and intense therapy regimens without the necessity of an overnight stay.

Project Lift Family Assistance Program
Recipient: Light of Faith Ministries
Address: 3350 Highway 6 South, Suite 146, Sugar Land, Texas  77478
Amount: $143,900
Description: To provide direct housing, utilities assistance, clothing, food, tutoring, and transportation to poor or homeless individuals, families and children.

Project Lift Senior Citizen Breast Cancer Van
Recipient:  Light of Faith Ministries
Address: 3350 Highway 6 South, Suite 146, Sugar Land, Texas  77478
Amount: $75,000
Description: To purchase a passenger van that will provide free on demand round-trip transportation for low-income senior citizens diagnosed with breast cancer to their chemo treatments and doctor appointments.   This will assist low income and disadvantaged senior citizens who are often alone and without transportation.

Promotora Training
Recipient: St. Joseph Medical Center
Address: 1401 St. Joseph Parkway, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $250,000
Description: To create a promotora program that will train individuals to serve as health promoters to Spanish speaking patients. This project will enhance the health and wellness of our native Spanish speaking population, help reduce health disparities with native Spanish speaking populations and give better access to primary care.

Science, Technology, Engineering  and Mathematics (STEM) Initiative
Recipient: HoustonWorks USA
Address: 2118 Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002
Amount: 3,000,000
Description: To expose middle school students to careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and information technology and enhance US global competiveness in these areas.  

Renovation of Interventional Radiology Recovery/Ultrasound Exam Rooms
Recipient: Harris County Hospital District
Address: 2525 Holly Hall, Houston, TX  77054
Amount: $300,000
Description: FY11 funding will be used to add four exam rooms in the space vacated by X-ray film storage to provide a location for patients at Ben Taub General Hospital to recover after Interventional Radiology procedures. This will improve Ultrasound service and dramatically increase patient throughput to reduce excessive backlog and extensive appointment wait-times.

Shield Center Facility Renovation
Recipient: Shield Center
Address: 7902 Cicada Dr., Missouri City, TX 77459
Amount: $1 million
Description: To repair and renovate facilities at the SHIELD Center which offers community services to economically challenged individuals living in the Sunny Side community of SW Houston.  These funds will ensure that services and resources are provided in a facility that meets and passes all state, district, and governmental mandated regulations and inspections.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital Physician Teaching Program
Recipient: St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital System
Address: 6624 Fannin Street, Suite 1100, MC 5-100, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $3.5 million
Description: To support up to 50 residency slots at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, a tertiary and quaternary care, adult teaching hospital in the Greater Houston community.  These funds will alleviate existing financial burdens and address the physician shortage.

Southeast Texas Biomedical Research Institute (SETBRI) Undergraduate Training Center
Recipient: Southeast Texas Biomedical Research Institute
Address: 7789 Southeast Freeway, Suite 390, Houston, TX  77074
Amount: $8.8 million
Description: To provide a Career Academy for training in health related fields such as Medical Assistants, Clinical Assistants and Pharmacy Technicians to prepare minority students in underserved areas for careers in fields. This will help reduce health disparities in underserved communities in 13 counties in Southeast Texas.

Start & Stay Fit Program
Recipient: The Kingdom Builders' Center of Houston, Texas, Inc.
Address: 6011 W. Orem Drive, Houston, TX, 77085
Amount: $115,000
Description: To provide programs including fitness classes, after school exercise programs, nutrition education, nutrition counseling, healthy cooking labs, advocacy campaigns and training workshops for  parents, grandparents, pre-school children, pregnant mothers, and seniors in order to help prevent childhood and adulthood obesity.

Student Environmental Conservation Program
Recipient: Green Team America
Address: 6300 Westpark Drive, Suite 210, Houston, TX, 77057
Amount: $450,000
Description:  To coordinate environmental projects in 100 schools in the Houston area intended to address the arrest and reduction of CO2 atmospheric pollution and global warming issue. These programs are also designed to engage the entire family and will have dramatic results including theimmediate reduction of energy consumption, alternate power resources and sustainable lifestyles.

Sunnyside Park Redevelopment
Recipient: City of Houston
Address: 901 Bagby, Third Floor, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $8,500,000
Description: To redevelop a 300-acre landfill for recreational, environmental and energy-generation facilities.   This project will act as a national model for landfill redevelopment because it is being built upon the existing terrain of a site and showcases an urban Brownfield redevelopment model. 

Telemedicine program
Recipient: St. Joseph Medical Center
Address: 1401 St. Joseph Parkway, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $500,000
Description: To create a telemedicine program connecting the St. Joseph Medical Center with traditionally underserved areas to coordinate disaster response, provide remote health education and consults, and improving health care access. This project will improve access to specialized and primary care and reduce healthcare disparities for underserved populations.

Texas Children’s Hospital Project Medical Home
Recipient: Texas Children’s Hospital
Address: 6621 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $1.4 million
Description: To establish a new Project Medical Home (PMH), a primary care practice location for children and adolescents in a medically underserved area in west Houston. This project can relieve unnecessary visits to the emergency room for non-emergent care and reduce health care costs.

