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FY10 Appropriations Requests

*****Note: Appropriations Requests are listed in alphabetical order, not according to priority.

Entity: 164th Airlift Wing
Address: 4607 Galaxy Drive, Memphis, TN 38118
Amount: $9,500,000
Project Title: Base Civil Engineer Maintenance and Training Facilities
Purpose:
The funding would be used to properly configure the facility to support Base Engineering, Readiness and Emergency Management and Fire Crash/Rescue for an 8-PAA C-5 Aircraft Wing.

Entity: BRIDGES USA

Address: 477 N. Fifth Street, Memphis, TN

Amount: $500,000

Project Title: Bridges SPAN

Purpose: This funding will be used for a GED/Life Skills program in partnership with the Memphis City Schools. 

 

Entity: Circuit Playhouse, Inc.

Address: 51 South Cooper, Memphis, TN 38104

Amount: $2,000,000

Project Title: Circuit Playhouse Performing Arts Facility

Purpose: The funding would be used to provide citizens with an effective teaching and learning environment designed to raise educational levels and enhance economic development in the heart of Memphis, potentially creating over 500 construction jobs and new staff positions to manage the larger facility.

 

Entity: The City of Memphis

Address: 125 N. Main Street, Room 336, Memphis, TN 38103-2079

Amount: $5,000,000

Project Title: U.S 51/ Elvis Presley Boulevard Improvements

Purpose: The funding would be used to improve Elvis Presley Blvd. 

 

Entity: The City of Memphis

Address: 125 N. Main Street, Room 336, Memphis, TN 38103-2079

Amount: $1,000,000

Project Title: University Place Revitalization

Purpose: The funding would be used to replace the vacant public housing and abandoned property with 500 units of mixed-income senior housing and multi-family housing units, park space and other public improvements

 

Entity: InMotion Musculoskeletal Institue

Address: 20 South Dudley Street, Suite 700, Memphis, Tennessee 38103

Amount: $2,000,000

Project Title: InMotion Sustainability Campaign

Purpose: The funding would be used to expand clinical, educational, and research space to improve patient care. 

Entity: Kilo Company 3rd Battalion 23rd Marines
Address: 3114 Jackson Avenue, Memphis, TN 38112
Amount: $2,200,000
Project Title: Replace Front Door Awning and Provide Unit Identification Signs
Purpose: The funding would be used to provide a canopy for the front entrance of the front door and identification signs for the unit.

Entity: Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center  Address: 50 N. Dunlap, Memphis, Tennessee 38103 Amount: $600,000 Project Title: Pediatric Echocardiogram Machine Replacement

Purpose: The funding would be used for the replacement of echocardiogram machines, which are key diagnostic tools used by pediatric cardiologists to test for heart disease.  

 

Entity: LeMoyne-Owen College

Address: 807 Walker Avenue, Memphis, TN 38126

Amount: $1,500,000

Project Title: Building Families, Communities and Cities Through Higher Education

Purpose: The funding would be used for development and construction of market rate housing, as well as campus facilities that are accessible for handicapped students in order to enhance student recruitment and enrollment.

 

Entity: LeMoyne-Owen College

Address: 807 Walker Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee 38126

Amount: $850,000

Project Title: The Health Disparities/Wellness Community Participatory Research

Purpose: The funding would be used to support academic programming in public health/policy research areas, specifically, in the areas of health disparity and wellness communities.

 

Entity: Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering

Address: 20 South Dudley Street, Suite 900, Memphis, Tennessee 38103

Amount: $1,000,000

Project Title: Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering

Purpose: The funding would be used to renovate a facility on the campus of the Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering in order to make the program available to more students.

 

Entity: Memphis & Shelby Country Port Commission

Address: 1115 Riverside Boulevard, Memphis TN 38106-2504

Amount: $1,400,000

Project Title: Pigeon Industrial Harbor

Purpose: The funding would be used for annual maintenance dredging of Pidgeon Industrial Harbor. 

