FY2023 Community Project Funding Requests
Community Project Funding (CPF) is a continuing initiative first introduced for FY22. This process allows Members of Congress to request direct funding for projects that benefit the communities they represent. The new initiative entails stringent eligibility, ethics, and transparency guardrails and is only available to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, as well as some non-profits.
The below CPF requests from Congressman Foster to the House Appropriations Committee, in no particular order, were submitted for FY 2023:
Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry
834 N Highland Ave, Aurora, IL 60506
$1,800,000
This enhanced response to food insecurity will be undertaken through formalized collaborations with service partners and novel education program development. The project includes purchase of property across the street from the current facility and use of that property for coordinated access to critical wrap around services from community partners on food distribution days. Moreover, expansion includes desperately needed renovations to the purchased site and the current food distribution center to improve safety, flow, access and client dignity.
Click HERE to read the required financial disclosure letter.
DuPage Township Government
241 Canterbury Ln, Bolingbrook, IL 60440
$3,000,000
The DuPage Township Food Pantry & Resource Center in Bolingbrook, Will County, will be a new, centrally-located building construction to house a food pantry and resource center for low-income residents of DuPage Township to address food insecurity and Social Determinants of Health.
Click HERE to read the required financial disclosure letter.
Fox Valley Park District
101 W Illinois Ave, Aurora, IL 60506
$4,700,000
This project consists of final engineering and construction of a 780' long bicycle and pedestrian bridge spanning the Fox River. The project eliminates a major barrier to trail access.
Click HERE to read the required financial disclosure letter.
University of St. Francis
500 Wilcox St, Joliet, IL 60435
$500,000
This project will provide accelerator funds and mentorship to businesses and entrepreneurs in under-served categories, offer community-based programming, and additional programs to close the gap for businesses founded by Minorities, Women and Veterans.
Click HERE to read the required financial disclosure letter.
United Way of Will County Mental Health Program K-12
54 N Ottawa St STE 300, Joliet, IL 60432
$884,000
Funding will be used for launching the Resilient Youth program consisting of 22 training sessions for 529 teachers which will impact 26,186 students throughout Will County. This will be an ongoing program which will impact students in all grades K-12.
Click HERE to read the required financial disclosure letter.
Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity
1300 S Broadway Rd Suite 101, Montgomery, IL 60538
$1,250,000
The Fox Valley Habitat Green Freedom 17 home neighborhood is a breakthrough project for Habitat for Humanity's mission to provide affordable homes for hard working families of low to moderately low income. The funds requested will be used to provide the infrastructure for the neighborhood, including water and sewer lines, streets, sidewalks and stormwater mitigation.
Click HERE to read the required financial disclosure letter.
VNA Health Care
400 N Highland Ave, Aurora, IL 60506
$500,000
Funding will be used to support the construction of a new healthcare center in Joliet built on land already owned by VNA. It will support 24 examination rooms, a wellness kitchen, waiting areas, lab, nursing stations, and mental and behavioral health service department.
Click HERE to read the required financial disclosure letter.
City of Naperville
400 S. Eagle Street, Naperville, IL 60540
$900,000
This funding will support Naperville Riverwalk Eagle Street Gateway and Accessibility Improvements.
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Pace, the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority
550 W. Algonquin Road, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005
$1,200,000
Pace proposes to build (on the existing site) a building with public restrooms, vending machines, and signage with real-time bus departure information. The new facility would be fully accessible to people with disabilities and would offer a considerably more welcoming environment for transit riders who are currently exposed to heat and cold as they wait for a bus. Pace has successfully deployed indoor waiting areas at other park-n-rides along I-55 and seek to bring a similar upgrade to Bolingbrook.
Click HERE to read the required financial disclosure letter.
Aurora University
347 S Gladstone Ave, Aurora, IL 60506
$955,000
Funding Request for the Emerging Technologies Learning Lab is a one-time request to purchase technology and equipment to create three high-impact learning spaces within the Lab: Virtual Reality Classroom, Visualization Room, and Workplace Simulation. This innovative and dynamic center for student success will include experiential and immersive learning opportunity powered by emerging technologies such as virtual reality, mixed reality, and augmented reality.
Click HERE to read the required financial disclosure letter.
Association for Individual Development (AID)
309 W New Indian Trail Ct, Aurora, IL 60506
$3,000,000
AID, Hesed House and The Neighbor Project have formed a partnership to purchase and renovate an existing apartment building in Aurora, IL into a mixed-use Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) + Pathway to Homeownership residence.
Click HERE to read the required financial disclosure letter.
City of Aurora Public Safety Technology Project
44 E Downer Pl, Aurora, IL 60505
$2,280,000
The Aurora Police Department is in the process of upgrading the technology infrastructure to improve public safety. The project is taking a holistic approach that includes the 911 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), the camera/recording system in the interview rooms and the phone system in the city's 911 Dispatch center. The PSAP will improve the effective delivery of emergency communications to first responders. The backup 911 Dispatch center at Fire Station 8 and the main Aurora Police Department 911 Dispatch center will be modernized with new and advanced workstation consoles, enhanced innovated noise control solutions, and next generation technologies/capabilities.
Click HERE to read the required financial disclosure letter.
City of Aurora "Montgomery Rd/Hill Ave Intersection"
44 E. Downer Pl, Aurora, IL 60505
$1,000,000
The project consists of improving the intersection of Montgomery Road and Hill Avenue by modernizing traffic signals, reconstructing and widening the roadways to include additional travel (through) lanes & turn lanes, constructing bike paths and sidewalks, making ADA ramp improvements, making a right-of-way acquisition to do the improvements, working on drainage, and other pertinent improvements. The project will improve traffic capacity, safety and traffic operations while minimizing environmental impacts.
Click HERE to read the required financial disclosure letter.
City of Joliet – Creation and Support of Regional Water Authority
150 W. Washington St. Joliet IL 60432
5,000,000
This funding will be used to support the creation of a regional water authority and construction of the infrastructure to bring Lake Michigan water to Joliet and surrounding towns, pursuant to their local agreement, in order to reduce the overall burden of the cost of water on property owners in the region.
Click HERE to read the required financial disclosure letter.
Will County Project - Rt 53 Bike Path
17540 W Laraway Rd, Joliet, IL 60433
$1,100,000
Will County and the Forest Preserve District of Will County are working in tandem to establish safe pedestrian accommodations from the Route 53 corridor to the regional trail systems of Will County and beyond. This project is currently in the feasibility phase. The Forest Preserve has evaluated potential routes and determined that the proposed alignment utilizing the Commonwealth Eddison Utility corridor is the ideal route. The approximately 1.34 mile, 10' wide asphalt trail would connect multiple residential developments along Route 53 to a school, regional trail systems, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, and local businesses.