Fiscal Year 2024
Congressionally Directed Spending Requests

I have submitted funding requests for important community projects in Maryland to the Senate Appropriations Committee for Fiscal Year 2024, under guidelines issued by the Appropriations Committee. Ultimately, only a few of these requested projects may receive funding. Eligible projects are restricted to a limited number of federal funding streams. Only state and local governments and eligible nonprofit entities are permitted to receive funding.

In compliance with Senate Rules and Committee requirements, I have certified that I, my spouse, and my immediate family have no financial interest in any of the projects I requested.

Requests are listed in alphabetical order by Project Name by Senate Appropriations Subcommittee

Agriculture & Food and Drug Administration Appropriations Subcommittee

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Project Title: Adkins Arboretum Site Amenities

Recipient Name: Adkins Arboretum

Project Purpose:  This project will create and implement a unified overall amenities plan for the Adkins Arboretum. Seating and other site amenities will help make a welcoming venue for the more than 30,000 people visiting arboretum annually.

Project Location:  Caroline County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $260,000

Project Title: Bloomington Fire Co Building Expansion

Recipient Name: Bloomington Fire Co

Project Purpose:  The funding will allow the Bloomington Fire Co to expand its current station, providing space to store trucks and service equipment and to expand and move lockers, allowing an adequate set-up for firefighters’ turnout gear.

Project Location:  Garrett County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $150,000

Project Title: Building African American Minds (BAAM) Academic Center

Recipient Name: Building African American Minds, Inc

Project Purpose:  Funding will support completion of the ongoing construction of a new Academic Center facility to house staff offices and programming, including after school and summer programs, career and workforce development, and physical and mental health workshops.

Project Location:  Talbot County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: Caroline County Public Library

Recipient Name: Caroline County Public Library

Project Purpose:  Funds will be used for the renovation of the Central Library to address ADA requirements and the deteriorating roof.

Project Location:  Caroline County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $132,000

Project Title: Charlestown Heritage Center and Town Hall

Recipient Name: Town of Charlestown

Project Purpose:  Funds will support the renovation and expansion of Charlestown’s historic two-room schoolhouse currently housing the Town Hall and a U.S. Post office.

Project Location:  Cecil County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,797,000

Project Title: Deep Creek Volunteer Fire Company Capital Improvement

Recipient Name: Deep Creek Volunteer Fire Company Capital Improvement

Project Purpose:  Funds will be used to complete renovations to the Deep Creek Fire Company’s building expansion, including the second floor, which would house both career and volunteer staff.

Project Location:  Garrett  County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Ericsson Avenue Street Reconstruction

Recipient Name: Town of Betterton

Project Purpose:  Funding will support the rehabilitation of Ericsson Avenue and associated sidewalks, drainage facilities, water supply line, and the VCP sewer line in the Town of Betterton.

Project Location:  Kent County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $880,000

Project Title: Federalsburg Local Streets

Recipient Name: Town of Federalsburg

Project Purpose:  Funds will be used for maintenance and repair needs on the local street network in Federalsburg.

Project Location:  Caroline County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,440,000

Project Title: Garrett County Utilities Infrastructure Equipment

Recipient Name: Board of County Commissioners of Garrett County

Project Purpose:  The funding will be used to purchase a hydro-excavator truck and associated accessories needed to install and repair critical infrastructure for Garrett County, Maryland.

Project Location:  Garrett County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $595,000

Project Title: Good Will Fire Company Engine-Tanker Replacement

Recipient Name: Good Will Volunteer Fire Company No.#1, Inc

Project Purpose:  Funds will support the replacement of the Good Will Fire Company’s current tanker, which was built in 1990 prior to the safety standards established in 1991, to allow the department to effectively serve areas that lack water supply from hydrants.

Project Location:  Allegany County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $731,000

Project Title: HOPE Center

Recipient Name: Foundation of HOPE, Inc.

Project Purpose:  Funds will be used to construct a 5,600 square foot facility to house the Foundation of HOPE offices and the economic development and empowerment afterschool program for middle school adolescent girls.

Project Location:  Talbot County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $630,000

Project Title: Invasive Catfish Mitigation

Recipient Name: Maryland Department of Natural Resources

Project Purpose:  Funding will support Wildlife Services for the State of Maryland to conduct science and design and implement control methods for invasive catfish in the Chesapeake Bay.

Project Location:  Annapolis

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: It Takes a Village Youth Center

Recipient Name: It Takes a Village to Help Our Children, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This proposal funds the construction of a new youth center building to provide school, summer, and college access programming to include a multi-purpose room, 4 classrooms, a small kitchen area, 2 administrative offices, bathrooms, and a mechanical room.

Project Location:  Somerset County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: New Fire Station and Emergency Shelter in Hampstead

Recipient Name: Hampstead Volunteer Fire Engine & Hose Company No. 1

Project Purpose:  Funding will support the replacement of the Hampstead Volunteer Fire Company’s current fire station with a new fire station and a separate event center, which will also serve as an emergency shelter.

Project Location:  Carroll County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Oakland Community Center Expansion

Recipient Name: Oakland Community Center Expansion

Project Purpose:  Funding will support expansion and repairs for the Oakland Community Center, a community space used by people in the tri-state region. The current space cannot keep up with demand from the community.

Project Location:  Garrett  County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $900,000

Project Title: Ocean Pines South Fire Station

Recipient Name: Ocean Pines Fire Station

Project Purpose:  Funds will be used to replace the current structure by demolishing the existing structure and building a two-story structure on top of it. The new facility would correct existing deficiencies and be built to code.

Project Location:  Worcester County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: Public Safety Training Center (PSTC)

Recipient Name: Washington County Division of Emergency Services

Project Purpose:  Funds will be used to upgrade a facility designed to train and certify firefighters, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and law enforcement officers for employment within the various public safety agencies not only locally but all across Maryland.

Project Location:  Washington County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,300,000

Project Title: Rural Residential Crisis Expansion

Recipient Name: Southern Maryland Community Network

Project Purpose:  Funds will be used for engineering and design to expand an existing Residential Crisis facility in Southern Maryland.

Project Location:  Calvert County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $50,000

Project Title: St. Michaels Town Hall/Police Department Building Construction

Recipient Name: Town of St. Michaels, Talbot County

Project Purpose:  These funds would support the final design and construction of a new 8,800 square-foot Town Hall/Police Department Building in St. Michaels, MD.

Project Location:  Town of St. Michaels

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Talbot County Free Library St. Michaels Library Expansion and Renovation-Construction

Recipient Name: Talbot County Free Library

Project Purpose:  The funding would be used to renovate and expand the existing St. Michaels Library, originally constructed in 1981, to ensure sufficient space and ADA compliance.

Project Location:  Talbot County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $900,000

Project Title: Tri-Towns Emergency Medical Services Restoration

Recipient Name: Tri-Towns Emergency Medical Services

Project Purpose:  Funds will be used to upgrade the Tri-Towns EMS housing stalls, garage, generator, and other structural components.

Project Location:  Allegany County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $175,000

Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee

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Project Title: 300 kV Cryogenic Electron Microscope (Cryo-EM)

Recipient Name: University of Maryland, Baltimore Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research

Project Purpose:  To acquire a 300 kV cryoEM instrument to be sited within the Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: After Shooting Protocol Response Project

Recipient Name: Roca Baltimore

Project Purpose:  Demostration project would create a data-driven approach to reduce shootings and young people as they work to create long-term behavior change, combining best practices from Hospital Based Violence Intervention Programs and long-term community work.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,455,000

Project Title: An HBCU National Public-Private Partnership Ecosystem Initiative

Recipient Name: The Maryland Center at Bowie State University

Project Purpose:  Congressional funding would accelerate the key priorities of an existing national public-private partnership ecosystem comprised entirely of Industry small businesses  and academia. Support an NIST STRS External Project which  addresses standards-related research and technology development.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,204,000

Project Title: Anacostia River Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration & Monitoring

Recipient Name: Anacostia Watershed Society

Project Purpose:  This project proposes to expand current efforts to restore the aquatic environment of the Anacostia River and its tributaries.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $225,000

Project Title: Bishop L. Robinson Justice Institute

Recipient Name: Coppin State University

Project Purpose:  HBCU Program in Baltimore to create specialized training curriculum for police officers in West Baltimore, using cross-disciplinary studies.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,700,000

Project Title: Building Capacity for Sea Level Rise Adaptation on the Eastern Shore

Recipient Name: Town of Oxford

Project Purpose:  The proposed project will build the Eastern Shore’s capacity to plan for and mitigate the impacts of coastal flooding and inundation.

Project Location:  Talbot County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,060,000

Project Title: Cecil County Co-Respond Mobile Crisis Team Pilot Project

Recipient Name: The Affiliated Sante Group

Project Purpose:  Sante is seeking funding to create a Cecil County Co-Responder Mobile Crisis Team. This team will pair together one specially-trained law enforcement officer with a behavioral health clinician to respond to individuals in crisis and/or severe emotional distress within the community.

Project Location:  Cecil County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $499,000

Project Title: Changing the Trajectory of Delinquency & Violence

Recipient Name: Kennedy Krieger Institute

Project Purpose:  To fund programming to impact juvenile delinquency, violence prevention, and reduce crime.

Project Location:  City of Odenton

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: Coral Out-Planting Base Made from Low-Carbon Biocement for Integrated Coral Restoration

Recipient Name: Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)

Project Purpose:  To address critical needs in coral reef restoration by utilizing interdisciplinary collaborative design and ecologically-friendly biomaterials.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $541,000

Project Title: Democratizing Data: UMCES Environmental Cyber Collaborative

Recipient Name: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Project Purpose:  The UMCES Environmental Cyber Collaborative (ECC) will integrate state-of-the-art computational resources, data scientists, and interactive workspaces distributed at UMCES locations across Maryland to expand the ability of scientists to leverage big data in support of environmental research.

Project Location:  Statewide

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,100,000

Project Title: Developing Automated Microscopy Imaging Capacity at Hood College

Recipient Name: Hood College of Frederick, Maryland

Project Purpose:  This project will establish a center for automated image analysis at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. The project will enhance the research opportunities for Hood College’s Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies, the Biomedical Research and Training Center, and the Biology Department.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $501,000

Project Title: Enhancement of Research and Education Capacity in Shellfish Aquaculture at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Recipient Name: University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Project Purpose:  To enhance oyster population abundance in Maryland Coastal Bays (MCBs) in order to boost seafood production, improve water quality, and reduce shoreline erosion.

Project Location:  Somerset County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $450,000

Project Title: Enhancing Forensic-Based Investigations in our Community

Recipient Name: Carroll County Sheriff’s Office

Project Purpose:  This project will fund the design, purchase and implementation of state-of-the art physical and digital forensic lab areas that would provide improved tools, equipment and related technology.

Project Location:  Carroll County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Equipment for the Center for Education and Research in Microelectronics

Recipient Name: Morgan State University

Project Purpose:  The center will produce a complementary curriculum in chip design and fabrication technology using the educational cleanroom to be developed in this project.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,310,000

Project Title: Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel Electrical Modernization

Recipient Name: University of Maryland, College Park

Project Purpose:  To make modernization improvements on the Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel (GLMWT) at the University of Maryland, bringing modern diagnostics into the tunnel and restoring the tunnel electrical system to routine and safe operations.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,700,000

Project Title: Gun Violence Reduction Research Initiative (GVRRI)

Recipient Name: University of Maryland

Project Purpose:  The University of Maryland Gun Violence Reduction Research Initiative (GVRRI) would address the causes, collateral consequences, and solutions to gun violence in the state of Maryland and the National Capital Region (NCR).

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $726,000

Project Title: Homemade Explosives Testing & Training

Recipient Name: U.S. Bomb Technical Association

Project Purpose:  Program to fund characterization research for Home Made Explosives and Improvised Explosive Devices.

Project Location:  Indian Head

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: Interoperable Police Radio Communications Equipment

Recipient Name: City of Rockville

Project Purpose:  This project would provide funds for Rockville to acquire essential Police radio communications equipment needed for emergency preparedness and response operations. This would also support continuity of operations and increase community preparedness.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,471,000

Project Title: Mobile Mapping Baltimore Neighborhoods for Social and Environmental Resilience

Recipient Name: Johns Hopkins University

Project Purpose:  Funding will support state-of-the-art mobile mapping technology to gather high-resolution images and LiDAR to characterize physical and natural environments, contributing to research on the challenges posed by climate change and opportunities for equitable development and investment.

Project Location:  City of Baltimore

Amount Requested by the Senator: $983,000

Project Title: Montgomery County Police Department Crime Lab – Laboratory Information Management System

Recipient Name: Montgomery County: Police Department

Project Purpose:  The project would improve the quality and timeliness of Crime Lab services in Montgomery County by funding the Laboratory Information Management System.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,300,000

Project Title: Montgomery County Police Department Crisis Co-Response Teams (CIT)

Recipient Name: Montgomery County: Police Department

Project Purpose:  This program would provide funding for Montgomery County Crisis Intervention Teams (CITs), specialized units composed of law enforcement officers and mental health professionals that are trained to respond to situations involving individuals experiencing a mental health crisis.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $700,000

Project Title: Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Gun Violence Prevention

Recipient Name: Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office

Project Purpose:  The Sheriff’s Office handles all court ordered Extreme Risk Protective Orders (ERPO) which require a person to surrender any firearms or ammunition to law enforcement. The Officer assigned will receive new equipment.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $70,000

Project Title: Office Modernization & Cybersecurity Enhancements

Recipient Name: Baltimore City State’s Attorney

Project Purpose:  This project would upgrade the agency’s IT system.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $775,000

Project Title: Penetrating Injury Recovery Project

Recipient Name: University of Maryland Medical Center – Shock Trauma Center

Project Purpose:  Trauma Outpatient Center will provide comprehensive and holistic post-discharge care and resources for patients who have experienced injuries caused by violence.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $870,000

Project Title: Purchase Of Regional Facility in Calvert County

Recipient Name: Farming 4 Hunger, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To purchase an existing building to serve as a year-round Regional Facility for Farming 4 Hunger’s returning citizens program.

