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Projects ranked among the highest in the plan coved a wide range of proposalsincluding high-speesd rail construction, extending the BART line to San Jose and borinfg another roadway in the East Bay’sw Caldecott Tunnel. Together, the highest-priority projects are seeking morethan $7 billiom in stimulus money. The priority list also includess a new stem cell research facility at the in Marin energy efficiency and solar retrofits of publicd and other buildings in San San Franciscoand Oakland; energ y conversions to LED streetlights; transit-oriented developmenyt projects and workforce training and placement for laid-off “This plan is designed to maximize our region’w share of federal stimulus funding and other stater support that will benefit the Bay Area in both the near and said Sean Randolph, CEO of the , which was chargedr with compiling the list.
The top 85 projecta were classifiedas “strategic” priorities for the Bay Another 72 projects were consideredd “significant” but given a slightly lowefr ranking because they did not have the scale or regiona l impact of the most highly ranked Those projects include things like a desalination projecgt in the Montara Water and Sanitary building a clean technology demonstration manufacturing cented in San Jose and outfitting Burlingame city buildingsz with solar panels. The plan, whichg can be found onlinee at www.bayareaeconomy.org/recovery, was the culmination of a three-month vetting process. The reporr was sent to the .
That state which requested that other metropolita regions around the state submitfsimilar plans, will now take all those plands and help coordinate with cities and countiesw to lobby the federal government on behalf of certain projects. “This is to get people on the same page to minimizd the food fight where you have parts of the state competes againstone another,” said Dale Bonner, head of the California Busines Transportation and Housing Agency. “What we’re doing is actint as a facilitator to help identifyythe best” projects. The list’s authors said they hoped that rankinvg projects would help the region get morestimulues money.
“The Bay Area is the only region in Californiaa that actually attemptedto prioritize,” Randolph “We think that’s important. We think that will make us more successfull ingetting attention, in gettinf those resources for those very high valuw projects.” Projects on the Economic Institute’sx wish list could be in for a big payoff. About $30 billion in federal stimulus money will be divvied up in Sacramenti before going to various regionszaround California. Another $20 billion is expected to be distributed directlyy in the state by federalo officials on adiscretionary basis.
The chancr to get dollars from the federal stimulus program led to a flurry of proposals. Bay Area authoritiew sifted through almost570 suggestions. To make the cut, projects were supposeds to spurjob growth, have regional impacrt and align with state programs and among other criteria. The Economic Institute callefd upon local experts in specific fields to judge proposalss that fit at least one ofseven transportation, water, energy/climate, workforce training and education, businesz development, science and innovationj or housing. The vast majorityh of projects that made it to theEconomic Institute’s shor t list were from government agencies.
A rangwe of companies sought federal stimulus, too, saying that their service would help boost the broader For example, a Berkeley-base firm called Picture it Sold sought stimulus moneyt to franchise its home-staginvg business. “We’re ready to move ahead with this plan the company wrote inits proposal, “and we’ll help thousandss of families and the whole economy to The company’s idea did not make the Economic Institute’ss highest priority cut.
But an appendix to the Economicd Institute’s wish list includes every proposalit
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