Larimer County
LARIMER COUNTY ARRA FUNDING AND PROJECTS
Based on the latest information available to the Governor’s Office. This report is not comprehensive because new Recovery Act awards are announced frequently. This does not include funds - including income tax cuts, increased COBRA benefits, increased funds to cover Medicaid services and others - that cannot be broken down by county. The numbers below represent funds that have been awarded and are expected to be received over the life of the Recovery Act. The funds are distributed to a wide range of groups in the county and do not necessarily touch county government.
COMMUNITY SERVICES / SAFETY NET:
| $499,574 |
Community Services Block grant to Larimer County for poverty reduction and revitalization of low-income communities. The Larimer County Health & Human Services Division will partner with various non-profits in the county, including the United Way, Neighbor to Neighbor, Crossroads Ministry and Project Self-Sufficiency, to service those most impacted by the current economic recession
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| $79,876 |
Community Development Block grant to the City of Loveland to replace windows and a furnace in transitional housing units for victims of domestic violence.
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| $271,137 |
Community Development Block grant to the City of Loveland
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| $61,090 |
Funds to pay for four full-time workers and one part-time worker in Larimer County to expedite the processing of applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps)
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| $2,317,079.35 |
Extra 13 percent in food stamp benefits to about 18,000 people in Larimer County between April 1- October 31, 2009
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| $63,700 |
Grants to Larimer County to provide congregate meals for low-income seniors
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| $9,550 |
Grant to the Food Bank of Larimer County to distribute emergency food to households and provide meals to needy people
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| $400,679 |
Grant for the Child Care & Development Fund in Larimer County.
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PUBLIC SAFETY:
| $66,802 |
Justice Assistance grant to Larimer County for law enforcement programs
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| $305,798 |
Justice Assistance grant to Fort Collins Police Services.
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| $72,218 |
Justice Assistance grant to City of Loveland
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| $10,000 |
Justice Assistance grant to Town of Berthoud Police Department for purchasing a new police patrol vehicle
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| $22,988 |
Justice Assistance grant to Town of Berthoud Police Department to upgrade the current dispatch communication system through purchase of notebook computers and dispatch software licenses for the notebook computers and handheld radios for use by officers.
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| $8,500 |
Justice Assistance grant to Town of Berthoud Police Department to purchase police vehicle equipment.
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| $9,500 |
Justice Assistance grant to Town of Estes Park Police Department for technological upgrades in three primary areas: audio/visual recording, investigations/surveillance, and interoperable communications.
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| $444,818 |
Justice Assistance grant to City of Ft. Collins Police Department for technological upgrades -- Regional 800MHz Radio Improvement Project.
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| $80,159 |
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) grant to Crossroads Safehouse in Ft. Collins to employ a full-time social worker to assist domestic violence victims
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| $15,956 |
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) grant to Estes Valley Victim Advocates, Inc., in Estes Park to hire a domestic violence safehouse advocate to work with adult female victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking.
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| $38,309 |
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) grant to Alternatives to Violence, Inc. in Loveland to work with adult female victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.
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| $88,819 |
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) grant to the District Attorney's Office, 8th Judicial District (Loveland and Ft. Collins Courtrooms) to fund 1.22 FTE victim witness specialists
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| $58,500 |
Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant to SAVA Center (Includes Larimer, Jackson, and Weld Counties) to expand contract therapist services to meet needs of sexual assault victims
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| $22,031 |
Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant to CASA of Larimer County, Inc. to retain volunteer supervisor position that oversees the training and functioning of the volunteers who provide services to child victims.
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| $43,364 |
Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant to ChildSafe Research and Treatment Foundation in Ft. Collins to retain (2) .25 FTE staff positions within the Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program.
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| $20,000 |
Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant to Alternatives to Violence, Inc. in Loveland to create a new half-time therapist to provide mental health therapy to child and adolescent victims of physical and sexual assault, dating and family violence, and other violent crimes as an adjunct to school counselors.
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| $50,000 |
Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant to Crossroads Safehouse in Ft. Collins to retain 5 relief advocates who offer life-saving emergency response to domestic violence victims by providing crisis intervention.
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| $496,483 |
Recovery Act Local Youth Mentoring Initiative grant to the City of Ft. Collins and Poudre R-1 (Lobo Partnership) to reduce juvenile delinquency, violence, gang participation, school failure, and dropout rates through mentoring programs for at-risk youth
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| $500,000 |
Violence Against Women Act Transitional Housing Program grant to Crossroads Safehouse to expand its Housing Opportunity and Mentoring Enrichment (HIOME) Project. Funds will open 10 additional units of transitional housing for victims
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TRANSPORTATION:
| $3,000,000 |
Grant to construct roundabouts at the I-25 Crossroads Interchange near Loveland
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| $6,859,424 |
Grant to improve five miles of roadway surface at I-25 between US 34 and State Highway 392
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| $5,478,898 |
Grant to resurface State Highway 14 between Hatchery and Cameron Pass
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| $1,652,568 |
Grant to chip seals and improve surface on 22 miles of US 36 between Estes Park and Lyons
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| $140,000 |
Grant to make bicycle/pedestrian improvements on Fall River Trail in Estes Park
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| $600,000 |
Grant to construct a bicycle/pedestrian underpass at SH 392 at the Poudre River Trail in Windsor
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| $3,485,000 |
Grant to resurface LCR 17 between LCR 48 and LCR 8
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| $250,000 |
Grant to improve the intersection at US 34 at Wilson
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| $134,000 |
Grant to make bicycle/pedestrian improvements at Berthoud Main Street
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| $130,000 |
Grant to upgrade equipment at the Loveland Traffic Operations Center
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| $3,403,060 |
Grant to local transit districts in Fort Collins and Loveland for new vehicles
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| $556,797 |
Grant for taxiway improvements at Ft. Collins Airport
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WORKFORCE SERVICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS:
| $1,014,913 |
Workforce Investment Act Funds for job training to Larimer County residents
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| $319,189 |
Wagner Peyser (WP) & Reemployment Services (RES) to Larimer County
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| $39,235,924 |
Extra 20 weeks of benefits, through the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, for 6,029 people (as of June 30, 2010) in Larimer County.