Texas Medical Center Patient Emergency Relocation System (PERS)
Recipient: Texas Medical Center
Address: 2450 Holcombe Blvd., Suite 1, Houston, TX 77021-2040
Amount: $36,000,000
Description: To construct a patient emergency relocation system (PERS) at Texas Medical Center which includes the planned expansion of the patient and pedestrian transportation system on the campus.  This system will facilitate patient transfers, including moving during emergency conditions, such as natural disasters and acts of terrorism and prevent loss of life.   

Texas Parkway (FM 2234) Raised Median Project ant the City of Missouri City, Texas
Recipient: City of Missouri City
Address: 1522 Texas Parkway, Missouri City, TX 77489
Amount: $3,013,401
Description: To eliminate a continuous turn lane and install raised medians in its place that restrict mid block conflicting turning movements.  These improvements will greatly enhance traffic mobility, reduce vehicular congestion and emissions, improve area air quality, increase economic development and enhance safety of pedestrians and drivers within the project area.

TIRR Challenge Programs for Soldiers
Recipient: Memorial Hermann TIRR (The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research)
Address: 1333 Moursund, Room E-105, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $500,000
Description: To provide outpatient rehabilitation care and equipment as well as highly specialized services and a premier brain injury rehabilitation program for up to 60 injured military service members from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

UT Health Science Center, Houston, Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders
Recipient: UT Health Science Center at Houston
Address: 7000 Fannin, Suite 1550, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $784,784
Description: To establish a new Center on Mood Disorders specialized in research and treatment of bipolar disorder and depression. While there have been important advances in our ability to treat these conditions, we still need far better treatments that will improve the outcomes for individuals who suffer from these disorders and their families. 

UT Health Science Center, Houston, High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging  Facility
Recipient: UT Health Science Center at Houston
Address: 7000 Fannin, Suite 1550, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $15 million
Description: To purchase a 7 Tesla whole body MRI scanner for multi-institutional human studies. The scanner will help in diagnosing various neurological, neuropsychiatric (including drug abuse), and neurodevelopmental disorders. Early intervention could lead to significant containment of health care costs.

UTMDACC, Center for Research on Minority Health and HDEART Consortium
Recipient: UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Center for Research on Minority Health
Address: 1515 Holcombe Blvd.  Unit # 639, Houston, TX  77030
Amount: $5.88 million
Description: This project will help Center for Research on Minority Health to develop a model of addressing health disparities, which combines scientific research and academic pursuits with significant community involvement and participation. This research can reduce health disparities among ethic minorities and medically underserved populations as well as among minority health care professionals.

UTMDACC, Center  for Research on Minority Health Patient Navigation Project
Recipient: UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Center for Research on Minority Health
Address: 1515 Holcombe Blvd.  Unit # 639, Houston, TX  77030
Amount: $5,420,000
Description: To support a demonstration project assessing the cost effectiveness of cancer intervention and patient navigation for ethnic populations. This project will help create an increased understanding of the health disparities barriers facing this population, as well as insight into methods most successful at reducing them. 

UTMDACC, Center for Research on Minority Health Prostate Cancer Outreach
Recipient: UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Center for Research on Minority Health
Address: 1515 Holcombe Blvd.  Unit # 639, Houston, TX  77030
Amount: $1,434,000
Description: To develop a survey instrument that would assess various constructs related to prostate cancer and screening among African American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American men in the Houston metropolitan area.  The costs of inappropriate diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer to the health care system are significant, and this project will ultimately lead to a reduction of those costs.

Wellness Center for diabetes and obesity
Recipient: St. Joseph Medical Center
Address: 1401 St. Joseph Parkway, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $325,000
Description: To create a clinic and wellness center for the treatment, early detection, and management of diabetes and obesity, primarily focusing on eliminating the health disparities in minority populations. This project will help prevent unnecessary and costly medical care arising from the mismanagement of diabetic symptoms and effects.  It will also help promote healthy lifestyles through proper weight control, specifically focusing on the minority population.

Westchase District Intermodal Transit & Pedestrian Access Improvements
Recipient: Westchase District
Address: 10375 Richmond Avenue, Suite 1175 Houston, Texas 77042-4163
Amount: $1,127,000
Description: To make improvements to the pedestrian infrastructures such as sidewalks, street furniture, pedestrian scale lighting, ADA ramps, and transit shelters. These improvements will increase transit ridership, reduce traffic congestion and pollution, and support transit oriented development and redevelopment. 

Westchase District Intermodal Transit Terminal Advanced Planning
Recipient: Westchase District,
Address: 10375 Richmond Avenue, Suite 1175 Houston, Texas 77042-4163
Amount: $250,000
Description: To conduct advanced planning and preliminary engineering activities to determine demand and location for an Intermodal Terminal.  This project would enhance area connectivity to local and regional transit services, thereby increasing transit ridership, improving air quality, reducing traffic congestion, and enhancing access to employment and services.

William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity Mentoring Program
Recipient:  William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity
Address: 5760 Cullen Boulevard, Houston, TX 77021
Amount: $2,500,000
Description: To provide social and academic advancement for 1,000 at risk secondary school students in Houston’s low income communities with the utilization of adult mentors and case managers for participating students.  Significant police, court and jail costs for these at risk youth can be reduced or even eliminated through the effective investment in adult mentoring, community service projects, and academic improvement.

