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Projects ranked among the highest in the plan covetr a wide range of proposalsincluding high-speed rail extending the BART line to San Jose and boring anotherd roadway in the East Bay’s Caldecott Tunnel. Together, the highest-prioritu projects are seeking morethan $7 billionb in stimulus money. The priority list also includes a new stem cell researcg facility at the inMarinn County, energy efficiency and solarf retrofits of public and other buildings in San San Francisco and Oakland; energy conversions to LED transit-oriented development projects and workforce trainingf and placement for laid-off employees.
“Thisa plan is designed to maximizeour region’s sharde of federal stimulus funding and other state supporyt that will benefit the Bay Area in both the near and said Sean Randolph, CEO of the , which was chargeed with compiling the list. The top 85 projects were classifiedas “strategic” priorities for the Bay Another 72 projects were considered but given a slightly lower ranking because they did not have the scald or regional impact of the most highlgy ranked suggestions.
Those projects include things like a desalinatiomn project in the Montara Water andSanitaruy District, building a clean technology demonstration manufacturing center in San Jose and outfittinvg Burlingame city buildings with solar The plan, which can be found online at was the culmination of a three-month vetting The report was sent to the . That state which requested that other metropolitan regions around the state submitsimilaer plans, will now take all thosde plans and help coordinate with citiex and counties to lobby the federal government on behalf of certain “This is to get peoplew on the same page to minimized the food fight where you have parts of the statwe compete against one said Dale Bonner, head of the California Business Transportationn and Housing Agency.
“Whar we’re doing is acting as a facilitator to help identifythe best” projects. The list’e authors said they hoped that rankinf projects would help the region get morestimulus money. “Thwe Bay Area is the only region in Californias that actually attemptedto prioritize,” Randolph said. “We think that’s important. We think that will make us more successful ingetting attention, in getting those resources for those very high valu projects.” Projects on the Economic Institute’a wish list could be in for a big payoff.
About $30 billion in federal stimulus money will be divvied up in Sacramento before going to variouds regionsaround California. Another $20 billion is expectefd to be distributed directly in the statr by federal officials on adiscretionary basis. The chancew to get dollars from the federal stimulus program led to a flurrhyof proposals. Bay Area authorities siftec through almost570 suggestions. To make the cut, projects were supposerd to spurjob growth, have regional impact and alignb with state programs and priorities, among other The Economic Institute called upon local expertz in specific fields to judge proposals that fit at least one of seven categories: transportation, water, workforce training and education, business science and innovation or housing.
The vast majorityg of projects that made it to theEconomix Institute’s short list were from government A range of companies soughty federal stimulus, too, sayinh that their service would help boost the broaded economy. For example, a Berkeley-based firm calledd Picture it Sold sought stimulus moneyh to franchiseits home-staging business. “We’re readh to move ahead with this plan the company wrote inits proposal, “and we’ll help thousandx of families and the whole economyt to recover.” The company’ws idea did not make the Economix Institute’s highest priority cut.
But an appendis to the Economic Institute’s wish list includes everty proposalit received.
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