FY24 Community Project Funding
BLACK HAWK COUNTY
Project Name: Smart Automation and Robotics Center
Request Amount: $5,000,000
Intended Recipient: Hawkeye Community College
Project Location: 360 Westfield Ave, Waterloo, IA 50701
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 1501 E Orange Road, Waterloo, IA 50704
These funds would support a new Smart Automation and Robotics Center to allow students and workers across Iowa to gain skills in a fast-tracked program. The project would create a manufacturing hub in Waterloo, Iowa, that directly feeds into several manufacturing businesses and supports our domestic supply chain. Manufacturing accounts for almost 18 percent of GDP across Iowa and 30 percent regionally; Iowans must be prepared for this fourth industrial revolution. This project will directly impact economic activity across the country, including sectors vital to our national security and the resiliency of our domestic supply chain, like our national defense industry and health care manufacturing.
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BREMER COUNTY
Project Name: Sumner Daycare and Learning Center New Building
Request Amount: $750,000
Intended Recipient: Sumner Daycare and Learning Center, Inc.
Project Location: 200 Block of North Railroad Street, Sumner, IA 50674
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 601 W 5th St. PO Box 301, Sumner, IA 50674
This project would enable Sumner Daycare to construct its own stand-alone facility in the community to provide quality, accessible child care. With this new facility, Sumner Daycare would be able to hire more staff members, serve over 100 children, meet the needs of the rural community and workforce, and assist low-income working families. Sumner, Iowa, lies in a child care desert and serves a three-county rural area with a population of 2,032. This project is vital for the community to recruit workers, grow the rural economy, and provide support to working families. Iowans deserve quality, accessible child care, and Sumner Daycare and Learning Center can fill that gap with the requested funding.
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CERRO GORDO COUNTY
Project Name: Mason City Water Infrastructure Expansion Project
Requested Amount: $2,800,000
Intended Recipient: City of Mason City
Project Location: 1035 43rd Street SW, Mason City, IA 50401
Full Street Address of Intended Recipient: 10 1st Street NW, Mason City, IA 50401
Mason City plans to use these funds to expand its water infrastructure to reach a large economic development area on the southwest side of the city. The city is reliant on industrial economic activity and requires expanded water infrastructure for the community’s economic hub to be viable. Improvements from this project will not only bolster local businesses and industry; it will also contribute to further rural economic development. Located near robust highway and rail systems, Mason City’s southwest industrial area continues to attract the interest of industrial developers but lacks the water infrastructure to sustain them. By improving and expanding its water infrastructure, Mason City will be able to meet the demand of these new facilities, bringing new jobs and economic opportunities to the region.
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CLAYTON COUNTY
Project Name: Clayton County Affordable Housing Project
Requested Amount: $500,000
Intended Recipient: Clayton County Development Group
Project Location: Several locations across Clayton County, IA
Full Street Address of Intended Recipient: 200 East Bridge Street, Elkader, IA 52043
This project will provide support for the Clayton County Affordable Housing fund to construct 10 to 15 new homes across the county. A recent study found that Clayton County has a shortage of 256 homes in the price range for the county’s average wage earner. Extreme weather events over the past 20 years have exacerbated the community’s housing shortage; flooding has destroyed over 90 homes in Clayton County over that span. By supporting the strong demand for affordable housing in the region, this project will help working families achieve the dream of home ownership, while allowing local businesses to continue to attract talent and foster greater opportunities in the Clayton County community.
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Project Name: Upper Mississippi River Flow Frequency Study
Requested Amount: $3,000,000
Requesting Entity: Clayton County Farm Bureau
Intended Recipient: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District
Full Street Address of Intended Recipient: 1500 Rock Island Drive, Rock Island, IL 61201
These funds will be used to modernize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ flood management capabilities along the Upper Mississippi River. Frequency data is central to many floodplain management decisions related to insurance, regulations, economic analyses of projects, and local land use planning. Data currently used to understand the likelihood and magnitude of major flood events on the Upper Mississippi River is now outdated and inaccurate. Northeast Iowa continues to face the threat of major flooding events. By conducting long-overdue updates to Mississippi River flow frequency data, communities across Northeast Iowa will be able to better forecast major flood events, reducing loss of life and minimizing damage from extreme weather events.
