Grant

April 20 - 26, 2018

  • $958,885 in one Public Works project as follows:
    • $858,885 to the Village of Delta, the Maumee Valley Planning Organization, and Fulton County, Ohio to fund the construction of a new raw water pump station to provide untreated water service to an industrial park within Fulton County and the Village of Delta, Ohio. The project includes two new vertical turbine style pumps with suction piping connected to an old reservoir intake located immediately north of the pump station. This investment will support and enhance economic development in the Northwest Ohio region, which will help expand job opportunities and address the unemployment rate in the area. The grantees estimate that this investment will help create 165 jobs and leverage $81.19 million in private investment.
  • $968,774 in two Economic Adjustment Assistance projects as follows:
    • $788,774 to the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor UCLA BioMed, Torrance, California, to fund the purchase and acquisition of research equipment for use in a biotech incubator facility in Torrance, California. Once completed, the project will improve service capacity of the incubator, which will assist entrepreneurial firms in creating more employment opportunities for the region’s workforce. In addition, this project will address the region’s demand for more high-skilled workers and increase private capital investment in the local community.
    • $180,000 to the Capital Area Council of Governments, Austin, Texas, to fund the implementation of the Capital Area Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Program, which will assist communities impacted by Hurricane Harvey in the Capital Area Region of Texas, specifically in Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, and Lee counties. The project activity will include identification of potential resiliency, mitigation, and economic recovery projects in these disaster declared areas, as well as developing a secure regional data hub for geospatial data. This project will bring together the region’s public and private sectors in the creation of a roadmap that supports economic recovery, reconstruction, redevelopment, workforce training, resiliency, and long-term planning.
  • $65,000 in one Partnership Planning project to support the development and implementation of the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) process. The CEDS process is designed to bring together the public and private sectors in the creation of an economic development roadmap to diversify and strengthen the regional economy.