Appropriations Requests
Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations Requests
Project Name: Cyberworks, Cybersecurity Workforce Training Program
Requested Amount: $ 2,500,000
Intended Recipient: The University of South Florida (USF)
Recipient Address: 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620
Request Explanation: The funding would allow 300 additional Floridians to participate this fiscal year in CyberWorks, a 19-week cybersecurity certificate training program that prepares non-traditional adult students, and especially recently discharged military veterans, to enter the civilian and defense cybersecurity workforce as Tier 1 Security Operation Center (SOC) Analysts.
Certification of Financial Disclosure
Project Name: Rapid DNA system
Requested Amount: $695,540
Intended Recipient: Lake County Sheriff
Recipient Address: 551 West Main Street, Tavares, FL 32778
Request Explanation: The funding would be used to purchase a Rapid DNA system to help bolster law enforcement efficiency, investigations and reduce crime lab backlogs. The Sheriff’s office would house the instruments at their jail and would make them available to surrounding agencies as needed to assist with public safety across the county.
Certification of Financial Disclosure
Project Name: Southbound Jeff Fuqua Realignment at Orlando International Airport
Requested Amount: $5,000,000
Intended Recipient: Greater Orlando Aviation Authority
Recipient Address: One Jeff Fuqua Boulevard, Orlando, FL 32827
Request Explanation: The funding would help deliver improvements to the intersection of Jeff Fuqua Boulevard and South Park Place/Station Loop Road at Orlando International Airport (MCO) to simplify traffic movements, reduce congestion, decrease pollution from idling vehicles at red lights, and improve overall traffic flow at one of the nation’s busiest airports. More than 115,000 vehicles per day already travel through MCO terminals causing traffic delays that result in unsafe conditions and affect airport operations.
Certification of Financial Disclosure
Project Name: PD&E for the FDC Grove Road/Northridge Trail Flyover of Interstate 4/US Highway 27 interchange
Requested Amount: $4,000,000
Intended Recipient: Polk County Board of County Commissioners
Recipient Address: 330 W. Church Street, Bartow, FL 33830.
Request Explanation: The funding would be used to complete planning for a bridge/flyover I-4 west of US 27 to connect FDC Grove Road to the Northridge Trail to allow traffic to bypass that interchange by moving local north/south traffic on a route parallel to US Highway 27.
Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations Requests
Project Name: CR 466A 4-Laning Final Phase Completion
Requested Amount: $3,611,561
Intended Recipient: Lake County, FL
Recipient Address: 315 W Main St #3813, Tavares, FL 32778
Request Explanation: The funding would enable completion of a major 4-laning project providing regional traffic connectivity and improved traffic flow from US 301 in Sumter County to US 27/441 in Lake County.
Certification of Financial Disclosure
Project Name: Citrus Grove Road Phase II
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
Intended Recipient: Lake County, FL
Recipient Address: 315 W Main St #3813, Tavares, FL 32778
Request Explanation: Citrus Grove Road is a major collector roadway connecting US Hwy 27 to N. Hancock Road at the Florida turnpike Interchange in Minneola. Phase II is part of a 5-phase project; Phases I and III are complete; Phases IV and V are soon to be under construction; Phase II will complete the project. The existing road is an old farm to market road that is inadequate to serve current regional transportation needs. There are no adjacent homes or businesses on this segment of road. The funding requested is for final design of the project.