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DUBUQUE COUNTY
Project Name: Dubuque Flood Mitigation Gates and Pumps
Request Amount: $11,000,000
Intended Recipient: City of Dubuque
Project Location: Kerper Boulevard & East 16th Street, Dubuque, IA 52001
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 50 West 13th Street, Dubuque, IA 52001
This funding would support the City of Dubuque’s disaster mitigation efforts, which are crucial to the Mississippi River community’s safety and security. This flood mitigation project will work in tandem with the recently completed Bee Branch Creek Restoration and Culverts Projects, which together will prevent an estimated $600 million in property damage over the next 100 years. The purpose of this investment is to prevent both Bee Branch watershed flooding and Mississippi River inundation of the city’s most at-risk neighborhoods and businesses.
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Project Name: Peosta Water Systems Improvement Project
Requested Amount: $2,000,000
Intended Recipient: City of Peosta
Project Location: Cox Springs Road, Peosta, IA 52068
Full Street Address of Intended Recipient: 7896 Burds Road, Peosta, IA 52068
The City of Peosta plans to use these funds to expand its water systems facility’s capacity by constructing a new well and wellhouse, water tower, and watermain extension. Peosta is a quickly growing community in Northeast Iowa, growing over 38 percent between 2010 and 2020. The city’s current system cannot meet State standards for production capacity, or the storage demands for the growing community. This project will be critical for the city’s infrastructure to keep pace with population growth and comply with State water quality standards to provide safe drinking water to the city’s residents.
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Project Name: Four Mounds Workforce Training Center
Request Amount: $1,000,000
Intended Recipient: Four Mounds Foundation
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 4900 Peru Road, Dubuque, IA 52001
This project will support the construction of a workforce training center to facilitate a woodshop and classrooms that meet critical community need for expanded job training and education space through the Four Mounds Foundation’s Housing Education and Rehabilitation Training (HEART) Building Dubuque Program. The purpose of this investment is not only to give individuals the tools they need to succeed in the workforce, but also to assist in re-developing low-income housing through renovation projects that put students’ new skills to use. This will ultimately benefit the entire region’s economic development and foster opportunity for working families.
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FAYETTE COUNTY
Project Name: Gundersen OB Department Upgrade
Request Amount: $1,100,000
Intended Recipient: Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital & Clinics
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 112 Jefferson Street, West Union, IA 52175
This project would fund the expansion and modernization of the maternity health care unit at the Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics in West Union, Iowa. While West Union is a town of only 2,490 people in a county with limited maternity care options, this rural obstetric care department still manages to serve patients from neighboring counties that are listed as maternity care deserts. Specifically, the project would fund construction of a new labor, delivery, recovery, and postpartum (LDRP) room, converting the smallest existing room into a lactation consulting room to support new mothers learning to breastfeed, and the purchase of essential medical equipment, including: five LDRP beds, one isolette (an incubator for premature newborns), five hospital-grade nursery bassinets, three new emergency carts, five external fetal monitors, and one infant warmer. This will significantly improve access to high-quality maternal care in a rural community, directly addressing the maternal care crisis in the region, improving the patient experience, and saving moms and babies.
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HARDIN COUNTY
Project Name: Eldora Water and Wastewater Improvement Project
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
Intended Recipient: City of Eldora
Full Street Address of Intended Recipient: 1442 Washington Street, Eldora, IA 50627
This project would drastically improve the resiliency of water and wastewater infrastructure in Eldora, a small town of 2,663 residents in Hardin County, Iowa. The City’s Supervisory Controls and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have been discontinued by the manufacturer, leading to significant challenges in obtaining replacement parts. Without functioning SCADA systems, these facilities must be monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to ensure system compliance as a result. This funding will allow the City to modernize its SCADA systems, increase efficiency within the facility, improve the City’s ability to meet clean water standards, and reduce the risk of serious disruptions to the community’s water supply caused by broken parts.