William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity Seeds for Success Project
Recipient:  William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity
Address: 5760 Cullen Boulevard, Houston, TX 77021
Amount: $2,495,000
Description: To provide at risk youth who are enrolled in secondary school (grades 6-12) with critical test taking and study skills to enable their completion of high school.  This project will increase educational involvement of at risk youth while incorporating parent education to facilitate household vocational and career opportunities.

Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy Community Bike Trail Project
Recipient: Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy
Address:  9407 Brown Leaf Circle, Houston, Texas 77096

Amount: $1.35 million
Description: Willow Waterhole Stormwater Detention Basin is one of the largest storm water detention basins that Harris County Flood Control District is building as part of the Project Brays Federal Flood Damage Reduction Project. Funding will design and build trails, parking, interpretative signage and amenities in the second phase area of the park.

After School Program
Recipient: Push To Win Outreach, Inc
Address: P.O. BOX 330349, Houston, Texas 77233
Amount: $110,000
Description: To provide year-round after-school activities for 100 low-income, at-risk youth in the Sunnyside Community as well as a four-week summer youth program for an additional 80 students. This project will reduce the high school dropout rate, juvenile delinquency, and teen pregnancy rate.

Bayou Greenway Parks & Trails Initiative
Recipient: Greater Houston Partnership
Address: 1800 Post Oak Blvd, Suite 400, Houston, Texas 770
Amount: $5.5 million
Description:  To enhance the structure supporting 9 major bayou arteries which run through the City of Houston and surrounding counties by implementing an initiative providing flood control, improved water quality and linear parks.   This project will help protect ground and surface water, safeguard residents’ heath, & provide critical flood control along the corridors.

Bethel’s Place Capital Building Campaign
Recipient: Bethel’s Place
Address: 12525 Fondren Suite A, Houston, Texas  77035
Amount: $4,500,000
Description: To construct a 65,000 sq. foot facility which will serve as a new site to provide a “one-stop” shop for youth and community outreach programs that provide economic empowerment, career development, job placement, education and health care opportunities.

Blood Conservation Institute
Recipient: St. Joseph Medical Center
Address: 1401 St. Joseph Parkway, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $300,000
Description: To update and expand the current Blood Conservation program at St. Joseph Medical Center to train physicians in bloodless surgery procedures and promote preparedness in natural and man-made disasters. This project will help promote disaster preparedness and prevent the spread of bloodborne pathogens through the increased use of blood conservation techniques and training in bloodless surgery.

Brays Bayou Flood Damage Reduction Project
Recipient: Harris County Flood Control District
Address: 9900 Northwest Freeway, Suite 220, Houston, TX, 77099
Amount: $19,000,000
Description: To construct the Brays Bayou Flood Damage Reduction Project consisting of 21.2 miles of channel conveyance improvement, 4 stormwater detention basins, and 30 bridge replacements/extensions to reduce flood damages along Brays Bayou for over 15,000 homes. 

Cancer treatment through laser-generated proton beams
Recipient: The University of Texas Health Science Center, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Address: 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $3,454,229
Description: To demonstrate utility of laser generated proton beams and determination of their biological effectiveness in treatment of glioblastoma and other cancers. The results of these studies will allow for widespread implementation of proton therapy for cancer treatment and play a major role in reducing health care costs.

Center for RNA Interference and Non-Coding RNAs
Recipient: The University of Texas Health Science Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Address: 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $2 million
Description: To purchase equipment, supplies, models, and personnel to develop and sustain research into the role that manipulating gene expression at the cellular level holds in disease treatment. Understanding the role of genes in cancer development and therapies offers enormous potential for helping cancer patients and reducing mortality in the near term.

City of Houston Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction
Recipient: City of Houston
Address: 901 Bagby, Third Floor, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $5,700,000
Description: To purchase robotic technology to upgrade DNA analysis capabilities and to hire additional personnel for its Crime Lab to reduce the backlog of DNA evidence used in the arrest and conviction of violent criminals. This will improve the Houston Police Departments capacity to investigate crime.

City of Houston Interoperability - Reed Road Communications Site
Recipient: City of Houston
Address: 901 Bagby, Third Floor, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $786,325
Description: To upgrade an existing communications tower in southeast Houston to achieve interoperability between the legacy communications systems used by the region’s first responders.  This will facilitate communications between public safety agencies, the Police Department and numerous law enforcement agencies throughout the area.

College Bound Initiative
Recipient: Derrick Thomas Foundation, Inc.
Address: 5314 Holly View Drive, Houston, TX 77091
Amount: $100,250
Description: To support the College Bound Initiative program which provides motivation and training to youth and parents to increase their knowledge of post secondary opportunities and the many facets attending college entails. 

Community Outreach Program
Recipient: Push To Win Outreach, Inc
Address: P.O. BOX 330349, Houston, Texas 77233
Amount: $85,000
Description:     To provide year-round training and assistance to 300 economically challenged children and families in the Sunnyside Community of Houston, Texas.  This project will reduce the high school dropout rate, juvenile delinquency, and teen pregnancy rate as well as strengthen families, reduce family violence, and facilitate the transition from welfare to work.

Continous Learning Program
Recipient: The Kingdom Builders' Center of Houston, Texas, Inc.
Address: 6011 W. Orem Drive, Houston, TX, 77085
Amount: $270,000
Description: To provide around-the-clock access to education and information through on-site and distance-learning classes, workshops, and training modules on a wide range of subjects. This will offer professional and personal growth of socio-economically disadvantaged, unemployed, underemployed, undereducated, underserved and dislocated individuals.

