FY 2024 Appropriations Requests
Congresswoman Cori Bush has submitted 15 community project funding requests for Missouri’s First District for fiscal year 2024.
Under guidelines issued by the House Appropriations Committee, each Representative may request funding for up to 15 projects in their community for Fiscal Year 2024 – although only a handful may actually be funded. Projects are restricted to a limited number of federal funding streams.Only state and local governments and eligible non-profit entities are permitted to receive funding.
In compliance with House Rules and Committee requirements, Congresswoman Cori Bush has certified that she and her immediate family have no financial interest in any of the projects she has requested.
Click links below to view Congresswoman Bush’s previously funded community projects:
TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Epworth Children and Family Services
Amount of Request: $3,000,000
Intended Recipient:
Epworth Children and Family Services
110 N Elm Avenue,
Webster Groves, Missouri 63119
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: Epworth Emergency Shelter and Food Pantry Rehabilitation Project will rehabilitate the basement of Epworth Food Pantry’s 7500 Natural Bridge location, including installing new HVAC and Refrigeration units. This funding would also help remodel the second floor of the building into a short-term emergency shelter that serves runaway and homeless youth.
St. Louis Housing Authority
Amount of Request: $3,000,000
Intended Recipient:
St. Louis Housing Authority,
3520 Page Boulevard,
St. Louis, Missouri 63106
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: St. Louis Housing Authority’s Clinton-Peabody Redevelopment project would renovate the buildings at Clinton-Peabody, built in 1942, into modern, sustainable, and long-term affordable housing options for residents.
Urban Strategies
Amount of Request: $1,500,000
Intended Recipient:
Urban Strategies, Inc.
100 North Broadway, Suite 1110,
St. Louis, Missouri 63102
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: Urban Strategies’ Murphy Park Housing and Site Improvements project would use this funding for renovations to bring 91 units back online and increase access to quality affordable housing in our community.
Youth and Family Center
Amount of Request: $696,294
Intended Recipient:
Youth and Family Center
818 Cass Avenue,
St. Louis, Missouri 63106
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: The funding would be used for renovations to enable the Youth Family Center to provide a safe environment for youth.
Youth in Need
Amount of Request: $2,625,000
Intended Recipient:
Youth in Need
1815 Boone's Lick Road,
St. Charles, Missouri, 63301
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: Bright Futures: Youth in Need’s Project for Youth Homelessness Prevention would use this funding for site acquisitions and renovations to provide a broad range of supporting services related to employment, education, housing navigation assistance, and counseling to homeless youth.
Healthy Food Healthy Community
Amount of Request: $1,500,000
Intended Recipient:
Healthy Food Healthy Community
1644 Lotsie Boulevard.,
St. Louis, Missouri 63132
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: Operation Food Search: Healthy Food, Healthy Community Renovation Project would use this funding to increase the amount of fresh foods it can procure, store, and distribute to food insecure individuals living in economically distressed areas of St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and surrounding counties in Missouri and Illinois.
Doorways-St. Louis
Amount of Request: $1,514,360
Intended Recipient:
Doorways-St. Louis
1101 N Jefferson Avenue,
St. Louis, Missouri 63106
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: Doorways-St. Louis will use this funding for energy-efficient renovations to their accessible housing facilities for people recovering and receiving care for HIV.
Gateway 180 Homeless Services
Amount of Request: $466,000
Intended Recipient:
Gateway 180 Homeless Services
1000 N 19th Street,
St. Louis, Missouri 63106
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: Gateway 180’s Family Emergency Shelter Weatherization & Safety Project will make necessary upgrades to the areas and structures of their building that are currently damaged, out of date, or non-existent, as well as improve the energy efficiency of their shelter building.
Refuge & Restoration (R&R)
Amount of Request: $3,262,545
Intended Recipient:
Refuge & Restoration (R&R)
P.O. Box 701,
Florissant, Missouri 63032
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: Refuge & Restoration’s Marketplace Economic Development and Revitalization Project will rehabilitate and make capital improvements to provide critical economic development and revitalization, including renovation of a 20-year blighted 90,000 square-foot building in the center of the City of Dellwood with a workforce training center with career pathways, small business support center, and early childhood education center.
Perpetual Care Group Home for Veterans
Amount of Request: $900,000
Intended Recipient:
Perpetual Group Home for Veterans
2400 N. Sarah Street,
St. Louis, Missouri 63113
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: Perpetual Care Group Home for Veterans’ Independent Veterans Community Project will construct the Perpetual Care Group Home for Veterans to provide a safe, environment for our wounded and aging veterans.
Easter Seals Midwest
Amount of Request: $3,696,086
Intended Recipient:
Easter Seals Midwest
11933 Westline Industrial Drive,
St. Louis, Missouri 63146
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: Easter Seals Midwest Employment’s Disability Services Workforce Training Center would use the funding for site acquisition and renovations. This center will provide job training and continuing education to more than 800 disability service professionals and comprehensive employment services for more than 900 individuals with developmental disabilities.
Jurnee Foundation
Amount of Request: $2,995,000
Intended Recipient:
Jurnee Foundation
215 Shepley Drive,
St. Louis, Missouri 63137
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: Jurnee Foundation Glasgow Village Affordable Housing will use this funding to renovate and bring housing resources to 68 families in the Glasgow Village neighborhood.
Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority (LCRA), County of St. Louis Metropolitan Education and Training (MET) Center
Amount of Request: $3,000,000
Intended Recipient:
LCRA MET Center
7733 Forsyth Boulevard, Suite 2200,
St Louis, Missouri 63105
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: LCRA will use these funds to renovate and modernize the MET Center building in order to ensure the LCRA can continue to deliver and grow the workforce development services of the MET Center to support the community.
ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Chain of Rocks Water Plant Shore Intake North Well Rehabilitation Project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineer
Amount of Request: $6,100,000
Intended Recipient:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
St. Louis District
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: The the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Chain of Rocks Water Plant Shore Intake North Well Rehabilitation Project will use this funding for the construction of a water plant in North St. Louis and will replace the failing traveling screen machine in the north intake well and the associated isolation sluice gates. This critical infrastructure project would restore reliable operation of equipment which processes source water into the treatment plant and improve the facility and its systems to operate more efficiently.
City of University City Detention Basin Project, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Amount of Request: $1,100,000
Intended Recipient:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
6801 Delmar Boulevard,
University City, Missouri, 63130
Disclosure Letter: HERE
Project Explanation: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers City of University City Detention Basin Project would use support the construction of an 8-acre detention basin. The detention basin would assist in lowering the instances of severe flooding in University City, Overland, and other downstream communities, which would mean reduced injuries and death, property damage, economic losses, and environmental impacts.