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

Community Support

 

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

Community Support

 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

Community Support

 

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.

Certification of Financial Disclosure

Community Support

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

Community Support



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.

Certification of Financial Disclosure

Community Support