Dropout Prevention Initiative
Recipient: HoustonWorks USA
Address: 2118 Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002
Amount: $2,000,000
Description: To support a dropout prevention initiative that engages youth and young adults in activities and opportunities to assist them in becoming productive citizens. This program will increase the number of youth that participate in post secondary educational opportunities whereby decreasing the probability of unemployment, living in poverty, receiving public assistance, going to prison, being unhealthy and parenting children to repeat the cycle.

Employment Services for Veterans Initiative
Recipient: HoustonWorks USA
Address: 2118 Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002
Amount: $1 million
Description: To assist veterans with their employment and training needs by providing career counseling, individual job development, job preparation, case management, labor market information and job referrals.

Energy to Science Education Initiative
Recipient: HoustonWorks USA
Address: Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002
Amount: $3 million
Description: To support a two- phase program for middle school youth that would introduce them to recruit, engage and assist in bridging youth into energy science careers.  It will also provide access to critical information to help prepare students for college prerequisites in these four majors.  

Facilities to Research New Hormonal Drugs that Prevent Cancer and Treat Other Diseases
Recipient: University of Houston
Address: 1005 Congress Ave., Suite 820, Austin, TX  78701
Amount: $4.1 million
Description: To equip research facilities to develop new hormone replacement therapy drugs for women that do not increase the risk for cancer, as well as develop drugs that treat prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia in men – both major medical challenges in the United States.  Access to modern equipment within these areas is necessary for advances in medical sciences. 

Fort Bend County Fresno-Arcola WRDA project
Recipient: Ft. Bend County
Address: 301 Jackson St., Richmond, TX, 77469
Amount: $1,250,000
Description: To implement portions of the public water and wastewater systems within the Fresh Water Supply District and the City of Arcola.  The construction projects involved are 1) wastewater collection lines and a lift station and force main within the District, and 2) water distribution lines within the City of Arcola.

Harris County Constable Precinct 7 Sex Offenders Program
Recipient: Harris County Constable Precinct 7
Address: 5290 Griggs Houston, Texas  77021
Amount:  $300,000
Description:     To direct patrols to target and identify sex offenders, ensure that identified offenders are in compliance, apprehend non-compliant offenders and help prevent offenses in the precinct. Unregistered and non-compliant sex offenders pose a risk to the safety and well being of our children, women, and the general public.

Harris County Sheriff’s Office Contract Aviation For Law Enforcement
Recipient: Harris County Sheriff’s Office
Address: 1200 Baker Street, Houston, Texas 77002
Amount: $1,007,794.00
Description: This project will fund contract aviation to support law enforcement, Homeland Security, and public safety missions for the third largest county sheriff’s office in the United States. These aviation assets will be instrumental in securing the population while improving the Sheriff’s crime fighting abilities by supporting law enforcement missions such as observation, command and control, patrol, traffic management and search and rescue.

Harris County Website Portal Renovation
Recipient: Harris County, Texas, Office of County Judge Ed Emmett
Address: 1001 Preston 9th Floor, Houston, TX 77002
Amount: $1.1 million
Description: To fully integrate the Harris County web portal with IT infrastructure that will make it possible for Harris county to fully use e-Government to conduct business and connect the peoplewith the services they need.

Hope through Grace Foundation early detection/prevention of colorectal cancer
Recipient: Hope through Grace Foundation, Inc. 
Address: 4660 Beechnut Street, Suite 102 Houston, TX 77096
Amount: $250,000
Description: To increase access to education for the prevention of colorectal cancer (CRC), screening for early detection of the disease, and survivorship support to low-income, uninsured and underinsured citizens in Harris County. CRC is the second leading cancer killer of men and women in the nation and this project will reduce colorectal cancer incidence and mortality rates. 

Houston A+ Challenge Teacher Training/Transformation Initiatives
Recipient: Houston A+ Challenge
Address: 2700 Southwest Freeway, Suite B, Houston, TX, 77098-4607
Amount: $250,000
Description: To provide customized teacher and principal training to educators in low performing schools in school districts in the region. This project will help the students in TX-09 be successful in their educational pursuits and will result in raising the level of the educated workforce in our district

Houston Area Urban League Bland Street Construction Project
Recipient:  Houston Area Urban League
Address:  1301 Texas Avenue Houston, Texas 77002
Amount:  $3 million
Description: To renovate and rebuild a  5,100 square foot one story building on 1620 Bland Street, to house Houston Area Urban League activities. This project will address core neighborhood challenges like education/youth development and issues impacting senior citizens and others in need in this community.

Houston Baptist University Academic Support Programs to Promote Student Retention
Recipient: Houston Baptist University
Address: 7502 Fondren Road Houston, TX 77074
Amount: $560,000
Description:     To purchase equipment and technology to promote retention of first-generation and minority college students at Houston Baptist University (HBU). 

Houston Baptist University Equipment Upgrades/Renovations for Nursing Skills Lab
Recipient: Houston Baptist University
Address: 7502 Fondren Road Houston, TX 77074
Amount: $700,000
Description: To purchase equipment and make renovations to the nursing skills lab to increase the number of students trained in nursing each year Houston Baptist University’s (HBU).  Providing these renovations now will help ensure the projected growth of nursing students is met with the necessary infrastructure.