Project Location:  City of Odenton

Amount Requested by the Senator: $600,000

Project Title: Real Time Crime Center

Recipient Name: Anne Arundel County

Project Purpose:  The proposed Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) will be a hub that centralizes tech assets and crime analysts to provide real time information around the clock to officers responding to incidents, improving delivery of law enforcement services.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Re-Entry Services

Recipient Name: Anne Arundel County

Project Purpose:  Program will support comprehensive re-entry coordination and post-release case management services for released individuals, which may reduce recidivism.

Project Location:  Glen Burnie

Amount Requested by the Senator: $450,000

Project Title: School-Based Violence Prevention

Recipient Name: Baltimore City Health Department

Project Purpose:  School-Based Violence Prevention Program to reduce violence in middle and high schools that are persistently dangerous.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $738,000

Project Title: St. Mary’s College of Maryland Scientific Equipment

Recipient Name: St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Project Purpose:  The project will provide essential scientific equipment for St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Marine Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry programs. The equipment will outfit new labs to be created for teaching and research in critical STEM fields.

Project Location:  St. Mary’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: Statewide Youth Conflict Coaching

Recipient Name: Conflict Resolution Center of Baltimore County

Project Purpose:  To establish a 2.5 year, on-school-premises pilot program bringing in Youth Conflict Coaches to discuss conflicts with at-risk high schoolers before they develop into violence.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $291,000

Project Title: UMBC Quantum Science Institute

Recipient Name: University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Project Purpose:  Support to seed a new UMBC Quantum Science Institute that will leverage the reputations of the University’s existing internationally recognized quantum faculty to grow the overall quantum science research enterprise at UMBC and help train the next generation of quantum-ready students.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: Violence Intervention Program

Recipient Name: University of Maryland Capitol Region Medical Center

Project Purpose:  Program to engage violently injured patients aged 15-35 while in hospital to assess medical and social needs and provide intense case management upon discharge.   Funding used for personnel, equipment, and travel needed to expand program to cover evenings and weekends.

Project Location:  Largo

Amount Requested by the Senator: $275,000

Project Title: Worcester County Body Worn Camera Equipment

Recipient Name: Worcester County

Project Purpose:  Provide Body Worn Cameras (BWC) for law enforcement officers, which will improve community policing.

Project Location:  Worcester County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $495,000

Project Title: Youth Violence Intervention Program

Recipient Name: MedStar Franklin Square

Project Purpose:  Funding will support capacity and program expansion for evidence-based intervention methods which will address behavioral health, substance use, and violence prevention for youth in the areas of Southeast Baltimore County and South Baltimore City.

Project Location:  City of Baltimore

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,300,000

Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee

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Project Title: Assateague Island

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funding will be used to maintain the integrity of Maryland’s treasured Assateague Island by repositioning sand to areas that are vulnerable to erosion, removing navigation hazards, and protecting habitat for threatened and endangered species on the island.

Project Location: Worcester County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $900,000

Project Title: Baltimore Harbor and Channels – Seagirt Loop Deepening

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funding will support preconstruction activities for widening and deepening of the Seagirt-Dundalk access channel to expand the Port of Baltimore’s capacity to serve large vessels safely and efficiently.

Project Location: City of Baltimore MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,031,000

Project Title: Boonsboro Reservoir Replacement

Recipient Name: US Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Boonsboro’s 68-year-old reservoir leaks an estimate 10 to 15 million gallons of drinking water per year. Funds will be used to replace the reservoir with a new, dual-basin concrete tank for the drinking water supply for Boonsboro and Keedysville residents.

Project Location: Washington County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $5,000,000

Project Title: Brunswick Treatment Plant Upgrades

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funding will support improvements to both drinking water and wastewater treatment plants to increase efficiency and capacity and ensure safe drinking water and waste treatment. The project serves the City of Brunswick and additional residents of Frederick and Washington Counties, and will help protect the Potomac River.

Project Location: City of Brunswick, Frederick County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $7,500,000

Project Title: C&O Canal Rewatering

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funding will be used to complete design and begin construction of a project to re-water 1.2 miles of the historic Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal terminus at Cumberland. The project intends to transform underutilized riverfront into an area for public use and tourism.

Project Location: Allegany County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,451,000

Project Title: Center for Nanotechnology

Recipient Name: The Center for Nanotechnology (Coppin State University)

Project Purpose: Funding will expand the Center for Nanotechnology at Coppin State to grow their research into renewable and clean energy. Nanomaterials can help improve the efficiency of renewable energy systems. The Center also hosts high school students to engage in research and promote STEM careers.

Project Location: Baltimore City MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,175,000

Project Title: Centralized Sewer Collection System – Hughesville Village

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funds will support the design and construction of a centralized sewer collection system for the Hughesville Village center, including approximately 25,000 linear feet of gravity sewer lines, new sewage pumping stations, and associated infrastructure.

Project Location: Charles County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $600,000

Project Title: Choptank River Restoration Feasibility Study

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funding will be used to begin a feasibility study into the Choptank River restoration detailed in the Chesapeake Bay Comprehensive Water Resources and Restoration Plan. The Army Corps could assist in activities like streambank stabilization, wetland and habitat restoration, and oyster planting.

Project Location: Kent County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Claiborne Harbor, MD

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Claiborne Harbor is a federally-authorized channel that has not received maintenance dredging for more than two decades. Funding will support maintenance dredging to ensure continued safe use of the channel by the community.

Project Location: Talbot County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Gorman Water Source Project

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: In 2021, one of the two wells serving Southwestern Garrett County failed. This funding will allow the County to put in place a new production well to ensure continuous water supply to local residents.

Project Location: Garrett County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,800,000

Project Title: Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB) Plan Implementation

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funds will be used to implement the Commission’s Potomac River Basin Comprehensive Water Resources Plan to help protect, preserve, and restore the water quality of the Potomac River Basin. The Potomac River Basin supplies 78% of the drinking water for the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area.

Project Location: Montgomery County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $650,000

Project Title: Kent Narrows Maintenance Dredging

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funding will be used for maintenance dredging of the approach channels leading to and including Kent Narrows in Chester. These channels provide many commercial and recreational boaters access to the Chester River and regular dredging ensures they remain navigable.

Project Location: Queen Anne’s County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Lower Mattawoman Interceptor

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funding will be used to support engineering costs for a project to repair defects in the Lower Mattawoman Interceptor. The project would improve capacity at the Mattawoman Wastewater Treatment Facility and protect the stream valley of the Mattawoman Creek.

Project Location: Charles County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $400,000

Project Title: Mattawoman Wastewater Treatment Facility Sewer Rehabilitation Project

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funding will be used to support engineering costs for a project to reduce sanitary sewer overflows and contamination related to the Mattawoman Wastewater Treatment Facility. This project would improve capacity at the facility and protect water quality in the Potomac River and Bryans Road area.

Project Location: Charles County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $200,000

Project Title: Mystic Harbour Wastewater Treatment Plant

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funds will be used to upgrade the Mystic Harbour Wastewater Treatment Plant to improve the plant’s ability to process biosolids, thereby helping to mitigate problems in other parts of the plant and achieve compliance in effluent treatment levels.

Project Location: Worcester County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,926,000

Project Title: Net Zero Parking Garages

Recipient Name: Montgomery County

Project Purpose: Funding will support rooftop solar installations at three Montgomery County-owned parking garages in Wheaton, Silver Spring, and Bethesda, lowering the operating costs of the garages and reducing harmful emissions.

Project Location: Montgomery County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,750,000

Project Title: Pearlstone Center Solar Array Project

Recipient Name: The Pearlstone Center

Project Purpose: Funding will be used to install solar arrays and battery storage at the Pearlstone Center, allowing the the center to continue to operate and serve community needs at times when the local or regional electricity grid is inoperable.

Project Location: Baltimore County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,018,000

Project Title: Queenstown Maintenance Dredging

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funds willl be used for maintenance dredging of the channel from Chester River to Queenstown Creek and Harbor. This federally-authorized channel was last dredged in 1985 and has experienced significant shoaling, contributing to safety concerns and restricting navigation.

Project Location: Queen Anne’s County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,500,000

Project Title: Riddle Farm Wastewater Treatment Plant Bypass Force Main Interconnect

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funds will be used to install a bypass force main interconnect at the Riddle Farm Wastewater Treatment Plant that will connect to the Ocean Pines sewer service area and provide a back-up system in the case of routine maintenance or major repairs.

Project Location: Worcester County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,151,000

Project Title: Service Saddle Replacement Project – Town of North Beach

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funds will be used to replace cast iron service saddles that are performing poorly and prone to failure, with new stainless steel service saddles in the Town of North Beach.

Project Location: Calvert County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,827,000

Project Title: Sewage Lift Stations – Town of Indian Head

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funding will be used for the design and construction of two new sewage lift stations, replacing the existing lift stations at Mattawoman Woods and Dogwood locations. The two existing lift stations are over 30 years old and have reached the end of their life cycle.

Project Location: Charles County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,310,000

Project Title: Slaughter Creek Maintenance Dredging

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funding will be used for dredging of this federally-authorized channel for navigation. The channel was last dredged in 1987 and is now highly restricted due to shoaling. Previous funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act supported engineering and design for this project.

Project Location: Dorchester County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: St. Catherine’s Sound Maintenance Dredging

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funds will be used for maintenance dredging of the St. Catherine Sound northern access channel. This federally-authorized channel was last dredged more than 10 years ago.

Project Location: St. Mary’s County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: University of Maryland-Baltimore County Cyber-physical Renewable Energy and Water Treatment System Technologies

Recipient Name: University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Project Purpose: UMBC will use funding to research new technologies in order to develop fertilizer manufacturing and application with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. The researchers will design and manufacture a prototype to test on farms on the Eastern Shore, with a goal of supporting more sustainable farming.

Project Location: Baltimore County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $540,000

Project Title: Upper Thorofare, MD

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funds will be used for maintenance dredging of the Upper Thorofare/Deal Island federally-authorized channel, which has experienced shoaling, restricting its safe use for navigation.

Project Location: Somerset County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Washington Aqueduct Backup Water Supply

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funds will support an Army Corps of Engineers feasibility study exploring options for the establishment of a secondary drinking water source and additional drinking water storage capability for the Washington, D.C. metro region, as authorized by the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2022.

Project Location: Washington, D.C. metro area MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Wicomico River, MD

Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers

Project Purpose: Funding will be used to dredge the Wicomico River from the Chesapeake Bay to Salisbury to ensure that it remains passable by barges. The Port of Salisbury has the second highest commercial volume of Maryland ports and continued dredging of the Wicomico is critical to its success.

Project Location: Wicomico County MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $5,025,000

Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee

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Project Title: Baltimore Community Lending Business Development and Resource Center

Recipient Name: Baltimore Community Lending

Project Purpose:  A community asset, and provide the much needed one-stop-shop business resources for new and existing enterprises to increase the rate of success by low-wealth entrepreneurs who are primarily women or people of color, operating in disinvested and revitalizing communities in the Baltimore region.

Project Location:  Baltimore CIty

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Baltimore Courthouse

Recipient Name: General Services Administration

Project Purpose:  Funding will support preliminary work on the project to construct a new federal courthouse in the City of Baltimore.

Project Location:  Baltimore

Amount Requested by the Senator: $10,000,000

Project Title: Crownsville Hospital Historic Documentation and Storytelling

Recipient Name: Crownsville Hospital Historic Documentation and Storytelling

Project Purpose:  The funding for this request will support the documentation, archiving, and storytelling of the Crownsville Hospital Center history, which includes digitizing/preserving/publicizing records, artifacts, and other items, hiring consultants, and crafting storyboards.

Project Location:  Crownsville

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Eastern Shore Land Conservancy

Recipient Name: Eastern Shore Land Conservancy

Project Purpose:  Develop a toolkit for local governments and state agencies with recommendations for best policies to promote and protect working waterfronts, review existing local zoning ordinances and their impact on retaining viable commercial fishing zones, and update the Maryland Working Waterfronts Inventory

Project Location:  Eastern Shore

Amount Requested by the Senator: $250,000

Project Title: Exploring, Transitioning and Building with The 3rd

Recipient Name: The 3rd

Project Purpose:  The Exploring, Transitioning, and Building with The 3rd program (ETB) would provide a specific incubator and accelerator program for WOC entrepreneurs with a holistic approach that provides capacity building, network building, and access to capital opportunities.

Project Location:  Columbia

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Federal Lab Leveraging Innovation to Products (FLLIP) Pilot Program

Recipient Name: Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO)

Project Purpose:  By providing access to intellectual property, facilities, and resources, federal labs can help Maryland businesses develop new technologies and processes to improve healthcare delivery, reduce costs, and address public health crises.

Project Location:  Howard County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,150,000

Project Title: Government Certifications Contracting & Match Making Solutions Center

Recipient Name: Morgan State University Foundation Inc.

Project Purpose:  Through the Women’s Business Center, Morgan State would like to start up a statewide program to help small business owners enter the contracting space. Funds will be used for hiring personnel/contractors, travel expenses, and equipment/supplies.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $700,000

Project Title: Growing Opportunities for Family Child Care (GOFCC)

Recipient Name: Maryland Family Network

Project Purpose:  MFN seeks to grow the supply of quality sustainable family child care businesses in Maryland. Growing Opportunities for Family Child Care (GOFCC) supports individuals with opening a licensed family child care program in their home.

Project Location:  Statewide

Amount Requested by the Senator: $632,000

Project Title: Historic Bowie Railroad Museum Improvements

Recipient Name: City of Bowie

Project Purpose:  Faux tunnel with replica Engine and Caboose, a roundhouse, light tunnel, statues, and other elements to tell the history of Bowie. The elements promote economic vibrancy by creating a project of experiential complexity, environmental sustainability, learning and economic efficiency.

Project Location:  Bowie

Amount Requested by the Senator: $935,000

Project Title: Increasing Diversity in State Contracting

Recipient Name: State of Maryland

Project Purpose:  Will be used in addition to state funding to create a mentoring service network and ongoing, interactive training for historically underserved businesses to successfully find, respond to, and secure state and/or local government contracts.

