Member Designated Projects
Recipient Name: Big Brother Big Sisters
Address: 450 E. John Carpenter Freeway, Suite 300 Irving, Texas 75062
Requested Amount: $300,000
Project Description: To support our one-to-one, outcomes-achieving youth mentoring programs in North Texas. Funding would enable our various school-connected mentoring programs throughout the 24th Congressional District and the North Texas area to effectively rebound from the impact that COVID-19 had on school & community partnerships.
Justification: At a time when so many students have become disengaged in their education, mentors are powerful influences, encouraging their mentees’ attendance, attention & effort, and getting them back on pathways to best realize their potential. The BBBS mentoring program is an evidenced based preventative measure that breaks the cycle of incarceration, as well. Leveraging tax payer dollars in prevention and strength-building saves millions of dollars in the long run.
Recipient Name: City of Colleyville
Address: 100 MAIN STREET COLLEYVILLE, Texas 76034
Requested Amount: $3,000,000
Project Description: for the design and construction of a drainage facility under Bedford Road and reconstruction of Bedford Road to prevent flooding at Little Bear Creek in Colleyville, Texas.
Requested Amount $4,200,000
Project Description: for an arterial road reconstruction and enhancement along Cheek-Sparger Road and Trail from Bedford Rd to Heritage Ave in Colleyville, Texas.
Justification through improvements and enhancements, the City will be using taxpayer funds to ensure a safe and efficient roadway.
Recipient Name City of Dallas
Address: 1400 Botham Jean Boulevard Dallas TX 75215
Requested Amount: $935,000-
Project Description: The City of Dallas will use the requested funding to convert its records management system the Web RMS cloud-based software platform. The platform will enable smoother transfer of information, provide real-time updates to police records, eliminate repetitive data sharing tasks, and provide easier access from most devices. Conversion to Web RMS which will enable smoother transfer of information and provide real-time updates to police records, increasing efficiency, improving data sharing, and assisting with the investigation and prosecution of crime.
Justification The platform will enable smoother transfer of information, provide real-time updates to police records, eliminate repetitive data sharing tasks, and provide easier access from most devices. Conversion to Web RMS which will enable smoother transfer of information and provide real-time updates to police records, increasing efficiency, improving data sharing, and assisting with the investigation and prosecution of crime.
City of Dallas
Recipient Name Dallas Children Medical Center (3 requests)
Address: 1935 Medical District Drive Dallas, Texas 75235
Requested Amount: $1,000,000-
Project Description: The purpose of the project is to renovate and expand CMC Dallas’ ED to improve quality patient care and safety, and to meet the needs of a growing pediatric population in North Texas.
Requested Amount: $500,000 –
Project Description: Behavioral Health Safe Cars is a request in direct response to the delayed time to transfer pediatric psychiatric patients from CMC Dallas and Plano campuses to contracted behavioral health beds at Perimeter Behavioral Hospital of Dallas (Perimeter)
Requested Amount: $903,734-
Project Description: The new Pediatric Mental Health Initiative formerly known as the BHIG led by Children’s Health, in close collaboration with the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, is an innovative and collaborative approach to developing capacity within pediatric primary care to detect and treat behavioral health conditions
Justification: Children’s Health is the leading pediatric health care system in North Texas and one of the largest pediatric health care providers in the nation. In 2020, Children’s Health launched a multifaceted response to the mental health crisis that included integrating an electronic bed search tool for inpatient placement to psychiatric facilities, as well as the launch of a mental health coordinator program to increase efficiencies in transferring patients from direct patient care to inpatient psychiatric care. Together, these initiatives decreased ED throughput times for patients with mental health chief complaints by 29% from January 2021 to year end and reduced the percentage of patients in the ED for more than 24 hours from 24% in April 2021 to 12% by year end.
Dallas Children Medical Center
Recipient Name DFW Airport (2 requests)
Address: 2400 Aviation Drive DFW Airport, Texas 75261
Requested Amount: $5,000,000-
Project Description: To address this need for asset renewal and replacement, this project will replace the 1970s left-hand exit flyover bridges and ramp exits with more intuitive, functional, safer and efficient right-hand exits.
Justification This project is a good use of taxpayer dollars because it will replace the aging critical infra-structure and replace the bridges that will have double the service life of the existing bridges and incorporate innovative construction practices and sustainable materials. Additionally, this project will create 1,000 good paying jobs and increase the economic growth of the North Texas region.
Requested Amount: $5,000,000
Requested Amount: Project Description: To address current and forecast infrastructure needs, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is building an electric Central Utility Plant (eCUP)
Justification This project is a good use of taxpayer dollars because it will replace the aging critical infra-structure which will improve energy efficiency and improve the air quality in the North Central Texas nonattainment area. Additionally, this project will create 1,400 good paying jobs and increase the economic growth of the North Texas region.
DFW Airport
Recipient Name North Texas Emergency Communications Center (1 request)
Address: 1649 W. Frankford Rd. Suite 150 Carrollton, TX 75007
Requested Amount: $10,000,000
Project Description: would like to be considered for the Community Project Funding request. The NTECC would like to be considered for 10 million dollars in funding for a new building for a 9-1-1 communications center
Justification: The NTECC is a non-profit that supports four cities 9-1-1 communications, Addison, Carrollton, Coppell, and Farmers Branch. The center will support First Responders and more than 225,000 citizens.
