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(Akron) 03/05/2009: Akron Council gets first taste of stimulus spendinghttp://www.akron.com/akron-ohio-community-news.asp?aID=4799The city submitted 18 projects totaling $85.25 million. With the exception of resurfacing theGlendale Cemetery parking lot, the projects all fall into the highway infrastructure category. Someof the projects include the rehabilitation of Frank Boulevard, at $7 million; the rehabilitation of West Market Street from Pershing Avenue to Revere Road, at $5 million; and the rehabilitation of Mull Avenue from White Pond Drive to Hawkins Avenue to ease traffic congestion, at $5 million.Merolla said the projects are “shovel ready” and are in the capital budget that Council passed lastmonth.(Ashtabula) 03/06/2009: Ready for the shovelhttp://www.starbeacon.com/archivesearch/local_story_046234537.htmlCommissioners have a list of 97 projects totaling just over $100 million that would be ready to rollwithin 90 days. At the top of the list, in Carlo’s mind, is the Route 45/ Route 307 sanitary sewer improvements, which needs just over $1 million to complete. Carlo sees the project as havinggreat potential for economic development.(Athens) 03/02/2009: Still more stimulus requests from Athens Countyhttp://www.athensnews.com/news/local/2009/mar/02/still-more-stimulus-requests-athens-county/Moving into the top spot as the biggest bid for stimulus dollars originating from Athens County is aset of four requests, totaling close to $100 million, to help pay for a fiber-optic network for theSouthern Ohio Health Care Network, which would cover all 32 rural southeastern Ohio counties,according to submitter Tom Reid, a consultant.Carl Martin, superintendent of the Athens City School District, has asked for $900,000 on a $1.5million project to help county school districts “to operate an alternative educational program for very at-risk students in grades 7-12.”Athens City Streets Director Andy Stone has submitted seven projects, requesting more than $1.2million for street and sidewalk improvements in the city.The Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACENet) is seeking $558,900 on a nearly $2.8million project, to expand its Nelsonville Business Incubator, as well as $293,950 on a nearly$309 million project, to expand its Athens food manufacturing incubator.(Canton) 03/05/2009: SARTA lands $5 million to buy buseshttp://www.cantonrep.com/news/x1959840211/SARTA-lands-5-million-to-buy-busesCANTON — The Stark Area Regional Transit Authority will get $5.15 million from the federaleconomic stimulus package, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s office announced this afternoon.The amount falls far short of the $35.3 million that SARTA had been seeking.But SARTA Executive Director Charles Odimgbe, whose last day with the agency is Friday, said,“You know what? I’m happy with what I have.”Odimgbe said the agency will use $5.04 million to buy up to nine 30-foot hybrid buses from Gillig,a California-based company. They would hit the streets in about 11 to 14 months.Odimgbe said buying new buses is a top priority. About 35 percent of SARTA’s fleet of 84 buseshave more than 500,000 miles on them. Some are already approaching 800,000 to 1 millionmiles, Odimgbe said, adding that buses are supposed to be retired at 500,000.(Carey Village) 03/06/2009: Vance Street work expected to cost $2.8 millionhttp://www.theprogressortimes.com/news/articles.asp?articleID=10877The cost of the Vance Street portion of the downtown renovation project is now expected to cost$2.8 million, 80% of it funded by a grant administered by the Ohio Department of Transportation.Like the Findlay Street project, the Vance Street work will include new sidewalks, street lighting,underground wiring, landscaping and street furniture. The Vance Street project will run from ClayStreet to North Street.(Carey Village) 03/06/2009: Carey finally decides on new buildinghttp://www.theprogressortimes.com/include/articles.asp?articleID=10829Money from the federal government's economic stimulus package may find its way to Carey.