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HOWARD COUNTY
Project Name: Howard County Microwave Security and Radio Project
Request Amount: $287,000
Intended Recipient: Howard County Sheriff Department
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 124 South Park Place, Cresco, IA 52136
This funding would equip nine officers and an emergency management official/911 Director of the Howard County Sheriff Department with portable handheld radios, as well as provide a microwave communications link between all seven of the critical communication locations in Howard County. This investment will equip law enforcement with the technology they lack and desperately need to improve responsiveness and officer and community member welfare. This project would help make Howard County communications interoperable and provide better public safety response and security for the whole community.
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LINN COUNTY
Project Name: Advancing Astrophysics Research Project
Request Amount: $225,000
Intended Recipient: Coe College
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 1220 1st Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
This funding would enable Coe College to acquire a high-performance computing unit, as well as Multiphysics and analysis software to continue its important research on space-radiation safe glass and the Mars ionosphere. This investment will enhance the pipeline that creates young scientists and astronomers for the nation as Coe College already has a strong partnership with NASA. This project has strong community support from workforce and industry partners that benefit from the advancement and training of these critical technologies.
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Project Name: Eastern Iowa Airport Deicing Facility and Snow Removal Equipment Facility
Requested Amount: $2,500,000
Intended Recipient: Cedar Rapids Airport Commission
Full Street Address of Intended Recipient: 2515 Arthur Collins Parkway SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
This project will support the design of a centralized aircraft deicing facility and a snow removal equipment storage facility at the Eastern Iowa Airport. This will not only reduce the environmental impact of its chemical treatment, including its strain on existing water infrastructure in the Cedar Rapids community, but it would also improve the reliability of flights to and from the Eastern Iowa Airport during Iowa's cold and snowy winters. This project will improve efficiency and resiliency against winter weather for the Eastern Iowa Airport, a critical transportation hub for thousands of residents in Iowa’s Second Congressional District. These improvements will reduce delays, improve safety, and mitigate environmental impacts.
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POWESHIEK COUNTY
Project Name: Grinnell Century-Old Water Facility Replacement
Requested Amount: $5,000,000
Intended Recipient: City of Grinnell
Project Location: 702 Main Street, Grinnell, IA 50112
Full Street Address of Intended Recipient: 520 4th Avenue, Grinnell, IA 50112
The funding would be used to help the city construct a new water treatment facility to replace their current operation, which is over 100 years old. The current facility lacks back up power, has antiquated technology leading to reliability issues, including in its radium removal process. The project will provide reliable access to safe drinking water for the nearly 10,000 residents of Grinnell, Iowa. The presence of radium in the city's raw water supply puts its residents at risk of exposure to carcinogens, and significant improvements to the city's infrastructure will be needed to mitigate these serious health concerns. Helping at-risk communities achieve health protection objectives, including replacing and constructing water storage tanks, improving source water supply, and improving drinking water treatment are core objectives of the Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund as authorized by the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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TAMA COUNTY
Project Name: Meskwaki Correctional Facility
Request Amount: $900,000
Intended Recipient: Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa
Full Street Address of the Intended Recipient: 349 Meskwaki Road, Tama, IA 52339
This funding would provide construction support for a correctional facility on the Meskwaki Settlement, a tribal settlement with a population of 2,806 individuals. This investment will provide the Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa with its first holding facility or jail on the Settlement. Without one, the Tribe faces serious safety concerns, financial burdens, and sovereignty challenges. This project would contribute to the construction of a new and first of a kind correctional facility for the Tribe that would reduce financial burdens, safety concerns, and sovereign rights challenges for the Sac and Fox of the Mississippi in Iowa.
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