Houston Community College EMT Training Program
Recipient: Houston Community College
Address: 13803 Bissonnet, Houston, TX, 77083
Amount: $300,000
Description: To provide training for approximately 600 new emergency medical technicians annually.  This project will address the growing shortage of emergency personnel by expanding the program to more students. 

Houston Department of Health & Human Services Laboratory Improvement
Recipient: City of Houston
Address: 901 Bagby, Third Floor, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $10,000,000
Description: To renovate and equip a laboratory building, located in the Texas Medical Center, to accommodate and expand the services of the Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) laboratory.  These improvements will protect specimen integrity at the laboratory and also the staff health.

Houston Independent School District DIIMSA-EXPERT Initiative
Recipient: Houston Independent School District
Address: 4400 West 18th St, Houston, TX 77092-8501.
Amount: $8.8 million
Description: To provide for equipment, materials and professional development of secondary science teachers to meet the need for continuous training of highly qualified teachers. The Initiative will support up to 2,250 teachers and specialists of science, which in turn will impact over 80,000 students. 

Houston Ship Channel Operations and Maintenance
Recipient: Port of Houston Authority
Address: P O Box 2562, Houston, TX  77252-2562
Amount: $41,573,000
Description: To maintain the Houston channel at it federally authorized width and depth. As a result of not having the full depth and width, some larger vessels cannot enter the channel requiring them to lighten loads, which means offloading their cargo to a smaller ship. Significant costs are incurred because a reduction in the amount of cargo carried per trip slows the movement of commerce and increases the cost of both imports and exports. 

Houston Commuter Rail Service in Harris and Fort Bend County (US 90A)
Recipient: Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO)
Address: 1900 Main, P.O. Box 61429, Houston, TX 77208-1429
Amount: $125,000,000
Description: To design and construct the US 90A Rail Corridor, an 8.2 mile, 4 station, extension of the existing light rail from the Texas Medical Center to Missouri City. This project will provide residents with a one seat ride from Missouri City to the Texas Medical Center in less than 30 minutes, improve air quality, promote economic development, and create jobs.

Houston Early Age Risk Testing & Screening Program (HEARTS)
Recipient: Memorial Hermann Foundation
Address: 929 Gessner, Suite 2700, Houston, TX 77024
Amount: $500,000
Description: To purchase equipment to expand the Houston Early Age Risk Testing & Screening Program (HEARTS) Program into more schools, and, in turn, to cardiac test more students. HEARTS is an integrated, at-risk youth cardiac screening program, targeting underserved middle schools within HISD, and designed to identify children who are at risk for life-threatening, but correctable heart abnormalities.

Ibn Sina Foundation Community Medical Center
Recipient: Ibn Sina Foundation Community Medical Center
Address: 11226 S. Wilcrest Drive, Houston, TX  77099
Amount: $250,000
Description:     To increase medical treatment to an additional 5,000 medically uninsured and underinsured patients. The service area of Ibn Sina Foundation is a Medically Underserved Population (MUP) and a recent poll indicates that 95% of the clinic’s patients currently live below the federal poverty level.   In 2010, Ibn Sina expects to treat over 40,000 patients.

Inpatient Mental Health facility for women in underserved populations
Recipient: St. Joseph Medical Center
Address: 1401 St. Joseph Parkway, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $350,000
Description: To retrofit a medical floor to develop an inpatient mental health unit exclusively focused on the needs of women in underserved populations. This project will help address the growing and unique mental health needs of women who would otherwise not obtain care. 

I-69 Construction
Recipient: Texas Department of Transportation
Address: 125 East 11th Street, Austin, TX, 78701
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: To complete the Tier  II Environmental Impact Study for the I-69 Corridor which has been consistently recognized by Congress as a national transportation priority. When completed, I-69 will enhance economic development and provide for more efficient access to the Port of Houston, thereby improving safety and mobility in the Houston area.

Juvenile Justice Initiative
Recipient: HoustonWorks USA
Address: 2118 Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002
Amount: $2,000,000
Description: To reclaim juveniles through preventive, educational and rehabilitative services.  It provides the necessary tools for youth to identify their weak areas, address them, and get back on track towards graduation.

Kingdom Builders Center of Houston STEM-ulate Exploration Lab
Recipient: Kingdom Builders' Center of Houston, Texas Inc.
Address: 6011 W. Orem Drive, Houston, TX, 77085
Amount: $170,000
Description: To use interactive technology to make Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) relevant in the lives of children and youth – 3rd grade to 8th grade – beyond their classroom education in an after school setting, weekends and during summer. 

Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program
Recipient: Harris County Constable Precinct 7
Address: 5290 Griggs Houston, Texas  77021
Amount: $400,000
Description: To target and perform direct patrols to chemical plants, pipelines and rail cars that travel throughout the 94.57 square miles of the Harris County Constable Precinct Seven jurisdiction. This will help build and sustain the Constable’s Department’s ability to reduce vulnerabilities, prevent, respond to, and assist in the recovery from acts of terrorism within the Precinct Seven and/or surrounding jurisdictions upon request

Life Sciences Center for STEM Programs and a School of Nursing
Recipient: University of St. Thomas
Address: 3800 Montrose Blvd., Houston, Texas  77006
Amount Requested: $2.5 million
Description: To construct the Life Sciences Center for Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math (STEM) Programs and the School of Nursing at the University of St. Thomas (UST) campus.  This project will position UST to increase the number of nurses needed to provide health care to a rapidly-growing population. 