 

Entity: Memphis & Shelby Country Port Commission

Address: 1115 Riverside Boulevard, Memphis TN 38106-2504

Amount: $4,700,000

Project Title: Memphis Harbor (McKellar Lake)

Purpose: The funding would be used for annual maintenance dredging.   

 

Entity: Memphis Bioworks Foundation

Address: 20 South Dudley Street, Suite 900, Memphis, Tennessee 38103

Amount: $10,000,000

Project Title: UT-Baptist Research Park

Purpose: The funding would be used to construct a laboratory to increase research in the bioscience industry.

 

Entity: Memphis City Schools

Address: 2597 Avery Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee 38112

Amount: $1,200,000

Project Title: Memphis Career Connection

Purpose: The funding would be used to fund the Memphis Career Connection afterschool initiative to connect students with the business and higher education communities, providing them with the opportunity to develop first-hand knowledge of various careers through mentoring, work projects, and paid internships.

 

Entity: Mid-South Minority Business Council

Address: 158 Madison Avenue Suite 300, Memphis, TN 38103

Amount: $10,000,000

Project Title: Mid-South Minority Business Council Bond Fund

Purpose: The funding would be used to create a bond fond for women and minority businesses.

 

Entity: National Civil Rights Museum

Address: 450 Mulberry Street, Memphis, Tennessee 38103.

Amount: $1,000,000

Project Title: National Civil Rights Museum Educationa and Special Projects funding

Purpose: The funding would be used to fund educational programs and special projects.

 

Entity: Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center

Address: 858 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163

Amount: $24,000,000

Project Title: Regional Biocontainment Laboratory Surge Capacity Preparedness

Purpose: The funding would be used to provide the necessary surge capacity to respond to a biological attack or outbreak of infectious disease.  

 

Entity: Rhodes College

Address: 2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112

Amount: $1,027,100

Project Title: NASA Stars

Purpose: This funding will be used to enhance the NASA Stars program conducted in conjunction with the Memphis City Schools. 

 

Entity: Shelby County Community Services

Address: 160 North Main Street, Suite 801, Memphis, TN 38103

Amount: $1,000,000

Project Title: Emergency Room Expansion Project

Purpose: The funding would be used to construct a new emergency department to double the current capacity of the hospital to meet the growing healthcare demands on the region. 

 

Entity: Shelby County Community Services

Address: 160 North Main Street, Suite 801, Memphis, TN 38103

Amount: $750,000

Project Title: Infant Mortality Initiative Centering Pregnancy

Purpose: The funding would be used to support the infant mortality initiative to provide pre-natal care and education to pregnant women in order to lower the incidence of low-weight births, premature births, and infant mortality. 

 

Entity: Shelby County Community Services

Address: 160 North Main Street, Suite 801, Memphis, TN 38103

Amount: $325,000

Project Title: Seismic Mitigation

Purpose: The funding would be used to study Seismic Risk Assessment which entails a broad-based analysis that is focused on the Memphis Metro Region and is applicable to the broader West Tennessee Region.

 

Entity: Shelby Residential & Vocational Services, Inc.  Address: 3592 Knight Arnold Road, Memphis, Tennessee 38118 Amount: $11,000,000 Project Title: Expansion of the Building Dreams Program

Purpose: The funding would be used to expand program services for people with developmental disabilities. 

 

Entity: Southwest Tennessee Community College

Address: 5983 Macon Cove, Memphis, TN 38134. 

Amount: $1,000,000

Project Title: Forensic Science Program

Purpose: The funding would be used for enhancing the Forensic Science Program in order to train students for employment in law enforcement and the forensic science sector. 

 

Entity: Southwest Tennessee Community College

Address: 5983 Macon Cove, Memphis, Tennessee 38134

Amount: $4,105,000

Project Title: Southwest College of Nursing and Biotechnology Program Extension

Purpose: The funding would be used to construct a facility in order to train more nurses and biotechnology technicians.  

