Congressman Johnson's FY23 Projects List
Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro announced that the House Committee on Appropriations will be accepting Community Project Funding (CPF) requests from Members. This is in addition to the standard programmatic and language-based requests. Each Member is limited to no more than 15 Community Project Funding requests across all subcommittees for Fiscal Year 2023 and there is no guarantee that all requested projects will be funded. The FY2023 CPF process has a limited scope with combined earmarks capped at 1% of all discretionary spending and eligible accounts restricted to those listed in the table below.
Please note:
Congressman Johnson will NOT accept CPF requests for projects outside of GA-04.
All projects must meet the relevant statutory and administrative criteria for funding through the grant program under which it is submitted.
A request submitted to Congressman Johnson does NOT guarantee the project will be selected.
The selection of a project does NOT guarantee it will be funded by the Appropriations Committee.
The Committee will NOT provide cost-share waivers and grantees are legally responsible for meeting the non-federal cost share requirements and all other applicable grant criteria.
The deadline for submitting project requests to Congressman Johnson is COB March 31, 2021.
More information on the process can be found on the House Appropriations Committee’s page here. Staff may follow up for additional information to support the CPF request such as budget justification, documentation of community support and need, or proof of ability to meet match requirements once an initial request is submitted. If you have any questions about Congressman Johnson’s project submission process, please reach out to khaula.kaiser@mail.house.gov.
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Eligible Entities & Projects
Only state and local government entities, public institutions, and non-profit entities are eligible to submit and receive funding through CPF. Funding cannot be directed to for-profit entities and will not include waivers for State or local match requirements. While matching funds do not have to be in-hand prior to the request, requesting entities must have a plan to meet such requirements for the project to be viable. Additionally, each submission must be for FY2022 only and cannot include multi-year funding requests. The Committee will only consider projects with demonstrated community support in the form of: letters from local elected officials; press articles highlighting need; support from newspaper editorial boards; mentions on State intended use plans, community development plans, or other publicly available planning documents; resolutions passed by city councils or boards; etc.
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Eligible Accounts by Subcommittee
Descriptions of eligible accounts can be found here.
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration
Agricultural Research Service, Buildings and Facilities
Rural Development, Rural Community Facility Grants
Rural Utilities Service, ReConnect Grants
Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS)
Byrne Justice Assistance Grants
COPS Technology and Equipment
NOAA – Operations, Research, and Facilities
NASA – Safety, Security, and Mission Services
Defense
Research, Development, Test & Evaluation Army
Research, Development, Test & Evaluation Navy
Research, Development, Test & Evaluation Air Force
Research, Development, Test & Evaluation Space Force
Research, Development, Test & Evaluation Defense-Wide
Energy and Water Development
Corps of Engineers: Investigations
Corps of Engineers: Construction
Corps of Engineers: Mississippi River and Tributaries
Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance
Bureau of Reclamation: Water and Related Resources
Financial Services and General Government (FSGG)
Small Business Administration, Small Business Initiatives
Homeland Security
Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grants
Nonprofit Security Grants
Emergency Operations Center Grants
Interior and Environment
Federal land acquisitions through the Land and Water Conservation Fund
EPA State and Tribal Assistance Grants for certain water infrastructure projects
Certain State and Private Forestry projects within the U.S. Forest Service
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education (LHHS)
Dept. of Labor—Employment and Training Administration—Training and Employment Services
HHS —Health Resources and Services Administration
HHS —Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration—Health Surveillance and Program Support
Dept. of Education—Innovation and Improvement
Dept. of Education—Higher Education
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs (MilCon/VA)
Army
Navy and Marine Corps
Air Force
Defense-Wide
Army National Guard
Air National Guard
Army Reserve
Navy Reserve
Air Force Reserve
Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development (THUD)
Dept. of Transportation – Local Transportation Priorities
Dept. of Transportation – Airport Improvement Program (AIP)
Dept. of HUD – Economic Development Initiative (EDI)
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Transparency
The final 15 CPF requests selected and submitted by Congressman Johnson to the Appropriations Committee will be posted on this page. Members will be required to certify that neither they nor their immediate family have a financial interest in the CPF requests made.
Congressman Johnson's FY23 Programmatic and Community Projects Funding List
Stonecrest Transit Hub: The funding would be used as described: MARTA’s Stonecrest Transit Hub will serve Routes 86, 111, 115, and 116 by providing customers covered waiting areas, fare vending, real-time arrival/information, and public restrooms. Enhanced amenities along with easier bus-to-bus transfers will improve the transit experience. A service building will offer restrooms, customer service window, and operator relief facilities. Design is underway and will be followed by engineering and construction. Requested amount $1,000,000. MARTA: 2424 Piedmont Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30324
Safe Routes to Transit in GA04: The funding would be used by MARTA to create Safe Routes to Transit in GA04 by providing safe access to bus stops by constructing a variety of pedestrian and ADA improvements, with a focus on equity and historically disadvantaged communities. Requested amount $1,000,000. MARTA: 2424 Piedmont Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30324
Regional Clean Electricity Plan for Local Governments in Metro Atlanta: The funding would be used to empower local governments with the information needed to lead the way to a clean energy future through their own buildings and operations. Local governments have the unique potential to make decisions with the communities they represent about clean electricity. Identifying and then pursuing cost-effective opportunities will benefit communities in terms of their finances, their health, and their contribution to a healthy environment in the region. Requested amount $750,000. Atlanta Regional Commission: 229 Peachtree St NE, Suite 100, Atlanta, GA 30303.
