{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases/mrvan-announces-fiscal-year-2025-community-project-funding-requests", "Mrvan Announces Fiscal Year 2025 Community Project Funding Requests", "2024-07-02", "2024", "2024-07", "Democrat", "House", "IN", "Frank J. Mrvan", "M001214", "mrvan.house.gov", "mrvan", "https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "July 2, 2024\n\nWashington, DC \u2013 Today, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan announced Community Project Funding requests for Indiana\u2019s First Congressional District for Fiscal Year 2025. These requests have been included in the House Appropriations Committee bills and must be approved by both the House and Senate prior to being signed into law.\n\nCongressman Mrvan stated, \u201cI am grateful for the inclusion of these federal funding requests for transformational projects to create work and wealth throughout Indiana\u2019s First Congressional District. Thank you to all of the Northwest Indiana stakeholders for your diligence to identify these worthy initiatives that will support economic development, create good-paying job opportunities, and increase public safety in our region. I look forward to continuing to work with all of my Congressional colleagues to finalize these measures in an expedient and bipartisan fashion.\u201d\n\nCongressman Mrvan\u2019s projects included in the House Appropriations Committee measures are specified below.\n\n$2,500,000 \u2013 Calumet Region Environmental Infrastructure \u2013 funding provides for partnerships between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the communities in Lake and Porter Counties, to address critical water, sanitary sewer, and stormwater sewer infrastructure improvement.\n\n$150,000 \u2013 East Chicago Police Department \u2013 funding will be utilized to equip patrol officers and detectives with body worn cameras to continue the effective operations of the department.\n\n$1,000,000 \u2013 Crown Point Police Department \u2013 funding will assist with the Radio Replacement Project to enhance operations and support swift, coordinated responses.\n\n$400,000 \u2013 La Porte Police Department \u2013 funding will assist with the Equipment and Technology Upgrades Project to enhance officers\u2019 abilities to protect and serve the public and improve efficiencies.\n\n$670,000 \u2013 Schererville Police Department \u2013 funding will assist with the Portable Radio Replacement Project to improve interoperability among officers as well as other first responders during emergencies.\n\n$488,000 \u2013 Hobart Police Department \u2013 funding will be utilized to equip patrol officers and detectives with body worn cameras.\n\n$400,000 \u2013 Griffith Police Department \u2013 funding will assist with the Police Radio Upgrade Project to improve interoperability among officers as well as other first responders during emergencies.\n\n$850,000 \u2013 City of Gary \u2013 funding will assist Gary Redevelopment Commission with the demolition of the former Ivanhoe Elementary School.\n\n$850,000 \u2013 Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority \u2013 funding will be utilized to support the expansion and construction of a heavy cargo logistics apron for multiple users to enhance increased airport operations.\n\n$1,105,800 \u2013 Town of Cedar Lake \u2013 funding will be utilized to support the construction of a sanitary sewer interceptor to improve the health and safety of residents by increasing capacity for the efficient management of sanitary flow and improving water quality.\n\n$500,000 \u2013 City of Michigan City \u2013 funding will assist with the Westside Opportunity Hub Project to transform a blighted structure into a community resource hub.\n\n$1,184,000 \u2013 Purdue University Northwest \u2013 funding will be utilized to assist with the purchase of equipment for the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) and enhance their initiatives to support cutting-edge technologies for the domestic steel and manufacturing industries.\n\n$250,000 \u2013 Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD) \u2013 funding will assist with Phase I of the Multimodal Gary Metro Center Station on the South Shore Line to design a fully ADA accessible high-level platform.\n\n$398,000 \u2013 Valparaiso Police Department \u2013 funding will assist with the Portable Radio Upgrades Project to promote swift, coordinated responses.\n\n$306,000 \u2013 Dyer Police Department \u2013 funding will assist with the Radio Communications Enhancement Project to promote reliable and consistent communications between officers without frequency interruptions.\n\nFor additional information on the appropriation measure, click here. For additional information on Congressman Mrvan\u2019s requests, click here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:24:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases/mrvan-announces-fiscal-year-2025-community-project-funding-requests"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0395031422376633, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}