COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING REQUESTS FY 2023
Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations Community Project Funding
I am pleased to announce that I will be accepting submissions for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) Community Project Funding (CPF) requests to the House Appropriations Committee to benefit communities in my congressional district. This process will ensure that your representative, not Washington bureaucrats, has the opportunity to direct aid to eligible and deserving projects in our community.
This year I have the opportunity to submit fifteen CPF requests. Requests are limited to specific accounts determined by the House Appropriations Committee. Details and guidance on the eligible accounts can be found below. I urge requestees to review the eligible account guidance before submitting requests. For transparency and as required by the House of Representatives, I will make public all fifteen Community Project Funding requests submitted for consideration. The House Appropriations Committee will review these requests.
Please keep in mind that my office will receive far more project requests than can be submitted or fulfilled. There is limited funding available, and funding levels for CPFs will depend on funding within each House Appropriations subcommittee account. I am limited to submitting 15 thoroughly vetted CPF requests, and there is no guarantee any, let alone all 15, will be funded.
When evaluating requests, I will look for projects that support job creation, promote economic recovery, and support community priorities. The more support a project has within the community, the better chance it has of being funded.
Transparency
All Members of Congress are required to post all Community Project Funding requests submitted to the committee on their website. The posting must include the name of the proposed recipient, the address, the amount of the request, and an explanation of the purpose and justification for the use of taxpayer funds. I must also certify that I do not have a financial interest in the project, nor do any of my family members.
Please keep in mind this is a months-long process. Until an appropriations bill is signed into law, there is no guarantee a project will get funded, even if approved by the House or Senate.
If you have problems or questions while completing your submission, please email communityfundOr04@mail.house.gov.
Requested Projects
FY23 Community Project Funding Submissions Website Transparency
Project Name: Coos County Libby Lane Paving Project MP 3.33 to MP 5.62
Requested Amount: $608,000
Intended Recipient: Coos County, Oregon
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 250 North Baxter Street, Coquille, Oregon 97423
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request:
Libby Lane is a major collector road between Coos Bay and Charleston and is a main thoroughfare for tourism traffic, commercial traffic, and local traffic. Requested funding would allow Coos County to expedite completion of its pavement overlay project, which is a precursor to installing rumble strips on Libby Lane. This funding would allow the County to complete the paving project in one year rather than four years and ensure that rumble strips can be installed on new overlay, rather than on old pavement. This project has numerous safety and economic benefits.
Libby Lane has the highest accident rate of any county road in Coos County. Libby Lane is heavily trafficked as it is one of only two roads between the cities of Coos Bay and Charleston. Because Libby Lane runs through rugged terrain, there are very few straight segments, which increases the danger of accidents.
Project Name: Expanding Career and Technical Education Opportunities – Implementing a Cosmetology Program at Gateways High School
Requested Amount: $348,000
Intended Recipient: Springfield Public Schools (Oregon)
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 425 10th St., Springfield, OR 97477
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request: Springfield Public Schools seeks federal funding for the implementation of a cosmetology Career Technical Educational (CTE) pathway at Gateways High School (GHS), offering students the opportunity to graduate with an Oregon cosmetology license. The new pathway would create a new avenue for students to exit their K-12 education and enter directly into living wage careers in hair design, barber, esthetics, and nail technology. In 2021, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted an increased demand of 19 percent in the cosmetology sector over the next decade as well as a sustainable job market for graduates to begin work immediately upon graduation.
This request will support the initial start-up cost for the program: Minor facility modifications, one-time purchase of industry standard equipment, curriculum materials, and supplies that meet Oregon Department of Education standards. Springfield Public Schools will maximize State High School Success grant funds to cover the remaining funds needed to complete the program.
Project Name: Lane Transit District Fleet Fall Protection & Crane Project
Requested Amount: $800,000
Intended Recipient: Lane Transit District (Lane County, Oregon)
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 3500 E. 17th Ave., Eugene, OR 97403
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request: Lane Transit District's (LTD) Board of Directors have committed to a 100 percent fleet turnover and phase out of fossil fuels by 2035. LTD will have 30 fully electric buses by the end of 2022. With the introduction of fully electric buses, LTD is presented with an opportunity for the fleet shop to evolve to accommodate these buses. One reality with battery electric buses is the need to install batteries and other critical equipment on top of the bus to provide the needed range for delivering service to our community. When LTD’s shop was constructed in 1990, the need to access the top of the buses was not a consideration; however, it is currently a daily requirement for inspecting, troubleshooting, repairing, and training to support alternative fuel buses. This project will provide a fixed working platform that will allow staff to safely and efficiently access the top of the bus to work on these critical high voltage systems. The project will also include a crane hoist that will be able to access anywhere on top of the bus for removing and replacing equipment throughout the life of the bus.
