U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle Selects 15 Projects for Consideration by House Appropriators
U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle Selects 15 Projects for Consideration by House Appropriators
Project topics span from healthcare, public safety, housing, and transportation in Oregon’s 4th Congressional District
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Val Hoyle announced her selected projects to submit to the U.S. House Appropriations Committee as candidates to receive funding for Fiscal Year 2024.
“As I travel throughout my district, I’ve listened to my constituents who want to improve community health and safety, build more housing, and add additional investment in infrastructure. My team and I used that feedback when selecting projects, some of which would fund additional radio communication for first responders, building a chemotherapy center in a location where current patients must travel up to seven hours for treatment, and constructing 72 new affordable workforce housing units in Oregon’s Fourth District.”
Each House Member was allowed to submit 15 Community Projects to be considered for federal funding on behalf of their congressional district to the U.S. House Appropriations Committee. All submitted projects must be passed out of all relevant committees voted on by both chambers of Congress. While none of the submitted projects are guaranteed to make it through this process, those selected by the Congresswoman’s office had strong community support and were able to demonstrate to her office they have the potential to benefit Oregon’s Fourth Congressional District.
Below are the projects selected by Congresswoman Val Hoyle for Oregon’s Fourth Congressional District in Fiscal Year 2024:
Environment
- Oregon Kelp Forest Protection and Restoration Initiative – Oregon Kelp Alliance, Port Orford – $2,000,000. The funding would be used to address the recent significant declines in the health of Oregon’s kelp forests by removing sea urchins across six sites to prepare urchin barrens for reestablishment of kelp forests.
Healthcare
- Monroe Rural Health Center – Benton County Government – $1,000,000. The City of Monroe’s current health center is a small, outdated modular building that can no longer accommodate the growing healthcare needs of the community. With this new funding, the center would be able to double in size and provide high quality, accessible care to people in need within the local community.
- Curry Health Network Chemotherapy Treatment Project – Curry General Hospital – $2,500,000. The funding requested would be used for construction of a new chemotherapy clinic at Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach. Currently, chemotherapy isn’t available in Curry County, a coastal region which spans 1,988 square miles, and patients must travel up to seven hours for treatment.
Infrastructure
- Mill Street Reconstruction – City of Springfield, OR – $4,000,000. This funding would ensure complete reconstruction from Main St to Centennial Blvd., including improved pedestrian crossings and protected bicycle lanes, additional street lighting, replacement of a sanitary sewer line, lateral lining, complete replacement of a storm water line, and adding traffic calming measures.
- Charleston Shipyard Rehabilitation and Capacity Enhancement – Oregon International Port of Coos Bay – $1,987,500. This project will restore and enhance capacity in the Port of Coos Bay’s Charleston Shipyard by replacing the work docks and expanding the travel lift slip used to haul out vessels, including commercial fishing vessels, for service and inspection.
- Port of Newport International Terminal Dock Repair – Port of Newport – $361,075. Funding would be used for needed repair of dock pilings at the roll-on/roll-off dock at the Port of Newport International Terminal, which provides berths for cargo and large fishing vessels in Lincoln County, Oregon.
Rural Development and Housing
- Glide Revitalization Community Resource Center – Glide, OR – $2,000,000. Glide Revitalization would use funds to renovate a warehouse into a community resource center that will provide affordable childcare, office space for social service agencies and caseworkers, a local library, a shared community conference room, youth after-school programs, a youth technical development program, and temporary shelter space during emergencies.
- City of North Bend Affordable Workforce Housing – North Bend, OR – $4,000,000. This funding would demolish the County annex and construct 72 affordable workforce housing units for critical workers in education, public safety, logistics, and the healthcare industry.
- Willamette Activity Center Renovation Project – City of Oakridge, OR – $2,750,000. The Willamette Activity Center project in Oakridge, Oregon will rehabilitate the current facility that requires significant repair and upgrades and ensure that the city can continue to offer wraparound critical services to community members in need.
Public Safety
- Regional Public Safety Radio Infrastructure – Benton County Government – $2,000,000. The Benton County Sherriff’s Office is requesting funding to install three antennas and purchase handheld and mobile radios necessary to improve public safety and law enforcement emergency response.
- County of Lane Emergency Communications Resiliency and Interoperability Project – Lane County, OR – $1,100,000. Lane County is requesting funds to replace an aging multi-purpose radio tower and building at Bear Mountain and to update 100 multi-band radios for 10 rural fire districts. Radios are a critical tool for first responders during routine and catastrophic situations.
- Kellogg Rural Fire District Main Station – Oakland, OR – $1,200,000. This funding would help build a Main Fire Station that is centrally located. Kellogg Rural Fire District currently has two 2-bay garages that house some of their fire apparatus, but these garages have no training room and limited facilities.
- Coos County Records Reduction and Accessibility Project – Coos County Sheriff’s Office – $551,966. Currently, law enforcement records in Coos County go back as far as 1999 and consist of several hundred thousand pieces of paper and photographs. The Coos County Sheriff’s Office would use these funds to hire a contractor to scan, digitize, and organize existing files, as well as purchase related equipment to allow the County to maintain a digital file database.
- Springfield Police Department Comprehensive Training Package – City of Springfield – $200,000. This funding would update and improve the Springfield Police Department's officer training programs. While trainings focus on what is required by state or federal law, SPD currently lacks the resources to focus on more comprehensive, non-mandated trainings that are just as important for ensuring a robust police force that builds community trust and ensures effective responses to law enforcement scenarios.
- Eugene Police Department Body-Worn Camera/In-Car Video – City of Eugene – $1,325,407. Funding would be used to purchase Body Worn Camera and In-Car Video systems to assist the Eugene Police Department in transparency. Both these systems have been used at the Eugene Police Department for many years and are due for replacement.
For more information, and to view Congresswoman Hoyle’s project selection financial disclosure and transparency statements, please visit: https://hoyle.house.gov/services/FY24appropriations
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