Intended Recipient:

Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority

Requested Amount:

$8,000,000

Project Name:

Ypsilanti Transit Center Design and Construction

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

2700 S. Industrial Hwy., Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

The funding will support the planning and environmental work to expand the public transit terminal in the City of Ypsilanti. The scope of this request includes the demolition of the existing facility and construction of a new facility on the existing site. It also includes some funds for the temporary relocation of bus and passenger transfer activities.

Intended Recipient:

City of Ann Arbor

Request Amount:

$2,500,000

Project Name:

Carbon Neutral Ann Arbor

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

301 E Huron, Ann Arbor, MI 48107

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

This project works to ensure that seven critical city facilities, including fire stations, water and wastewater treatment plants, and emergency response operations, are able to function every single day, even when the power goes out, by installing onsite renewable energy systems paired with onsite battery storage.

Intended Recipient:

City of Dearborn

Request Amount:

$1,170,600

Project Name:

Dearborn WORKS (Women’s Opportunities to Realize their Knowledge and Skills)

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

16901 Michigan Ave, Dearborn, MI 48126

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

The funding will support a program which will offer peer-to-peer support as well as workshop-based training to women who have been economically and socially underrepresented in the workforce. Dearborn WORKS will assist participants with the ability to start and manage their own small/home businesses. This incubator program will mentor women in culturally appropriate settings in the industry of their choosing and provide soft skills in retail and commercial environments to build comfort around financial transactions and customer interaction. A second tier to the program will offer support to women who already have businesses and/or applicable skills and wish to grow their project into a microenterprise, allowing them to take their entrepreneurial talent to market.

Intended Recipient:

City of Rockwood

Requested Amount:

$5,290,471.55

Project Name:

Public Streets Rehabilitation Project

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

32409 Fort Road, Rockwood, MI 48173

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

The funding for this project supports the removal and replacement of pavement on streets identified as failed or in very poor condition by PASER (Pavement Surface Evaluation and Rating System). The project provides the residents with safer roads and minimizes the long-term maintenance costs of the streets needing repair.

Intended Recipient:

Community Action Network

Request Amount:

$500,000

Project Name:

You CAN Thrive: Youth Development in Modern, Post-Pandemic World

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

809 Taylor Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

The funding will support CAN’s educational programs that seek to meet students’ basic and foundational needs by providing a safe, nurturing environment in which all students can eat nutritious meals, play, receive academic assistance, participate in enrichment activities, and develop healthy relationships with peers and adults. CAN defines basic needs as the minimum resources necessary for long-term physical well-being: comfortable space, access to sanitation, access to sleep, food and safety; foundational needs are defined as the minimum resources necessary for long-term social-emotional and academic well-being: role models, play, internet, creative expression, peer and adult support, consistency. Ultimately, the goal of CAN’s educational programs is to provide the educational and social-emotional support that youth need to become well-adjusted, self-sufficient adults and reach their highest potential.

Intended Recipient:

Detroit Region Aerotropolis Development Corporation

Request Amount:

$865,775

Project Name:

Pennsylvania Road Grade Separation

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

11895 Wayne Rd., Suite 101A, Romulus, MI 48174

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter:

Explanation of Request:

The funding will be used to lift Pennsylvania Road above the CSX rail tracks to improve public safety and achieve multimodal transportation objectives without severe blockages. The location of this project is the intersection of Pennsylvania Road and the CSX rail tracks located on the border of Romulus and Huron Township.AVAI

Intended Recipient:

Downriver Community Conference

Request Amount:

$703,700

Project Name:

First Responder and Critical Occupations Training Program

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

15100 Northline Road, Southgate, MI 48195

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

The funding will be used to recruit, train and place job seekers in critical openings in the first responder workforce. Funding would provide staff dedicated to career readiness, career coaching, recruitment, training, placement, and follow-up support (i.e., books, certifications, work tools, transportation, etc.). Job seekers could be unemployed, low income, laid off, underemployed or incumbent workers. Efforts would include serving priority job seekers such as Veterans, returning citizens, and youth, just to name a few. Project will help remove barriers and pay for required training with local community colleges and vocational centers.

Intended Recipient:

Downriver Mutual Aid

Request Amount:

$750,000

Project Name:

Technology Improvements for Downriver Mutual Aid Consortium

Full Address of Intended Recipient

15100 Northline Road, Southgate, MI 48195

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

The funding will be used to purchase new technology to improve overall effectiveness of public safety, particularly connectivity and communication between 18 police departments in the DMA Consortium.