Methodist Hospital Plato’s CAVE for Real-Time 3D Remote Surgical Planning
Recipient: Methodist Hospital
Address: 1707 Sunset Blvd.Houston, TX 77005
Amount: $4,450,000
Description: To purchase and upgrade of equipment and software to further work in the ground breaking, computer- augmented virtual environment (CAVE) known as Plato’s CAVE which consists of an integrated suite of medical imaging technologies that are able to produce an actual cyberspace image of a patient. The use of this technology by diagnosticians and providers is expected to have significant impact on reduction of medical errors.

Methodist Hospital Universal Color Mapping for Dual Reality Imaging
Recipient: Methodist Hospital
Address: 1707 Sunset Blvd.Houston, TX 77005
Amount: $500,000
Description: To develop a color coding system that would create a universally recognizable assignment of specific color to specific abnormality observed on existing imaging modalities such as CT, MRI and PET. This project will enhance the quality of medical diagnosis.

METRO Solutions Light Rail Program – North Corridor LRT
Recipient: Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO)
Address: 1900 Main, P.O. Box 61429, Houston, TX 77208-1429
Amount: $100,000,000
Description: To design and construct the North Corridor light rail transit (LRT) project, a 5.2-mile, eight station, double-track LRT line from the existing University of Houston-Downtown station to the Northline Mall Transit Center. This project will increase mobility, improve air quality, promote economic development, and create jobs.

METRO Solutions Light Rail Program – Southeast Corridor LRT
Recipient: Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO)
Address: 1900 Main, P.O. Box 61429, Houston, TX 77208-1429
Amount: $100,000,000
Description: To design and construct the Southeast Light Rail Transit (LRT) Corridor, a 6.2-mile LRT line from the Houston central business district to the Palm Center.  This project will increase mobility, improve air quality, promote economic development, and create jobs.

METRO Solutions Bus Program
Recipient: Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO)
Address: 1900 Main, P.O. Box 61429, Houston, TX 77208-1429
Amount: $75,000,000
Description: To replace buses that have exceeded their useful life, expand bus service, construct passenger and maintenance facilities, and to purchase vehicle and systems related to support expanded service.  This will expand travel choices for 9th District residents and workers, reduce demand for automobile use, reduce network congestion and decrease travel delays. 

Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC)
Recipient: Mickey Leland Urban Air Toxics Research Center
Address: 7000 Fannin Street, Suite 700, Houston, TX 77225
Amount: $3 million
Description: To conduct research to assess neighborhood air toxics and particulate matter impacts of Port activities in selected cities including Houston. The NUATRC was chartered by Congress to sponsor and gather scientific information on the human health effects caused by exposure to air toxic compounds. 

Mobile Community Health Clinic
Recipient: Bee Busy Learning Academy, inc
Address: 9898 Bissonnet Street, Suite 330 Houston, TX 77036
Amount: $120,000
Description: To purchase and renovate/retrofit a 36’Landau RV to serve as a Mobile Health Clinic, equipped with exam table, Management Information System (MIS), mobile processing lab, and private area for pre/post test counseling that will provide health awareness and free health screenings. This will improve access to quality health care in District 9.

North American Clinical Trials Network
Recipient: Christopher Reeve Foundation
Address: 636 Morris Turnpike, Suite 3A, Short Hills, NJ 07078
Amount: $4.8 million
Description: To provide for the maintenance of the existing NACTN Centers, adding new centers to the Network, upgrading and maintaining the Pharmacology Center and the Data Management/Statistical Center and continued clinical trials for spinal cord injury (SCI) research. SCI with resulting paralysis occurring in military and civilian life is a major medical and societal problem and this project can help create better therapies. 

Office of Community Empowerment
Recipient: Higher Dimension Church
Address: 9800 Club Creek Drive, Houston, TX 77036
Amount: $1 million
Description: To create an office of community empowerment that will coordinate community revitalization programs and activities such as business recruitment and retention, neighborhood development, workforce development, family support services and youth development programs.  This project will result in more appropriate application of federal resources where the greatest impact will be realized and; as a result, a significant increase in efficiency and effectiveness

Partial hospitalization programs for psychotic, geriatric, and female populations
Recipient: St. Joseph Medical Center
Address: 1401 St. Joseph Parkway, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $400,000
Description: To retrofit space for group rooms to accommodate specific needs for psychotic, geriatric, and female populations. This project will provide greater access and a better delivery model of care for those patients who require mental health services and intense therapy regimens without the necessity of an overnight stay.

Project Lift Family Assistance Program
Recipient: Light of Faith Ministries
Address: 3350 Highway 6 South, Suite 146, Sugar Land, Texas  77478
Amount: $143,900
Description: To provide direct housing, utilities assistance, clothing, food, tutoring, and transportation to poor or homeless individuals, families and children.

Project Lift Senior Citizen Breast Cancer Van
Recipient:  Light of Faith Ministries
Address: 3350 Highway 6 South, Suite 146, Sugar Land, Texas  77478
Amount: $75,000
Description: To purchase a passenger van that will provide free on demand round-trip transportation for low-income senior citizens diagnosed with breast cancer to their chemo treatments and doctor appointments.   This will assist low income and disadvantaged senior citizens who are often alone and without transportation.