 
According to Johnson, the village has about $350,000 worth of water projects that are "shovelready" and may qualify for government funding. Johnson said the funding could come either inthe form of low interest loans or matching grants.One of the projects that might be under consideration is the downtown culvert project that wouldreplace portions of the Spring Run culvert from First Citizens National Bank to an area behind theSenior Depot. Council has hired Van Horn, Hoover and Associates, Findlay, at a cost of $5,900, todraw up specs for the project so it can be put up for bid. Other projects under consideration for government funding include several waterline replacements.(Celina) 03/03/2009: Group to look into stimulus money for lakehttp://www.dailystandard.com/archive/story_single.php?rec_id=8168Members of the private Lake Development Corporation (LDC) on Monday agreed to have a localconsultant investigate the possibility of securing stimulus money to help improve water quality inGrand Lake."I think this group along with the LIA (Lake Improvement Association) could qualify for somestimulus money to clean up this lake," he said.LDC member Kent Hinton agreed, saying the LDC may want to consider requesting stimulusmoney to purchase land around the lake to use as Dredge Material Relocation Areas (DMRAs),which local state park officials are in desperate need of to complete lake dredging projects. TheNo. 1 deterrent to lake dredging is not having a place to put the lake muck. The local state parkmakes agreements with landowners to build DMRAs on private land and then knocks them downa few years later after the sites dewater.(Carrollton) 02/17/2009: Transit eyes stimulus $$http://www.freepressstandard.com/News/02021909.htmCarroll County Transit is poised to accept grant funding from the economic stimulus package.Transit Director Patti Manfull asked for, and received approval from commissioners to apply for grant funding trough the Ohio Department of Transportation for several projects. The federalstimulus funds are being funneled through ODOT to the county level.The first request is to purchase two additional vehicles (two are already in the budget) during2009. The second is to purchase a computer and printer. The largest is for the design andpossible construction of a new facility to house the transit program.“If there is enough money, we want to be ready to move forward,” Manfull stated.(Chillicothe) 02/28/2009: METRO HOUSING TO GET $735,798 IN STIMULUS MONEYhttp://www.chillicothegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009902280317U.S. Rep. Zack Space, D-Dover, announced Friday the Chillicothe Metropolitan Housing Authoritywill receive $735,798 in stimulus funds through the Recovery Act Capital Fund Formula Program.Space said the grants also will put people to work in construction and renovation jobs tied to thefunding."This is just the beginning of the economic benefit that our district will see from the recoverypackage recently passed into law," Space said. "With the announcement that Ohio'sunemployment rate has topped 8.8 percent, there is no doubt that we can use every job-creatingdollar possible."(Elyria) 03/06/2009: Federal stimulus money going to depot projecthttp://www.chroniclet.com/2009/03/06/federal-stimulus-money-going-to-depot-project_122/ELYRIA — Lorain County will receive about $3.6 million in federal stimulus money to fund capitalimprovements for mass-transit projects.That means the county will speed up its efforts to renovate the old New York Central RailroadStation in Elyria, county Administrator Jim Cordes said Thursday.(Fairfield) 02/06/2009: Fairfield Schools to get stimulus boosthttp://www.daytondailynews.com/search/content/oh/story/news/local/2009/03/06/hjn030609ffboe.htmlFAIRFIELD — The bank accounts for Fairfield City Schools will get a boost March 19.
 
"We have been excited about the monies that are coming our way," Superintendent CathyMilligan said.Most of the funds will be targeted at Title I schools, or schools that have students of a lower socioeconomic status or schools that haven't met the No Child Left Behind standards. CentralElementary School will qualify for extra funding, but Fitzharris said she hopes this is the last year the school will fail to meet adequate yearly progress standards.(Lima) 03/05/2009: RTA receives $1.2 million in stimulus cashhttp://www.limaohio.com/news/money_34955___article.html/transit_help.htmlLIMA - More than $1 million in stimulus money will come to Lima soon to help the region'stroubled transit system.The money will help RTA take care of some long-awaited capital work, including the demolition of the former administration building at the corner of Central Avenue and Ninth Street andreconstruction of its maintenance garage to add extra space, said RTA Executive Director GaryKitchin. About $216,000 of the money will go to buy four new transit vans."We can use every bit of it. We're appreciative that we were awarded this to try and put people towork," Kitchin said.Kitchin said the federal money would help employ about 15 to 20 people for demolition andconstruction.(Mansfield) 03/06/2009: Mansfield transit gets $1.3M in stim fundinghttp://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20090306/NEWS01/303060002/1002/NEWS01U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, announced Thursday that Mansfield will receive $1,281,024 inmass transit funds with $179,808,408 for Ohio communities overall. The federal funds, whichwere passed as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, were releasedThursday by the Federal Transit Administration.Richland County Transit Fiscal Officer Kathy Adams, who wasn’t expecting funding to be finalizeduntil around April 1, said the timing of the release of funds couldn’t have been better.“We’re very much looking forward to replacing the current fleet,” said Adams, who noted RCT hassix buses that are 15 years old. “We anticipate the purchase of new coaches will save money inthe long run — because of better gas mileage and cheaper maintenance costs.”(Marietta) 03/06/2009: Schools + stimulus = more jobshttp://www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/511168.html?nav=5002Marietta's two colleges are seeking a total of more than $37.5 million in federal stimulus funds toexpand their campuses in the hopes that more students will mean a more qualified workforcespurring the economy toward recovery.The larger of the submitted projects would lead to a new residence hall and a renovated Mooselodge for an expanded physicians assistant program at Marietta College and a new campusentrance and health sciences building at Washington State.In all, the two colleges expect 120 jobs to come from the proposed projects, according to thedocuments submitted to the state's federal stimulus initiative Web site, recovery.ohio.gov.(Medina) 03/05/2009: City of Medina requests Stimulus moneyhttp://blog.cleveland.com/medinasun/2009/03/city_of_medina_requests_stimul.htmlThomas Krueger, economic development director for the city, has submitted 14 projects to beconsidered for funding. Those 14 projects total to a request for $24,532,000 and would have thepotential to create 197 jobs.Four of the 14 projects listed have to do with the city's aging water and wastewater system, either new water lines or upgrades to create additional capacity and improve fire fighting capability.Six of the projects are related to the Medina Municipal Airport: rebuilding the taxiway, a snowplowdedicated to the airport, a new airport administration building, purchases of more property toexpand the airport, and extending the runway.Three of the projects impact streets and roads: installation of new pavement to extend NorthCommerce Drive from Abbeyville Road to State Route 18, a new parking deck for the CourtSystem of Medina, and realignment of the offset intersection at Bowman Lane and Woodland
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