Project Name: Dorris Ranch Orchard Replacement
Requested Amount: $232,000
Intended Recipient: Willamalane Park and Recreation District
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 250 S. 32nd St., Springfield, OR, 97478
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request: The Willamalane Park and Recreation District (WPRD) is seeking $232,000 to replace diseased filbert trees at Dorris Ranch. The Dorris Ranch is recognized as the oldest working filbert orchard in the United States. Filberts are still harvested, and WPRD uses the proceeds to offset the cost to manage and maintain the 258-acre property and facilities. Dorris Ranch is highly utilized by the community, visited by thousands of people every year as a destination for hiking, running, field trips, and community events. The approximately 6,000 filbert trees at the site have been devastated by Eastern Filbert Blight fungal disease. If left untreated, trees infected with Eastern Filbert Blight die, which not only decreases the enjoyment of visitors, but also reduces the filbert harvest proceeds needed to maintain the property, and forces WPRD to spend resources repeatedly to treat existing trees for blight using chemicals and pesticides. The treatments in that expensive process can be harmful to humans and animals, which forces the park to close seasonally for treatment application. The best use of taxpayer dollars and most environmentally friendly way to battle the disease and protect a National Register of Historic Place property for generations to come is to replant the orchards with blight-resistant varieties.
Project Name: Sweet Home Clinic and Urgent Care - Mid-Valley Healthcare, Inc.
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
Intended Recipient: Mid-Valley Healthcare, Inc. (dba Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital)
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 525 North Santiam Highway, Lebanon, Oregon, 97355
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request: This project funding will be used to help Samaritan Health Services build a 15,000 sq. ft. family medicine clinic and urgent care, in addition to a helipad, in Sweet Home, Oregon, which would increase access to health care in a rural community that is under-resourced. There will be 20 family medicine exam rooms and seven urgent care rooms, allowing for growth and the hiring of additional providers. This facility will also include telehealth advancements which will allow patients to receive care from specialists. A dental clinic is being planned as part of this project, and there will be behavioral health specialists and a psychologist on site. The clinic is an established “spoke” in the hub model, coordinating closely with the Samaritan Treatment and Recovery Services program to treat substance use disorders, including opioid dependency. Currently, there is no room to expand the community clinic, which serves 7,500 patients annually, meaning providers are unable to accept new patients. There have been times when patients have had to wait 120 days for an appointment. This project will reduce the burden on local emergency response to address routine medical care and medical emergences and thus will result in a healthier community.
Project Name: Immediate Occupancy Standard for Multipurpose Facility at Lane Events Center
Requested Amount: $1,500,000
Intended Recipient: Lane County, Oregon
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 125 East 8th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon, 97401
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request:
Lane County seeks $1,500,000 in federal funding to ensure that the Lane County Multi-Purpose Facility (LCMPF) planned for the Lane Events Center (LEC) is constructed to Immediate Occupancy Life Safety Standards (IOLFSS) and meets the enhanced building code requirements to remain functional in the event of a Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) seismic event. The odds are roughly one in three that, in the next fifty years, the Pacific Northwest will experience an earthquake and tsunami in the CSZ that will forever change the region. If this were to happen, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) is projecting that nearly 13,000 people would die, another 27,000 would be injured, and FEMA would need to provide shelter for one million displaced people as well as food and water for another 2.5 million. Additionally, the area is highly prone to devastating wildfires and needs additional facilities to provide emergency shelter to people who need to evacuate and/or lose their homes due to wildfire. For example, thousands of people lost their homes during the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire in the region.
Built to the IOLFSS standard, the LCMPF can provide for mass sheltering, enhanced communications, and other post-disaster services. The facility will include significant food service, showering, and bathroom facilities for care and feeding in post-disaster events. Additionally, it will serve as a center for regular community events.
Project Name: Lane County Stabilization Center for Behavioral Health
Requested Amount: $1,500,000
Intended Recipient: Lane County, Oregon
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 125 E. 8th Ave., Eugene, Oregon, 97401
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request:
Lane County seeks $1,500,000 in federal funding to retrofit and provide equipment for a facility it will utilize to house a 24/7/365 Stabilization Center for Behavioral Health. The Center will leverage existing services, including mobile crisis teams, crisis respite, sobering services, and crisis lines, to develop the additional element of a walk-in (or police drop off) clinic which will include stabilization beds. It will utilize evidence-based services, peer and family supports, prescribing, and connections to long term care for individuals regardless of age, documentation status, or insurance status. The outcome for the community will be fewer arrests and incarcerations, more participation in meaningful treatment for those who are high utilizers of emergency services, and better management of homelessness for our communities.
