FY27 Community Project Funding Requests
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Lake County Prevention Ecosystem
Entity Receiving Funding: Lake County Government
Funding Requested: $801,817,39
Description: Supports programmatic work of the Lake County Prevention Ecosystem coalition, dedicated to reducing substance use in youth and young adults.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Ralston House Child Advocacy Center Programming Support
Entity Receiving Funding: Ralston House
Funding Requested: $999,983.50
Description: Programmatic funding for forensic interviews, victim advocates, contracted medical staff, and administrative staff.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Regional Communication for First Responders
Entity Receiving Funding: Canon City
Funding Requested: $752,368.77
Description: Update telecom devices for four agencies in rural CO, including the Canon City Area Fire Prevention District, Canon City Police Dept., Fremont County EMO, and Combine Regional Communications Authority Frecom 911.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Standby Generator for Emergency Operations
Entity Receiving Funding: City of Westminster
Funding Requested: $1,200,000
Description: Purchase a standby generator to support emergency communications and a temporary shelter during power outages.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
AI-Enabled Modeling for Energy Infrastructure Resilience
Entity Receiving Funding: CO School of Mines
Funding Requested: $1 million
Description: Acquire and develop a high-performance computing platform for cross-section modeling of energy, water, and wildfire systems and resilience analytics. This will help with wildfire mitigation and prediction.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Dynamic Law Enforcement Aerial Response, Search, and Public Safety Technology Upgrade
Entity Receiving Funding: Jeffco Sheriff’s Office
Funding Requested: $165,000
Description: Enhances the Dynamic Response Drone Unit through the acquisition of deployable unmanned aerial systems and support equipment to provide situation awareness during critical incidents.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Agriculture, Rural Development, and FDA
New Police Station - Fairplay
Entity Recieving Funding: Town of Fairplay
Funding Requested: $1,200,000
Description: Construction of a new police station that includes police operations, a community room, sleeping/living quarters for officers, and an interview room.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Agriculture, Rural Development, and FDA
Ambulance Station for Lake County - St. Vincent Health
Entity Recieving Funding: St. Vincent Health
Funding Requested: $1,200,000
Description: Replace the existing St. Vincent Health ambulance garage with a new ambulance station and construct an ambulance entry at the SVH emergency room.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing, Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Bergen Park Affordable Housing Project
Entity Recieving Funding: Foothills Regional Housing
Funding Requested: $2,000,000
Description: Renovate Bergen Elementary School to develop 80 units of senior housing.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing, Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Manufactured Home Park Replacement Units
Entity Recieving Funding: Chaffee County Government
Funding Requested: $1,000,000
Description: Creates 40 new manufactured/ modular homes on empty lots that would become low-income housing.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing, Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Cedar Gardens Apartments Redevelopment
Entity Recieving Funding: Lakewood Housing Authority
Funding Requested: $1,000,000
Description: Redevelopment of Cedar Gardens Apartments to remove blighted structures and construct 84 new affordable housing units.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing, Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Renovation of Family Tree
Entity Recieving Funding: Family Tree
Funding Requested: $2,500,000
Description: Complete renovation of the Family Tree building
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing, Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Platte Canyon Wildfire Safety and Firefighter Protection Project
Entity Recieving Funding: Platte Canyon Fire Protection District
Funding Requested: $5,000,000
Description: Renovation and expansion of a fire station to increase apparatus bay space, improve firefighter living quarters, and modernize infrastructure critical to wildland fire response.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing, Urban Development, and Related Agencies
North Metro Fire Rescue District Hazardous Materials Response Vehicle Aquisition
Entity Recieving Funding: North Metro Fire Rescue District
Funding Requested: $1,800,000
Description: Construct a Class A Burn Building at the North Metro Fire Rescue District Regional Training Center
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing, Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Wheat Ridge Clear Creek Makers Space
Entity Recieving Funding: City of Wheat Ridge
Funding Requested: $150,000
Description: Repurpose underutilized outdoor space into an outdoor commons that would include outdoor workspaces and 13 rentable micro-studios for small business incubation
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Stride HVAC Equipment Updates
Entity Recieving Funding: Stride Community Health Center
Funding Requested: $800,000
Description: Capital improvements, including new HVACs
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Homeland Security
Emergency Operations Center in Teller County
Entity Recieving Funding: Teller County Government
Funding Requested: $2,250,000
Description: Renovate and upgrade an existing facility for emergency operations, including wildfires.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Homeland Security
Strontia Springs Wildfire and Water Protection Project
Entity Recieving Funding: State of Colorado
Funding Requested: $4,135,905
Description: Support on the ground forest health and fuel reduction activities in the Strontia Springs Reservoir Watershed, which benefits Jeffco foothills communities. This is especially helpful to combat the increase in wildfire risk from the mountain pine beetle infestation growth.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Energy and Water
Bear Creek Water Quality Restoration Project
Entity Recieving Funding: City of Lakewood
Funding Requested: $1,338,319
Description: Restoring water quality in Bear Creek Reservoir through phosphorus removal reductions.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
FY26 Community Project Funding Requests
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
The Commons at Emory
Entity Receiving Funding: City of Lakewood
Funding Received: $1,000,000
Description: This project will facilitate the creation of a community hub providing government resources and services to low-income households at risk of homelessness.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Ridge Road Senior and Family Housing
Entity Receiving Funding: Foothills Regional Housing
Funding Received: $2,000,000
Description: This project will help create affordable housing for seniors and families in the Wheat Ridge and Arvada communities.
