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Projects in the plan cover a wide range of proposalsincluding high-speed rail construction and extending the BART line to San The list is separated into 98 "strategic" projects at the top and 129 projects in a second tier. The priority list also includeds a new stem cell research facilit at the inMarin County, energy efficiency and sola r retrofits of public and other buildings in San San Francisco and energy conversions to LED streetlights; transit-orientedc development projects; electrical vehicle infrastructure and work forcse training and placement for laid-off employees.
“This plan is designexd to maximizeour region’s share of federal stimulues funding and other stats support that will benefit the Bay Area in both the near and said Sean Randolph, CEO of the , whichj was charged with compiling the list. The plan, released publicly Friday, was the culminatiob of a four-month vettinf process. The report was sent to the . The statwe agency, which requested other metropolitan regionsz around the state to submitsimilar plans, will now take all thosw plans and help coordinate with citied and counties to lobby the federal government on behalft of certain projects.
“This is to get people on the same page to minimize the food fight wherer you have parts of the statde compete againstone another,” said Dale Bonner, head of the Californiw Business Transportation and Housing Agency. “What we’rd doing is acting as a facilitator to help identifyhthe best” projects. Projects on the Economic Institute’s wish list could be in for a big About $30 billion in federao stimulus money will be divvied up in Sacramentpo before going to various regions around California. Anotherd $20 billion is expected to be distributex directly in the state by federal officials on adiscretionary basis.
The chance to get dollarsz from the federal stimuluws program led to a flurry of Bay Area authorities sifted through almost570 suggestions. To make the cut, project were supposed to spur job have regional impact and align with stat programsand priorities, among othe r criteria. The Economic Institute called upon local experts in specific fieldz to judge proposals that fit at least one ofsevenj categories: transportation, water, energy/climate, workforce training and business development, science and innovation or housing.
The vast majority of project that made it to theEconomic Institute’sz short list were from government A range of companies sought federal stimulus, too, sayinv that their service would help boost the broadert economy. For example, a Berkeley-based firm called Picture it Sold sought stimulusx money to franchiseits home-staging “We’re ready to move ahead with this plan the company wrote in its “and we’ll help thousandz of families and the whole economy to recover.” The company’ds idea did not make the Economic Institute’s highest prioritg cut. But an appendix to the Economic Institute’s wish list includes everg proposalit received.
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