Community Project Funding Requests

Rep. Keating has submitted funding requests for important community projects in Massachusetts' 9th Congressional District to the House Appropriations Committee. 

Under guidelines issued by the Appropriations Committee, each Representative may request funding for up to 10 projects in their community for fiscal year 2022 – although only a handful may actually be funded. Projects are restricted to a limited number of federal funding streams, and only state and local governments and eligible non-profit entities are permitted to receive funding. Additional information on the reforms governing Community Project Funding is available here.

Greater New Bedford Community Health Center Capital Expense Project 
Amount Requested: $2,440,480 

Recipient:
Greater New Bedford Community Health Center
874 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 

Project Description: The Greater New Bedford Community Health Center services patients across Southeastern Massachusetts. Their critical primary care services are offered to some of the region’s most vulnerable populations. This much needed funding request will address critical capital expenses and renovations that will service the nearly 25,000 patients GNBCHC sees each year, proving to be a benefit of taxpayer dollars. 

 Signed Disclosure Letter: click here

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Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies:

St. Luke’s Hospital Facilities and Equipment Improvement Project 
Amount Requested: $980,000 

Recipient:
St. Luke’s Hospital
101 Page Street, New Bedford, MA 02740

Project Description: St. Luke’s Hospital sits in the center of New Bedford, Massachusetts historical district. The Emergency Department at the hospital is one of the busiest in the Commonwealth, providing high-quality emergency services to local communities in the region. This project request supports a critical need for a trauma center. This will benefit not only New Bedford residents, but taxpayers across Southern Massachusetts. 

 Signed Disclosure Letter: click here

Offshore Wind Institute Project 
Amount Requested: $5,000,000

Recipient:
Bristol Community College
777 Elsbree Street, Fall River, MA 02720 

Project Description: Massachusetts and the Southcoast region are a key focus for the offshore wind industry due to its proximity to steady and constant wind. With this emergence of an offshore wind sector poised to create thousands of job opportunities across a wide rage of industries, it is critical to develop a local workforce and infrastructure to support the industry resulting economic development. As such, this project is a benefit to taxpayer dollars due to projected job growth in Massachusetts and across the country. 

 Signed Disclosure Letter: click here

Maritime Center for Renewable and Responsible Energy and Capital Expense projects 
Amount Requested: $1,000,000

Recipient:
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
101 Academy Drive, Buzzards Bay, MA 02532

Project Description: This funding is essential for the renovation and build-out at Massachusetts Maritime Academy that will provide a multi-use “makers space” to be used across a broad platform. The emerging maker movement encompasses a community of inventors, designers, engineers, artists, programmers, and craftsmen, which includes MMA’s network of undergraduate, graduate, community adult learners and K-12 students. 

 Signed Disclosure Letter: click here

Cape Cod Community College’s Aviation Maintenance Technology Program
Amount Requested: $1,950,000

Recipient: 
Cape Cod Community College
2240 Iyannough Road, West Barnstable, MA 02668

Project Description: The Aviation Maintenance Program at CCCC is one of the few training centers in the Eastern Seaboard supporting the airline industry and the second in Massachusetts offering certification in Airframe Structures and Power Plant theory/maintenance. This program creates a successful career pathway to prospective students and fills a gap in the aviation tech industry. 

 Signed Disclosure Letter: click here

Recovery Service Programs at Outer Cape Health Services Program
Amount Requested: $250,000

Recipient: 
Outer Cape Health Services
710 Rte. 28, Harwich Port, MA 02646

Project Description: The Substance Abuse Recovery program offered at the OCHS is critical for residents across the Cape Cod peninsula in Massachusetts. Six months into the pandemic last year, local treatment centers across the Cape, including OCHS, found that alcohol abuse went up, with an increase in detox and relapse cases. This much needed funding will help address this epidemic and expand their state licensed structure outpatient addiction program. 

 Signed Disclosure Letter: click here

Facility Enhancement and Improvement Projects
Amount Requested: $1,500,000

Recipient:
Cape Cod Healthcare
27 Park Street, Hyannis, MA 02601

Project Description: This funding request supports Cape Cod Hospital’s telemedical upgrades. As such, patients will have access to their health information online and be able to schedule appointments, communicate with care teams, and view test results through mobile devices. As the country starts transitioning to a more permanent telehealth reality, this project helps provide access and quality care to residents of the Cape Cod peninsula.

 Signed Disclosure Letter: click here

Outdoor Teaching Pavilion at the Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary
Amount Requested: $250,000

Recipient:
Mass Audubon
345 Bone Hill Road, Barnstable, MA 02630

Project Description: The Sanctuary pavilions supports outdoor education and outdoor programs for groups and community functions. As we navigate the pandemic, civic groups are looking for places to provide meeting and program space in a safe environment. This won’t only benefit the Mass Audubon, but students and visitors of the Long Pasture Audubon Sanctuary as well.

 Signed Disclosure Letter: click here

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Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies:

E for All program facilitated by the Bristol County Chamber Foundation
Amount Requested: $500,000

Recipient:
Bristol County Chamber Foundation
200 Pocasset Street, Fall River, MA 02721

Project Description: The funding would be used for the Bristol County Chamber Foundation which services as a catalyst for initiatives that positively impact business member and the quality of life for the Southcoast region.

 Signed Disclosure Letter: click here

Veterans Transition House
Amount Requested: $375,000

Recipient:
Veterans Transition House
1297 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA, 02740

Project Description: For more than 20 years, Veterans Transition House has helps homeless veterans across Southeastern Massachusetts. This funding projects is benefit to taxpayer dollars, as it will provide critical care to homeless veterans in the community and increase efficiency in the delivery of vital human services. 

 Signed Disclosure Letter: click here