Project Location:  Statewide

Amount Requested by the Senator: $740,000

Project Title: Museum of the Blind People’s Movementho

Recipient Name: National Federation of the Blind

Project Purpose:  The Museum of the Blind People’s Movement will be the first museum owned and operated by the blind of the United States, and will serve as a national platform to explore the historical struggles and successes of the blind as individuals and as a movement, to facilitate awareness and evoke dialogue.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: Pathways to Emerging Markets for Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Entrepreneurs

Recipient Name: Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council

Project Purpose:  The Pathways to Emerging Markets project aims to transform the foundation of our state and local economy to be organically inclusive of communities and people of color who historically have been relegated to being spectators when it comes to their involvement in emerging markets.

Project Location:  Silver Spring

Amount Requested by the Senator: $300,000

Project Title: Prince George’s County Nonprofit Database

Recipient Name: Human Services Coalition of Prince George’s County, DBA Nonprofit Prince George’s County

Project Purpose:  Our mission is to equip Prince George’s County nonprofits to better serve their communities.  We accomplish this through a range of culturally responsive and effective ongoing programs.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $821,000

Project Title: Raymond V. Haysbert Center for Entrepreneurship

Recipient Name: Greater Baltimore Urban League

Project Purpose:  The Haysbert Center provides business coaching and support services to the community through workshops, training, resources, events, and seminars. The requested funds will allow the Haysbert Center to scale up, and expand their service offerings for Baltimore residents.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $850,000

Project Title: RIDE (Returning Citizens Inspired to Develop Entrepreneurial Ventures) Entrepreneurship Resource Center

Recipient Name: Morgan State University

Project Purpose:  To establish RIDE, an entrepreneurship resource center for formerly incarcerated individuals that provides entrepreneurial and leadership training, empowering them and providing the tools to start their own small businesses and become leaders in their communities.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: Small Business Legal and Technical Assistance Program for Maryland Legacy Businesses

Recipient Name: Latino Economic Development Corporation

Project Purpose:  To support the continuation and expansion of LEDC’s technical assistance program. The program is focused on the stabilization and retention of small businesses and microenterprises, as well as the protection of assets of small business owners.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County, Montgomery County, and Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $250,000

Project Title: Southern Maryland Minority Chamber of Commerce

Recipient Name: Southern Maryland Minority Chamber of Commerce

Project Purpose:  The program specifically seeks build a knowledgebase, create a platform and relevant tools, and partner with financial experts to assist business owners in creating and submitting compelling funding applications – at no cost to the business owner.

Project Location:  White Plains

Amount Requested by the Senator: $275,000

Project Title: The Maryland Nonprofit Accelerator Program

Recipient Name: Maryland Nonprofits

Project Purpose:  The Nonprofit Accelerator Program will increase nonprofits capacity to advance their mission, growth, and sustainability by improving operational excellence, efficiencies, and reduced risks.

Project Location:  Statewide

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,218,000

Homeland Security Appropriations Appropriations Subcommittee

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Project Title: Annapolis City Dock Resilience

Recipient Name: City of Annapolis

Project Purpose:  This project would construct flood protection to address the threat of high-tide flooding along Compromise Street.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,000,000

Project Title:  Crisfield City Dock Structural Improvements

Recipient Name: City of Crisfield

Project Purpose:  This project would make critical improvements to the Crisfield City Dock, which was damaged during Hurricane Sandy and again in storms in October 2021 and December 2022.

Project Location:  Somerset County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,253,000

Project Title:  Rockville Emergency Operations Center

Recipient Name: City of Rockville

Project Purpose:  This project would build a new facility and Emergency Operations Center (EOC) will allow for coordinated activities across city departments in the event of critical incidents and disasters to include public information and warning.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $594,000

Project Title: Ellicott City North Tunnel

Recipient Name: Howard County Government

Project Purpose:  This project would reduce the amount of water resulting from stormwater runoff and safely transport it to the Patapsco River. The project consists of a deep rock tunnel, an upstream diversion facility near Frederick Road, an outfall into the Patapsco River, and two additional diversion facilities.

Project Location:  Howard County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $10,000,000

Project Title: Frederick County Microgrid Project

Recipient Name: Frederick County

Project Purpose:  This project would ensure uninterrupted power supplies for Frederick County’s critical services by installing solar battery backup and diesel generators to generate power during a during a power outage.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,200,000

Project Title: Jonas and Anne Catharine Green Park Coastal Restoration Project

Recipient Name: Anne Arundel County

Project Purpose:  This project would build up the park’s resiliency to erosion and other climate and weather-related impacts.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,500,000

Project Title:  Port Deposit Susquehanna River Flood Control

Recipient Name: Town of Port Deposit

Project Purpose:  This project would advance the development of resilience strategies such as flood control measures along the Susquehanna River.

Project Location:  Cecil County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $750,000

Project Title: Potomac Woods Storm Drain Improvements

Recipient Name: City of Rockville

Project Purpose:  This project would replace undersized storm drain pipes and inlets and rehabilitate the storm drain system outfall at Stratton Drive.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $900,000

Project Title:  Cheverly Flood Mitigation Project

Recipient Name: Town of Cheverly

Project Purpose:  This project would replace and enlarge the storm drain system within Town streets, install a new storm drain system in the Town’s alley at the 2700 Block of Parkway Place, and develop a flood mitigation plan that includes community engagement, engineering, and construction.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,250,000

Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee

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Project Title: Anne Arundel County for Lead Service Line Replacement

Recipient Name: Anne Arundel County

Project Purpose:  This funding would support a capital project for replacement of lead service connections in Anne Arundel County.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Baltimore City Department of Public Works for Baltimore Patapsco WWTP Headworks Improvements

Recipient Name: Baltimore City Department of Public Works

Project Purpose:  The Baltimore City Patapsco Headworks project will improve the effectiveness of the facility service area by removing grit, rags, large suspended material, fats, oils, and grease in the influent wastewater.

Project Location:  City of Baltimore

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: Baltimore City for Montebello Water Filtration Plant

Recipient Name: Baltimore City

Project Purpose:  The project will replace clay underdrains with stainless steel underdrains, which are easier to maintain and more reliable and consistent in their performance.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,120,000

Project Title: Charles County for Hughesville Collection Sewer System

Recipient Name: Charles County

Project Purpose:  This project will design and construct a centralized sewer collection system for the Hughesville Village core, including approximately 25,000 linear feet of gravity sewer lines, approximately 3 new sewage pumping stations, and all associated infrastructure.

Project Location:  Charles County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $480,000

Project Title: Charles County for Waldorf Urban Redevelopment Corridor Stormwater Outfall

Recipient Name: Charles County

Project Purpose:  Funds will support preliminary design for stormwater infrastructure for the Town of Waldorf.

Project Location:  Charles County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $15,365,000

Project Title: City of Bowie for Low Lift Pump Assembly

Recipient Name: City of Bowie

Project Purpose:  This project aims to replace a Low Lift Pump Assembly, conveying filtered water from the clear well to the ground storage tank at the treatment plant.

Project Location:  City of Bowie

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,300,000

Project Title: City of Brunswick for Reservoir Retrofit Project

Recipient Name: City of Brunswick

Project Purpose:  This phase of the project will involve the installation of a 1.25 million gallon in-ground storage tank along with new system infrastructure to support necessary on-going maintenance.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: City of Brunswick for Yourtee Springs Rehabilitation Project

Recipient Name: City of Brunswick

Project Purpose:  This project would repair the Yourtee Spring water distribution line which spans 8 miles from the spring in Washington County to the City of Brunswick in order to address the leaking distribution lines.

Project Location:  Frederick and Washington Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: City of Crisfield for Crisfield Main Street Revitalization and Resiliency Business Incubator

Recipient Name: City of Crisfield

Project Purpose:  Funding would implement revitalization of 339 W Main Street, a City-owned vacant historic building.

Project Location:  City of Crisfield (Somerset County)

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: City of Rockville for Rockville Sewer Main Rehab in Equity Focused Area

Recipient Name: City of Rockville

Project Purpose:  Via this application, the City of Rockville seeks funding to implement 2.0 miles of pipe rehabilitation. The focus of this project will be sewer pipes over 50 years old within the Disadvantaged Community (DAC) of Southeast Rockville.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: City of Rockville for Water Main Rehab

Recipient Name: City of Rockville

Project Purpose:  This funding would expand the City’s water main rehabilitation program.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,400,000

Project Title: County Commissioners of Worcester County, MD for the Mystic Harbour Waste Water Treatment Plant Upgrade

Recipient Name: County Commissioners of Worcester County, MD

Project Purpose:  Funds will be used to upgrade the Mystic Harbour Wastewater Treatment Plant to improve the plant’s ability to process biosolids, thereby helping to mitigate problems in other parts of the plant and achieve compliance in effluent treatment levels.

Project Location:  Worcester County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,926,000

Project Title: Easton Utilities for Water Infrastructure Improvements

Recipient Name: Easton Utilities Commission

Project Purpose:  Funds would be used to replace the water treatment plant and add a new well to the drinking water supply system.

Project Location:  Easton

Amount Requested by the Senator: $10,968,000

Project Title: Garrett County Sanitary District, Inc. for the Gorman Water Source Project

Recipient Name: Garrett County Sanitary District, Inc.

Project Purpose:  In 2021, one of the two wells serving Southwestern Garrett County failed. This funding will allow the County to put in place a new production well to ensure continuous water supply to local residents.

Project Location:  Garrett County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,240,000

Project Title: Hood College for Rehabilitating Hood College’s Williams Observatory

Recipient Name: Hood College of Frederick, Maryland

Project Purpose:  The Rehabilitating Hood College’s Williams Observatory project will involve construction to a historic building to allow ADA accessibility and prepare the space for future use as a museum focused on the history of the college.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $323,000

Project Title: Howard County for Hauled Grease Acceptance Facility

Recipient Name: Howard County

Project Purpose:  Funds will support a project to construct a dedicated Hauled Grease Receiving Facility that will separate hauled grease from other waste streams treated at the Little Patuxent Wastewater Reclamation Plant (LPWRP).

Project Location:  Howard County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,440,000

Project Title: Montgomery County for Clean Water Montgomery Program Expansion

Recipient Name: Montgomery County

Project Purpose:  Funds will support the County’s Congregations for Clean Water- Stormwater reduction project to advance watershed restoration by congregations with large amounts of impervious surfaces.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,550,000

Project Title: National Park Service for the Historic Preservation Training Center

Recipient Name: National Park Service

Project Purpose:  The project would acquire ten acres of land in Frederick, Maryland to support the physical space, preservation operations, training program initiatives, and workforce development capacity of the Historic Preservation Training Center of the National Park Service.

Project Location:  Frederick

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,100,000

Project Title: Preservation Maryland for Rehabilitation of the Ellicott City Jail

Recipient Name: Preservation Maryland

Project Purpose:  Preservation Maryland is pursuing the adaptive reuse of the historic Ellicott City Jail.

Project Location:  Howard County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: President Lincoln’s Cottage National Monument for Accessibility and Electrical Improvements

Recipient Name: President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Old Soldiers Home (President Lincoln’s Cottage)

Project Purpose:  Funding to support accessibility and electrical improvements at President Lincoln’s Cottage (PLC) will improve access to this National Monument, protect preservation investments already made, and create long-term cost savings through decreased energy and maintenance costs.

Project Location:  District of Columbia

Amount Requested by the Senator: $320,000

Project Title: Prince George’s County Executive for Flooding Control for Environmental Justice in Prince George’s County’s Anacostia River Watershed

Recipient Name: Prince George’s County Executive

Project Purpose:  The project would resize storm drainage infrastructure and/or expand the system in low-lying or surface collection areas in several localities prone to flooding, especially in light of the pressures from flooding events due to climate change.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $5,000,000

Project Title: Project Liberty Ship, the S.S. John W. Brown for Deck Restoration

Recipient Name: Project Liberty Ship, the S.S. John W. Brown

Project Purpose:  The proposed project will remove corrosion and paint from a historic ship currently operating as a museum honoring the Merchant Marine, Naval Armed Guard and shipbuilders whose efforts contributed to victory in World War II.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $200,000

Project Title: Talbot County for Septic Elimination in Villages of Bar Neck and Fairbank, Tilghman Island

Recipient Name: Talbot County

Project Purpose:  This project proposes to eliminate the septic systems in the subject area by extending the sewer system from the existing Region V (Tilghman Island) Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) to the villages of Fairbank and Bar Neck, along with lots along the force main route, and to waterfront lots.

Project Location:  Talbot County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,752,000

Project Title: Talbot County for Septic Elimination Villages of Bozman and Neavitt, Talbot County

Recipient Name: Talbot County

Project Purpose:  This proposal will eliminate septic systems from 610 properties of which many are located in the Critical Areas and within 400 feet of creeks, streams and rivers that make up tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay.

Project Location:  Talbot County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $13,700,000

Project Title: The Town of Cottage City for Stormwater Management

Recipient Name: The Town of Cottage City

Project Purpose:  The goal of this project is to mitigate flooding and erosion from stormwater runoff in the Town of Cottage City. Engineers have identified four (4) sites that have paving and drainage issues within the town on the roadways and alleys.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $671,000

Project Title: Town of Federalsburg for Federalsburg Pump Stations

Recipient Name: Town of Federalsburg

Project Purpose:  The proposed funding will support the complete renovation of two pumping stations, including the replacement of pumps, head works, generator, and instrumentation.

Project Location:  Caroline County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,442,000

Project Title: Town of Grantsville for Grantsville Water Improvement Project

Recipient Name: Town of Grantsville

Project Purpose:  The proposed project consists of consolidation of the Grantsville Water Treatment Plant (WTP) and the Green WTP into a single water treatment plant at the Green WTP site. This involves demolition of the Grantsville WTP and installation of a line from the Grantsville WTP tank to the Green WTP.

Project Location:  Garrett County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $6,000,000

Project Title: Town of Greensboro for Greensboro Regional Wastewater System Expansion Project

Recipient Name: Town of Greensboro

Project Purpose:  The project involves (1) the expansion of the existing Enhanced Nitrogen Removal (ENR) regional wastewater system (RWS) in the Town of Greensboro, and (2) the extension of the RWS to serve the towns of Henderson, Marydel, and Templeville, two Mobile Home Parks (MHPs) and Harman Subdivision

Project Location:  Caroline County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,200,000

Project Title: Town of Hancock for Hancock Wastewater Collection System

Recipient Name: Town of Hancock

Project Purpose:  Funds will support the first phase of rehabilitation of the collection system to replace sewer lines and manholes and disconnect storm sewer lines from the sanitary sewer.