 

Entity: Southwest Tennessee Community College

Address: 5983 Macon Cove, Memphis, TN 38134

Amount: $163,500

Project Title: Southwest Recording Studio Renovation

Purpose: The funding would be used to provide citizens with an effective teaching and learning environment designed to raise educational levels, enhance economic development and enrich personal lives.

 

Entity: University of Memphis

Address: 322 Administration Building Memphis, TN 38152

Amount: $2,000,000

Project Title: Battlefield Nursing

Purpose: The funding would be used to develop nursing skills that are necessary specific to those necessary for the military nursing corps featuring the most up-to-date medical services

 

Entity: University of Memphis

Address: 322 Administration Building, Memphis, TN 38152

Amount: $2,000,000

Project Title: Biofuel Micro-Refineries for Local Sustainability

Purpose: The funding would be used to provide the ability to use biomass and waste to generate sustainable energy

 

Entity: University of Memphis

Address: 322 Administration Building Memphis, TN 38152

Amount: $3,000,000

Project Title: Center for Hazards Research and Education

Purpose: The funding would be used to create the Center of Hazards Research and Education that will offer a multi-disciplinary approach to addressing natural and man-made hazards in the region.

 

Entity: University of Memphis

Address: 322 Administration Building Memphis, TN 38152

Amount: $3,700,000

Project Title: Community Health Building

Purpose: The funding would be used to construct the Community Health Building on the University of Memphis campus to house the Loewenburg School of Nursing and the School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. 

 

Entity: University of Memphis

Address: 322 Administration Building Memphis, TN 38152

Amount: $1,000,000

Project Title: Drinking Water Contamination Monitoring Devices

Purpose: The funding would be used to expand capabilities to research and develop state-of-the-art technologies that will provide safer and healthier public drinking water.

 

Entity: University of Memphis

Address: 322 Administration Building Memphis, TN 38152

Amount: $4,000,000

Project Title: Intelligent Network-Centric Sensor Development Program

Purpose: The funding would be used to develop improved sensors, including network sensors that would integrate imagery and other sensor information from several platforms.  

 

Entity: University of Memphis

Address: 322 Administration Building Memphis, TN 38152

Amount: $750,000

Project Title: Memphis Center Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Purpose: The funding would be used to provide the city with tools to drive new business growth targeting science, technology-based businesses and minority-owned enterprises.

 

Entity: University of Memphis

Address: 322 Administration Building, Memphis, TN 38152

Amount: $2,500,000

Project Title: Memphis-Shelby County Operation Safe Community

Purpose: The funding would be used to implement strategies outlined in the Operation Safe Community plan for youth development and gang prevention. 

 

Entity: University of Memphis

Address: 322 Administration Building Memphis, TN 38152

Amount: $1,000,000

Project Title: Mississippi Embayment Regional Ground Water Study

Purpose: The funding would be used to sustain groundwater quality in the tri-state area of Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi

Entity: University of Memphis

Address: 322 Administration Building, Memphis, TN 38152

Amount: $2,000,000

Project Title: SPACE

Purpose: The funding would be used to provide education and training opportunities for students who are pursuing science and technology careers. 

 

Entity: University of Tennessee Extension
Address: 121 Morgan Hall, 2621 Morgan Circle, Knoxville, TN 37996
Amount: $1,000,000
Project Title: Shelby County Shapes Up

Purpose:  The funding will be used to address obesity and chronic disease prevention.

 

Entity: UT Health Science Center

Entity: UT Health Science Center

Address: 19 South Manassas, Room 154, Memphis, TN 38163

Amount: $2,000,000

Project Title: Technology Solutions for Brain Cancer Detection and Treatment

Purpose: The funding would be used to improve cancer care through basic and translational research, including the use of a confocal microscope and therapeutic strategies in the development pipeline at the Center for Cancer Research for cancer treatment that requires study using live-cell imagery.   

 

 

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