Intended Recipient:

Friends of the Detroit River

Request Amount:

$4,100,000

Project Name:

Construction Funding for Gap and Intersection Improvements for the Downriver Linked Greenways Trail System

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

20600 Eureka Rd, #250, Taylor, MI 48180

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

The funding would strengthen connections of the Downriver Linked Greenways trails system by connecting gaps and intersections and continuing a bicycle lane on West Jefferson Road. The gaps, intersections, and bike lane cover nine communities, home to over 130,000 people, in the Downriver area.

Intended Recipient:

Garrett’s Space

Request Amount:

$4,000,000

Project Name:

Garrett’s Space Residential Center

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

1400 Granger Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

The funding will be used to create a residential center in Southeast Michigan. The Center will be a place where young adult, ages 18 to 28, facing significant mental health challenges can receive crucial support and learn and practice strategies that will help them learn how to live in an increasingly complex and complicated world.

Intended Recipient:

Great Lakes Water Authority

Request Amount:

$4,000,000

Project Name:

PFAS Compounds Remediation Project

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

735 Randolph, Suite 1900, Detroit, MI 48226

Signed Financial Disclosure:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

Funding would allow GLWA to establish a demonstration project for rapid response, remediation, treatment, and disposal of PFAS compound contamination impacts in the Oakwood Sewer District, and identify and eliminate Emerging Contaminants (i.e. PFAS Compounds) that have been discharged within its system. It will benefit water quality of the entire region by removing the contaminants from wastewater.

Intended Recipient:

Gross Ile Twp

Request Amount:

$4,289,928

Project Name:

Upgrades to Grosse Ile Twp Wastewater Treatment Plant

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

9601 Groh Road, Grosse Ile, MI 48138

Signed Financial Disclosure:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

Funding will allow for the completion of legally mandated upgrades to the Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant. The purpose of these upgrades is to increase the capacity of the plant to minimize sanitary sewer overflows to the Detroit River/ Lake Erie. The elimination of these overflows of untreated or partially treated sewer effluent will aid in the improvement of water quality within the Detroit River/Lake Erie watershed.

Intended Recipient:

Wayne Metro

Request Amount

$1,850,000

Project Name:

Homeless Shelter System in Out- Wayne County

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

7310 Woodward Ave., Suite 800, Detroit, MI 48202

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

The funding will the support rehabilitation, renovation, improvements, and launch an emergency homeless shelter system for single adults in Wayne County, Michigan, known locally as Out-Wayne County. The former emergency shelter system in Out-Wayne County became obsolete as a result of the pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, several churches and their volunteers provided space and served the public during winter months. That system no longer operates due to health and safety concerns. Wayne Metro, with the support of its partners, proposes to create two emergency shelters – a day shelter in Taylor and an overnight shelter in River Rouge, Michigan. Wayne Metro will offer professional services to enhance the shelter system with case management, life skills and supportive services.

Intended Recipient:

Washtenaw County

Request Amount:

$4,000,000

Project Name:

Water Street Site Remediation

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

220 N Main St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

The funding will support the completion of remediation of the 38-acre Water Street site in Ypsilanti, MI. This site is heavily contaminated with lead and PCBs from past industrial operations, making the site unattractive for private redevelopment. Complete site remediation makes the site attractive for redevelopment and allows productive economic, residential, and recreational use of a critical property. Redevelopment is a long-term goal and would significantly contribute to the life and future of the City and County.

Intended Recipient:

Washtenaw Community College

Request Amount:

$5,000,000

Project Name:

Electric Charging Station Maintenance Certificate Program

Full Address of Intended Recipient:

4800 E Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Signed Financial Disclosure Letter:

AVAILABLE HERE

Explanation of Request:

The funding will allow WCC: 1. to develop an Electric Battery (Cell Assembly/Diagnostics-Validation/Cell-Pack Replacement/Repurposing /Recycling) and Electric Charging Station Maintenance curriculum that meets the needs of industry; 2. to develop training to upskill the incumbent workforce; 3. to acquire the lab equipment needed to teach the essential competencies of the curriculum; 4. to hire and/or train faculty to deliver the curriculum. The college credit Electric Battery Program Certificate will be built as a stackable credential that leads to an associate degree and business/industry certification. The Electric Charging Station Maintenance non-credit Certificate of Completion will be designed to articulate to college credit and will also be aligned with business/industry certification.