Project Location:  Washington County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: Town of Hurlock for New Well Construction

Recipient Name: Town of Hurlock

Project Purpose:  This project will support the drilling of a new deep well for the town’s water supply.

Project Location:  Dorchester

Amount Requested by the Senator: $404,000

Project Title: Town of Indian Head for the Mattawoman Woods and Dogwood Lift Station

Recipient Name: Town of Indian Head

Project Purpose:  Funding will be used for the design and construction of two new sewage lift stations, replacing the existing lift stations at Mattawoman Woods and Dogwood locations. The two existing lift stations are over 30 years old and have reached the end of their life cycle.

Project Location:  Charles County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,310,000

Project Title: Town of New Windsor for Wastewater Treatment Plant ENR Upgrade

Recipient Name: Town of New Windsor

Project Purpose:  Funding will support design, permitting, construction, management, and inspection for the upgrade of the New Windsor Wastewater Treatment Plant to upgrade Enhanced Nutrient Removal (ENR) treatment levels.

Project Location:  Carroll County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Town of North Beach for Service Saddles and Water Meter Pit Replacement

Recipient Name: Town of North Beach

Project Purpose:  Funds will be used to replace cast iron service saddles that are performing poorly and prone to failure, with new stainless steel service saddles in the Town of North Beach.Project Location:  Calvert County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,808,000

Project Title: Town of North East for Water System Control & Telemetry Updates

Recipient Name: Town of North East

Project Purpose:  The Town of North East seeks funding for necessary updates to existing control and telemetry systems utilized at all of the Town’s water treatment plants and water distribution facilities.

Project Location:  Cecil County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $637,000

Project Title: Town of Oakland for Water and Sewer Infrastructure

Recipient Name: Town of Oakland

Project Purpose:  This project will construct a new water storage reservoir to help supply improved water pressure and provide improved water capacity.

Project Location:  Garrett County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,280,000

Project Title: Town of Perryville for Water Treatment Plant Expansion

Recipient Name: Town of Perryville

Project Purpose:  The project will include two additional Train Membrane Filters and associated piping for the Water Treatment Plant.

Project Location:  Cecil County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,328,000,

Project Title: Town of Rock Hall for Pump Stations Replacement Numbers 1, 2, and 3

Recipient Name: Town of Rock Hall

Project Purpose:  Pump Stations Numbers 1, 2, and 3 will be converted to suction lift pump stations with their own control system. This is due to the existing sewage pumps, piping and control systems at these stations being at the end of their usable life.

Project Location:  Town of Rock Hall, Kent County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,201,000

Project Title: Town of Smithsburg for Smithsburg Streetscape

Recipient Name: Town of Smithsburg

Project Purpose:  The project involves water main replacement as part of an overall Streetscape Improvements Project along E. Water Street from the Smithsburg Car Wash/Veterans Park east to Smithsburg Pike (MD 64), a distance of about one mile.

Project Location:  Washington County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $5,000,000

Project Title: Upton Planning Committee for Parren Mitchell House

Recipient Name: Upton Planning Committee

Project Purpose:  The Parren Mitchell House project will restore the family home of Congressman Parren Mitchell.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Village of Burkittsville for East Main Street Stormwater Management

Recipient Name: Village of Burkittsville

Project Purpose:  Funds would support the Village in proceeding with  engineering design work for the Western portion of East Main Street, in accordance with the Green Streets and Stormwater Master Plan (GSSMP).

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $388,000

Project Title: Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission for Sewer Utility Service for Prince George’s and Montgomery County Communities

Recipient Name: Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission

Project Purpose:  This project will provide public sewer service to existing homes in historically disadvantaged communities that use private septic systems. This funding will target residents in disadvantaged communities to subsidize the cost of connection to the public utility.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County and Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Worcester County for Riddle Farm Wastewater Treatment Plant Bypass Force Main Interconnect

Recipient Name: Worcester County

Project Purpose:  The proposed project is to install a bypass force main at the Riddle Farm Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) to provide an interconnection to the Ocean Pines sewer service area.

Project Location:  Worcester County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,150,000

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Project Title: A Wider Circle’s Essential Support Program

Recipient Name: A Wider Circle

Project Purpose:  Funding will allow A Wider Circle to expand team, inventory, logistics, and transportation ensuring that it can get the necessary home furnishings to those households most in need throughout Maryland.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Addiction Healing Center’s Comprehensive Clinical Suite

Recipient Name: Westminster Rescue Mission

Project Purpose:  This project would renovate a facility to allow for a comprehensive clinical suite accessible to both residential clients and the outside community, building increased service capacity by ensuring community access to clinical services.

Project Location:  Carroll County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $386,000

Project Title: Addressing a Workforce Development Shortage in the Historic Preservation Trades

Recipient Name: The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To invest in the necessary infrastructure and expertise needed for the workforce development program at The Peale Center to scale up its historic preservation curriculum and activities and address the urgent need for new entrants to the preservation trades.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $420,000

Project Title: Art & Design College Accelerator Program (ADCAP)

Recipient Name: Maryland Institute College of Art

Project Purpose:  This project would support and train artistically talented low income students in the Baltimore City High Schools to build a college pathway through targeted, integrated and comprehensive art and design education.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $781,000

Project Title: ArtStream: Creating Jobs In The Performing Arts  for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Autism

Recipient Name: ArtStream, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To support Teaching Artist training sessions and on-the-job apprentice teaching.

Project Location:  Montgomery, Howard, Prince George’s, St. Mary’s, Baltimore, and Charles Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $323,000

Project Title: Baer School Health Suite

Recipient Name: William S. Baer School Partnership Board

Project Purpose:  To fund a complete overhaul of the health suite.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $300,000

Project Title: BEAR Time – Tutoring for Reading and Math

Recipient Name: Morgan State University

Project Purpose:  This project would fund a tutoring program located on the campus of Morgan State University that aims to address foundational reading and math skills for children living in Baltimore City who are in grades 3 through 8.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,548,000

Project Title: Bigs Against Substance Abuse

Recipient Name: Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Eastern Shore

Project Purpose:  This project would support the implementation an online training for guardians and mentors on substance abuse, provide enrichment activities for mentors to complete with their mentee, and provide resources to the community during outreach.

Project Location:  City of Salisbury

Amount Requested by the Senator: $250,000

Project Title: BioHub Maryland: Critical Workforce Initiative for Small Biotech Business

Recipient Name: Technology Council of Maryland, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To create a training program and curriculum and strengthen the ecosystem for small business life science manufacturing in Maryland.

Project Location:  Frederick, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: Bridging the Gap Institute (BTGI)

Recipient Name: Classroom 2 Community (C2C) – Formerly – Literacy Council of Montgomery County Maryland, INC.

Project Purpose:  To expand programming, hire and train new instructors, recruit new business mentors, purchase additional devices for students who lack access to a computer, and run additional training sessions for more future business owners.

Project Location:  Montgomery, Prince George’s Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $355,000

Project Title: Bright Futures and Family-Sustaining Careers for Baltimore City Residents

Recipient Name: Civic Works Inc.

Project Purpose:  To expand access to family-sustaining career pathways for Baltimore City youth, young adults, and adults from historically marginalized communities over the next two years.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $800,000

Project Title: Building a School-Based Pediatric Telehealth Network

Recipient Name: Prince George’s County Executive

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the continuation of a school-based pediatric telehealth network to connect students to critical behavioral health services.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Building the Pipeline for a Culturally Competent, Diversified, and Equitable Mental Health Workforce

Recipient Name: EveryMind, Inc

Project Purpose:  This project would expand the workforce required to combat deaths by suicide and to serve the mental health needs throughout Maryland by providing specialized training, including internships towards licensure, and ongoing support to increase cultural competency and to prevent burnout.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $375,000

Project Title: CalvertHealth MRI Equipment Project

Recipient Name: CalvertHealth Medical Center

Project Purpose:  To purchase new SIGNA Artist EVO Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) equipment for use at a medical center in Prince Frederick.

Project Location:  Calvert County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,154,000

Project Title: Career Readiness for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Recipient Name: Best Buddies International, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would provide transition information to students ages 14-21 and their families about services available to them as they begin the transition from school to career, as well as providing intensive career-readiness instruction.

Project Location:  Baltimore and Montgomery Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $250,000

Project Title: Catalyzing Advancements in Technology for Community Health (CATCH)

Recipient Name: Health Tech Alley

Project Purpose:  To provide and expand workforce training and employment solutions to underemployed communities of color, including to recovering substance abuse clients

Project Location:  Baltimore, Howard, Carroll, and Frederick Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $490,000

Project Title: CCI Ora Glen Community Health Services Expansion Program

Recipient Name: CCI Health Services

Project Purpose:  This project would support building renovations and expanded services.

Project Location:  City of Greenbelt

Amount Requested by the Senator: $940,000

Project Title: CCYSB Building Addition

Recipient Name: Carroll County Youth Service Bureau

Project Purpose:  To build an approximately 10,000 square foot addition onto an existing facility.

Project Location:  Carroll County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Cecil County Mobile Integrated Healthcare Program

Recipient Name: Cecil County

Project Purpose:  To develop a comprehensive Mobile Integrated Heath (MIH) program.

Project Location:  Cecil County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $229,000

Project Title: Center for Healthy Communities at Salisbury University

Recipient Name: Salisbury University

Project Purpose:  To offer critical support to the community through workforce development, professional development, and service-learning.

Project Location:  Wicomico, Worcester, Somerset Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $575,000

Project Title: Chase Brexton – Security Square Center

Recipient Name: Chase Brexton Health Services, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To relocate its current Randallstown Baltimore County Center to Security Square and renovate to create a full-service medical center and pharmacy.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Chesapeake College: Upgrade and Expansion of Health Professions Education Simulation Technology

Recipient Name: Chesapeake College

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the acquisition of equipment for education and training of future healthcare workers.

Project Location:  Queen Anne’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,047,000

Project Title: Choose Life Integrative Transitional Housing Program Project

Recipient Name: Justice and Recovery Advocates, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would develop and implement a fully integrated recovery and re-entry transitional housing program in Frederick County and City that provides full programming, recovery support services, mental health, wellness and substance use treatment services, and case management.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $216,000

Project Title: Choose Respect Anti-Teen Dating Violence Initiative

Recipient Name: Montgomery County Family Justice Center Foundation

Project Purpose:  This project would acquire technology and equipment and expand the reach of programming and resources for teens (age 13-18), parents, and youth care providers in Montgomery County.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $65,000

Project Title: Choptank Community Health – Chestertown Health Center

Recipient Name: Choptank Community Health Systems

Project Purpose:  This project would support the renovation of clinical space and equipment needed to provide dental services for Kent and northern Queen Anne’s County residents, to serve both adult and pediatric patients.

Project Location:  Town of Chestertown

Amount Requested by the Senator: $892,000

Project Title: Collegiate Directions

Recipient Name: Collegiate Directions, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would help low-income students in Montgomery County access and complete college through a series of activities and supports via its two core programs: the Scholars Program and the School Support Program.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $264,000

Project Title: Community Help Desk and Tech Career Hub

Recipient Name: NPower Inc.

Project Purpose:  To provide technical support, digital literacy and navigation to local families.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $741,000

Project Title: Community Law In Action (CLIA)

Recipient Name: Community Law In Action

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the expansion of CLIA’s Pathways Program, a year-long youth enrichment program that provides students with positive leadership development, early career training, work opportunities, and civic engagement.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $200,000

Project Title: Community Trades & Apprenticeship Program (CTAP)

Recipient Name: Greater Baltimore Urban League

Project Purpose:  To provide work-ready development/training and social service support within the Greater Baltimore Region.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,400,000

Project Title: Community-Based Services for Older Adults to Age In Place with Dignity & Respect

Recipient Name: Partners In Care Maryland, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would support outreach and programs to allow older adults to Age In Place.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Creating a Restoration Resource Workforce through Reentry Partnerships

Recipient Name: Maryland Reentry Resource Center Inc.

Project Purpose:  To expand soft skills and green infrastructure and landscape training to 2 cohorts of 20 criminal justice involved participants, creating a ready workforce of restoration and maintenance professionals.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $200,000

Project Title: Creating Access to STEM Career Pathways Through the Liberal Arts

Recipient Name: St. John’s College

Project Purpose:  To upgrade St. John’s College’s STEM labs to provide instruments and materials for hands-on training in biology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $700,000

Project Title: Creative Nomads, Where Art Starts Youth And Family Program

Recipient Name: Creative Nomads

Project Purpose:  To provide arts education experiences designed to help children, their parents, and community members to connect on a meaningful personal level.

Project Location:  Baltimore City and Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $80,000

Project Title: Crownsville

Recipient Name: Gaudenzia, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would renovate the treatment center at Crownsville.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $419,000

Project Title: Cyber4All Center

Recipient Name: Towson University

Project Purpose:  This project will provide equipment for the recently established TU Cyber4All: TU Center for Innovative and Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,900,000

Project Title: Cybersecurity and Engineering Footprint Expansion and Modernization

Recipient Name: College of Southern Maryland

Project Purpose:  This project would support the enhancement, expansion, and upgrades to the College of Southern Maryland’s (CSM) Cybersecurity and Engineering labs.

Project Location:  La Plata (Charles County)

Amount Requested by the Senator: $436,000

Project Title: Cybersecurity Workforce Training Expansion Program

Recipient Name: Maryland Association of Community Colleges

Project Purpose:  To acquire industry-standard cybersecurity tools, labs, and technologies as well as to hire personnel to keep workforce training aligned with the current needs of the cybersecurity industry.

Project Location:  statewide

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Dee’s Place – Recovery Works!

Recipient Name: Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition

Project Purpose:  This project would support addiction recovery services including support services such as referrals to treatment, housing, etc., and those seeking one-on-one encounters with our Certified Peer Recovery Specialist.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $750,000

Project Title: Developing Pathways Connections to Work: Creating Access to Affordable Childcare and Workforce Development Program

Recipient Name: JustLiving Advocacy Inc.

Project Purpose:  To establish the Developing Pathways Connections to Work Program, which will help connect low-income and marginalized single parents with essential resources, services, and tools for sustainable independence.