Lane County’s jail has become a de-facto mental health institution due to lack of incarceration alternatives for local law enforcement agencies. The County engages with a high volume of individuals who cycle through criminal justice and crisis systems on a frequent basis. Justice system involvement can make it more difficult to break cycles of poverty and homelessness. Having a home base as a behavioral health hub and altrenative detox location would significantly improve behavioral health workforce coordination and the County’s capacity to provide the care and response community members deserve in a safe and appropriate manner.
Project Name: Lane County Public Safety Dispatch Center Equipment
Requested Amount: $176,000
Intended Recipient: Lane County, OR
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 125 East 8th Street, Eugene, Oregon 97401
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request: The Lane County Sheriff’s Office operates a 24/7/365 dispatch center to direct appropriate response staff during emergencies or investigations, including Deputies, District Attorney Investigators, Parole and Probation Officers, Fire Districts, and municipal police and fire departments in several small cities in Lane County. 911 calls are routed to the dispatch center from one of three public safety answering points (PSAP) located within Lane County. This funding request would replace ten consoles, chairs, and lighting. Due to its secondary call center nature, this Sheriff’s facility has limited access to the funding provided to the primary PSAPs. The computer based equipment in the call center is modern, but the consoles and supporting furniture are almost 25 years old, and mechanical systems are often not functional. Replacement parts have become impossible to source. This funding request would replace ten consoles as well as chairs and lighting fixtures. The dispatch center is in need of much more modern equipment specifically designed for call centers. Being able to use this funding to refurbish this dispatch center would dramatically improve working conditions for the staff who are truly first responders for this community.
Project Name: Lebanon Community Services Center
Requested Amount: $1,750,000
Intended Recipient: Crossroads Communities
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 146 West Grant St., Lebanon, Oregon, 97355
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request:
Crossroads Communities is seeking $1.75 million in Community Facilities Grant funding to purchase a building to house community service providers, renovate interior spaces, and purchase building equipment to establish a Lebanon Community Services Center in Lebanon, Oregon. This center will provide a centralized location for social service providers to offer comprehensive, holistic, wrap-around care to vulnerable populations in a rural area with limited access to services. Crossroads Communities is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, based out of Lebanon, dedicated to serving homeless, at-risk, and disadvantaged families, people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, and those being treated for mental illnesses.
Project Name: Benton Area Transit Fleet Replacement
Requested Amount: $1,512,000
Intended Recipient: Oregon Department of Transportation
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 355 Capitol St NE MS 11, Salem, OR 97301
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request:
Benton Area Transit operates a fleet of 20 vehicles and provides service to residents and visitors of Benton County and the larger region. Through collaboration with public transportation partners in six counties, the agency operates transit services that help Oregonians access critical medical services, work, education, as well as recreation that is vital to Oregon’s coastal communities. However, a significant portion of the bus fleet has exceeded its useful life.
Acquiring new buses will allow Benton Area Transit to continue to serve Benton County and the region with safe, accessible, and reliable public transportation. The fleet currently has six buses that are at or nearing the end of their useful life and it’s critical to replace these aging vehicles. This project, if funded, would enable Benton Area Transit to replace four Category E style buses and two Category D buses with four electric buses and two hybrid buses. The County estimates the cost of buses at $240,000 each, which brings the total estimated vehicle cost to $1,440,000. In addition, the County would need an additional investment of $450,000 that would enable the development of up to 25 stations that could be used both by fleet and county staff, as well as the structure to charge buses. Benton County is ready to contribute a 20 percent match for the project. All resources will be used completely on the acquisition cost for each electric or hybrid bus or development of charging stations.
Project Name: University of Oregon Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP): Oregon Students Helping Oregon Communities Address Climate, Equity, and Affordability
Requested Amount: $1,156,695
Intended Recipient: University of Oregon’s Sustainable City Year Program
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 1209 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1209
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request: The University of Oregon’s Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) is an innovative and simple way to advance community needs while fostering student career readiness skills. This project is for short term, transitionary support to help establish SCYP as a key mechanism to apply new, ambitious state "Climate Friendly and Equitable Community" policies into local practice and to do it in a way that brings educational and community value to all.
SCYP began in 2010 and annually works throughout Oregon, matching university courses, faculty, and students with community-identified needs. A typical partnership year can include up to thirty different courses across more than ten academic disciplines with students applying over 50,000 hours of effort to help local communities. The partnership model is scalable to local community and classroom contexts and has successfully worked with Oregon’s smallest and largest population centers in all regions of the State.
This funding would be used for staff time for planning, programming, community engagement, and development of various deliverables, which would allow the program to advance community needs while fostering student career readiness skills through applied learning and community engagement at scale.
Project Name: Childcare facilities at the new YMCA in Eugene, Oregon.