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| $8,934,900 |
Extra $25 per week in unemployment benefits through the Federal Additional Compensation program, for 13,976 people (as of June 30, 2010)
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| $4,041,189 |
Additional 13 weeks of unemployment benefits through a new state law given to 1,297 people as of June 30, 2010.
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ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT:
| $364,200 |
Energy Efficiency Conservation Block grant to Larimer County to improve energy efficiency in buildings across the county.
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| $1,307,900 |
Energy Efficiency Conservation Block grant to the City of Ft. Collins
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| $3,786,666 |
Estimated funds to be spent for free energy efficiency upgrades in low-income homes in Larimer County
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| $1,745,583 |
Grant to Anchor Point Group from the Colorado State Forest Service for fuels reduction work in Gilpin, Boulder, Larimer and Grand counties.
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| $4,841,647 |
U.S. Department of Energy grant to the City of Fort Collins to demonstrate monitoring, aggregation, distribution system integration, dispatch, and verification of distributed generation, renewable energy, and demand response resources (collectively referred to as Distributed Energy Resources - DER) for reducing peak loading by 20 to 30% on two feeders within Fort Collins Utilities' (FCU's) electric distribution network.
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| $18,101,263 |
U.S. Department of Energy grant to the City of Fort Collins Utilities to install smart grid electric meters.
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| $25,608 |
Contract to ALS Laboratory Group from US Department of Energy
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| $5,368,382 |
Contract to Special Application Robotics, Inc. from US Department of Energy
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| $1,072,330 |
Grant to Anheuser-Busch, Inc. for Fuel Cell powered Lift Truck Deployment
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| $47,525 |
Governor's Energy Office grant to Colorado State University matching grant to pursue LEED certification
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| $63,574 |
Rebates for 466 people in Larimer County for the purchase of energy-efficient appliances including, dishwashers, refrigerators, furnaces and boilers.
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EDUCATION:
| $99,814,452 |
State Fiscal Stabilization Funds to sustain jobs and programs at the Colorado State University for three fiscal years ($29,290,395 has been spent so far at CSU’s Fort Collins campus)
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| $3,031,701 |
Title I funds for Low Income Schools in Larimer County
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| $26,701 |
Title I-D funds for schools with high numbers of low income students in the Poudre R-1 school districts.
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| $7,513,890 |
IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) Part B funds for services to disabled students in the Poudre School District
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| $4,477,158 |
IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) Part B funds for services to disabled students in the Poudre School District
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| $267,067 |
IDEA Part B funds for disabled preschool students in Larimer County
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| $6,598 |
Grant to improve school lunch services at the Turning Point Center
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| $4,477,158 |
Grant to the Poudre School District for children with disabilities
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| $186,130 |
Federal work study grants to Colorado State University students
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| $29,342,564 |
Fifty-five research grants to Colorado State University
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| $69,514 |
Grant for Head Start programs at Thompson School District R2J
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| $211,373 |
Grant for quality improvement in Head Start programs at Poudre School District
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HOUSING:
| $136,369 |
US Department of Housing and Urban Development Public Housing Capital Fund to the Loveland Housing Authority
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| $778,419 |
HUD grant to the Fort Collins Housing Authority for rehabilitation of public housing units
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| $209,653 |
HUD grant to the Wellington Housing Authority for rehabilitation of public housing units.
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| $33,033 |
Section 8 Housing Assistance payments to Maple Terrace Apartments
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| $252,720 |
Section 8 Housing Assistance payments to Big Thompson Manor II
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| $33,033 |
Section 8 Housing Assistance payments to the Housing Authority of the City of Loveland
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| $989,065 |
Funds from the Tax Credit Assistance Program, administered by the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, to finance the purchase and rehabilitation of Village on Stanford apartments in Fort Collins
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| $2,575,296 |
Funds from the Tax Credit Exchange Program, administered by the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, to finance the purchase and rehabilitation of Orchard Place, a 50-unit housing complex in Loveland.
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SMALL BUSINESS SERVICES
| $19,335,475 |
Small Business Administration loans
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OTHER FEDERAL GRANTS:
| $99,996 |
National Institutes of Health grant to Plasma Controls, LLC for work on Hydroxyapatite coatings
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| $32,240 |
National Institutes of Health grant to Advanced Microlabs to hire two undergraduate students for two summers
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| $290,000 |
Grant from the US Department of Agriculture to the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation for improving research capacity.
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CONTRACTS TO LARIMER COUNTY COMPANIES:
| $25,407 |
National Park Service contract to Spatial Data Technologies for custom mobile data collection software and services
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| $32,737.59 |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract to In-Situ Inc. for water temperature/conductivity/level sensor dataloggers.
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| $39,569.46 |
U.S. Geological Survey contracts (2) to In-Situ Inc. for water temperature/ conductivity/ level sensor dataloggers.
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| $83,345 |
US Army Corps of Engineers contract to Riverside Technology for computer system design services
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