The Early Learning Workforce and Professional Development Initiative: The funding would be used to develop the Early Learning Workforce and Professional Development Initiative to address the need within the early childhood labor force in Georgia, specifically within marginalized areas. This initiative seeks to increase the number of qualified early learning teachers serving low-income children and refugees ages birth through 5 years of age and their families residing in Congressional District Four. Requested amount $200,000. Easter Seals North Georgia, Inc.: 815 Park North Blvd. Clarkston, GA 30021
Home Education Community Resource Service Expansion: The funding would be used to make home education accessible to marginalized and financially needy families. Thus, alleviating some financial stress on our stretched governmental systems, including the local school system. Requested amount $100,000. DeKalb Christian Home Educators, Inc.: 778 Deer Lake Trail, Stone Mountain, GA 30038.
Wellroot Family Services, 1967 Lakeside Parkway, Suite 400, Tucker, GA 30084
$913,000
This funding will help renovate a newly purchased facility to house transition age youth (18-21 year olds) in a supportive community. Federal funding would be used to complement existing private gifts and help build out their services to the Dekalb County community. Wellroot is seeking $913,000 dollars from THUD's Economic Development Initiative account to fully renovate and landscape the property, add a wrought iron fence and security system, and build community space for the residents to learn, support each other.
This project will seek to house 30 youth aging out of care in the Dekalb County area. The program provides 24-hour support as well as community-based housing. We offer ongoing life skills development, including financial literacy, tutoring, and career development. We guide residents through the process of earning their high school diploma or GED and support youth as they enter college or trade school. Our youth’s high school graduation rates are 85% compared to national rates at 57%. In addition, 100% of Wellroot’s youth successfully gain employment compared to only 50% of similar youth across the country.
This project is an appropriate use of taxpayer funds because it reinvests in the community to ensure that children transitioning from foster care have the opportunities available to them to become successful adults and members of our communities.
Wellroot Family Services, 1967 Lakeside Parkway, Suite 400 Tucker, GA 30084
$ 286,500
The funding requested through the Administration for Children and Families would be used to support more than 30 at-risk youth and provide them with all the services Wellroot provides through the Safe and Stable Housing for Youth Aging our of care program list above. In addition, it would allow for more consolidated programming by condensing services in one central facility where Wellroot plans to expand capacity. Further, funding would be used to support an additional 6 housing units for at-risk youth which can house around 12 individuals.
For 150 years, Wellroot Family Services has been leading the effort to transform the lives of children and families in Georgia. Through our four programs, Wellroot cares for and encourages the growth and healing of children, young adults and families in and affected by the foster care system of Georgia. The Safe and Stable Housing for Youth Aging out of Care program serves young adults ages 18-21 who are transitioning out of foster care or are at risk of experiencing homeless. The program provides 24-hour support through community-based housing as well as ongoing life skills development, including financial literacy, tutoring, and career development. Residents are guided through the process of earning their high school diploma or GED and support youth as they enter college or trade school.
This project is an appropriate use of taxpayer funds because it reinvests in the community to ensure that children transitioning from foster care have the opportunities available to them to become successful adults and members of our communities.
Women's Resource Center to End Domestic Violence, 115 E Maple Street, Decatur, GA 30031
$585,000
Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence operates one of the oldest and largest domestic violence safe houses in Georgia. Our first safe house was opened in 1987. We are now in a new location and state-certified to provide emergency shelter to 32 individuals (domestic violence survivors and their children) each day. Our domestic violence safe house provides an alternative to families faced with the choice between violence at home and no home at all. Our clients are primarily African American mothers between the ages of 25 and 45 and their children. The mothers we serve desperately want to break the cycle of violence and create a better life for themselves and, especially, their children. However, without our emergency housing available, many would be sleeping in cars, couch surfing, staying in homeless shelters, or remaining in a situation that is unhealthy and possibly lethal for themselves and their kids.