Project Location:  Howard, Baltimore, Ann Arundel and Prince George’s Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $323,000

Project Title: Donnelly Science Center Renovation

Recipient Name: Loyola University Maryland

Project Purpose:  This project would modernize teaching and research lab spaces in Loyola University’s Donnelly Science Center.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: East Baltimore Medical Center Renovations

Recipient Name: Johns Hopkins Community Physicians

Project Purpose:  This project will renovate the third floor of the East Baltimore Medical Center which provides enhanced services and comprehensive primary care for the local community in East Baltimore.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $750,000

Project Title: Empowering Unserved Marylanders For Independence and Community Connections

Recipient Name: Service Coordination, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would support the collection and analysis of data on the impact of those newly served for Quality Assurance purposes, and would provide public outreach and education to stakeholders and policy makers on the value achieved for this vulnerable and historically marginalized population.

Project Location:  Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Prince George’s, Montgomery County, Anne Arundel, Howard County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $946,000

Project Title: Enhancing Rural Healthcare Education with Extended Reality

Recipient Name: University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Project Purpose:  To create an extended reality (XR) learning program featuring an on-campus XR learning laboratory and a complementary mobile Immersive Technology Center, a 40 ft. mobile lab.

Project Location:  Somerset County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,115,000

Project Title: Environmental Literacy in Prince George’s County

Recipient Name: Nature Forward

Project Purpose:  Expanding GreenKids environmental literacy program into Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS).

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $150,000

Project Title: Epic Art Universe

Recipient Name: Fusion Partnerships, partnership with The Equity Projects

Project Purpose:  This project would provide resources, technology and training for youth entrepreneurship through equity projects including summits, networking, education, and workforce development.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Equitably Aging in Place

Recipient Name: Holy Cross Health

Project Purpose:  This project would expand therapeutic services provided by the Holy Cross Health Medical Adult Day Center (MADC) and subsidize MADC participation for low-income seniors to allow older adults and their families to age in place, regardless of income.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $428,000

Project Title: Expansion and Enhancement of Mental Health Service Programs for Veterans and Families of Veterans in Maryland

Recipient Name: National Association of American Veterans, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To expand and enhance NAAV’s mental health assistance programs in Charles, Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties in Maryland for service members and disabled veterans and their dependents

Project Location:  Charles, Montgomery, and Prince George’s Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $450,000

Project Title: Expansion of Out of School Time initiatives

Recipient Name: Art with a Heart

Project Purpose:  To address the equity gap in visual arts education by offering a variety of services to the Baltimore community, including year-round engaging, culturally relevant, and educational core visual art programs to under-resourced Baltimore area children, youth and adults in schools.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $506,000

Project Title: Facilitating Educator Advancement in Teaching

Recipient Name: Notre Dame of Maryland University

Project Purpose:  This project would recruit and train a cohort of students for accelerated teacher certification program to address critical teacher shortages.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $996,000

Project Title: Food Pantry Program

Recipient Name: Rabbi Chaim Kowalsky Memorial Ahavas Yisrael Fund, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would provide financial assistance to those in need as well as providing financial mentoring and guidance.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $350,000

Project Title: Frederick Douglass Professorship Program

Recipient Name: University of Maryland, College Park

Project Purpose:  This project would establish a Frederick Douglas Professorship Program and provide ongoing support to the University of Maryland’s Faculty Advancement at Maryland for Inclusive Learning and Excellence (FAMILE) initiative to accelerate the University’s faculty diversity goals.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,270,000

Project Title: Frederick Health Hospital Operating Suite Renovation

Recipient Name: Frederick Health Hospital Inc.

Project Purpose:  The funding will support Frederick Health’s renovation of our operatory suites, ensuring that Frederick County residents have local access to the latest clinical advancements, technology and highly skilled providers.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $8,000,000

Project Title: GapBuster Fresh Start Program

Recipient Name: GapBuster, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To implement an effective community-based reentry program to work in tandem with our existing Workforce Development Program, focusing heavily on high crime rate and highest poverty areas located in Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, and Baltimore City.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $830,000

Project Title: Garrett County Lighthouse Residential Crisis Support

Recipient Name: Garrett County Lighthouse, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would support the renovation and repairs of the Garrett County Lighthouse Residential Crisis Facility to allow it to reopen.

Project Location:  City of Oakland

Amount Requested by the Senator: $85,000

Project Title: Genesee Valley Character and Leadership Programs

Recipient Name: Genesee Valley Outdoor Learning Center

Project Purpose:  This project would support an educational program that will focus on serving city students form Baltimore City.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $50,000

Project Title: Glasses4Scholars

Recipient Name: Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington

Project Purpose:  Funding will be used to expand free school-based vision health services for underserved kids around Prince George’s County.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $200,000

Project Title: Grassroots Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center

Recipient Name: Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To fill an existing gap for 24-hour, psychiatric urgent care services for behavioral health emergencies by combining a crisis stabilization program for opioid and stimulant use disorders with a new program that would provide expanded mental health services and treatment for clients.

Project Location:  Howard County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $750,000

Project Title: Greenwell Foundation Veterans Retreat Program

Recipient Name: GREENWELL FOUNDATION INC

Project Purpose:  To provide nature-based therapeutic and recreational programming for people with and without disabilities.

Project Location:  St. Mary’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $199,000

Project Title: GRMC Surgical Operating Theatre Modernization Project

Recipient Name: Garrett Regional Medical Center

Project Purpose:  This project would procure specialized equipment required by the surgical team at GRMC.

Project Location:  Garrett County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $935,000

Project Title: Health, Safety and Lifestyle Transformation

Recipient Name: The Arc Prince George’s County

Project Purpose:  To create a transformative model of care, for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities and the caregivers who support them; one that cultivates new partnerships to deliver fresh food, cooking/nutritional and gardening education, expedited and automated health care services.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $407,000

Project Title: Healthcare Workforce Development on the Eastern Shore

Recipient Name: Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To expand a Pharmacy Technician and a Certified Nursing Assistant/Geriatric Nursing Assistant Certification program  to unemployed/underemployed residents on the Eastern Shore.

Project Location:  Kent, Cecil, Queen Anne’s, Caroline, Talbot, Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, & Worcester Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $308,000

Project Title: HIP HOP Youth Homelessness Program Expansion

Recipient Name: Anne Arundel County

Project Purpose:  Funds would support additional personnel, rental assistance, and other program costs in order to expand the program to provide additional support services and increase the number of youth served each year.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $450,000

Project Title: HMP Training Workforce Funding

Recipient Name: HMP Training

Project Purpose:  To expand the number of low to moderate income students who can complete the HMP Training certified heavy equipment training course.

Project Location:  Washington and Allegany Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $468,000

Project Title: Hospice of the Chesapeake – Workforce Development Innovations

Recipient Name: Hospice of the Chesapeake – Workforce Development Innovations

Project Purpose:  To promote workforce development, including targeted skills training, and professional development, including Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies review and revision.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George’s Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $135,000

Project Title: Howard County Detention Center – Mental Health Care Unit

Recipient Name: Howard County DPW, Facilities

Project Purpose:  This project would support rennovations to provide separate program space for mental health patients.

Project Location:  Howard County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $750,000

Project Title: Howard County General Hospital Behavioral Health Unit Expansion

Recipient Name: Howard County General Hospital

Project Purpose:  This project would increase hospital capacity to treat emergency behavioral health patients as well as offer patients the best possible environment to support their healing.

Project Location:  Howard County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $800,000

Project Title: Improving Outcomes and Racial Equity for Children and Youth in Foster Care

Recipient Name: Maryland CASA Association

Project Purpose:  Funding will support a statewide campaign to create awareness about abuse and neglect.

Project Location:  Statewide

Amount Requested by the Senator: $182,000

Project Title: Increasing Educational Opportunities and Employment Skills for Goucher Prison Education Partnership Students

Recipient Name: Goucher College

Project Purpose:  To expand  course offerings for Goucher College’s Prison Education Partnership (GPEP) and establish new winter and summer terms, which would decrease the time from start to completion of bachelor’s degrees and increase the number of students who can be served each term.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $501,000

Project Title: In-House Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Training

Recipient Name: Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW)

Project Purpose:  To allow DPW to hire additional trainers to expand the in-house CDL training program, thereby allowing non-City employees the ability to participate.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Interfaith Family Health Center Capital Improvements

Recipient Name: Liberty Grace Church of God

Project Purpose:  This project would enable Liberty Grace Church of God to construct an exam room and renovate bathrooms for the Interfaith Family Health Center (IFHC), a partnership with the overarching goal of to reduce health inequities.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $972,000

Project Title: Investing in the Future of the Healthcare Workforce

Recipient Name: Community College of Baltimore County

Project Purpose:  This project would support the next generation of nurses and allied health professionals in degree programs and continuing education programs by ensuring they are trained in state-of-the-art laboratory and classroom spaces.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,804,000

Project Title: Job Readiness for Adults with Autism and Wellness for Underserved Populations

Recipient Name: Madison House Autism Foundation, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To scale successful job training for adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities and expand wellness programs for individuals with autism and under-resourced youth.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Juanita C. Grant Foundation Elder Abuse and Fraud Prevention Education Series

Recipient Name: Juanita C. Grant Foundation Inc.

Project Purpose:  To expand the Elder Abuse and Fraud Prevention Training Series to cover all 9 Districts in Prince George’s County.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $150,000

Project Title: Junior Achievement High School Initiative-Prince George’s County

Recipient Name: Junior Achievement of Greater Washington

Project Purpose:  To support the expansion of 3DE by Junior Achievement (3DE), a public high school reform initiative.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,576,000

Project Title: Kaufman Cancer Center – Radiation Therapy

Recipient Name: Kaufman Cancer Center c/o  University of Maryland – Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation

Project Purpose:  This project would acquire a new Truebeam Trilogy Linear accelerators used to direct precise radiation therapy for tumors without damaging adjacent tissue/organs.

Project Location:  Harford

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: Kennedy Krieger Institute – Innovative Care Center

Recipient Name: Kennedy Krieger Institute

Project Purpose:  This project will help support the construction of a new facility.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,000,000

Project Title: Lab Renovation – Capitol Technology University

Recipient Name: Capitol Technology University

Project Purpose:  This project would renovate the Computer Science, Electronics, Physics, Robotics and the Unmanned/Autonomous Systems laboratories at Capitol Technology University.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Laboratory Equipment for the  Marine Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry Programs at St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Recipient Name: Prince George’s County Executive

Project Purpose:  To provide essential scientific equipment for St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Marine Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry programs, which will outfit new labs to be created within Schaefer and Goodpaster Halls.

Project Location:  St. Mary’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: Latino STEM Education Initiative: Engaging kids and families in STEM pathways

Recipient Name: KID Museum

Project Purpose:  To further develop an innovative, hands-on learning curriculum to increase Latino youth confidence and engagement in STEM

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $704,000

Project Title: Launching Postsecondary Success Across Montgomery County

Recipient Name: CollegeTracks, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To launch the expansion of CollegeTracks’ proven, highly effective College Success Program across Montgomery County.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $334,000

Project Title: LETS GO Boys and Girls – STEM Education Program

Recipient Name: LETS GO Boys and Girls

Project Purpose:  To expand STEM activities to students as young as 4 years old and offer STEM learning and workforce development experiences.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel and Worcester County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $250,000

Project Title: Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD) African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative (AANRI): new opportunities for diagnostics and drug discovery to improve health outcomes for African Americans

Recipient Name: Lieber Institute for Brain Development

Project Purpose:  Funds will provide support for research, instrumentation, analysis and discovery of clinical targets from the largest postmortem human brain study to date with African ancestry subjects and advanced neuroscience research opportunities for MSU’s students and faculty.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: LIRS New American Cities – Baltimore Expansion

Recipient Name: Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

Project Purpose:  To expand LIRS’s New American Cities program, an innovative model that promotes economic empowerment, social mobility, and diverse, inclusive communities, in Baltimore and surrounding parts of Maryland.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $300,000

Project Title: Maritime Skills Workforce Development Program

Recipient Name: Living Classrooms Foundation

Project Purpose:  To pilot a Maritime Skills Workforce Development Program for Opportunity Youth and unemployed or underemployed adults.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $883,000

Project Title: Maryland Book Bank Montgomery County Expansion

Recipient Name: Maryland Book Bank

Project Purpose:  This funding will cover start-up costs for a new branch of the Maryland Book Bank in Montgomery County.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $375,000

Project Title: Maryland Water and Wastewater Educational Program Partnership – MCET

Recipient Name: College of Southern Maryland

Project Purpose:  To create a pipeline into the drinking water and wastewater utility sector by developing a pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship program through outreach, advanced training, and hands-on experiences inside treatment plants across Maryland.

Project Location:  Charles County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $148,000

Project Title: Maryland’s Public Deliberation on Substance Abuse & the Opioid Crisis

Recipient Name: Voice of the People

Project Purpose:  This project would launch a statewide pilot in partnership with universities to provide education on the opioid and overdose crisis.

Project Location:  Statewide

Amount Requested by the Senator: $684,000

Project Title: Mary’s Center Prince George’s County Health Center

Recipient Name: Mary’s Center for Maternal & Child Care, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would support the transition to and renovation of a new, larger health center  in Prince George’s County.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $5,000,000

Project Title: MedStar Health – Franklin Square Medical Center – Behavioral Health Unit

Recipient Name: MedStar Health – Franklin Square Medical Center

Project Purpose:  This project would enhance the inpatient adolescent psychiatry unit by offering a safe, state-of-the-art, comprehensive healing environment.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,200,000

Project Title: Mental Health Service Programs for Veterans and Their Families

Recipient Name: National Association of American Veterans, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would expand and enhance NAAV’s mental health assistance programs in Maryland for service members and disabled veterans and their dependents.

Project Location:  Charles, Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $250,000

Project Title: Meritus Health Crisis Stabilization Center

Recipient Name: Meritus Healthcare Foundation

Project Purpose:  This project would increase crisis bed capacity to support the high rates of substance use disorders present in the Washington County and Western Maryland region.

Project Location:  Washington County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,393,000

Project Title: Meritus Primary Care – Cascade

Recipient Name: Meritus Healthcare Foundation

Project Purpose:  This project would support the offerings of this clinic to engage community members to be proactive in the health, health literate, reduce chronic illness and improve access to medical care.

Project Location:  Washington County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $982,000

Project Title: Montgomery County / Frederick County / Washington County African American Drug Policy Coalition (MC/FC/WC AADPC)

Recipient Name: National African American Drug Policy Coalition, Inc. (NAADPC)

Project Purpose:  To build the capacity of community stakeholders and centers of influence to mobilize and organize to prevent substance use disorders in MC/FC/WC using a culturally sensitive and culturally relevant approach.

Project Location:  Montgomery, Frederick, Washington Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,557,000

Project Title: Mountain Laurel Medical Center Grantsville Site New Location

Recipient Name: Western Maryland Health Care Corporation d/b/a Mountain Laurel Medical Center

Project Purpose:  This project would support the renovation of Mountain Laurel Medical Center’s new Gransville site.

Project Location:  City of Grantsville

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: MSMU Better Together Early Childhood Education

Recipient Name: Mount St. Mary’s University

Project Purpose:  This project would fund tuition support for students in a certification program in the current and future shortage areas of elementary education, special education, and early childhood education.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $119,000

Project Title: Operating Rooms for Pregnant Mothers Requiring Caesarean Section

Recipient Name: Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Center, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would support the construction of a new hospital tower that would provide surgical and obstetrical services, including operating rooms for LHDCMC providers to perform caesarean sections as part of expanded services.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,523,000

Project Title: Optimizing Hippodrome Foundation Arts Education Programming

Recipient Name: Hippodrome Foundation, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This funding would expand Hippodrome Foundation (HFI) youth arts programming in the community space within the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center opening in the fall of 2023.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $600,000

Project Title: OrchKids Inventory Expansion

Recipient Name: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Project Purpose:  To expand OrchKids to an additional centrally located “hub” site in Baltimore City, increasing the number of students served by an additional 125 students, and reducing the need for older students to rely on lengthy commutes.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $249,000

Project Title: Out of School Programming for Baltimore City Students

Recipient Name: The Agoge Project

Project Purpose:  To offer safe, secure, relationship- based mentoring in three different locations in Baltimore City.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $75,000

Project Title: Park West Health System

Recipient Name: Park West Health System

Project Purpose:  This project will enable the expansion and the delivery of current health, dental, behavior and mental health services while integrating new disciplines such as psychotherapy and youth-specific behavioral services.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: Pathways Project (Mentoring Project)

Recipient Name: Talbot Mentors

Project Purpose:  This project would support the expansion of a mentorship program providing job training, soft skills development, technology literacy, understanding of the trades, and college preparation in one location.

Project Location:  Talbot County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $168,000

Project Title: Per Scholas IT Job Training

Recipient Name: Per Scholas

Project Purpose:  To expand technical training and professional development across two Maryland campuses (Baltimore and Silver Spring).

Project Location:  Montgomery County and Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $871,000

Project Title: Pillars of Strength Program

Recipient Name: University of Maryland Global Campus

Project Purpose:  To support student enrollment in the Pillars of Strength Program, which assists caregivers of our nation’s injured military service members in achieving their educational goals.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County and Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $200,000

Project Title: Potomac Center/ Secure Evaluation and Therapeutic Treatment (SETT) Facility Upgrades

Recipient Name: State of Maryland

Project Purpose:  The project would support renovations of the Potomac Center, a facility that serves individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Project Location:  Washington County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Prince George’s Community College, Pathways to Careers in Transportation

Recipient Name: Prince George’s Community College

Project Purpose:  To enhance the Transportation Pathway at Prince George’s Community College to include coaching, internships, and apprenticeships.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $874,000

Project Title: Providing Sustainable Holistic Care to Victims of Intimate Partner Violence

Recipient Name: The Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse

Project Purpose:  This project would support staff recruitment and retention, hybrid in-person and remote services, and new programming to serve survivors of domestic abuse.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $402,000

Project Title: Reading is Fundamental Literacy Program

Recipient Name: Reading is Fundamental

Project Purpose:  To support childhood literacy for students in Pre-K through middle school by providing books and library access to students in the Baltimore City Public School District.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Reading Partners: Baltimore Literacy Safety Net

Recipient Name: Reading Partners

Project Purpose:  To expand the reach of Reading Partners Baltimore to students in schools, afterschool programs, sports teams, museums, healthcare facilities, and other community services

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $800,000

Project Title: Reflection House Recovery Residence

Recipient Name: Reflection House Recovery Residence

Project Purpose:  This project would acquire and renovate an existing structure to house up to 16 women in a 12-month Level 2 treatment program for Substance Use Disorder (SUD).

Project Location:  Garrett County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $250,000

Project Title: Regional Mental Health Workforce Training and Community Outreach Center

Recipient Name: For All Seasons, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To support facility construction and equipment acquisition in Easton, MD to provide more and better access to community-based behavioral health services.

Project Location:  Talbot County & Eastern Shore Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Reproductive Health & Prenatal/Postpartum Care to Reduce the Infant and Maternal Mortality Rate in Baltimore City

Recipient Name: Baltimore City Health Department

Project Purpose:  This project would support educating teens and young adults in reproductive health and family planning, integrating family planning in substance use facilities, and supporting the City’s prenatal and infant care coordination system, including provider outreach and communication campaigns.

Project Location:  Baltimore

Amount Requested by the Senator: $5,000,000

Project Title: Residential Setting/Supportive Housing Initiative

Recipient Name: Baltimore County Government

Project Purpose:  This project would help Baltimore County increase the number of crisis beds and supplemental housing resources available.

Project Location:  City of Towson

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Rock Creek Foundation – Affordable Housing Program

Recipient Name: The Rock Creek Foundation

Project Purpose:  Funding will support the Rock Creek Foundation’s new Affordable Housing program, assisting individuals with disabilities to gain independent housing, acquire employment opportunities to sustain their independence, as well as access other resources to help reduce the starting costs of living on one’s

Project Location:  Montgomery County and Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $325,000

Project Title: Safe Families for Children

Recipient Name: Building Families for Children, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would expand the program to new counties in Maryland which will allow more families access to this program on child welfare deflection, child abuse prevention, and family stability.

Project Location:  Howard, Anne Arundel, Carroll, Prince George’s, Baltimore, Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $100,000

Project Title: SEED MD Arts Program

Recipient Name: The SEED School of Maryland Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would establish a comprehensive fine arts program at the SEED School of Maryland.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $510,000

Project Title: Sheppard Pratt Telehealth Expansion Project

Recipient Name: Sheppard Pratt Health System, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would support the expansion of telehealth services through acquisition of additional equipment and funding for mental health practioners.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $466,000

Project Title: Sinai Hospital Outpatient Cancer Center Modernization Project

Recipient Name: Sinai Hospital of Baltimore

Project Purpose:  This project would construct a new outpatient cancer center for the Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute.

Project Location:  Baltimore City and County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: SpringForward Farms: A replicable employee owned solution for adults with behavioral health needs

Recipient Name: SpringForward

Project Purpose:  To provide SpringForward Farms with bridge funding to train eight full-time positions within the rapidly growing industry of indoor urban agriculture.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $307,000

Project Title: St. Mary’s County Health Department Improvements

Recipient Name: Commissioners of St. Mary’s County

Project Purpose:  This project would support new construction and renovation of St. Mary’s County Health Department.

Project Location:  St. Mary’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,000,000

Project Title: STEM Gateway for Maryland

Recipient Name: Hispanic Business Foundation of Maryland Inc.

Project Purpose:  To engage and retain youth interest in the integrated fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, specifically targeting Latino and African American youth, and especially economically disadvantaged and underserved populations.

Project Location:  Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $400,000

Project Title: Substitute Teacher Academy and Teacher Pipeline

Recipient Name: University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC)

Project Purpose:  Supporting a program for training and professional development for substitute teachers.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $586,000

Project Title: Summer Youth Enrichment Program

Recipient Name: Prince George’s County Executive

Project Purpose:  To provide Prince George’s County youth with virtual and in-person work opportunities.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,062,000

Project Title: Summer Youth Jobs Collaborative

Recipient Name: Banner Neighborhoods Community Corp

Project Purpose:  To continue support of the Youth Jobs Collaborative summer youth employment program, which provides meaningful work experience, employment training, and enrichment and community engagement to youth ages 14-18 in Central Baltimore.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $248,000

Project Title: TCP Youth Empowerment

Recipient Name: The Complete Player Charity, Ltd

Project Purpose:  To expand programs to provide at-risk elementary and middle-school youth with a safe place after school and during the summer.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $345,000

Project Title: The Anne Arundel County Food Bank Healthy Food Initiative

Recipient Name: Anne Arundel County Food Bank, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would provide nutritious meals to low-income, under-resourced individuals and families in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $600,000

Project Title: The BACH Youth Experience

Recipient Name: Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare

Project Purpose:  To serve high school students and young adults in underserved communities in Baltimore who are interested in healthcare careers by establishing healthcare-related instruction in a school setting and facilitating field trips for observations, job shadowing and mentoring.

Project Location:  Baltimore

Amount Requested by the Senator: $596,000

Project Title: The Cradle to Career Pipeline

Recipient Name: Ministers Conference Empowerment Center CDC

Project Purpose:  To expand science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics (STEAM) instruction, enrichment experiences, job shadowing, workforce training, job placement, and opportunities for career advancement in the railway, maritime, and other tech careers.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: The Wound Center at GBMC

Recipient Name: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would renovate existing hospital space to improve patient access.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,750,000

Project Title: Transforming Montgomery County through Trauma-Informed Training

Recipient Name: Adoptions Together

Project Purpose:  Funding will support training and coaching for approximately 675 professionals from several service areas with Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $455,000

Project Title: Tuerk House Main Campus Renovation, Phase IV

Recipient Name: Tuerk House, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would support the renovation of a former hospital building into an attractive, welcoming environment that encourages and supports inpatient and outpatient populations in their recoveries.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,035,000

Project Title: Two Inpatient Rooms for Inpatient Behavioral Health Services

Recipient Name: Luminis Health J. Kent McNew Family Medical Center

Project Purpose:  To expand an inpatient unit to increase access to inpatient behavioral health services.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $870,000

Project Title: UM Charles Regional Medical Center MRI Replacement

Recipient Name: University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center

Project Purpose:  This project would upgrade a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine that used to serve the community.

Project Location:  Charles County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,550,000

Project Title: UMB Street Medicine Primary Care Free Clinic Without Walls

Recipient Name: University of Maryland, Baltimore

Project Purpose:  This project would support a free “clinic without walls” by establishing a street medicine program which would provide ready access to healthcare for the most vulnerable in West Baltimore, improve population health through direct access to primary care service.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $257,000

Project Title: University of Maryland Eastern Shore Veterinary Medicine Program

Recipient Name: University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Project Purpose:  To provide start-up funding for a new Veterinary Medicine Program at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), which would be the second such program in the nation at an HBCU.

Project Location:  Somerset County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,071,000

Project Title: University of Maryland School of Medicine Addiction Center of Excellence

Recipient Name: University of Maryland, Baltimore

Project Purpose:  To create a state-of-the art, inclusive Substance Use Disorder Education and Training (SET) complex at the newly formed Center for Translational Addiction Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $700,000

Project Title: UPMC Western Maryland Patient Access and Treatment

Recipient Name: UPMC Western Maryland Corporation

Project Purpose:  To provide safe, accessible radiation oncology treatments to patients in rural Western Maryland through the purchase of an RTLA (radiation therapy linear accelerator).

Project Location:  Allegany County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,750,000

Project Title: Upper Shore Community Mental Health Center; A F Whitsitt Center – Infrastructure Upgrades

Recipient Name: State of Maryland

Project Purpose:  This project would support infrastructure updates for the Kent County Health Department and the A.F. Whitsitt Center located at the Upper Shore Community Mental Health Center campus

Project Location:  Kent County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Vehicles for Change Program Expansion: Prince George’s and Wicomico Locations Expansion

Recipient Name: Vehicles for Change, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To support the second phase of Vehicles for Change (VFC)’s expansion into Prince George’s and Wicomico Counties, training formerly or currently incarcerated individuals and those with multiple barriers to employment to become auto technicians.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $775,000

Project Title: Work to Independence – Workforce Development Program

Recipient Name: Blind Industries & Services of Maryland

Project Purpose:  To upgrade technology software to support workforce development, employment, and training programs.

Project Location:  Wicomico and Baltimore Counties

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,238,000

Project Title: Workforce Development & Recertification Program

Recipient Name: Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area

Project Purpose:  To establish a Workforce Development and Recertification Program in Prince George’s and Baltimore Counties, and the City of Frederick.

Project Location:  Baltimore & Prince George’s Counties, City of Frederick

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,699,000

Project Title: Wrap Around Services for African and Latin American Communities

Recipient Name: CASA

Project Purpose:  This project will help CASA expand its holistic approach to track, incentivize, and increase enrollment of members into multiple programs and services in an effort to comprehensively address social determinants.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Young Men United

Recipient Name: The United Way of Central Maryland, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the expansion of a recently created program to provide targeted student services to low-income high school students in Baltimore City Public High Schools.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $440,000

Project Title: Youth Opportunity East Baltimore

Recipient Name: Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would support onsite and virtual pre-GED and GED classes, job readiness and life skills training, case management, mental health counseling, and support groups to addresse the educational, workforce preparation and personal development needs of 18- to 24-year-olds.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $750,000

Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee

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Applicant: Naval Support Activity Bethesda

Project Name: Naval Support Activity Bethesda Fire House

Project Location: Bethesda

Amount Requested: $3,000,000

Purpose: The current fire station is in severe disrepair and has been plagued by mold, leaks, structural problems, and other serious issues. It is also undersized and unable to accommodate a ladder truck. Funds will be used for planning and design of a new station that meets the needs of the base.

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Project Title: Aberdeen Activity Center

Recipient Name: City of Aberdeen

Project Purpose:  The project will fund the construction of a walking trail, multi-purpose field, and playground.

Project Location:  Harford County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $945,000

Project Title: Acquisition and Renovation of Blighted Properties in Park Heights

Recipient Name: Park Heights Renaissance, Inc.

Project Purpose:  To acquire, renovate, and sell eight single-family blighted homes for homeownership in the Park Heights Community of northwest Baltimore City.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: African American Heritage Center

Recipient Name: African American Resources-Cultural and Heritage Society Inc.

Project Purpose:  To produce, fabricate, and install educational exhibits and media at the new African American Heritage Center.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $607,000

Project Title: Amherst Affordable Housing Redevelopment

Recipient Name: Montgomery Housing Partnership, Inc. (MHP)

Project Purpose:  To expand affordable housing in a safe, transit-friendly community.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Annapolis City Dock Revitalization – Waterfront Park

Recipient Name: City of Annapolis

Project Purpose:  Waterfront Park will transform the Annapolis waterfront by constructing a dynamic public space that will serve as the gateway to the  Chesapeake Bay, providing direct access to the water  with welcoming green space for visitors and residents and residents including Annapolis’ underserved communities

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: Architecture and Engineering (A&E) Needs Assessment for Public Safety Complex

Recipient Name: Charles County Sheriff’s Office

Project Purpose:  To conduct  an Architecture and Engineering (A&E) needs assessment to begin the planning and development of a Public Safety Complex (PSC) for the Charles County Sheriffs Office, Regional Law Enforcement Agencies and first responders in Charles County.

Project Location:  Charles County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $350,000

Project Title: Asian American Center of Frederick Ohana Center

Recipient Name: Asian American Center of Frederick

Project Purpose:  Complete Phase II of a multi-phase AACF Ohana (Family) Center to provide critical family services to a largely immigrant community in the west end of Frederick, MD.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,200,000

Project Title: Baltimore Franklin-Mulberry Corridor – Reconnecting Communities

Recipient Name: Baltimore City

Project Purpose:  Funding will be used to support the ongoing planning effort for the Franklin-Mulberry Corridor Reconnecting Communities project in West Baltimore.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Baltimore Housing Restoration for Affordability and Sustainability

Recipient Name: Unity Properties, Inc., part of Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works

Project Purpose:  This project will completely rehabilitate 20 historic, single-family row homes on S. Fulton Avenue in Baltimore. The properties will be sold to homeowners at 60% to 80% of AMI, creating opportunities for families to build generational wealth while stabilizing two currently blighted, vacant blocks.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: Baltimore SquashWise: Greyhound Terminal Renovation

Recipient Name: Baltimore SquashWise, Inc.

Project Purpose:  Transforming a former Greyhound bus terminal in downtown Baltimore into a thriving youth and community center.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Benedictine School Residential Facility

Recipient Name: Benedictine School for Exceptional Children

Project Purpose:  Funds would support capital improvements that address obsolescence, safety, and health issues and to meet the needs of both current and future students at the Benedictine School for Exceptional Children, a Maryland Nonpublic Special Education Facility.

Project Location:  Caroline County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,600,000

Project Title: Better Together Worcester Family Support Center

Recipient Name: Better Together Worcester Family Support Center

Project Purpose:  This project would create a multi-generational family focused family center to enhance workforce development, provide mental health services, and promote healthy living habits in an underserved community.

Project Location:  Worcester County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: BlackRock Center for the Arts: Community Development Project

Recipient Name: Germantown Cultural Arts Center, Inc. (dba BlackRock Center for the Arts)

Project Purpose:  This project would address important safety electrical and drainage issues within community gathering and performance spaces, while also maximizing the  ability to utilize our grounds to serve the community and benefit local businesses by bringing people to the area.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Boys & Girls Clubs of Carroll County – North Carroll

Recipient Name: Boys & Girls Clubs of Carroll County, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the renovation of a space in the old North Carroll High School to serve as a Boys & Girls Club headquarters, including community and classroom space.

Project Location:  Carroll County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $806,000

Project Title: Brandywine Road Bridge Replacement Project

Recipient Name: Prince George’s County

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the replacement of a structurally-deficient bridge.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,500,000

Project Title: Burtonsville Park and Ride Improvements

Recipient Name: Montgomery County

Project Purpose:  This project would fund construction of a 500-space parking garage at Burtonsville Park-and-Ride lot, serving northernmost station on Montgomery County’s US29 Flash Bus Rapid Transit Line.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $7,000,000

Project Title: C.P. Crane Plant Property

Recipient Name: Baltimore County Government

Project Purpose:  This funding would support the acquisition of 153 acres of land at the site of the former Charles P. Crane Power Plant in Bowleys Quarters, Maryland.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: Cambridge Harbor Gateways

Recipient Name: Cambridge Waterfront Development, Inc.

Project Purpose:  The funds would be used for the construction of five public access gateways, both water and land,  into the Cambridge Harbor development.

Project Location:  Dorchester County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Cambridge Neighborhood Project

Recipient Name: Habitat for Humanity Choptank

Project Purpose:  This project would fund ongoing construction of 12 affordable homes, to include the cost of roads, water and sewer, sidewalks and lighting.

Project Location:  Dorchester County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $450,000

Project Title: Capital City Gateway Park

Recipient Name: City of Annapolis

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the design and construction of a new park in Annapolis, Capital City Gateway Park, at a prominent but underutilized site along the Rowe Boulevard gateway to the City’s downtown, Historic District, and State Capitol campus.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Carver Center Renovation Project

Recipient Name: Cumberland Economic Development Corporation

Project Purpose:  This project would help fund the renovation of the historic Carver Community Center building, which has been unoccupied for 20 years, into a space to be rented to up to 4 community-minded organizations to serve an economically vulnerable population in Allegany County.

Project Location:  Allegany County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $,2000,000

Project Title: Changing Lives Food Pantry

Recipient Name: Changing Lives Community Development Corporation

Project Purpose:  The funds would be used for the planning, design, repair, renovation and reconstruction of existing space in a food distribution hub, enabling service to additional recipients.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $,2914,000

Project Title: Chesapeake Beach Water Park Infrastructure Improvements

Recipient Name: Town of Chesapeake Beach

Project Purpose:  This project would make necessary infrastructure improvements to the Chesapeake Beach Water Park, serving families, individuals, and organizations by providing outdoor recreational amenities at the center of the Chesapeake Beach community.

Project Location:  Calvert County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Chestertown Heritage Trail

Recipient Name: Town of Chestertown

Project Purpose:  Funding will support design and construction of two sections of the Chestertown Heritage Trail, an ADA-accessible pedestrian and cycling, waterfront trail.

Project Location:  Kent County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $750,000

Project Title: Childcare and Community Center for Montgomery County’s Low-Income Families

Recipient Name: AHC Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project is for the build out (internal construction) of a childcare center and corresponding 12-acre public park with a playground, picnic area, pedestrian walkways, and open lawn areas and a multi-use community room.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,225,000

Project Title: City of Laurel Riverfront Park and Dam Ruins Restoration

Recipient Name: City of Laurel, Maryland

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the restoration of historic Dam Ruins at Riverfront Park.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: City of Salisbury, Rail Trail Segment 5

Recipient Name: City of Salisbury

Project Purpose:  This project would complete construction of Segment 5 of a larger trail project.

Project Location:  City of Salisbury

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,075,000

Project Title: Civic Works’ Center Sustainable Careers Building Improvements

Recipient Name: Civic Works Inc.

Project Purpose:  This request will support electrical and building rehabilitation work within Civic Works Center for Sustainable Careers (CSC)’ existing facility. This will enable continued work to expand access to careers for Baltimore City residents from historically marginalized communities.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Community Resource Center to Support Children and Adults with Developmental Disabilities

Recipient Name: Community Support Services, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project wpi;d fund the renovation of an existing office building in Gaithersburg, MD to safely accommodate children and adults with autism and other disabilites.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,279,000

Project Title: Crown Cork & Seal Blight Remediation

Recipient Name: Southeast Community Development Corporation

Project Purpose:  These funds would support demolition, remediation, stabilization, and architecture/engineering/project management costs for the former campus of the Crown Cork & Seal Company in East Baltimore.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Crownsville Hospital Memorial Park Trails and Open Space

Recipient Name: Anne Arundel County

Project Purpose:  This project would fund extension of a trail system into Crownsville Hospital Memorial Park, creating a natural corridor through the Chesapeake Heritage Area.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: Dobbin Road Shared Use Pathway

Recipient Name: Howard County Office of Transportation

Project Purpose:  Funding will support construction of a segment of a shared use path to improve safety and connectivity.

Project Location:  Howard County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: Douglas Memorial Community Church Village Affordable Housing Stabilization Project

Recipient Name: Douglas Memorial Community Church Village, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would fund engineering and design, rehabilitation and renovation, administration, remediation, and development to preserve affordable, energy-efficient rental housing in the Upton/Druid Heights neighborhood of Baltimore.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Druid Heights Senior Building

Recipient Name: Druid Heights Community Development Corp

Project Purpose:  This project would fund appliance, HVAC, energy efficiency, and security for the Druid Heights  Senior Building.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Easterseals Hagerstown Child Development Center

Recipient Name: Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project purchase or build a child development center in Hagerstown, Maryland that would serve approximately 150-175 children ages 6 weeks to 4-years-old and provide adequate access to children care for working parents.

Project Location:  Washington County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,950,000

Project Title: Elkton Colored School

Recipient Name: Elkton Colored School Museum & Cultural Center, Inc

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the restoration of the Elkton Colored School Building into a site for interpreting Black heritage and multi-purpose community spaces.

Project Location:  Cecil County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,750,000

Project Title: Expanding Affordable Housing Opportunities on the Eastern Shore

Recipient Name: Chesapeake Neighbors

Project Purpose:  Funding would be used toward redevelopment of an existing structure, Primrose House, as affordable housing.

Project Location:  Talbot County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $750,000

Project Title: Fort Ritchie Community Restoration Project

Recipient Name: Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This rpoject would convert a nearly 90 year old, 30,000 square foot structure as well as its 3,200 square foot ancillary building into an indoor concert hall/event center and memorial union to provide a welcoming place for veterans, the local community, vendors and tourists to connect with the historic Fort Ritchie campus.

Project Location:  Washington County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $7,000,000

Project Title: Glen Avenue Road Design

Recipient Name: Wicomico County

Project Purpose:  Funding would support design and engineering for roadway improvements for Glen Avenue, which serves as a gateway and primary road connection to numerous sites of importance to the community.

Project Location:  Wicomico County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $250,000

Project Title: Goshen Road South Pedestrian and Safety Improvements

Recipient Name: Montgomery County

Project Purpose:  Funding will support planning and design for safety improvements along Goshen Road, including new bike and pedestrian infrastructure and improvements to a high-crash-incidence intersection.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,750,000

Project Title: Greater Baltimore Urban League / Orchard Street Church

Recipient Name: Greater Baltimore Urban League, Inc.

Project Purpose:  Funds would support the construction, architecture and engineering costs to renovate the historic Orchard Street Church into a headquarters and outreach center for the Greater Baltimore Urban League, as well as a new community clinic in collaboration with Morgan State University’s Medical School.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: Green Retrofit & Inclusive Community Training

Recipient Name: Washington Adventist University

Project Purpose:  Funds would support a green retrofit of Wilkinson Hall, a building of architectural significance at Washington Adventist University, which serves a primarily minority student body from low-to mid-income families.

Project Location:  Allegany County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,459,000

Project Title: Habitat for Humanity of Frederick County

Recipient Name: Habitat for Humanity of Frederick County Maryland, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would build 12 affordable, for-sale condominiums in Historic Downtown Frederick for 12 first-time homebuyers. The homes will be situated on a Frederick County Affordable Housing Land Trust property keeping them as affordable housing in perpetuity.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,000,000

Project Title: Harambee the House

Recipient Name: Carolina Missionary Baptist Church

Project Purpose:  The project would fund the renovation of an existing office building in Gaithersburg, MD to safely accommodate children and adults.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $600,000

Project Title: Harmer’s Town Art Center Inc.

Recipient Name: Harmer’s Town Art Center, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would rehabilitate a vacant 34,000 square-foot commercial building and blighted alley to serve as a first-of-its-kind regional art facility, creativity incubator, and economic driver in Havre de Grace.

Project Location:  Harford County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,000,000

Project Title: Henderson Crossing Townhome Project, 32 Rehabbed Homes & 12 New Homes

Recipient Name: City Life-Community Builders Ltd.

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the construction of homes at Henderson Crossing in East Baltimore.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,500,000

Project Title: Hillstreet Skate Park Renovation Project

Recipient Name: Greater Baltimore Urban League, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would renovate the Hillstreet Skate Park, addressing unsafe surface conditions and modernizing amenities while enhancing equitable access to close-to-home recreation opportunities in a low-income, racially diverse community.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Historic Druid Hill Y Family Center Renovation

Recipient Name: Young Men’s Christian Association Of Central Maryland, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would fund capital improvements to protect the aging historical infrastructure of the Druid Hill Y, which serves as a haven for people facing social, health, and economic inequity challenges.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,238,000

Project Title: Historic East Towson Restoration and Revitalization

Recipient Name: Northeast Towson Improvement Association

Project Purpose:  This funding would allow for the acquisition of the Adelaide Bentley Park, as well as site improvement and amenities.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: Historic Preservation and Restoration of The Pride of Towson Lodge #842

Recipient Name: Pride of Towson #842 Improved Benevolent Protective Order Elks of the World

Project Purpose:  This project would support the renovation, restoration, and preservation of the two-story 1898 frame house, to include energy efficient features, ADA compliance, landscaping, and stormwater mitigation, and an expansion of the building’s footprint.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Hope Center

Recipient Name: Buckeystown UMC

Project Purpose:  This project would build a capital improvements extension that allows for educational literacy teaching, economic development, job training, community advocacy center and food pantry that focuses on community service, community space and community empowerment.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $200,000

Project Title: I Believe in Me FY24 Funding

Recipient Name: I Believe in Me

Project Purpose:  This project would provide the capital to purchase land to build The Hope Center, which will house an at-risk youth mentoring program.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,000,000

Project Title: Inclusive Public Arts Program at Baltimore Penn Station

Recipient Name: Central Baltimore Partnership

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the first stages of an ambitious Public Arts Program, which will identify and transform several blighted areas within the station’s footprint into safer, more engaging community spaces through a community-driven arts process – all while generating, high-profile economic opportunities for local artists.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: KidzStuff Child Care Center

Recipient Name: Scarlet Covering Inc. dba KidzStuff Child Care Centers

Project Purpose:  This project would rehabilitate a building in Baltimore’s Wilson Park neighborhood to serve as a Child Care Center and house classes and programming for parents and children with disabilities. Federal funds will contribute to renovations of the building and grounds.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Leading Ladies of Integrity Renovation Project

Recipient Name: Leading Ladies of Integrity, Inc

Project Purpose:  The project would fund the renovation of an existing space into a Mental Health and Wellness Center.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: Leveraging Neighborhood Equity Enhancement Deployment (LNEED)

Recipient Name: City of Baltimore

Project Purpose:  This project would target investment in sidewalk reconstruction combined with curb ramp reconstruction.  This will provide comprehensive mobility pathways along selected corridor segments.

Project Location:  City of Baltimore

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,000,000

Project Title: LifeStyles Homeless Shelter/Center Improvement Project

Recipient Name: LifeStyles of Maryland Foundation, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would upgrade the LifeStyles Homeless Shelter/Center building infrastructure by improving security, allowing for storage for bulk purchase of food and supplies, and other major safety improvements.

Project Location:  Charles County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $912,000

Project Title: LIGHT Rock Village Academy Expansion Construction Project

Recipient Name: LIGHT Health and Wellness Comprehensive Services, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the expansion and improvement of facilities, including development of unfinished warehouse space into classrooms, recreation, and community resources space.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,023,000

Project Title: Mace’s Lane CC Renovation II

Recipient Name: Mace’s Lane Community Center, Inc.

Project Purpose:  The funds will be used to repurpose the old Mace’s Lane High School into the New Mace’s Lane Community Center.

Project Location:  Dorchester County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Maryland Deaf Community Center

Recipient Name: Maryland Deaf Community Center

Project Purpose:  These funds would be used to help renovate a building for the Maryland Deaf Community Center to house a gymnasium, ASL classes, and rented office space.

Project Location:  Frederick County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $800,000

Project Title: MD 214 Construction

Recipient Name: Anne Arundel County

Project Purpose:  This project would fund roadway improvements including vehicle capacity and bicycle infrastructure along MD-214.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $5,000,000

Project Title: Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland Capital Building

Recipient Name: Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would fund capital construction for Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland facility, including a meal production facility, office space, storage, and loading dock.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Montgomery County Students Construction Trades Foundation (CTF) Land Acquisition

Recipient Name: The Montgomery County Students Construction Trades Foundation (CTF)

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the purchase of land that would be used to strengthen the skillsets of MCPS students enrolled in CTF courses.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $900,000

Project Title: Museum Collection Preservation

Recipient Name: Allegany Museum

Project Purpose:  These funds would purchase and install a central air conditioning system for the Allegany Museum, as required for accreditation by the Institute of Library and Museum Science.

Project Location:  Allegany County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,019,000

Project Title: Natural History Society of Maryland Revitalization

Recipient Name: Natural History Society of Maryland

Project Purpose:  The project’s goal is to create an exceptional learning center, capable of serving thousands of people a year, improving an important streetscape, and revitalizing the local economy.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,000,000

Project Title: New Shiloh Cultural Arts and Health Advocacy Center

Recipient Name: New Shiloh Community Development Corporation

Project Purpose:  Funding will be used for the modification of existing warehouse space into 30,000 square feet of multi-purpose space which include recreation, health care, cultural arts facilities.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: North Bethesda Metro Station Northern Entrance

Recipient Name: Montgomery County

Project Purpose:  Funding will be used to advance the design of the new northern entrance to the North Bethesda Metro Station, a project that will support walkability and transit-oriented development.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $5,000,000

Project Title: Northwest Branch SVU3 Trail Rehabilitation

Recipient Name: Montgomery Parks

Project Purpose:  Funding will support repaving the existing trail from the Prince George’s boundary to the end of the paved trail, replacing existing bridges/culverts, and extending the paving to the existing end of Oakview Drive.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,800,000

Project Title: Northwest Regional Park

Recipient Name: Baltimore County Government

Project Purpose:  The proposed project consists of the design and construction of water play facilities at Northwest Regional Park.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: Oakland Community Center Expansion

Recipient Name: Mayor and Town Council of Oakland

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the expansion of the existing Oakland Community Center by expanding the overall floorplan and adding 2 or 3 additional full basketball size courts with dividers, additional restroom facilities, a small concession area, and a storage area.

Project Location:  Garrett County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $900,000

Project Title: Open Works Baltimore – West Side Expansion

Recipient Name: Open Works, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would improve economic mobility for underrepresented residents of West Baltimore by establishing a permanent nonprofit public-access makerspace adjacent to the CSU campus on North Avenue.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Park Projects in Historically Disinvested Baltimore Neighborhoods

Recipient Name: Parks & People, Inc.

Project Purpose:  Funds would support three critical park projects at Cecil Elementary School, Greenmount Park, and Henrietta Lacks Educational Park, all of which are underserved neighborhoods in Baltimore.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,500,000

Project Title: Patapsco Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridge – Phase 1

Recipient Name: Maryland Department of Transportation

Project Purpose:  Funding will be used to construct a bicycle and pedestrian bridge connecting the Patapsco Avenue Light Rail Station and Bus Hub with the north side of Patapsco Avenue.

Project Location:  Baltimore City and Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $5,000,000

Project Title: Pearlstone Center Bunkhouse Renovation

Recipient Name: The Pearlstone Center

Project Purpose:  This project would fund bunkhouse renovations at the Pearlstone Center.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,558,000

Project Title: Perkins Homes Redevelopment

Recipient Name: Housing Authority of Baltimore City

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the development of Perkins Homes Phase 5 in Baltimore, Maryland, comprised of 230 units of mixed-income housing, including 104 units of public housing replacement units.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: Pikesville Armory Redevelopment

Recipient Name: Pikesville Armory Foundation

Project Purpose:  Funding will be used for the stabilization and redevelopment of historic buildings that make up the Pikesville Armory.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Poverty Alleviation Campus

Recipient Name: Washington County Community Action Council

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the purchase of the land, parcel, or building that will be used to house the Poverty Alleviation Campus, a one-stop center for  people with low to moderate incomes.

Project Location:  Washington County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: Project Dolphin – Chinese Culture and Community Service Center, Inc.

Recipient Name: Chinese Culture and Community Service Center, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would fund property acquisition for expansion and modernization of community recreation facilities.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,000,000

Project Title: Public EV Charging for Disadvantaged Communities

Recipient Name: Montgomery County DOT

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the installation of EV charging stations in public locations.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,000,000

Project Title: Queen Anne’s County Family YMCA/Active Aging Center

Recipient Name: YMCA of the Chesapeake

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the completion of the new Queen Anne’s County Family YMCA/Active Aging Center in Centreville, Maryland.

Project Location:  Queen Anne’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,380,000

Project Title: Queen Anne’s County – Thompson Creek Connector Road & Trail Extensions

Recipient Name: Queen Anne’s County

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the design, engineering, and permitting for Thompson Creek Connector Road and Trail Extensions on MD 8.

Project Location:  Queen Anne’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,770,000

Project Title: Reconnecting West Frederick Planning Project

Recipient Name: City of Frederick

Project Purpose:  Funding will be used to plan for the reconfiguration of the West Patrick Street/US 15 Interchange, which severs low-income communities of color from the downtown core and nearby schools, services, parks, and trails.

Project Location:  City of Frederick

Amount Requested by the Senator: $400,000

Project Title: Road to Freedom Trail

Recipient Name: Northeast Towson Improvement Association, Inc.

Project Purpose:  Funding will support planning, design, and engineering for the Road to Freedom Trail, a cycling and pedestrian trail connecting 13 sites of historical significance.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $500,000

Project Title: RT. 29 Bus Stations for Flash Service Extension

Recipient Name: Howard County Office of Transportation

Project Purpose:  Funding will support the construction bus stations serving an extension of the FLASH bus rapid transit system.

Project Location:  Howard County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $750,000

Project Title: Rural Community Revitalization through Affordable Housing

Recipient Name: Kent Attainable Housing

Project Purpose:  Funds would enable Kent Attainable Housing to complete four additional affordable homes, which would then be sold to four Kent County working families whose income falls between 30% and 80% of the annual median income in Kent County and who have satisfied the financial lit. program.

Project Location:  Kent County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $809,000

Project Title: Russell Avenue Multimodal and Streetscape Improvements

Recipient Name: City of Gaithersburg

Project Purpose:  The project would fund the transformation of a car-centric road into a pedestrian-friendly and more transit-oriented corridor.

Project Location:  Gaithersburg

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,350,000

Project Title: Soccer Without Borders Youth Hub

Recipient Name: Soccer Without Borders

Project Purpose:  This funding will be used for the renovation of a Youth Hub building.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $331,000

Project Title: Somerset County Maryland Community Center

Recipient Name: Somerset County

Project Purpose:  Funds would support the design and construction of a community center in Somerset County.

Project Location:  Somerset County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,100,000

Project Title: South Shore Park

Recipient Name: Anne Arundel County

Project Purpose:  This project would develop unused park space into multipurpose fields and recreational facilities.

Project Location:  Anne Arundel County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,000,000

Project Title: Southern Maryland Rapid Transit (SMRT)

Recipient Name: Charles County

Project Purpose:  Funding will be used to advance design, engineering, and environmental review process for the development of a 19-mile fixed-route, high-capacity transit service from the Branch Avenue Metrorail Station in Camp Springs to Waldorf/White Plains.

Project Location:  Prince George’s County and Charles County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $5,000,000

Project Title: Speak Up Community News Room and Neighborhood Meeting Center

Recipient Name: Brothers United Who Dare To Care, Incorporated

Project Purpose:  This project would fund property acquisition and renovations for a youth meeting center.

Project Location:  Washington County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $250,000

Project Title: Springboard Youth Training Center

Recipient Name: Family & Children’s Services of Central Maryland DBA Springboard Community Services

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the design and construction of facility providing comprehensive integrative behavioral healthcare, case management, and housing services.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Springsong Museum

Recipient Name: Rachel Carson Place of Wonder Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would create a museum inspired by Rachel Carson, considered by many the “Mother of the Modern Environmental Movement,” through the adaptive reuse of a long-vacant building that sits along Maryland’s Fall Line.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000

Project Title: Synergy Center (Senior Housing and Community Life Center)

Recipient Name: Mary Harvin Transformation Center CDC

Project Purpose:  This project would build a 70-unit senior housing facility and a 40,000 sq ft. community center to engage a multiracial and multigenerational population with relevant amenities to mitigate youth violence and crime.

Project Location:  Harford County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,700,000

Project Title: The Arc Baltimore – Community Living Home Renovations for People with Developmental Disabilities

Recipient Name: The Arc Baltimore

Project Purpose:  These federal funds will provide the capital to address 19 high-priority repairs and accessibility modifications at 14 homes where 44 people reside.

Project Location:  Baltimore

Amount Requested by the Senator: $389,000

Project Title: The Commons – a Publicly Accessible Park at Sandy Spring Museum

Recipient Name: Sandy Spring Museum

Project Purpose:  This project would fund trail pavement and enhancements in a public park at Sandy Spring Museum.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $750,000

Project Title: The Riverfront at West Hyattsville Metro

Recipient Name: Prince George’s County Executive

Project Purpose:  Funding will be used for pedestrian and bicycle access improvements associated with transit-oriented development.

Project Location:  Hyattsville

Amount Requested by the Senator: $4,250,000

Project Title: The STAR Community Recreation Atrium

Recipient Name: MSBC Five Star Program, Inc.

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the demolition and renovation of an existing dilapidated shed area that is currently unusable. This area would be transformed into an 8,500 square foot climate-controlled enclosed open space with an indoor/outdoor experience for multi-generational recreational use.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,600,000

Project Title: Town of North Beach Bike Path and Planter Box Replacement

Recipient Name: Town of North Beach

Project Purpose:  Funds will be used to replace deteriorating sections of bike path and planters to provide resilience and address safety concerns on heavily-used bike path.

Project Location:  North Beach

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,400,000

Project Title: Tulagi Place Extension and Roudabout

Recipient Name: Commissioners of St. Mary’s County

Project Purpose:  Funding will be used to extend Tulagi Place with a new traffic circle at the intersection of the Tulagi Place extension with Shangri-La Dr and Willows Road. The project also includes new sidewalks and bike lanes.

Project Location:  St. Mary’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,791,000

Project Title: US 50/301 Pedestrian and Bicycle Overpass, Stevensville

Recipient Name: Queen Anne’s County

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the design, engineering, and permitting for bicycle and pedestrian crossing over a major highway to provide safe access at transportation connectivity for Kent Island, whose community is bisected by US 50/301.

Project Location:  Queen Anne’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,990,000

Project Title: Veterans Housing Program

Recipient Name: Baltimore County Government

Project Purpose:  This funding will be used for rental vouchers to assist homeless veterans with obtaining housing for no more than three months.

Project Location:  Baltimore County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,500,000

Project Title: Vision Zero Improvements for Bus Stops

Recipient Name: Montgomery County

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the design and implementation of safety improvements at bus stops.

Project Location:  Montgomery County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $560,000

Project Title: Wakefield Valley Trail System

Recipient Name: City of Westminster

Project Purpose:  Funding will support the construction of trails and pedestrian bridges as part of a larger initiative to transform former golf course property into a public park and trail network.

Project Location:  Westminster, MD

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,700,000

Project Title: Washington County – Wright Road Extended

Recipient Name: Washington County

Project Purpose:  These funds would support realigning Wright Road to Hopewell Road out of the floodplain and providing culvert improvements.

Project Location:  Washington County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $2,000,000

Project Title: Western Maryland Scenic Railroad Track Rehabilitation Project

Recipient Name: Western Maryland Scenic Railroad Development Corporation

Project Purpose:  Funding will be used for deferred repairs to railroad track structure.

Project Location:  Allegany County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $400,000

Project Title: YMCA Great Mills

Recipient Name: Commissioners of St. Mary’s County

Project Purpose:  This project will construct a multiple use YMCA recreation center in Lexington Park.

Project Location:  St. Mary’s County

Amount Requested by the Senator: $3,000,000

Project Title: Youth Violence Prevention Hub

Recipient Name: UniFIED Efforts, Inc. Out-of-School-Time Program

Project Purpose:  This project would fund the construction of an out of school and after school facility in Baltimore’s Penn-North neighborhood.

Project Location:  Baltimore City

Amount Requested by the Senator: $1,000,000