North Texas Emergency Communications Center
Recipient Name YMCA of Tarrant County (1 request)
Address: 512 Lamar Street, Suite 400Fort Worth, TX 76102
Requested Amount: $2,000,000
Project Description: Renovating the Airport YMCA to a stand-alone Childcare/Preschool Center. The City of Bedford is near completion on a new Bedford Community Center and the YMCA will be managing the facility. With both centers so close in proximity, the Airport YMCA would be utilized as a much needed affordable, quality Childcare/Preschool facility.
Justification Infant/preschool childcare is at an all-time high with working parents paying rates that rival college tuition. The average American family would have to spend 13% of their annual income in order to obtain quality childcare, more than food and in some cases their mortgage or college tuition. The $2 million investment in the Northeast Community will bring quality-rated and affordable childcare/early learning programs to many low-income families in the Bedford area.
YMCA of Tarrant County
Recipient Name City of Keller
Address: 1100 Bear Creek Parkway, Keller, TX 76248
Requested Amount $5,000,000
Project Description: upgrade of the Keller Sports Park
Justification: : Our goals for this project are to improve amenities for young athletes throughout the region, expand opportunities for our special needs community, and boost local tourism by developing a sport facility that can attract and serve large tournaments.
City of Keller
Recipient Name City of Carrollton TC Rice Park
Address: 1945 E. Jackson Road Carrollton, Texas 75006
Requested Amount $5,000,000
Project Description: 200+ acre urban forest along the Elm Fork of the Trinity River immediately adjacent to I-35 between the GBTP and SH-121. This project plans to add access to that reserve including trails and nature areas. The trails would connect to the broader DFW veloweb including direct links to Coppell and the Cottonbelt trail and Lewisville and the DCTA trail.
Justification: This will truly be a regional amenity easily accessible by anyone in the Metroplex and improve the lives of citizens
Recipient Name City of Farmers Branch Requested Amount $3,000,000
Address: 13000 William Dodson Parkway Farmers Branch, TX 75234
Project Description: Funding will provide for replacement of aged water and sewer lines in older areas of the City to insure safe drinking water and eliminate potential sewer leaks by replacing clay pipes.
Justification: This Project will ensure residents will have clean water and sewer.
City of Famers Branch
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Requests
Project Name: FM 1709 and Pearson Lane Intersection Improvements
Project Location: Southlake , Texas
Project Sponsor: City of Southlake
Requested Amount: $1,125,000
Project Name: Davis Blvd (FM 1938) and Continental Blvd
Project Location: Southlake , Texas
Project Sponsor: City of Southlake
Requested Amount: $1,900,000
Davis Blvd (FM 1938) and Continental Blvd
Project Name:DART Silver Line Track Improvement Project
Project Location: 1.75 miles of track near downtown Carrollton
Project Sponsor: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Requested Amount: $6,363,000
DART Silver Line Track Improvement
Appropriation Committee Requests
Project Name: Brute Force Electric Central Utility Plant
Project Location: DFW Airport, TX 75261
Project Sponsor: DFW Airport
Requested Amount: $98,000,000
Brute Force Electric Central Utility Plant
Project Name: Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Station Consolidation
Project Location: DFW Airport, TX 75261
Project Sponsor: DFW Airport
Requested Amount: $83,900,000
Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Station Consolidation
Project Name: New Snow and Ice Removal Equipment Storage Facility at DFW Airport
Project Location: DFW Airport, TX 75261
Project Sponsor: DFW Airport
Requested Amount: $16,700,000
New Snow and Ice Removal Equipment Storage Facility at DFW Airport
Project Name: DFW Airport Flyover Bride Replacement and Conversion Project
Project Location: DFW Airport, TX 75261
Project Sponsor: DFW Airport
Requested Amount: $135,900,000
DFW Airport Flyover Bride Replacement and Conversion Project
Project Name: North White Chapel Boulevard Crossing at Kirkwood Branch Improvements
Project Location: North White Chapel Boulevard
Project Sponsor: City of Southlake, Texas
Requested Amount: $4,100,000
North White Chapel Boulevard Crossing at Kirkwood Branch Improvements
Project Name: West Continental Boulevard and South Peytonville Avenue Intersection Improvements
Project Location: West Continental Boulevard and South Peytonville Avenue Intersection
Project Sponsor: City of Southlake, Texas
Requested Amount: $1,350,000
West Continental Boulevard and South Peytonville Avenue Intersection Improvements
Project Name: Broadway Reconstruction from Whitlock Lane to Belt Line Road and Construction of Hike/Bike Trail along section
Project Location: Broadway Street, Carrollton Texas
Project Sponsor: City of Carrollton, Texas
Requested Amount: $5,925,000
Project Name: Broadway Reconstruction from Jackson Rd to Whitlock Lane and Construction of Hike/Bike Trail along section
Project Location: Broadway Street, Carrollton Texas
Project Sponsor: City of Carrollton, Texas
Requested Amount: $3,230,000
Broadway Reconstruction from Jackson Rd to Whitlock Lane and Construction of Hike/Bike Trail along section
