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<br />16 <br /> <br />text in appropriations bills and worked with Members to include the language as requested by our <br />clients. Monitoring and participating in the annual budget and appropriations process is essential to <br />ensuring that formula dollars keep flowing to address your local needs. <br /> <br />“Earmarks” <br /> <br /> Following a ten-year moratorium on “earmarks,” Congressional leaders recently agreed to <br />restore the power of the purse to lawmakers through two channels, the surface transportation <br />reauthorization process and the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget and appropriations process. We worked <br />with our clients to develop and submit requests under each respective process this year. We would <br />be eager to prepare similar requests in the future for the City of San Leandro should lawmakers decide <br />to maintain these new funding opportunities. See below for more detail. <br /> <br />Member Designated Projects <br /> <br />Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives recently agreed on a return to <br />earmarks in the surface transportation reauthorization bill after over a fifteen-year ban. These <br />congressionally directed spending requests are known in the 117th Congress as “Member Designated <br />Projects.” This year, each Member of Congress was able to submit up to five requests for surface <br />transportation projects of national or regional signific ance that could span multiple years and were <br />large in scope. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders considered project <br />readiness; economic, environmental, congestion mitigation, and safety benefits; non-federal sources <br />of funding; the status of environmental review; and other factors as they decided which projects to <br />move forward. Additionally, private entities were banned from pursuing earmarks, projects must have <br />had a robust public engagement process and broad community support, and Members of Congress <br />must have certified that they and their families had no financial interest in any of the proposed projects. <br /> <br />The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee ultimately included 1,473 projects <br />worth over $5.6 billion in the INVEST in America Act that were recommended by Members of the lower <br />chamber. Jen led the consultation and submission process for the following 15 of those projects <br />included in the legislation: <br /> <br />Project Sponsor Project Name Funding Amount <br />Alameda County <br />Transportation <br />Commission (ACTC) <br />Oakland Alameda Access Project $2,996,000 <br />City of Madison, WI Atwood Avenue (Fair Oaks Avenue to <br />Cottage Grove Road) $6,275,000 <br />City of Rancho Cordova, <br />CA <br />White Rock Road – 0.5 Miles East of <br />Rancho Cordova Parkway to the Easterly <br />City Limits <br />$12,307,000 <br />City of San Leandro, CA Bay Trail at Shoreline Park $3,000,000 <br />City of Tacoma, WA Links to Opportunity Streetscape Project $2,000,000 <br />City of Tacoma, WA Puyallup Avenue Transit/Complete Street <br />Improvements $2,000,000 <br />City of Tacoma, WA <br />Safe Routes to School Improvements: <br />Whitman Elementary and Edison <br />Elementary Schools <br />$1,000,000 <br />City of Tacoma, WA E. 64th Street Phase II $5,600,000 <br />Louisville Metro <br />Government Reimagine 9th Street $5,000,000 <br />Louisville Metro <br />Government I-65 Southbound Ramp to Brook Street $9,600,000 <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 96DFE48D-519D-44F7-9CDC-44AC4D3EAE4A