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Earmarks: Transportation, Housing & Urban Development

Affordable Housing
Project: Sixteenth Place, Nebraska
Name of Recipient: City of Omaha
Location of Recipient: Omaha, Nebraska
Purpose: for site preparation and development of affordable housing opportunities
Amount Requested: $500,000
Taxpayer Interest: This funding would support prior taxpayer investment in new and rehabilitated housing in an economically distressed neighborhood leading to greater private investment, adding to the stock of affordable housing units and the removal of blighted conditions along a major artery leading to the downtown.
Letter requesting the earmark:
• Jim Suttle, Mayor of Omaha

Community Center Expansion
Project: Malone Center Facility Expansion and Renovation, Nebraska
Name of Recipient: Clyde Malone Community Center
Location of Recipient: Lincoln, Nebraska
Purpose: for construction and renovation of the Clyde Malone Community Center
Amount Requested: $500,000
Pending Amount Earmarked: $500,000
Taxpayer Interest: This project will expand culturally appropriate after school, tutoring, and community learning center services for disadvantaged, low-income minority youth; senior services; and counseling and case management services for domestic violence victims that are culturally appropriate.
Letter requesting the earmark:
• TJ McDowell, Jr., Executive Director
Letters in support of the earmark:
• State Senator Danielle Conrad, District 46
• Doug Emery, Chair, Lincoln City Council
• Marien Ruiz, Executive Director, El Centro de las Americas
• Kit Boesch, Lancaster County Human Services Administrator
Learning Center
Project: Education and Interactive Learning Center, Nebraska
Name of Recipient: Heritage Services
Location of Recipient: Omaha, Nebraska
Purpose: to construct an 80,000 square foot, multi-level facility that will accommodate an Education and Interactive Learning Center .
Amount Requested: $2,200,000
Pending Amount Earmarked: $800,000
Taxpayer Interest: expands educational opportunities and improves education facilities within the City of Omaha.
Letter requesting the earmark:
• Walter Scott

Highway 83 Study
Project: Highway 83 Expressway Corridor Location Study
Name of Recipient: McCook Economic Development
Location of Recipient: McCook, NE
Purpose: To fund a highway Corridor Location Study for U.S. Highway 83
between the Kansas state line south of McCook, Nebraska to North Platte, Nebraska.
Amount Requested: $2,400,000
Taxpayer Interest: Improvement of this roadway will stimulate economic growth in Southwest Nebraska. Because there is a distance of over 330 miles between 4 lane routes connecting Interstates 70 and 80, and given the extreme traffic congestion north and south on I-25 in Colorado, it is believed that there is pent-up demand for an alternative route between these interstates particularly for trucks.
Letter requesting the earmark:
• Jim Ulrich, President, MEDC and Rex Nelson, Executive Director, MEDC

Omaha Buses and Bus Facilities
Project: Metro Area Transit – Bus and Bus Facilities, Omaha, Nebraska
Name of Recipient: Metro Area Transit
Location of Recipient: Omaha, Nebraska
Purpose: to purchase replacement buses and build a compressed natural gas filling station
Amount Requested: $11,150,000
Pending Amount Earmarked: $1,500,000
Taxpayer Interest:This funding would enable Metro Area Transit to purchase buses that comply with federal regulations mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency to operate buses under a certain diesel emissions standard. Additionally, funding would be used to construct a compressed natural gas filling station suitable for buses.
Letter requesting the earmark:
• Curt Simon, Executive Director of MAT

Updated 11.16.10