Requested Amount: $2,000,000
Intended Recipient: YMCA of Eugene
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 2055 Patterson St., Eugene, Oregon, 97405
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request:
The new Eugene YMCA’s mission is to transform Lane County’s ability to meet critical health and education needs, including childcare. The federal funding requested would be used to construct childcare facilities as part of a larger project to build a new YMCA in Eugene. It would include preschool classrooms, drop-in childcare spaces for parents attending YMCA programs, a Youth Learning Lab for middle school children to participate in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (S.T.E.A.M.) programs, and a safe and drug-free environment to serve teenagers through a variety of mentoring and educational programs.
Lane County, Oregon, which includes Eugene, is a childcare desert where many families face extreme waitlists for their children to enroll in a licensed preschool program. As we grapple with the long-term effects of learning loss and academic disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is especially critical for children to have access to quality extracurricular programs like the ones offered at the YMCA. Additional childcare spaces, for all ages, in this new facility would transform the YMCA’s ability to educate and serve hundreds of additional children each year in purpose-built classrooms and educational spaces. This facility will be built in a ‘Severely Distressed’ Census Tract and within relatively easy walking distance to several schools to help increase access to these important programs and services, a benefit for both children and their parents.
Project Name: River Road – Santa Clara Pedestrian & Bicycle Bridge
Requested Amount: $6,000,000
Intended Recipient: City of Eugene, Oregon
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 99 East Broadway, Suite 400, Eugene, Oregon, 97401
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request:
Federal funding for this project will connect the River Road and Santa Clara neighborhoods, which are currently bisected by the Beltline highway, with a pedestrian and bicycle bridge that will enable more people to use active transportation for school, work, shopping, and other trips. The bridge will also connect half of the North Eugene High School service area - the highest-need student population of Eugene School District 4J’s four traditional high schools - to the high school and allow students to walk or bike on safer neighborhood streets to get to school, without the need to travel through several of Eugene’s most dangerous intersections. The City of Eugene has completed an engineering feasibility study for the pedestrian and bicycle bridge and is ready to move to the next phase of the project.
Project Name: 42nd Street Levee Modernization Feasibility Study, Springfield, Oregon
Requested Amount: $100,000
Intended Recipient: City of Springfield, Oregon
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 225 Fifth Street, Springfield, Oregon 97477
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request: Federal funds would be used for a feasibility study that will assess and identify how to best modernize the City of Springfield’s 42nd Street Levee to meet current flood control standards.
The requested Continuing Authorities Program Section 205 Feasibility Study will identify the federal nexus for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to assist the City of Springfield, Oregon, with developing and implementing a comprehensive project plan to modernize the 42nd Street Levee and stabilize the McKenzie River channel migration. The 42nd Street Levee protects over 35 percent of Springfield’s residents and over $4 billion in assets, including the National Guard Armory, Bureau of Land Management offices, several schools, a hospital, and major industrial and commercial users. The levee system was constructed in 1959 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Lane County, Oregon, under the authority of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (PL 83-566, as amended). City of Springfield received levee ownership from Lane County in 1983. An Inventory and Review assessment done by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Seattle District and the City of Springfield assigned a Moderate Risk rating (12/23/2019) to this levee system due in part to unknown foundation conditions, structural deficiencies, and continuing unconstrained channel migration of the McKenzie River toward the levee. In addition, the City has identified that the levee crest needs to be raised about 3 feet to provide the minimum freeboard (44 CFR 65.10(b)(1)(i)) above the 100-year flood water level to meet criteria for levee certification and accreditation as a flood control structure. This project would be the catalyst for modernization of the levee.
Project Name: Southwest Oregon Regional Recovery Center
Requested Amount: $3,000,000
Intended Recipient: Adapt Integrated Health Care (Adapt)
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 621 West Madrone, Roseburg, Oregon, 97470.
[Link to Financial Disclosure Letter]
Explanation of the Request: Adapt is an Oregon-based nonprofit agency that has been providing healthcare services to Southern Oregonians for over 50 years. The community they serve is largely rural and low-income, and many must travel long distances to receive general health, behavioral, or substance abuse treatment and care. Adapt serves as an essential provider for this community. Their current adult residential facility and combined detox has 32 beds—there are waiting lists for services at their facility and across the state.
These federal project funds would be used to build phase one of a new residential treatment facility to expand their capacity for care, which will be a 16-bed central hub/detox facility of approximately 20,000 square feet. This will serve as the primary common space and support services for the completed residential facility including kitchen, dining area, group rooms, counselor offices, and laundry facilities. It can also operate as an autonomous 16-bed-Detox until phase two is complete. Adapt has already purchased property and is in the process of designing the facility in a rural campus layout with energy-efficient buildings and plenty of green space.
LINK TO FY22 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING