FY2024 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING REQUESTS

Recipient Name: City of Globe Besh Ba Gowah Museum

Requested Amount: $1,000,000 

Recipient Location: Globe AZ

Request Explanation: The City of Globe Besh Ba Gowah Museum Archaeological Park Pueblo Museum is cultural example of the prehistoric Salado masonry pueblo occupied between AD 1225 and AD 1400. Archeologist have also discovered an intact, uncollected Hohokam culture site that lies beneath the current Salado pueblos.

Recipient Name: Local First Arizona Foundation

Requested Amount: $1,500,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: Local First Arizona Small Business Support - This project will allow Local First Arizona to increase its support programs that help Arizona small businesses grow and thrive.

Recipient Name: Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, University of Arizona

Requested Amount:  $300,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: The activities of the proposed project bolster essential humanities research, education, and public engagement that have been severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic in ways that align with the HSI, land-grant missions of UArizona.

Recipient Name: City of Yuma

Requested Amount: $1,600,000

Recipient Location: City of Yuma

Request Explanation: The City of Yuma is developing an Innovation District in Downtown Yuma to provide opportunities for research, higher education, entrepreneurship, and unique quality-of-life prospects. The district is a continuation of the City’s efforts to foster redevelopment of the City’s historic downtown area.

Recipient Name: Army Corp

Requested Amount:  $2,000,000

Recipient Location: Buckeye AZ

Request Explanation: This water system needs to be brought up to required acceptable standards and to decrease the occurrence of emergency maintenance and repairs.

Recipient Name: Army Corp

Requested Amount: $1,500,000

Recipient Location: City of Buckeye AZ

Request Explanation: The City of Buckeye (City) has a Central Arizona Project (CAP) Non-Indian Agricultural (NIA) allocation of approximately 2,000-acre feet per year. The City desires to put this water to direct use but does not have the means to treat surface water.

Recipient Name: City of Globe

Requested Amount:  $2,200,000

Recipient Location: City of Globe AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​The City of Globe is full of people who are proud to live and work towards a bright future for all who choose to live and visit the region. They are also proud of this area's History and how it has brought us to where we are today. 
Amidst the global water crisis, a focus on sustainability, conservation, and efficiency is more critical than ever. We request 2.2 million dollars to fund phase one of a three-phase plan to upgrade the waterline infrastructure and save Arizona's most precious resource. This reduction of leakage will greatly enhance water conservation and aid in a sustainable water supply despite global warming for the citizens within our service area. 

Recipient Name: City of Winslow

Requested Amount: $2,000,000

Recipient Location: City of Winslow AZ

Request Explanation: This project would be for the replacement of an existing 1954, 1.5 million gallon potable water storage tank, with a 2 million gallon tank. The existing tank has experienced leaks in the recent past and is in need of replacement. The City has deficient water storage capacity to meet current standard. The project will help ensure adequate water storage for the City of Winslow.

Recipient Name: Army Corp

Requested Amount:  $1,950,000

Recipient Location: Coolidge AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​This project will rehabilitate and replace two wells that were part of the Drought Contingency Plan (DCP) agreement package and which the District does not have sufficient state funding to complete due to material and labor inflation. Wells 113 and 114 (as shown on the maps attached the USACE LOI letter in additional materials) would be replaced and rehabilitated to increase water yield by up to 1785 acre-feet/year (3,570 AF total).

Recipient Name: Army Corp

Requested Amount: $1,820,000

Recipient Location: Eloy AZ

Request Explanation: The Project will drill 3 new wells and construct 1.5 miles of new 12” well pipelines to provide connectivity and alternative conveyance that helps to mitigate Ak-Chin water quality impacts while providing added operational flexibility.

Recipient Name: City of Flagstaff

Requested Amount:  $3,300,000

Recipient Location: Flagstaff AZ

Request Explanation: The proposed regional flood detention project would provide flood and debris-flow mitigation for nearly 100 homes, two churches, a middle school, and numerous businesses. This project is eligible for the army Corps' 595 Western Water Rural Water El Authority.

Recipient Name: Army Corp

Requested Amount: $2,216,000

Recipient Location: Lake Havasu City AZ

Request Explanation: This project consists of converting the irrigation water source at Cypress Park, Jack Hardie Park, and the ASU Campus (including ASU Fields) from potable water to recycled water.

Recipient Name: Army Corp

Requested Amount:  $2,450,000

Recipient Location: Maricopa AZ

Request Explanation: This project will decouple 4 wells from the Santa Rosa Canal (WH-2#1; WH-1#1; WG-1#3; WG-1#1) to help solve the Ak-Chin lawsuit, construct one replacement well on G lateral (labeled as CB13 in map attached to letter to the USACE), and two wells on the R-lateral downstream on the Santa Rosa Canal (labeled WB-5 and WR-4#3 Replacement in attached to letter to the USACE ). These 3 wells are expected to produce 3,890AF annually.

Recipient Name: Irrigation and Electrical Districts Association of Arizona

Requested Amount: $5,000,000

Recipient Location: Mohave AZ

Request Explanation: In 2018, the Bureau of Reclamation disclosed (though they were aware years before this) that a solid waste landfill exists in an area used for a Hoover Dam security shooting range downstream in Nevada.

Recipient Name: Army Corp

Requested Amount:  $1,500,000

Recipient Location: Pinal AZ

Request Explanation: The project will construct roughly 2 miles of pipe for treated effluent EPCOR’s from Pecan Water Reclamation Facility and a 1-mile pipeline from the San Tan Plant, along with small in system storage, that would allow recycled water from to be delivered to New Magma Irrigation and Drainage District’s laterals for use or storage throughout the service territory. 

Recipient Name: Army Corps

Requested Amount: $980,000

Recipient Location: Prescott AZ

Request Explanation: The proposed feasibility study aims to investigate the potential of implementing a combined project for flood mitigation and groundwater recharge along the Big Chino Wash in Paulden, AZ. The project will be a comprehensive feasibility study that addresses both of the primary objectives of the project by utilizing a series of retention ponds that integrate flood mitigation and groundwater recharge. 

Recipient Name: City of Tempe

Requested Amount:  $2,850,000

Recipient Location: Tempe AZ

Request Explanation: The entire project encompasses all the necessary work to reactivate and construct the overall Kyrene Reclamation Facility (KRF) and Recharge Facilities Project. The KRF is the City’s sole reclamation facility and was removed from service in 2010.

Recipient Name: City of Tempe

Requested Amount: $3,380,000

Recipient Location: Tempe AZ

Request Explanation: The Recharge Wells Pipelines Project is a critical element of the Kyrene Reclamation Facilities and Improvements Project [KRF] which will provide the remaining recharge capacity required to store reclaimed water from the KRF in the underground aquifer for future recovery from the City’s potable water wells. 

Recipient Name: Axiom Community of Recovery

Requested Amount:  $5,000,000

Recipient Location: Apache Junction AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​This project provides critical, time-sensitive housing required to deliver life-saving evidence-based substance use disorder treatment and long term recovery services to complex, high-need, and extremely vulnerable individuals who are transitioning directly from a correctional facility or are on probation or parole, diagnosed with a co-occurring mental health condition, including seriously mentally ill, are at high-risk of becoming homeless, and who are Medicaid beneficiaries or Medicaid-eligible.

Recipient Name: City of Coolidge

Requested Amount: $2,000,000

Recipient Location: Coolidge AZ

Request Explanation: The project involves railroad crossing upgrades on Arica and Shedd Roads East of State Highway 87 to provide safe crossing to the planned 420 acre Procter and Gamble manufacturing facility in Coolidge, Arizona.

Recipient Name: Ft. Thomas School District

Requested Amount:  $2,654,000

Recipient Location: Ft. Thomas AZ

Request Explanation: Mount Turnbull Elementary School, part of Fort Thomas Unified School District #7, is in dire need of funds to fully complete the school building. The building project was not completed in 2012 due to a lack of funds, leaving four classrooms incomplete.

Recipient Name: Pima County

Requested Amount: $3,150,000

Recipient Location: Ajo AZ

Request Explanation: This project will correct electrical deficiencies, thereby providing the foundation for critical security infrastructure improvements at the airport. The security upgrades will include electronic pass code-controlled gates, surveillance equipment, WiFi and fueling capabilities for extended travel.

Recipient Name: City of Avondale

Requested Amount:  $3,345,000

Recipient Location: Avondale AZ

Request Explanation: The project will provide bicycle and pedestrian connectivity between two separated multiuse paths north of I-10, giving cyclists and pedestrians a safer alternative to crossing the channel.

Recipient Name: Valley Metro

Requested Amount: $1,382,000

Recipient Location: Avondale, Goodyear, Surprise and Chandler AZ

Request Explanation: This project will purchase seven (7) electric accessible microtransit vehicles (EAMVs) and related infrastructure and connectors.

Recipient Name: City of Buckeye

Requested Amount:  $3,000,000

Recipient Location: Buckeye AZ

Request Explanation: Construction of Fire Station 707 - The City of Buckeye requires an additional fire station to ensure the safety of its ever-growing population. Members of the Fire Department are trained for an all-hazards emergency response.

Recipient Name: City of Buckeye

Requested Amount: $3,000,000

Recipient Location: Buckeye AZ

Request Explanation: This project will complete construction of Phase II of Sundance Park on 38 acres west of the existing park that opened in 2012.

Recipient Name: City of Casa Grande

Requested Amount:  $2,900,000

Recipient Location: Casa Grande AZ

Request Explanation: The City of Casa Grande is experiencing explosive growth in industry and population. The City has attempted to keep pace with adding Public Safety facilities but has fallen behind. The lingering effects of COVID-19 and its negative consequences on the construction industry are still being felt.

Recipient Name: City of Buckeye

Requested Amount: $1,506,000

Recipient Location: Buckeye AZ

Request Explanation: The cost of this project is estimated at 1.6 million dollars and is currently in our Airport Capital Improvement Plan (ACIP). The airfield lighting at the airport is dated and is in need of rehabilitation or replacement. This consists of new runway and taxiway lights, signage, and REIL

Recipient Name: City of Casa Grande

Requested Amount:  $3,795,000

Recipient Location: Casa Grande AZ

Request Explanation: Due to increasing traffic related to new manufacturing jobs in Casa Grande, the need for safety and traffic flow improvement has been identified at the existing intersection of Florence Street and Ash Avenue.

Recipient Name: City of Casa Grande

Requested Amount: $10,800,000

Recipient Location: Casa Grande AZ

Request Explanation: Due to rapid employment growth in Casa Grande’s industrially-zoned area, Peters Road needs to be widened from two lanes to four for the one-mile segment between Thornton Road to Burris Road.

Recipient Name: City of Casa Grande

Requested Amount:  $3,795,000

Recipient Location: Casa Grande AZ

Request Explanation: Due to increasing traffic related to new manufacturing jobs in Casa Grande, the need for safety and traffic flow improvement has been identified on Thornton Road from Cottonwood Lane to Main Avenue.

Recipient Name: City of Casa Grande

Requested Amount: $1,080,000

Recipient Location: Casa Grande AZ

Request Explanation: As part of Casa Grande’s strong commitment to traffic safety, the city has identified lengthening inadequate turn lane length as a cost-effective strategy for improved safety and traffic flow.

Recipient Name: City of Chandler

Requested Amount:  $1,893,000

Recipient Location: Chandler AZ

Request Explanation: Chandler Flex is a new microtransit service that provides an on-demand public transportation option for residents in southwest and central Chandler.

Recipient Name: Town of Chino Valley

Requested Amount: $2,000,000

Recipient Location: Chino Valley AZ

Request Explanation: The Chino Valley FY 2023 Road Improvement Plan includes three different projects, to include the following; total asphalt on three streets, road and sewer improvements, and complete reconstruction of E Rd 1 South. Matching funds: 1748390 / The Town has budgeted for total project costs.

Recipient Name: City of Douglas

Requested Amount:  $1,000,000

Recipient Location: City of Douglas AZ

Request Explanation: The City of Douglas would like to request funding to initiate a bicycle and pedestrian feasibility study for planning and design. The purpose of the project is to improve safety for both motorized and non-motorized travelers in the community.

Recipient Name: City of Sedona

Requested Amount: $2,000,000

Recipient Location: City of Sedona AZ

Request Explanation: The improvement of State Route 179 has routed additional traffic onto Ranger and Brewer Roads within the City of Sedona. Traffic volumes are nearing the capacity of the Y Intersection.

Recipient Name: City of Somerton

Requested Amount:  $2,160,000

Recipient Location: City of Somerton AZ

Request Explanation: The City of Somerton Main Street Downtown Redevelopment Project will ultimately encompass construction components that will revitalize Main Street (State Route 95) with improvements that will enhance economic development through reinvestment by businesses, property owners, and future development.

Recipient Name: City of Somerton

Requested Amount: $1,950,000

Recipient Location: City of Somerton AZ

Request Explanation: The Project will implement the construction of the new storm drain system and/or regrade the roadway section, to solve the flooding issues along this road segment especially on the intersection of Capitol Street and Washington Street.

Recipient Name: City of Tempe

Requested Amount:  $3,000,000

Recipient Location: City of Tempe AZ

Request Explanation: The City of Tempe proposes the redevelopment of a motel located in north Tempe into permanently affordable multi-family housing.

Recipient Name: City of Tolleson

Requested Amount: $3,600,000

Recipient Location: City of Tolleson AZ

Request Explanation: This project is to address traffic congestion and safety concerns in the area of 91st Avenue and I-10. Currently, there is not a connection between 99th Ave and 91st Ave at I-10.

Recipient Name: City of Tolleson

Requested Amount:  $800,000

Recipient Location: City of Tolleson AZ

Request Explanation: Install a traffic signal at 99th Avenue and Pierce Street that satisfies the #1 and #2 level warrants. Currently, the intersection of 99th Ave and Pierce is operating at an inadequate level of service F, with over 50-second delay times.

Recipient Name: City of Tucson

Requested Amount: $1,500,000

Recipient Location: City of Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: The City of Tucson is requesting $1.5 million to expand and significantly improve the current Tugo Bike Share fleet by purchasing and installing 12 new electric-bike charging stations and 120 new e-bikes.

Recipient Name: City of Tucson

Requested Amount:  $4,000,000

Recipient Location: City of Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: Develop 500 affordable and mixed-income housing units.

Recipient Name: City of Tucson

Requested Amount: $2,800,000

Recipient Location: City of Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: The proposal would enable a transformation of current open and underutilized open space into a multi-generational and outdoor activity complex that will revitalize the area and become a nexus for activity, economic development, recreation, education, leisure, and quality of life needs.

Recipient Name: City of Willcox

Requested Amount:  $64,000

Recipient Location: City of Willcox AZ

Request Explanation: This funding will cover the cost of an additional van, which is an important step to grow the program, increase capacity and serve more clients.

Recipient Name: Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona, Inc.

Requested Amount: $500,000

Recipient Location: Cottonwood AZ

Request Explanation: Oak Wash Homes will provide 32 units of transitional housing, serving low-income households experiencing homelessness for the first five years of the project.

Recipient Name: Cochise County

Requested Amount:  $3,000,000

Recipient Location: Douglas AZ

Request Explanation: Additional funding to improve the main runway at the Bisbee-Douglas International (BDI) Airport to allow for heavier aircraft than the runway is currently designed. This project supports the anticipated increase in air traffic and the need for a stronger runway pavement to support larger aircraft.

Recipient Name: City of Douglas

Requested Amount: $2,900,000

Recipient Location: Douglas AZ

Request Explanation: The Douglas Downtown Revitalization Streetscape Project will be transformational for economic development for Douglas and will span three blocks and expand pedestrian sidewalks, construct road diets to slow traffic, pave the street, and add decorative elements to beautify downtown.

Recipient Name: City of Douglas

Requested Amount:  $3,000,000

Recipient Location: Douglas AZ

Request Explanation: Raul H. Castro Park is an essential gathering space for the residents of Douglas. This park is centrally located, serving as the location for many significant community events, specifically Douglas Days.

Recipient Name: Northern Arizona Intergovernmental Public Transportation Authority, Mountain Line

Requested Amount: $772,000

Recipient Location: Flagstaff AZ

Request Explanation: Mountain Line's 5-Year Plan identifies over 13 missing stops on existing routes that create barriers to accessing the system by not being located in a reasonable walking distance.

Recipient Name: Northern Arizona Intergovernmental Public Transportation Authority, Mountain Line

Requested Amount:  $2,130,000

Recipient Location: Flagstaff AZ

Request Explanation: Mountain Line's Transit Asset Management Plan calls for the replacement of buses that have reached the end of their useful to maintain a state of good repair and ensure reliable services. The full request would enable to purchase of 3 buses when combined with that award.

Recipient Name: City of Globe

Requested Amount: $3,500,000

Recipient Location: Globe AZ

Request Explanation: The City of Globe is seeking to replace their current fire station, portions of which date well over 100 years old

Recipient Name: City of Globe

Requested Amount:  $3,500,000

Recipient Location: Globe AZ

Request Explanation: Over the years, the City of Globe’s Downtown District has become a thriving shopping hub for the 7,832 citizens, and with the addition of residents from the surrounding cities, our bordering neighbors from San Carlos Tribal Nation, and our unincorporated areas, our tourists visiting year-round.

Recipient Name: Jerry Ambrose Veterans Council of Mohave County Inc.

Requested Amount: $5,796,000

Recipient Location: Golden Valley AZ

Request Explanation: Camp Hope Sanctuary will provide affordable Tiny Homes to Veterans in need of housing. Many Veterans prefer not to live in urban area and/or apartment living, due to their PTSD and other mental health issues.

Recipient Name: City of Goodyear

Requested Amount:  $1,732,000

Recipient Location: Goodyear AZ

Request Explanation: 
The City of Goodyear is looking to make significant upgrades to our rapidly growing traffic signal network by bringing our Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) up to current technology.

Recipient Name: Kaibeto Chapter of the Navajo Nation

Requested Amount: $576,000

Recipient Location: Kaibeto AZ

Request Explanation: The Kaibeto Senior Center is in desperate need of improvements in order to serve the seniors of the area.

Recipient Name: City of Maricopa

Requested Amount:  $3,000,000

Recipient Location: Maricopa AZ

Request Explanation: This project would design and construct an Iconic City Park (ICP) within the City of Maricopa. ICP facilities will provide an inclusive playground, basketball court, ramadas, ball fields, restrooms, concessions, parking lot, lighting, walking path, landscape and irrigation, and more.

Recipient Name: Martinez Lake Fire District

Requested Amount: $150,000

Recipient Location: Martinez Lake AZ

Request Explanation: Facility repairs and equipment replacement for rural fire district emergency operations. Current building needs mold abatement, and occupancy improvement such as proper emergency egress. The fire district is also in need of and a water tender to transport water from Martinez Lake to fire scenes.

Recipient Name: City of Mesa

Requested Amount:  $750,000

Recipient Location: Mesa AZ

Request Explanation: Heat is one of our region and top sustainability challenges, with far-reaching impacts on our community's health, infrastructure, environment, and economic well-being.Trees are an effective way of providing shade, cooling surface temperatures, improving air quality, removing carbon.

Recipient Name: Bi-National Arts Institute

Requested Amount: $250,000

Recipient Location: Naco AZ

Request Explanation: This $250,000 request will be used for interior renovation of the future El Centro Community Center property, allowing legal usability and occupancy for economic development, cultural and educational offerings to the greater Cochise County community.

Recipient Name: Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. (CPLC)

Requested Amount:  $3,000,000

Recipient Location: Nogales AZ

Request Explanation: Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. (CPLC) proposes a Senior Independent Living new construction residential development of the property located on 780 E. Baffert Drive 85261 in the City of Nogales, AZ.

Recipient Name: City of Nogales

Requested Amount: $5,000,000

Recipient Location: Nogales AZ

Request Explanation: There are 4 bridges over the railroad and the Nogales Wash, and they serve as the only east-west connectors in the community. Without the bridges the city would be divided. They are old and in desperate need of repairs.

Recipient Name: Santa Cruz County

Requested Amount:  $1,500,000

Recipient Location: Nogales AZ

Request Explanation: The project consists of retrofitting an existing County Building (3,000 Sq. Ft.), for the purpose of converting it into a modern Animal Control shelter with the capacity to effectively provide the highest level of animal services within the jurisdiction.

Recipient Name: City of Nogales

Requested Amount: $3,234,000

Recipient Location: Nogales AZ

Request Explanation: The project consists in the reconstruction of 2,860 foot of Industrial Park Drive beginning at Manor Drive and ending at Mariposa Road (SR189). The project will include a 3 foot concrete valley gutter on each side to improve the surface drainage system and extend the life of the pavement.

Recipient Name: Greater Nogales Santa Cruz County Port Authority

Requested Amount:  $50,000,000

Recipient Location: Nogales AZ

Request Explanation: The I-19 interchanges at Ruby Road and Rio Drive, along with the frontage roads on both sides of the freeway are in dire need of improvements.

Recipient Name: Town of Oro Valley

Requested Amount: $2,364,000

Recipient Location: Oro Valley AZ

Request Explanation: The Town recognizes bridge maintenance as vital for the safety of travelers and the preservation of the bridge itself. As such, the Town has anticipated each major bridge repair to cost $500,000 each and has built this into budget forecasts.

Recipient Name: Town of Oro Valley

Requested Amount:  $2,886,000

Recipient Location: Oro Valley AZ

Request Explanation: First Ave is a major corridor for Oro Valley residents and visitors, connecting directly to a state highway, SR77. Where the road crosses Canada Del Oro Wash, the North bound concrete deck is spalling, which means the surface concrete is cracking through to the reinforcement.

Recipient Name: Town of Oro Valley

Requested Amount: $3,577,000

Recipient Location: Oro Valley AZ

Request Explanation: La Cañada is the gateway to Oro Valley. It is one of the principal arterials into and out of Oro Valley. La Cañada at Canada del Oro Wash consists of two separate bridge structures, one for North bound travel and one for South bound travel. Both bridges are in need of maintenance and repair .

Recipient Name: Page

Requested Amount:  $8,000,000

Recipient Location: Page AZ

Request Explanation: The project consists of a single lane, large diameter traffic round about, equivalent to allowing wide and long load passage through the intersection. Included in the design will be improved pedestrian/ ADA access to cross at the intersection, as no safe crosswalks exist currently.

Recipient Name: Town of Payson

Requested Amount: $11,337,000

Recipient Location: Payson AZ

Request Explanation: The parkway will provide another escape route for Payson in the event of an evacuation, which has spurred the Forest Service to fully support the project.

Recipient Name: Central Arizona Shelter Services (CASS)

Requested Amount:  $2,000,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: Opening July 2023, The Haven will provide emergency housing for senior citizens in a non-congregate hotel setting with a bed capacity of 170. CASS purchased the former hotel at 8152 N. Black Canyon Highway with an ARPA award and owns the property.

Recipient Name: City of Phoenix

Requested Amount: $2,000,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: This project coverts a long-closed Kmart facility into an innovation and education center with partners including Arizona State University, Maricopa County Community Colleges District and West-MEC, a public institution providing career training programs high school and adult learners.

Recipient Name: Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc.

Requested Amount:  $3,000,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. (CPLC) proposes a Senior Independent Living new construction residential development of the property located on 780 E. Baffert Drive 85261 in the City of Nogales, AZ.

Recipient Name: Area Agency on Aging, Region One, Incorporated

Requested Amount: $4,000,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: Homelessness is particularly challenging for older adults. Among single homeless adults, half are over the age of 50 and half of those only became homeless after age 50. The lack of affordable housing has only increased the rate of homelessness for this age group.

Recipient Name: City of Phoenix

Requested Amount:  $3,000,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: This funding will be used to provide needed renovations to a 120-room former hotel that the City of Phoenix is in the process of purchasing and converting to Permanent Supportive Housing.

Recipient Name: Valley Metro

Requested Amount: $4,898,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: This project will purchase up to five (5) battery electric buses (BEBs) and related charging infrastructure.

Recipient Name: City of Phoenix

Requested Amount:  $5,000,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: The construction of 64th Street in this area is crucial to the launching of and long-term success of the expansion of the Mayo Clinic Campus and Arizona State University.

Recipient Name: City of Phoenix

Requested Amount: $1,000,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: The City of Phoenix Family Advocacy Center is beginning renovations of the victim center and detective work spaces, which are more than 20 years old. Thousands of victims of sexual and domestic violence visit the Center annually and the space needs to better reflect best practices.

Recipient Name: Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona

Requested Amount:  $360,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona (Habitat) is in progress of developing a 25-home community known as Alta Vista Ranch situated at the Southwest Corner of Alta Vista Road and 13th Place in Phoenix, Arizona.

Recipient Name: Town of Pima

Requested Amount: $1,500,000

Recipient Location: Pima AZ

Request Explanation: General Funds will be used for matching.

Recipient Name: Pinal County

Requested Amount:  $3,000,000

Recipient Location: Pinal County AZ

Request Explanation: Local Highway User Revenue Funding in the amount of $2M

Recipient Name: Pinon (Forest Lake Chapter)

Requested Amount: $430,000

Recipient Location: Pinon AZ

Request Explanation: The Forest Lake Chapter is in dire need of a motor grader in order to proactively take care of their own community roads without waiting for the Navajo Nation Department of Transportation or BIA Roads Department to service the road.

Recipient Name: City of Prescott

Requested Amount:  $3,000,000

Recipient Location: Prescott AZ

Request Explanation: For three runways

Recipient Name: U.S. VETS

Requested Amount: $2,500,000

Recipient Location: Prescott AZ

Request Explanation: The project will allow the construction of 80 new units which will be located on a vacant parcel of land located on the Fort Whipple Northern Arizona VA Healthcare System (NAVAHCS) campus.

Recipient Name: Prescott YMCA of Yavapai County

Requested Amount:  $5,500,000

Recipient Location: Prescott AZ

Request Explanation: This project will be part of the solution by offering high quality, affordable childcare for 120 community children. This will increase the workforce in Prescott Valley by 200 people including our employees and parents being able to return to the workforce.

Recipient Name: Central Yavapai Metropolitan Planning Organization (CYMPO)

Requested Amount: $225,000

Recipient Location: Prescott Valley AZ

Request Explanation: YavaLine Regional Transit System was implemented in September, 2022 as part of a 4-year phased implementation plan. This is a demand-response model offering door-to-door service from 6am to 8pm, Monday - Friday.

Recipient Name: Graham County

Requested Amount:  $1,991,000

Recipient Location: Safford AZ

Request Explanation: Program match: 120396. Talley Wash is a large wash running from the northern hills of Graham County down to the river. The wash crosses Safford-Bryce Road which is a major collector and the main roadway north of the river.

Recipient Name: The Trust for Public Land

Requested Amount: $1,300,000

Recipient Location: Safford and Thatcher AZ

Request Explanation: Funding will be used for the construction of the Gila River Linear Park and Trail. This will be the first phase, which is a 4.2-mile segment (of a planned overall seven miles) of river park and trail lying just north of Safford and Thatcher city/town limits.

Recipient Name: Town of Sahuarita

Requested Amount:  $3,250,000

Recipient Location: Sahuarita AZ

Request Explanation: The Campbell Avenue Extension project will complete a section of roadway that will connect the Town of Sahuarita to Green Valley, AZ in Pima County.

Recipient Name: Yuma County

Requested Amount: $3,125,000

Recipient Location: San Luis & Somerton AZ

Request Explanation: The Avenue D/E: SR 195 to US 95 New North/South Roadway Corridor is a 7.6 miles new roadway construction project being proposed for the Fiscal Year 2024 Congressionally Directed Spending by Yuma County, Arizona.

Recipient Name: Sedona Arts Center

Requested Amount:  $608,000

Recipient Location: Sedona AZ

Request Explanation: The building is not entirely accessible currently as it does not have an elevator. While both floors, separately, are accessible, one cannot get between floors without going up stairs or getting in a car.

Recipient Name: Yavapai County

Requested Amount: $3,503,000

Recipient Location: Seligman AZ

Request Explanation: The rehabilitation project of the Historic Route 66 seeks to bring the condition of one of the United States of America’s original cross country roadway systems, “The Mother Road”, closer to its former glory days nearly 100 years ago.

Recipient Name: City of Show Low

Requested Amount:  $2,706,000

Recipient Location: Show Low AZ

Request Explanation: There is currently a single crossing of Show Low Creek within the City. The East Thornton crossing at Show Low Creek would create an additional crossing within the city.

Recipient Name: City of Show Low

Requested Amount: $1,530,000

Recipient Location: Show Low AZ

Request Explanation: The project will realign Vacation Village Drive with Fawn Brook Drive. Fawn Brook Drive is a better location for turning traffic because it is not on a slope and has better visibility of oncoming traffic.

Recipient Name: City of Sierra Vista

Requested Amount:  $4,023,000

Recipient Location: Sierra Vista AZ

Request Explanation: BST is a federally classified Minor Arterial Roadway connecting the State Highway System at two locations, State Route 90 and State Route 92. This roadway also serves as a gateway to the City of Sierra Vista and Fort Huachuca Army Installation, with two of its access gates located along BST.

Recipient Name: City of Sierra Vista

Requested Amount: $4,022,000

Recipient Location: Sierra Vista AZ

Request Explanation: The City of Sierra Vista is requesting appropriations consideration for funding the Design and Reconstruction of Buffalo Soldier Trail (BST), between Hatfield/SR90 Bypass to 7th Street.

Recipient Name: Snowflake

Requested Amount:  $1,400,000

Recipient Location: Snowflake AZ

Request Explanation: The applicant seeks to improve the interaction between pedestrian and vehicular traffic while not impacting the flow of traffic. In response to the situation, the applicant is requesting funding to install a traffic light at West 4th South Street.

Recipient Name: Town of Superior

Requested Amount: $3,483,000

Recipient Location: Superior AZ

Request Explanation: The Town of Superior is seeking funding for the Panther Drive Bridge to replace a low-water crossing. This low water crossing serves a large section of the Town as primary access, including the Superior Fire Department, Kennedy Elementary, Superior High School, and many residential units.

Recipient Name: City of Surprise

Requested Amount:  $5,000,000

Recipient Location: Surprise AZ

Request Explanation: AZ DOT Project Number: 102007 The Loop 303 & US60 Traffic Interchange Project is the second phase of the 2014 interim interchange and will construct the ultimate traffic interchange for the two highways. If a local match is required, we will use general capital funds as the source.

Recipient Name: Junior Achievement

Requested Amount: $722,000

Recipient Location: Tempe AZ

Request Explanation: Junior Achievement of Arizona (JA) is requesting funding to complete the renovation of our aging JA BizTown facility, where we deliver career-readiness and financial literacy education to nearly 25,000 AZ elementary and middle school students annually, many of whom are low-income.

Recipient Name: Town of Duncan

Requested Amount:  $290,000

Recipient Location: Town of Duncan AZ

Request Explanation: This request is for Phase I of the Hunter Estates Flood Mitigation Project, which involves the permanent installation of 20 culverts to address the ongoing flooding that has necessitated repairs and maintenance for decades in the Hunter Estates area of rural Duncan, Arizona.

Recipient Name: Town of Eagar

Requested Amount: $1,500

Recipient Location: Town of Eagar AZ

Request Explanation: With the requested funding and previously completed studies from the county, the Town of Eagar could move forward with expanding fiber to a greater number of the residents in Eagar.

Recipient Name: Town of Guadalupe

Requested Amount:  $2,314,000

Recipient Location: Town of Guadalupe AZ

Request Explanation: Reconstruction of Calle Guadalupe (Major Arterial) from the I-10 overpass on the west end, to the Town limits on the east end (3,700 linear feet).

Recipient Name: Town of Oro Valley

Requested Amount: $2,363,000

Recipient Location: Town of Oro Valley AZ

Request Explanation: Rancho Vistoso is a major corridor for Oro Valley residents and visitors, connecting directly to a state highway, SR77. Rancho Vistoso at Honeybee Wash consists of two separate bridge structures, one for West bound travel and one for East bound travel. Both bridges are in need of maintenance/repair .

Recipient Name: Town of Patagonia

Requested Amount:  $250,000

Recipient Location: Town of Patagonia AZ

Request Explanation: We are requesting funding for EIS, Scope and Design for a box culvert style bridge.

Recipient Name: Town of Thatcher

Requested Amount: $4,682,000

Recipient Location: Town of Thatcher AZ

Request Explanation: This project will construct a new roadway on that alignment with curbing, sidewalks and bicycle lanes, providing multi-odal access for many citizens to key retail, healthcare and entertainment in the area.

Recipient Name: Town of Tusayan

Requested Amount:  $1,602,000

Recipient Location: Town of Tusayan AZ

Request Explanation: The Highway 64 Flood Mitigation Project is a planning and pavement project that will address the imminent flooding of our town and regional Northern Arizona area, caused by poor flooding infrastructure and planning throughout the town and across State Highway 64.

Recipient Name: Tuba City

Requested Amount: $195,000

Recipient Location: Tuba City AZ

Request Explanation: The Tuba City Senor Center is in need of improvements such as: parking lot upgrades, site upgrades, ADA building signage, HVAC upgrades, fire and smoke detection, automatic doors, and ADA restroom renovations.

Recipient Name: Pima Community College

Requested Amount:  $2,500,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: PCC Center of Excellence for Health Sciences Workforce Incubator addresses a critical nursing and healthcare workforce crisis in Arizona. The project funds construction infrastructure and the purchase of training equipment and specialized medically related furniture needed for the Center .

Recipient Name: Tucson

Requested Amount: $2,375,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: Pima County is requesting funding for construction of intersection improvements at Benson Highway at Columbus Boulevard in southeastern Tucson. The intersection has a high skew (approximately 45 degrees) which causes safety and operational issues.

Recipient Name: Northwest Fire District

Requested Amount:  $2,750,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: Renovation and expansion of Northwest Fire District Fire Station 331 to increase capacity for additional responders and apparatus to increase response capacity to the Flowing Wells community. This community is identified as a Community Development Block Grant Target Area in Pima County.

Recipient Name: Pascua Yaqui Development Corporation

Requested Amount: $3,041,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: Provide workforce training that results in living wage jobs.

Recipient Name: Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation

Requested Amount:  $750,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: This project funds an expansion and renovation of Fox Theatre to develop the region’s first Performing Arts Center, which will benefit the community with economic development, historic preservation of a cultural staple in the Tucson community, and education for the region’s youth.

Recipient Name: GAP Ministries

Requested Amount: $650,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: GAP continues to experience overwhelming demand for its services, including the need for food and products, and is working to increase its capacity to meet those critical needs within the community.

Recipient Name: Yavapai County

Requested Amount:  $3,316,000

Recipient Location: Yavapai AZ

Request Explanation: This project will mill the existing asphalt 5” in the northbound lanes and 3” in the southbound lanes for approximately 1 mile and replace with new asphalt. The project will also include some curb and median work.

Recipient Name: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization

Requested Amount: $2,000,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: The Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization (YMPO) in Southwestern Arizona is applying for the 2024 CDS for planning services to complement the committed funds for final design on nine miles of safety improvements on US Highway 95 (US 95).

Recipient Name: Yuma County

Requested Amount:  $369,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: The first phase of the park is underway. The second Ramada will provide park visitors with another optional area to use in case other is occupied.

Recipient Name: Yuma County

Requested Amount: $6,000,000

Recipient Location: Yuma County AZ

Request Explanation: Yuma County to implement a Rural Agricultural Fixed Wireless System to enable development and use new agricultural technology such soil moisture monitoring, precision irrigation (water resource management), crop health, autonomous tractors, robotics, artificial intelligence, and drones.

Recipient Name: Town of Superior

Requested Amount:  $4,180

Recipient Location: Superior AZ

Request Explanation: This funding would be used to install fire hydrants to protect key assets at risk for wildland-urban interface fire.

Recipient Name: City of Casa Grande

Requested Amount:   $143,000

Recipient Location: Casa Grande AZ

Request Explanation: As part of Casa Grande’s multi-faceted approach to ensure compliance with the Clean Water Act, the city is working to reduce the occurrence of illegal dumping of trash, which is a source of contamination in stormwater runoff.

Recipient Name: City of Casa Grande

Requested Amount: $2,711,000

Recipient Location: Casa Grande AZ

Request Explanation: Casa Grande is classified as exceeding federal clean air standards for particulate matter (dust) by the EPA. Fugitive dust emissions from sources such as unpaved roads and alleys are a significant contributor to this persistent public health concern.

Recipient Name: Tri-City Regional Sanitary District of Gila County, Arizona

Requested Amount:  $7,100,000

Recipient Location: Claypool AZ

Request Explanation: The District encompasses approximately 5.3 square miles in Gila County, Arizona between the Town of Miami and the City of Globe. Approximately 4,700 residents will directly benefit from this collection and treatment system.

Recipient Name: Short Creek Legacy Center (Community Center)

Requested Amount: $3,090,000

Recipient Location: Colorado City AZ

Request Explanation: This project, Short Creek Legacy Center, would support the renovation of a large building (approximately 61,000 square feet) into a community center located in Colorado City, a rural community in Northern Arizona.

Recipient Name: Town of Colorado City

Requested Amount:  $55,000

Recipient Location: Colorado City AZ

Request Explanation: Preliminary feasibility study for flood and erosion control in the Short Creek Wash in the Town of Colorado City.

Recipient Name: City of Douglas Police Department

Requested Amount: $1,300,000

Recipient Location: Douglas AZ

Request Explanation: The building needs repairs to its historic structure and needs to address areas of concern such as proper drainage that pose a potential threat to the integrity of the building.

Recipient Name: Gila County

Requested Amount:  $333,000,000

Recipient Location: Gila AZ

Request Explanation: The Pleasant Valley Veterans Retreat is a fine example of local, state, and federal governments working together to address the needs of veterans recovering from service-related injuries and trauma. Gila County is working with the USFS and Congress to obtain fee title to the land and buildings that served as a Tonto Forest Fire Station. 

Recipient Name: Gila County Recycling and Landfill Composting Project

Requested Amount: $731,000

Recipient Location: Globe AZ

Request Explanation: The Russell Gulch Landfill airspace including the current and future expansions will last approximately 25 years. The National Forest Service which owns 2.71 million acres of the 3.06 million acres in Gila County has stated they will not site new landfills.

Recipient Name: Town of Huachuca City

Requested Amount:  $336,000

Recipient Location: Huachuca City AZ

Request Explanation: Huachuca City is a small town of 1,626 people located in Cochise County near the City of Sierra Vista and Fort Huachuca. Cochise County experiences wildfires year around--often in low-lying areas like Huachuca City.

Recipient Name: Town of Kearny

Requested Amount: $600,000

Recipient Location: Kearny AZ

Request Explanation: The Town of Kearny volunteer fire department is currently relying on a primary fire engine built in 1994. Parts are becoming very difficult to obtain and we have had several system failures on the truck.

Recipient Name: Mayer Fire District

Requested Amount:  $825,000

Recipient Location: Mayer AZ

Request Explanation: To replace an approximate 3,000 square fire station, originally an auto dealership built in the late 1970s. It is not NFPA, OSHA, or ADA compliant. It does not meet the minimum requirements for co-ed crews with one bathroom.

Recipient Name: Northeast Arizona Training Center

Requested Amount: $1,979,000

Recipient Location: Navajo AZ

Request Explanation: The purpose of this $2.64 million request for Congressionally Directed Spending through the USDA Rural Development – Community Facilities Grant is to obtain sufficient resources to complete a capital improvement project

Recipient Name: Pinetop District

Requested Amount:  $3,274,000

Recipient Location: Navajo AZ

Request Explanation: The communities that PFD provides response is exclusively in a WUI and a high risk wildfire community. As a result, the district has a wildland division with 7 FTE and 13-15 seasonal personnel.

Recipient Name: Willcox Theater and Arts, Inc.

Requested Amount: $75,000

Recipient Location: Willcox AZ

Request Explanation: The Palace of Art and Theater, located in the center of the Railroad Avenue Historic District, is used daily as a culture and heritage center by WTA and is central to Willcox's economic development, and celebration of ranching, railroad, and agricultural heritage.

Recipient Name: Mo Sheldon

Requested Amount:  $858,821,000

Recipient Location: Willcox AZ

Request Explanation: Structural upgrades to current Main Entry and ED canopies which are too low for modern transportation. Tops of canopies have been struck and scraped several times.

Recipient Name: Williamson Valley Fire District

Requested Amount: $750,000

Recipient Location: Yavapai AZ

Request Explanation: To replace our existing fire station that is a 1999 manufactured home of 1,700 square feet and a separate 1986 small prefab apparatus bay of about 1,600 square feet.

Recipient Name: Yuma County

Requested Amount:  $6,000,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: Yuma County intends to implement a Rural Agricultural Fixed Wireless System to enable development and use new agricultural technology such as soil moisture monitoring, precision irrigation (water resource management), crop health, autonomous tractors, robotics, artificial intelligence, and drones.

Recipient Name: Dine College

Requested Amount: $1,000,000

Recipient Location: Apache AZ

Request Explanation: DineCollege was founded in 1968 as the first tribally-controlled institution of higher learning in the U.S. Five years ago we became a four-year college, and now we are on our way to becoming a research university. One-time, targeted requests to support essential infrastructure for technology transf​​​​​​​

Recipient Name: Superstition Fire & Medical District

Requested Amount: $252,000

Recipient Location: Apache Junction AZ

Request Explanation: The Superstition Fire & Medical District (SFMD) is requesting equipment to increase cardiac arrest survival rates in our community. To increase survival rates, SFMD must outfit frontline fire apparatus and ambulances with the proper equipment. All components of the equipment are essential for a posi

Recipient Name: City of Buckeye

Requested Amount: $2,020,000

Recipient Location: Buckeye AZ

Request Explanation: Fire Ladder Truck - Buckeye has only one front-line fire ladder truck, which is 15 years old and is cross-staffed with a fire engine company. This means that the ladder shares personnel with a fire engine in the same station so only one may respond at a time.​​​​​​​

Recipient Name: WestCare Arizona, Inc.

Requested Amount: $1,650,000

Recipient Location: Bullhead City AZ

Request Explanation: This community development project will rehab an existing outpatient and administrative office owned by WestCare Arizona and construct a Community Crisis Center. Bullhead City does not have a crisis center where individuals can access immediate help for SUD and COD, especially withdrawal management beds.

Recipient Name: Central Arizona College

Requested Amount: $1,023,000

Recipient Location: City of Maricopa AZ

Request Explanation: Central Arizona College (CAC) is seeking federal funding support for a program to train workers for entry-level jobs in Pinal County’s rapidly growing telecommunications industry.​​​​​​​

Recipient Name: Creek Valley Health Clinic

Requested Amount: $2,967,000

Recipient Location: Colorado City AZ

Request Explanation: This project will support expansion and improvement of health services along the northern 'Arizona Strip'. This region is approximately 35 miles, spans from Colorado City to Fredonia, and includes rural communities of northern Mohave and Coconino County.

Recipient Name: Creek Valley Health Clinic

Requested Amount: $1,600,000

Recipient Location: Colorado City AZ

Request Explanation: This project would support the development, and construction costs associated with a maternal health and imaging center in rural northern Arizona.​​​​​​​

Recipient Name: Community Health Center of Yavapai

Requested Amount: $86,000

Recipient Location: Cottonwood AZ

Request Explanation: Community Health Center of Yavapai's (CHCY) electronic health record system's (EHR) current configuration is not meeting agency needs to effectively manage quality measures, and patient and appointment management.

Recipient Name: Mohave County

Requested Amount: $951,000

Recipient Location: Dolan Springs, White Hills, Meadview, Golden Valley, Chloride and outlying areas AZ

Request Explanation: Schools in Mohave County are open four days a week with students off on Fridays. The proposed Project includes afterschool care including all day on Fridays. The program will focus on a student-centered enrichment program.​​​​​​​

Recipient Name: Canyonlands Community Health Care

Requested Amount: $2,500,000

Recipient Location: Duncan AZ

Request Explanation: Canyonlands Community Health Care (CCHC) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving rural/frontier populations located in northern and southeast Arizona. CCHC's mission is to promote healthier lives through affordable, accessible, inclusive, integrated primary care.

Recipient Name: North Country HealthCare, Inc.

Requested Amount: $1,733,000

Recipient Location: Flagstaff AZ

Request Explanation: North Country HealthCare, a federally qualified health center serving northern Arizona, seeks to complete the construction and alteration project of an existing, permanent health center clinic in rural Winslow, Arizona.​​​​​​​

Recipient Name: City of Flagstaff

Requested Amount: $4,500,000

Recipient Location: Flagstaff AZ

Request Explanation: The area of the new proposed Northern Arizona Health (NAH) primary hospital facility is underserved for the necessary Fire and EMS protection associated with the risk the new facility would bring.

Recipient Name: Highlands Fire Department

Requested Amount: $67,000,000

Recipient Location: Flagstaff AZ

Request Explanation: We are the front-line emergency medical service provider to our suburban and rural communities. There is a lack of certified paramedic providers. With this project we aim to fund the tuition and training to put three EMT-Basic providers through the year-long intensive paramedic training course provi
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Recipient Name: Forest Lake Chapter of the Navajo Nation

Requested Amount: $200,000

Recipient Location: Forest Lake AZ

Request Explanation: The project is to develop an emergency response team that would immediately initiate community response such as lifesaving matter while waiting for an ambulance to arrive.

Recipient Name: Midwestern University, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine

Requested Amount: $700,113

Recipient Location: Glendale AZ

Request Explanation: Midwestern University has a 20-year history of providing care for refugees and those experiencing homelessness through an interprofessional program, Health Outreach through Medicine and Education (HOME), that involves University healthcare students and faculty.​​​​​​​

Recipient Name: Midwestern University, Arizona College of Podiatric Medicine

Requested Amount: $305,000

Recipient Location: Glendale AZ

Request Explanation: This proposal is to implement a model to prevent the recurrence of diabetic foot ulcers (“DFU”) as research indicates an expected 40% recurrence rate within one year (up to 60% in three years), but with the implementation of a prevention program, we believe this number can be substantially reduced.

Recipient Name: City of Globe

Requested Amount: $2,200,000

Recipient Location: Globe AZ

Request Explanation: The Globe City Council has prioritized the project/purchase of an Articulating Aerial Platform 100’ Ladder Truck for the Globe Fire Department, which will enhance the ability to respond to fire calls and be a part of the region’s highly aggressive fire prevention and mitigation strategies.​​​​​​​

Recipient Name: Community Bridges, Inc.

Requested Amount: $3,131,000

Recipient Location: Globe AZ

Request Explanation: The Community Bridges, Inc. (CBI), Globe Transition Point clinical facility has served our community for 16 years by providing substance use and mental health crisis and stabilization to patients living at low income or very low income.

Recipient Name: Mohave Community College

Requested Amount: $110,000

Recipient Location: Kingman AZ

Request Explanation: Mohave Community College would like to increase the Human Services program offerings. Additionally we would like to offer mobile mental health and substance use disorder services to the adult and pediatric population in Mohave County. We will partner with local mental health and substance use disorder providers to offer mobile counseling and assessment of needs to the adult and pediatric population in Mohave County.

Recipient Name: Foster Cooperative

Requested Amount: $400,000

Recipient Location: Maricopa AZ

Request Explanation: Foster Cooperative program is an educational open-sourced online portal consisting of community resources, educational videos from subject experts, peer-to-peer lived experience support, and other invaluable educational and informational resources for champions of foster and adoptive children.

Recipient Name: The Be Kind People Project Foundation

Requested Amount: $1,676,000

Recipient Location: Maricopa AZ

Request Explanation: The Be Kind People Project (BKPP) proposes an early intervention program for youth as a deterrent to tobacco/e-cigarette use and susceptibility to opioid addiction in adulthood, while also having the benefit of improving youth emotional wellness and youth obesity.​​​​​​​

Recipient Name: Western Maricopa Coalition DBA WESTMARC

Requested Amount: $1,463,006

Recipient Location: Maricopa County AZ

Request Explanation: Western Maricopa Corporation, dba WESTMARC, seeks to support students in Maricopa County West Valley high school districts to choose relevant educational pathways to prepare for post-secondary career education, training, and/or employment, by exposing students to local existing and emerging occupation and industry career pathways via virtual reality.

Recipient Name: FPV Foundation

Requested Amount: $3,000,000

Recipient Location: Maricopa County AZ

Request Explanation: The VolaR Aviation Education and Jobs Program feasibility study features three development stages dovetailed to help graduating high school seniors gain basic aviation skills including an FAA private pilot’s license, seamlessly transition into flight or trade school training and career development with scholarship availability, and then apply for stable, high paying aviation jobs with professionally developed applications, resumes, and personal interview preparation.

Recipient Name: The Be Kind People Foundation

Requested Amount: $1,476,215

Recipient Location: Maricopa County AZ

Request Explanation: The Be Kind People Project (BKPP) proposes an early intervention program for youth as a deterrent to tobacco/e-cigarette use and susceptibility to opioid addiction in adulthood, while also having the benefit of improving youth emotional wellness and youth obesity.

Recipient Name: Buckskin Fire District

Requested Amount: $335,000

Recipient Location: Parker AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Due to changes in Ambulance response times, lack of proper staffing and state law, we are requesting an Ambulance and Power Cot (reduce back injuries). We are waiting for up to an hour for an Ambulance to transport our patients who are in the heat waiting to go to hospital.

Recipient Name: Parker Fire District

Requested Amount: $225,000

Recipient Location: Parker AZ

Request Explanation: Remodel existing building for emergency medical services staff to be housed 24/7 for emergency medical response. Convert an existing space into 5 dorm rooms to allow for housing of emergency personnel who respond to emergencies. All other facilities exist except for the sleeping quarters.

Recipient Name: Creighton University Health Sciences– Phoenix Campus, Phoenix AZ, Maricopa County

Requested Amount: $1,450,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Creighton is proposing to take its simulation training capabilities to the next level by being the first institution in Arizona to build and operate a virtual reality room that will allow faculty to program an array of health care scenarios into a series of computers, projectors, cameras, etc.

Recipient Name: Barrow Neurological Foundation

Requested Amount: $1,053,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: Overview: The Barrow Neurological Institute Data Science Center is a multidisciplinary research center focusing on the use of administrative healthcare and electronic medical record (EMR) data to study neurologic diseases.

Recipient Name: Circle the City

Requested Amount: $500,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Circle the City has signed a Letter of Intent to purchase a vacant medical office building in Mesa with the goal to renovate the building in order to create 100-120 medical respite care beds for patients facing homelessness.

Recipient Name: Axiom Community of Recovery

Requested Amount: $550,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: There currently exists a lack of long-term recovery housing that includes the provision of peer-led services and supports in Arizona.

Recipient Name: Valleywise Health Foundation

Requested Amount: $1,910,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Our population growth rate in Maricopa County and in Arizona has exceeded the rate of increase in the number of physicians practicing by a wide margin, resulting in one of the lowest ratios of physicians to population in the country, which directly impacts access to care for many of our communities.

Recipient Name: Arizona Commerce Authority

Requested Amount: $2,000,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: The Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA) is requesting $2,000,000 to help fund the design and provide the equipment necessary to a establish a new Semiconductor Workforce Accelerator. The training center is expected to cost $8,356,176 to construct and equip.

Recipient Name: A.T. Still University - Center for Resilience in Aging

Requested Amount: $475,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​During the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals living with dementia and their caregivers were disproportionately impacted, reducing the quality of care experienced by older adults and diminishing the quality of life for their family caregivers.

Recipient Name: Copa Health, Inc.

Requested Amount: $1,000,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: An innovative partnership between Copa Health and Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System to develop whole-person solutions for adults experiencing homelessness with a serious mental illness designation, addressing immediate barriers to engagement, stabilization, recovery and housing.

Recipient Name: Arizona Pathogen Intelligence Center

Requested Amount: $3,110,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Our nation is not ready for the next potential pandemic or health emergency.

Recipient Name: ADELANTE HEALTHCARE

Requested Amount: $5,000,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: Adelante Healthcare is a 501(c)3 non-profit, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) which formed in 1979, to provide comprehensive primary health care that is accessible, sustainable, and of high quality.

Recipient Name: Terros, Inc., dba Terros Health

Requested Amount: $1,160,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Terros Health is developing and implementing a first in the nation collaborative health equity model of care with the Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ACBVI) at their East Phoenix outpatient location at 3100 East Roosevelt Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85008.

Recipient Name: Best Buddies International, Inc.

Requested Amount: $275,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: Best Buddies is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Recipient Name: Artlink Inc.

Requested Amount: $1,434,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Artlink has kept the arts integral to development for 35 years by connecting artists, businesses, and the community. In 2018, Artlink became the arts and culture partner of the newly renovated Park Central in midtown Phoenix.

Recipient Name: American Diabetes Association

Requested Amount: $1,441,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: American Diabetes Associations Safe at Schools (SAS) campaign is dedicated to preventing discrimination against children with diabetes by schools.

Recipient Name: Barrow Neurological Foundation

Requested Amount: $1,053,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Overview: The Ivy Brain Tumor Center is the largest not-for-profit brain cancer treatment center in the United States.

Recipient Name: Arizona Foundation for Human Service Providers

Requested Amount: $260,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: In Arizona, the vast majority of children and families involved in the DCS system have become involved as a result of neglect, not abuse. When families have what they need, when they need it, and crisis can be avoided, child maltreatment in the form of neglect is greatly reduced. Further, reducing the stress of unmet needs also reduces the risk of abuse.

Recipient Name: Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona

Requested Amount: $1,400,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​
The Goodwill's Veteran Career Services Center will support Veterans and their Families seeking employment resources, certifications and skills development to gain sustainable employment and direct resources.

Recipient Name: Grand Park Barrio Youth Project

Requested Amount: $250,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: The Barrio Youth Project Inc. Intervention Program is implemented at Grant Park in the heart of one of the oldest Hispanic inner-city barrios of the city of Phoenix. Its success is based on building community partnerships with surrounding community entities of non-profits, educational institutions, and other governmental agencies who serve at-risk youth and their families. 

Recipient Name: Tucson Children's Museum

Requested Amount: $3,000,000

Recipient Location: Pima AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​If fully funded, TCM’s renovation project is “shovel ready” to execute all needed renovations to both buildings by the end of 2024.

Recipient Name: Mountain Park Health Center

Requested Amount: $5,000,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: This important project will bring 80-100 jobs to a low-income area, provide a central supply and distribution of vital medical equipment for Mountain Park’s 10 Valley clinics, create additional community meeting space, and allow this nonprofit ownership of Mountain Park's administrative space, and allow this nonprofit ownership of Mountain Park's administrative space that is integrated into a clinic setting where the community is served. 

Recipient Name: International Rescue Committee

Requested Amount: $350,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​The International Rescue Committee's (IRC) offices in Arizona are seeking Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) funds to promote refugee self-sufficiency in navigating the U.S. healthcare system and increase mainstream healthcare providers’ ability to provide linguistic and culturally appropriate services to newcomers. 

Recipient Name: Native American Connections Inc

Requested Amount: $969,301

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: Native American Connections plans to renovate an existing/adjacent building (called Building C, currently used for storage) on the same property as its 48-bed Residential SUD Treatment facility, to create a new 7-bed recovery housing (sober living) residence with support staff and services.

Recipient Name: Per Scholas, Inc.

Requested Amount: $420,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Per Scholas prepares overlooked talent – Black, Brown, and female in particular – who are un/underemployed for thriving wage careers in tech.

Recipient Name: Open Hearts Family Wellness

Requested Amount: $2,500,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: Open Hearts has served thousands of children and families in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area over 49 years. The proposed community health center aims to heal and empower families to build a healthier community.

Recipient Name: International Rescue Committee Inc.

Requested Amount: $231,605

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​The IRC in Phoenix has implemented Employment and Economic Empowerment programming since 1994 to help newly arrived refugees achieve self-sufficiency.

Recipient Name: Southwest Center

Requested Amount: $850,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: Southwest Center’s proposed project will increase our capacity to serve the community by enhancing building safety, increasing energy efficiency, and reducing operating expenses at The Parsons Center for Health and Wellness in downtown Phoenix.

Recipient Name: Axiom Community of Recovery

Requested Amount: $550,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix & Apache Junction AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​There currently exists a lack of long-term recovery housing that includes the provision of peer-led services and supports in Arizona. Funding this proposal establishes a continuum of care for a high priority population while producing several immediate and downstream benefits to individuals, underserved communities, taxpayers, the health care system, and the State of Arizona.

Recipient Name: Reading is Fundemental

Requested Amount: $1,500,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix, Tempe, and Nogales AZ

Request Explanation: Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), in partnership with local school districts, will implement a high-quality program to support childhood literacy.

Recipient Name: Tucson Medical Center

Requested Amount: $10,000,000

Recipient Location: Pima AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​The TMC Emergency Department Renovation project is a multi-year, multi-phased project intended to address key inefficiencies, expand footprint, and improve patient experience and address patient safety issues.

Recipient Name: Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona-Tucson

Requested Amount: $55,000

Recipient Location: Pima AZ

Request Explanation: The request is to assist with the medical equipment of the facility to house the Medical Respite Program. The total estimated cost of the 15,000 sq. ft. facility is $6.8 million.

Recipient Name: Pineton Fire District

Requested Amount: $436,825

Recipient Location: Pineton AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​This proposal replaces aging EMS system equipment and provides 1 (One) Type 1 4x4 Ambulance, 2 (Two) 12 lead/AED Heart Monitors, and 2 (Two) complete vehicle extrication systems that include cutter, spreader, Ram, Combi tool, batteries, and charging system.

Recipient Name: Yavapai College Health Sciences Center

Requested Amount: $5,000,000

Recipient Location: Prescott Valley AZ

Request Explanation: Yavapai College is requesting $5,000,000 in FY24 Congressionally Directed Spending to construct a new Health Sciences Center at its Prescott Valley Center. The total project cost is $25,000,000, and additional funding sources include state appropriations and contributions from local partnerships.

Recipient Name: Yavapai Regional Medical Centers

Requested Amount: $490,000

Recipient Location: Prescott and Prescott Valley AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Yavapai Regional Medical Centers (East and West) in Prescott and Prescott Valley are the community hospitals in Yavapai County. Yavapai Regional Medical Centers are challenged in recruiting and retaining nurses.

Recipient Name: Mount Graham Regional Medical Center

Requested Amount: $500,000

Recipient Location: Safford AZ

Request Explanation: Our region of Arizona is missing PET/CT scanning equipment significantly effecting the level of care available in SE Arizona.

Recipient Name: City of San Luis Fire Department

Requested Amount: $316,000

Recipient Location: San Luis AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​The City of San Luis has been growing immensely. Throughout the last couple years, we have increased our calls for service throughout our city and ports. We are finishing construction of our fire station #2 and are requesting an ambulance to better help reduce our response times to our community.

Recipient Name: Southwest Arizona Education Center

Requested Amount: $4,910,000

Recipient Location: San Luis AZ

Request Explanation: The Southwest Arizona Education Center is an educational system that is focused on developing young minds. We believe it is essential to create a family-centered, high-quality, equitable educational system that enhances the entire learning experience.

Recipient Name: HonorHealth

Requested Amount: $139,030

Recipient Location: Scottsdale & Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​HonorHealth’s Cardiovascular Center of Excellence combines elite medical expertise, clinical innovation, and the latest advances in clinical research to provide comprehensive care that welcomes patients into a culture of collaboration with our cardiovascular team.

Recipient Name: Verde Valley Caregivers Coalition

Requested Amount: $177,000

Recipient Location: Sedona AZ

Request Explanation: Verde Valley Caregivers Coalition (VVCC) of Sedona, Arizona, is a community- and volunteer-based 501(c)(3) established in 1992 to solve the critical social issue of older adults living alone without family or friends to help assist them with activities crucial to their independence so they can remain in their homes.

Recipient Name: Fry Fire District

Requested Amount: $328,000

Recipient Location: Sierra Vista AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​This equipment requested in this proposal includes automated external defibrillators, powered stair chairs, and patient gurneys.

Recipient Name: Cochise County Community College District

Requested Amount: $200

Recipient Location: Sierra Vista AZ

Request Explanation: The project includes replacing a turning target system with an automated target retriever system providing an exceptional and safer environment for firearms training and requalification.

Recipient Name: Regional Center for Border Health, Inc.

Requested Amount: $2,600,000

Recipient Location: Somerton AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​In 2022 Regional Center for Border Health, Inc. in response to the border crisis in Yuma County of the influx of families seeking asylum in the US, turn its Operations and Informatics & Telecommunications (IT) Department facility into a Migrant Transitional Center.

Recipient Name: White Mountain Regional Medical Center

Requested Amount: $300,000

Recipient Location: Springerville AZ

Request Explanation: White Mountain Regional Medical Center is in dire need of an expansion of our emergency room department.

Recipient Name: Arizona Fire & Medical Authority

Requested Amount: $139,000

Recipient Location: Sun City West AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​The Emergency Medical Services Equipment Purchase Project will provide the Arizona Fire & Medical Authority’s (Authority) Emergency Medical Services (EMS) first responders with state-of-the-art training and EMS equipment.

Recipient Name: Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona-Tucson

Requested Amount: $1,000,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona-Tucson is leading a community effort to establish a medical respite center in Tucson where men and women experiencing homelessness may recuperate from an acute disease, illness requiring medical intervention, or hospital care.

Recipient Name: Pima Community College

Requested Amount: $2,500,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Pima Community College requests $2.5 million to fund training equipment, specialized medically related furniture, and specialized infrastructure such as I.T. needed for Pima Community College’s Health Sciences Center of Excellence (HSCOE), and especially the Simulation Center.

Recipient Name: Child & Family Resources, Inc

Requested Amount: $488,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: Child & Family Resources, Inc. (CFR) requests two mobile outreach vans in order to deliver outreach, prevention and education services to rural communities in Arizona.

Recipient Name: Dark Mountain Development Corporation

Requested Amount: $250,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Climb builds community by inspiring adventurous play, communication, and learning across generations in an environment that is accessible, comfortable, aspirational, challenging and social. Climb is an innovative adventure playground/event space/community hub with an indoor/outdoor food and beverage component.

Recipient Name: ASM Materials Education Foundation

Requested Amount: $594,770

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: The ASM Materials Education Foundation introduces hands-on curriculum to increase student engagement and expand the traditional classroom experience, preparing future professionals to create STEM solutions for 21st century challenges in materials science and engineering. The ASM Materials Camp for Teachers trains and equips K-12 educators to bring materials science concepts to life with engaging, inquiry-based lesson plans that can be implemented in their classrooms in a variety of courses (chemistry, physics, physical science, CTE classes, etc.).

Recipient Name: Amity Foundation

Requested Amount: $1,432,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Epidaurus DBA Amity Foundation (“Amity”) is requesting CDS funds toward renovations at the Circle Tree Ranch health facility for substance use disorders and behavioral health services.

Recipient Name: Habitat for Hummanity Tucson Inc.

Requested Amount: $419,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: Habitat for Humanity Tucson is requesting workforce development funding to expand and enhance training programs centered at the newly constructed Connie Hillman Urban Construction Knowledge Center (CHUCK).

Recipient Name: Pima County

Requested Amount: $1,452,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Pima County is requesting funds to support the creation of a Health Emergency Operations Center (HEOC) within an existing facility, and to make security improvements to public health buildings and clinics.

Recipient Name: Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona-Tucson

Requested Amount: $7,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: The description of the project is to offer mental health services to the homeless population of Arizona. If funding is granted, those who are most marginalized would greatly benefit from the proposal if approved.

Recipient Name: Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona-Tucson

Requested Amount: $250,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​This proposal is a request for funds to support the establishment of a medical respite program in Pima county.

Recipient Name: CareGiver Training Institute

Requested Amount: $250,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: CareGiver Training Institute (CGTI), a part of Pima Council on Aging’s (PCOA) family of non-profit companies, expands opportunities for building a sustainable healthcare workforce by providing post-secondary educational programs to Certified Nursing Assistants and Certified Caregivers.

Recipient Name: Chiricahua Community Health Centers, Inc.

Requested Amount: $789,000

Recipient Location: Willcox AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Chiricahua Community Health Centers, Inc. (Chiricahua) is building a new medical and dental clinic in the rural town of Willcox, AZ. This request is for monies to purchase medical and dental equipment for the clinic.

Recipient Name: Yavapai County

Requested Amount: $1,500,000

Recipient Location: Yavapai County AZ

Request Explanation: Yavapai County Arizona is one of 15 counties in the State of Arizona, established in 1864. As a local unit of government, we are directly tasked with the responsibility for the provision for health and safety to our rural residents.

Recipient Name: Yuma Regional Medical Center

Requested Amount: $1,500,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​The Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) Cancer Center in Yuma, AZ cares for patients within a 180-mile radius and treats around 1,200 new patients every year; last year, the Cancer Center provided over 17,000 radiation oncology procedures. YRMC, located in Yuma County, serves a population that is 65% Latino, compared to 19% nationwide; over 17% of its residents live in poverty – 67% higher than the national average; more than 17% of Yuma County’s residents lack health care insurance; and more than 25% of the care YRMC provides is covered by Medicaid, including 16% of the care provided at the Cancer Center. 

Recipient Name: Arizona Western College

Requested Amount: $3,503,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: Arizona Western College in Yuma will work with the Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) and the Partnership for Economic Innovation (PEI) to develop a revolutionary Digital Extended Care at Home (DECH), and validating the solution in the Living Lab Yuma.

Recipient Name: Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona

Requested Amount: $1,300,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​The Goodwill's Veteran Career Services Center will support Veterans and their Families seeking employment resources, certifications and skills development to gain sustainable employment and direct resources.

Recipient Name: Arizona Western College

Requested Amount: $4,500,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: Over the course of one year, there has been extraordinary investment in semiconductor ecosystem projects across 16 states.

Recipient Name: Arizona Western College

Requested Amount: $2,086,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​These funds will be used to establish robust security protocols and safety across the 9 campus locations, with three residence halls, at Arizona Western College.

Recipient Name: Arizona Western College

Requested Amount: $2,526,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: Our project is designed to create a robust, aligned K-12 and dual enrollment program pipeline that results in a 750 earned Associated Degrees and certificates in the rural border region of southwestern Arizona.

Recipient Name: Arizona Western College

Requested Amount: $2,643,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Since the inception of the AWC Law Enforcement Training Academy (LETA), the program has grown exponentially. The program is no longer just a local training program and center, but has expanded to be the high demand regional training center.

Recipient Name: Arizona Western College

Requested Amount: $1,500,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: None given

Recipient Name: Arizona Western College

Requested Amount: $2,024,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Arizona Western College will join forces with GPEC to introduce two Training certificates - HIT and Telehealth, which will be offered in multiple counties across the state of Arizona. Located in Yuma, AZ, AWC is spearheading this venture by providing the project's lead educational partner services.

Recipient Name: Arizona Western College

Requested Amount: $1,326,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: Arizona Western College has a student enrollment of 74% from Yuma & La Paz counties currently enrolled as first-generation college students, most of whom fall below the poverty line.

Recipient Name: Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley

Requested Amount: $391,420

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​With funding, BGCAZ would implement the AZYouthforce program in Yuma to provide low-income, at-risk youth (ages 13-19) with employment training, skills, and opportunities needed to prepare for a well-paying career of their choice.

Recipient Name: Yuma County Public Health District

Requested Amount: $8,000,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: The Yuma County Public Health Services District facility is located at 2200 W. 28th Street, Yuma, and was constructed in 1999.

Recipient Name: Coconino County Emergency Management

Requested Amount:  $637,000

Recipient Location: Flagstaff AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​Coconino County Emergency Management currently does not have a full time Emergency Operations Center (EOC), nor do we have remote EOC capabilities to support on-scene operations.

Recipient Name: Maricopa County Department of Emergency Management

Requested Amount: $1,507,000

Recipient Location: Gilbert AZ

Request Explanation: Maricopa County is building new Emergency Management Building which will house the County’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The new EOC will need to be equipped with current technology. The current Maricopa County EOC was built in 1957 and does not have the capacity for the newer technology.

Recipient Name: City of Maricopa

Requested Amount:  $2,000,000

Recipient Location: Maricopa AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​This project is for the design and construction of a “three-barrel” box culvert near the entrance to Desert Sunrise High School, on Murphy Road just north Farrell Road.

Recipient Name: Mohave County

Requested Amount: $9,025,000

Recipient Location: Mohave County AZ

Request Explanation: Mohave County Department of Public Health proposes creating private/public partnerships. The goal is to purchase and install generators at a local fire station or community center in the rural community to provide emergency power caused by either power failure or structural damage to the community.

Recipient Name: AZ Dept of Emergency and Military Affairs

Requested Amount:  $3,000,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​State of Arizona Emergency Operations Center – This project will support the renovation and add-on of the existing State Emergency Operations Center to provide the State a modern, adequate facility to support Arizona’s emergency management and response needs.

Recipient Name: City of Prescott Fire Department

Requested Amount: $1,500,000

Recipient Location: Prescott AZ

Request Explanation: The City of Prescott (COP) Public Safety Departments are asking for your consideration in partial funding of a shovel-ready Regional Public Safety Training Center Project. We are seeking Congressionally Directed funding of $1,500,000.00 out of a $4,288,467.90 project.

Recipient Name: Tohono O'odham Nation Western Police & Fire Substation/Regional Emergency Operations Center

Requested Amount:  $2,389,000

Recipient Location: San Simon Village, Pisinemo District, Tohono O’odham Reservation AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​The Tohono O’odham Nation (Nation) has an expansive land base (about the size of Connecticut). Its capitol, Sells, is home to the Nation’s Fire Department (TONFD) and Police Department (TOPD) headquarters. But Sells is more than 40 miles east of the western part of the Reservation, which

Recipient Name: Town of Superior

Requested Amount: $4,180,000

Recipient Location: Superior AZ

Request Explanation: This funding would be used to install fire hydrants to protect key assets at risk for wildland-urban interface fire. A new 12 water main would provide hydrants for the Superior Municipal Airport, which is used as a Heli base for fire operations, allowing for temporary tanks for helicopter fire.

Recipient Name: Yuma County

Requested Amount:  $10,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: The Yuma County Office of Emergency Management collaborates with the various jurisdictions within Yuma County to plan, prepare, mitigate, and respond to the needs of the community to facilitate a faster recovery process after a disaster.

Recipient Name: Luke AFB Child Development Center

Requested Amount:  $27,000,000

Recipient Location: Maricopa County AZ

Request Explanation: Construction of a new Child Development Center at Luke AFB.

Recipient Name: Gila Bend Control Tower/Fire Station/ Base Operations Complex

Requested Amount: $2,600,000

Recipient Location: Maricopa County AZ

Request Explanation: The proposal is to demolish three nearly year old, undersized facilities totaling to consolidate fire/emergency services, security/emergency communications center, air traffic control tower, base operations/weather and transient alert services; as well as accommodate unit deployed operations.

Recipient Name: The Exodus Road

Requested Amount:  $75,000

Recipient Location: At-Large AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​In partnership with Cellebrite, TWE will deliver both digital and in-person trainings for Arizona law enforcement on how to conduct victim-centered, trauma-informed, intelligence driven investigations and prosecutions in human trafficking.

Recipient Name: Bisbee Police Department

Requested Amount: $210,000

Recipient Location: Bisbee AZ

Request Explanation: To fund body cameras and vehicles that are pursuit rated.

Recipient Name: Clarkdale Police Department

Requested Amount:  $186,000

Recipient Location: Clarkdale AZ

Request Explanation: ​​​​​​​As a small rural agency, the Clarkdale Police Department must operate with an outdated fleet of patrol vehicles due to lack of funds. We hope to replace our three oldest vehicles, which are two 2007 Crown Victorias and one 2008 Chevy Silverado, as they are high-mileage and unreliable.

Recipient Name: Clarkdale Police Department

Requested Amount: $8,000

Recipient Location: Clarkdale AZ

Request Explanation: The Clarkdale Police Department is requesting funds to purchase two level IIIA ballistic shields and 12 level IIIA ballistic helmets.

Recipient Name: Office of the Sheriff, Cochise County

Requested Amount:  $981,000

Recipient Location: Cochise County AZ

Request Explanation: Cochise County in the southeast section of Arizona has a population of almost 126,000 people and covers over 6,200 square miles, making it the approximate size Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Although the cities of Benson, Bisbee, Sierra Vista, Douglas, and Huachuca City have police departments, the Cochise County Sheriff’s Department is the primary law enforcement organization in the county and has exclusive authority in the vast majority of the county that is unincorporated. 

Recipient Name: Coconino County Sheriff's Office

Requested Amount: $328,000

Recipient Location: Coconino AZ

Request Explanation: This project would add a 6-person all-terrain vehicle with interoperability radio communications to our Search and Rescue fleet. This multi-purpose vehicle can be operated in the sand, snow, ice, marsh, rock, and mud conditions to access difficult to reach locations.

Recipient Name: City of Eloy Police Department

Requested Amount:  $2,180,000

Recipient Location: Eloy AZ

Request Explanation: The Eloy Police Department will purchase training equipment to support training on use of force tactics, de-escalation, and defensive tactics. The department will also purchase and equip a prisoner transport vehicle. Additionally, the department will purchase the necessary equipment, software, etc.

Recipient Name: Lowell Observatory

Requested Amount: $35,000,000

Recipient Location: Flagstaff AZ

Request Explanation: Lowell Observatory’s vision for its education program is bold and simple: to be the premier public astronomy destination in the world. The observatory took a critical step toward achieving that goal by beginning construction on a new 40,000-square-foot,discovery center.

Recipient Name: Florence Public Safety Dispatch Center

Requested Amount:  $1,230,000

Recipient Location: Florence AZ

Request Explanation: This project will replace the existing, obsolete dispatch communications system with four new dispatch consoles to provide effective communications among public safety personnel and the dispatch center. The current system has not been upgraded since 2011 and periodically fails.

Recipient Name: Gila County

Requested Amount: $720,000

Recipient Location: Globe AZ

Request Explanation: The Sheriff's Deputies drive between 15,000 and 35,000 miles per year all across Gila County. The Sheriff's office has determined that it needs to replace 6 of its patrol vehicles. The vehicles to be replaced average over 18 years and have been driven nearly 1 million miles.

Recipient Name: Navajo County

Requested Amount:  $2,307,000

Recipient Location: Holbrook AZ

Request Explanation: Project Abstract The Navajo County Sheriff’s Office (NCSO) has taken a very proactive approach to bridging gaps and expanding public safety communication abilities throughout the county.

Recipient Name: City of Peoria

Requested Amount: $103,000

Recipient Location: Peoria AZ

Request Explanation: To acquire a crisis negotiation response vehicle for the Peoria Police Department’s Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT). CNT personnel will utilize this vehicle during a response to high risk/high liability/critical situations.

Recipient Name: Arizona Attorney General's Office

Requested Amount:  $2,984,000

Recipient Location: Phoenix AZ

Request Explanation: To replace and upgrade equipment for the AGO's fleet, software, and servers.

Recipient Name: La Paz County Sheriff's Office

Requested Amount: $305,000

Recipient Location: Parker AZ

Request Explanation: The La Paz County Sheriff's Office Regional SWAT Team, consisting of members from the Sheriff's Office, Parker Police, Quartzsite Police and the Colorado River Indian Tribe (CRIT) Police, provides Emergency Response and Operations to all parts of La Paz County.

Recipient Name: Town of Pinetop-Lakeside

Requested Amount:  $1,148,000

Recipient Location: Pinetop-Lakeside AZ

Request Explanation: The Town of Pinetop-Lakeside is making a formal request for Congressionally Directed Spending funds. The request will be for $1.1 million dollars to purchase critical pieces of equipment and furnishings for a new police building. Additionally, we are requesting funds for essential police equipment.

Recipient Name: Yavapai County Sheriff's Office

Requested Amount: $3,300,000

Recipient Location: Prescott AZ

Request Explanation: The YCSO Aerial Platform funding request is a program that was included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 117-328). The designated funding source is the Byrne Discretionary Community Project Funding/Byrne Discretionary Grants Program Opportunity Number O-BJA-2023-171577.

Recipient Name: Prescott Valley Police Department

Requested Amount:  $324,000

Recipient Location: Prescott Valley AZ

Request Explanation: Threats to human life, such as illicit drug trafficking, human smuggling, terrorism, natural disasters, and violent crime, require the town's first responders to be constantly prepared for critical incidents that may occur in the area.

Recipient Name: Queen Creek Police Department

Requested Amount: $1,948,000

Recipient Location: Queen Creek AZ

Request Explanation: The Town of Queen Creek is requesting Critical Incident Management resources on behalf of the Police Department, seeking funding for vehicles and equipment that would be utilized in a large scale emergency situation such as mass casualty incidents, natural disasters, complex crime scenes, etc.

Recipient Name: University of Arizona

Requested Amount:  $3,500,000

Recipient Location: Sahuarita AZ

Request Explanation: The University of Arizona proposes a bench scale plant that could be further expanded in the future, allowing for reconfiguration and the application of practically any type of processing or recycling technique, such as comminution (crushing and grinding), shredding, optical sorting, flotation, hydrometallurgy, and high and low temperature pyrometallurgy.

Recipient Name: City of Scottsdale

Requested Amount: $369,000

Recipient Location: Scottsdale AZ

Request Explanation: This project will be specifically for an integrated suite of complementary software applications designed to assist Police Officers, Detectives, and Investigators perform law enforcement duties with greater efficiency and speed with an ultimate goal of both crime reduction and crime prevention.

Recipient Name: Pima County

Requested Amount:  $3,520,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: Pima County Wireless Integrated Network (PCWIN) is a state-of-the-art, interoperable communications network that allows more than 60 public safety and public services agencies to talk to each other by radio in real time on a single system, regardless of their jurisdictional boundaries.

Recipient Name: Pima County Sheriff's Department

Requested Amount: $458,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: The scope and purpose of the upgrade is to provide a secure and manageable public front entrance to the Pima County Adult Detention Complex (PCADC). The enhancements to the PCADC front desk will allow for hardening against threats to and from the public as well as the facility and those within.

Recipient Name: Pima County Sheriff's Department

Requested Amount:  $3,750,000

Recipient Location: Tucson AZ

Request Explanation: The Pima County Sheriff's Department will need to begin the process of replacing its existing inventory of law enforcement radios that are no longer serviceable. Radios that were purchased from Motorola between 2009 and 2012 will no longer be supported by Motorola Solutions by the end of 2023.

Recipient Name: YWCA of Southern Arizona, Women's Business Center (MAC)

Requested Amount: $2,000,000

Recipient Location: Tucson; Sierra Vista; Douglas; Nogales AZ

Request Explanation: YWCA Southern Arizona, through its SBA Women’s Business Center, seeks to implement a scalable and innovative Rural Small Business Service Delivery Plan to significantly expand and deepen small business development for rural women and minority-owned businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs in Santa Cruz.

Recipient Name: Winslow Police Department

Requested Amount:   $728,000

Recipient Location: Winslow AZ

Request Explanation: The Winslow Police Department seeks to obtain the needed grant funding to replace ten vehicles in our current fleet. Our
patrol vehicles are over five years old with high mileage. It is necessary that we replace these units with newer, more reliable vehicles.

Recipient Name: Yuma STEM Ecosystem

Requested Amount: $1,808,000

Recipient Location: Yuma AZ

Request Explanation: The Arizona Western College is collaborating with the Arizona Technology Council Foundation DBA SciTech Institute to establish a Yuma STEM Ecosystem Hub that will help strengthen STEM throughout the city, region, and state.