Promotora Training
Recipient: St. Joseph Medical Center
Address: 1401 St. Joseph Parkway, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $250,000
Description: To create a promotora program that will train individuals to serve as health promoters to Spanish speaking patients. This project will enhance the health and wellness of our native Spanish speaking population, help reduce health disparities with native Spanish speaking populations and give better access to primary care.

Science, Technology, Engineering  and Mathematics (STEM) Initiative
Recipient: HoustonWorks USA
Address: 2118 Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002
Amount: 3,000,000
Description: To expose middle school students to careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and information technology and enhance US global competiveness in these areas.  

Renovation of Interventional Radiology Recovery/Ultrasound Exam Rooms
Recipient: Harris County Hospital District
Address: 2525 Holly Hall, Houston, TX  77054
Amount: $300,000
Description: FY11 funding will be used to add four exam rooms in the space vacated by X-ray film storage to provide a location for patients at Ben Taub General Hospital to recover after Interventional Radiology procedures. This will improve Ultrasound service and dramatically increase patient throughput to reduce excessive backlog and extensive appointment wait-times.

Shield Center Facility Renovation
Recipient: Shield Center
Address: 7902 Cicada Dr., Missouri City, TX 77459
Amount: $1 million
Description: To repair and renovate facilities at the SHIELD Center which offers community services to economically challenged individuals living in the Sunny Side community of SW Houston.  These funds will ensure that services and resources are provided in a facility that meets and passes all state, district, and governmental mandated regulations and inspections.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital Physician Teaching Program
Recipient: St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital System
Address: 6624 Fannin Street, Suite 1100, MC 5-100, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $3.5 million
Description: To support up to 50 residency slots at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, a tertiary and quaternary care, adult teaching hospital in the Greater Houston community.  These funds will alleviate existing financial burdens and address the physician shortage.

Southeast Texas Biomedical Research Institute (SETBRI) Undergraduate Training Center
Recipient: Southeast Texas Biomedical Research Institute
Address: 7789 Southeast Freeway, Suite 390, Houston, TX  77074
Amount: $8.8 million
Description: To provide a Career Academy for training in health related fields such as Medical Assistants, Clinical Assistants and Pharmacy Technicians to prepare minority students in underserved areas for careers in fields. This will help reduce health disparities in underserved communities in 13 counties in Southeast Texas.

Start & Stay Fit Program
Recipient: The Kingdom Builders' Center of Houston, Texas, Inc.
Address: 6011 W. Orem Drive, Houston, TX, 77085
Amount: $115,000
Description: To provide programs including fitness classes, after school exercise programs, nutrition education, nutrition counseling, healthy cooking labs, advocacy campaigns and training workshops for  parents, grandparents, pre-school children, pregnant mothers, and seniors in order to help prevent childhood and adulthood obesity.

Student Environmental Conservation Program
Recipient: Green Team America
Address: 6300 Westpark Drive, Suite 210, Houston, TX, 77057
Amount: $450,000
Description:  To coordinate environmental projects in 100 schools in the Houston area intended to address the arrest and reduction of CO2 atmospheric pollution and global warming issue. These programs are also designed to engage the entire family and will have dramatic results including theimmediate reduction of energy consumption, alternate power resources and sustainable lifestyles.

Sunnyside Park Redevelopment
Recipient: City of Houston
Address: 901 Bagby, Third Floor, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $8,500,000
Description: To redevelop a 300-acre landfill for recreational, environmental and energy-generation facilities.   This project will act as a national model for landfill redevelopment because it is being built upon the existing terrain of a site and showcases an urban Brownfield redevelopment model. 

Telemedicine program
Recipient: St. Joseph Medical Center
Address: 1401 St. Joseph Parkway, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $500,000
Description: To create a telemedicine program connecting the St. Joseph Medical Center with traditionally underserved areas to coordinate disaster response, provide remote health education and consults, and improving health care access. This project will improve access to specialized and primary care and reduce healthcare disparities for underserved populations.

Texas Children’s Hospital Project Medical Home
Recipient: Texas Children’s Hospital
Address: 6621 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $1.4 million
Description: To establish a new Project Medical Home (PMH), a primary care practice location for children and adolescents in a medically underserved area in west Houston. This project can relieve unnecessary visits to the emergency room for non-emergent care and reduce health care costs.

Texas Medical Center Patient Emergency Relocation System (PERS)
Recipient: Texas Medical Center
Address: 2450 Holcombe Blvd., Suite 1, Houston, TX 77021-2040
Amount: $36,000,000
Description: To construct a patient emergency relocation system (PERS) at Texas Medical Center which includes the planned expansion of the patient and pedestrian transportation system on the campus.  This system will facilitate patient transfers, including moving during emergency conditions, such as natural disasters and acts of terrorism and prevent loss of life.   

Texas Parkway (FM 2234) Raised Median Project ant the City of Missouri City, Texas
Recipient: City of Missouri City
Address: 1522 Texas Parkway, Missouri City, TX 77489
Amount: $3,013,401
Description: To eliminate a continuous turn lane and install raised medians in its place that restrict mid block conflicting turning movements.  These improvements will greatly enhance traffic mobility, reduce vehicular congestion and emissions, improve area air quality, increase economic development and enhance safety of pedestrians and drivers within the project area.