West Side Youth Facility, Newton, County, 1124 Clark St, Covington, GA 30014
$6,000,000
District 3 of Newton County is your largest district in the community with the most youth and seniors. This area is the only portion of the county that does not have community projects or a location to host these events for the citizens who reside in this district. The residents have to utilize the neighboring county because the community programs that are located within the county are too far. This has been a huge issue. In 2017, $495K was allocated to build a Westside Youth Facility through SPLOST, where the funds have not been utilized because this is not an adequate amount of funding to build a community center that will house the youth in the area with over-crowed schools. In March of 2022, $3.7 million was allocated to the project from the excess fund of the 2017 SPLOST. To build a community center that will house the projects needed for this area we are in need of additional funding so that we can include the technology and programs for our youth in this century.
Georgia State University Community-Based English, 100 Auburn Avenue, Suite 300 Centennial Hall Atlanta, Ga. 30303
$400,000
Georgia State University seeks in the FY2023 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill and report, Department of Education, Higher Education, Community Project funding account for expansion of the Community-Based English program at Georgia State to support English as a Second Language education for 400 recently resettled refugees from Afghanistan. Clarkston has one of the fastest growing foreign-born populations in the southeast one of the largest refugee resettlement communities in the U.S. Georgia has welcomed more than 1,900 Afghans since August through Operation Allies Welcome, with the majority being resettled in and around the immediate Clarkston community. In addition, Clarkston is welcoming refugee flows from Syria, Congo, Somalia and other conflict zones as the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement ramps up its operations after years of cuts. Rebuilding those systems and programs that support the successful integration of new arrivals into the fabric of our communities is critical. But language proficiency is the gateway to opportunity for each of these individuals seeking to establish new lives in our communities.
Memorial Drive Gateways
• Submitted by DeKalb County Government
• Address: Manual J. Maloof Center, 1300 Commerce Drive, 5th Floor, Decatur, GA 30030
• Requested amount: $1,500,000
• Explanation of Request: The Memorial Drive Gateways would include new signage along Memorial Drive corridor west from I285 to East of Stone Mountain. The funding requested would serve as part of the revitalization effort for the community.
• Financial disclosure attached
Rockdale Development Authority Workforce Development Program
• Submitted by Rockdale County
• Address: 936 Green Street, Conyers, Georgia 30012
• Requested Amount: $300,000
• Explanation of Request: The city of Conyers and the Rockdale Development Authority wishes to augment and strengthen our Workforce Development Program to include (i) a more sophisticated communication infrastructure which would allow us to reach more potential employees (e.g. including non-violent ex-offenders and other difficult to train candidates), (ii) provide potential employers a conduit through which they may communicate available jobs on a real time basis (iii) better coordinate our efforts with those of surrounding jurisdictions and (iv) more effectively and efficiently respond to industries interested in moving to or expanding within our region. Rockdale companies will be better able to meet the needs of their customers. This more robust program will not only help area businesses fill open positions, it will provide Rockdale residents with the more timely and accurate information needed to make better job decisions.
• Financial disclosure attached
Michelle Obama Trail - PATH Trail Project
• Submitted by DeKalb County Government
• Address: Manual J. Maloof Center, 1300 Commerce Drive, 5th Floor, Decatur, GA 30030
• Requested amount: $3,617,500
• Explanation of Request: The funds requested are for a 1.7 mile trail (Michelle Obama Trail - PATH Trail Project), that will connect the recently completed South River Trail segment at Waldrop Road. This trail project will connect residents and visitors to shopping, entertainment, eateries, and other businesses, while creating a safe and economic alternative mode of transportation for all.
• Financial disclosure attached
Village at Legacy Affordable Housing Development
• Submitted by City of Decatur
• Address: 509 N. McDonough Street, Decatur, GA 30030
• Requested amount: $1,100,000
• Explanation of Request: The scarcity of affordable and attainable housing is a national crisis that has been exacerbated during the Covid-19 pandemic. Affordable and workforce housing is becoming even more scarce as home prices and rents escalate. Data show that single family home sales in Decatur are close to twice the sales price in metro-Atlanta. Close to 50% of renters in the City are "cost-burdened," meaning they pay more than 30% of their income for housing. Federal tax dollars are necessary and appropriate to use towards the creation of long-term, affordable housing.
• Financial disclosure attached
Funding for Atlanta Legal Aid Society
• Submitted by Atlanta Legal Aid Society
• Address: 54 Ellis Street, Atlanta, GA 30303
• Requested amount: $250,000
• Explanation of Request: . Adequate funding for Atlanta Legal Aid is essential to provide free legal services that help low-income residents of DeKalb County and Gwinnett County address the lingering effects of COVID-19. Federal funds for this project will pay for legal assistance and navigation services to low-income DeKalb and Gwinnett county residents facing economic and housing instability. Funding will allow attorneys to provide legal assessment, advice, and direct legal representation in civil legal matters, including evictions, foreclosures, family law, unemployment and other benefits, and consumer legal problems. Funding will support attorneys, as well as navigator/paralegals who work with attorneys to help clients access community resources to resolve issues related to economic and housing instability
• Financial disclosure attached
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