TIRR Challenge Programs for Soldiers
Recipient: Memorial Hermann TIRR (The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research)
Address: 1333 Moursund, Room E-105, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $500,000
Description: To provide outpatient rehabilitation care and equipment as well as highly specialized services and a premier brain injury rehabilitation program for up to 60 injured military service members from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

UT Health Science Center, Houston, Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders
Recipient: UT Health Science Center at Houston
Address: 7000 Fannin, Suite 1550, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $784,784
Description: To establish a new Center on Mood Disorders specialized in research and treatment of bipolar disorder and depression. While there have been important advances in our ability to treat these conditions, we still need far better treatments that will improve the outcomes for individuals who suffer from these disorders and their families. 

UT Health Science Center, Houston, High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging  Facility
Recipient: UT Health Science Center at Houston
Address: 7000 Fannin, Suite 1550, Houston, TX 77030
Amount: $15 million
Description: To purchase a 7 Tesla whole body MRI scanner for multi-institutional human studies. The scanner will help in diagnosing various neurological, neuropsychiatric (including drug abuse), and neurodevelopmental disorders. Early intervention could lead to significant containment of health care costs.

UTMDACC, Center for Research on Minority Health and HDEART Consortium
Recipient: UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Center for Research on Minority Health
Address: 1515 Holcombe Blvd.  Unit # 639, Houston, TX  77030
Amount: $5.88 million
Description: This project will help Center for Research on Minority Health to develop a model of addressing health disparities, which combines scientific research and academic pursuits with significant community involvement and participation. This research can reduce health disparities among ethic minorities and medically underserved populations as well as among minority health care professionals.

UTMDACC, Center  for Research on Minority Health Patient Navigation Project
Recipient: UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Center for Research on Minority Health
Address: 1515 Holcombe Blvd.  Unit # 639, Houston, TX  77030
Amount: $5,420,000
Description: To support a demonstration project assessing the cost effectiveness of cancer intervention and patient navigation for ethnic populations. This project will help create an increased understanding of the health disparities barriers facing this population, as well as insight into methods most successful at reducing them. 

UTMDACC, Center for Research on Minority Health Prostate Cancer Outreach
Recipient: UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Center for Research on Minority Health
Address: 1515 Holcombe Blvd.  Unit # 639, Houston, TX  77030
Amount: $1,434,000
Description: To develop a survey instrument that would assess various constructs related to prostate cancer and screening among African American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American men in the Houston metropolitan area.  The costs of inappropriate diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer to the health care system are significant, and this project will ultimately lead to a reduction of those costs.

Wellness Center for diabetes and obesity
Recipient: St. Joseph Medical Center
Address: 1401 St. Joseph Parkway, Houston, TX, 77002
Amount: $325,000
Description: To create a clinic and wellness center for the treatment, early detection, and management of diabetes and obesity, primarily focusing on eliminating the health disparities in minority populations. This project will help prevent unnecessary and costly medical care arising from the mismanagement of diabetic symptoms and effects.  It will also help promote healthy lifestyles through proper weight control, specifically focusing on the minority population.

Westchase District Intermodal Transit & Pedestrian Access Improvements
Recipient: Westchase District
Address: 10375 Richmond Avenue, Suite 1175 Houston, Texas 77042-4163
Amount: $1,127,000
Description: To make improvements to the pedestrian infrastructures such as sidewalks, street furniture, pedestrian scale lighting, ADA ramps, and transit shelters. These improvements will increase transit ridership, reduce traffic congestion and pollution, and support transit oriented development and redevelopment. 

Westchase District Intermodal Transit Terminal Advanced Planning
Recipient: Westchase District,
Address: 10375 Richmond Avenue, Suite 1175 Houston, Texas 77042-4163
Amount: $250,000
Description: To conduct advanced planning and preliminary engineering activities to determine demand and location for an Intermodal Terminal.  This project would enhance area connectivity to local and regional transit services, thereby increasing transit ridership, improving air quality, reducing traffic congestion, and enhancing access to employment and services.

William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity Mentoring Program
Recipient:  William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity
Address: 5760 Cullen Boulevard, Houston, TX 77021
Amount: $2,500,000
Description: To provide social and academic advancement for 1,000 at risk secondary school students in Houston’s low income communities with the utilization of adult mentors and case managers for participating students.  Significant police, court and jail costs for these at risk youth can be reduced or even eliminated through the effective investment in adult mentoring, community service projects, and academic improvement.

William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity Seeds for Success Project
Recipient:  William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity
Address: 5760 Cullen Boulevard, Houston, TX 77021
Amount: $2,495,000
Description: To provide at risk youth who are enrolled in secondary school (grades 6-12) with critical test taking and study skills to enable their completion of high school.  This project will increase educational involvement of at risk youth while incorporating parent education to facilitate household vocational and career opportunities.

Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy Community Bike Trail Project
Recipient: Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy
Address:  9407 Brown Leaf Circle, Houston, Texas 77096
Amount: $1.35 million
Description: Willow Waterhole Stormwater Detention Basin is one of the largest storm water detention basins that Harris County Flood Control District is building as part of the Project Brays Federal Flood Damage Reduction Project. Funding will design and build trails, parking, interpretative signage and amenities in the second phase area of the park.