Federal Nexus and Disclosure Statement
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
10th Avenue Birch Elementary School Safety Improvements
Entity Receiving Funding: City and County of Broomfield
Funding Received: $1,800,000
Description: The project will construct safety improvements around Birch Elementary School to add ADA ramps and curb extensions.
Federal Nexus and Disclosure Statement
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Colfax Safety Project
Entity Receiving Funding: City of Lakewood
Funding Received: $2,202,416
Description: The Colfax Safety Project encompasses various initiatives to enhance safety along the corridor, including: sidewalks, improved pedestrian crossings, amenities, medians, traffic signals, enhanced bus facilities, access control, lighting, and landscaping.
Federal Nexus and Disclosure Statement
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Bright Start Early Learning Center
Entity Receiving Funding: Bright Start Early Learning
Funding Level: $1,985,096
Description: This project will help build a modular childcare facility in Lake County.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Colorado Department of Corrections Childcare Center
Entity Receiving Funding: Colorado Department of Corrections
Funding Level: $1,500,000
Description: This project will help rehabilitate a closed childcare facility in Canon City, Colorado.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Boys & Girls Club of Chaffee County Facility
Entity Receiving Funding: Boys & Girls Club of Chaffee County
Funding Level: $1,285,200
Description: This project will help fund the construction of a new Boys Girls Club facility in Buena Vista, Colorado.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Cripple Creek “ A Place for Kids” Childcare Center
Entity Receiving Funding: Town of Cripple Creek
Funding Level: $1,300,000
Description: This project will help fund the construction of a new childcare facility in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Teller County Wastewater Expansion
Entity Receiving Funding: Teller County Government
Funding Level: $4,000,000
Description: This project would expand plant capacity to 120,000 gallons per day and moving treatment works out of the defined floodplain area.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Advancing Colorado Wildfire Preparedness Response
Entity Receiving Funding: Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control
Funding Level: $5,000,000
Description: This project will fund a pilot program researching integration of additional real-time satellite data into our nation-leading FireGuard wildfire early detection platforms, to improve prediction of wildfires.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
City of Alma Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements
Entity Receiving Funding: Town of Alma
Funding Level: $3,000,000
Description: The Town of Alma’s Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements project involves replacing the town’s ineffective wastewater treatment lagoons with a new mechanical treatment facility.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
City of Arvada North Trunk Wastewater Infrastructure Improvements
Entity Receiving Funding: City of Arvada
Funding Level: $14,809,239
Description: This project improves a sanitary sewer interceptor that is undersized and at the end of useful life.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Homeland Security
Roadway Wildfire Hazard Mitigation in Jefferson County
Entity Receiving Funding: Jefferson County Parks and Conservation
Funding Level: $1,000,000
Description: This hazardous fuels reduction project will allow Jefferson County to create a fuel break buffer on either side of high-priority roadways.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Chaffee County Sheriff Headquarters
Entity Receiving Funding:
Funding Level: $1,000,000
Description: The requested funding will be used to support the costs of construction to fully retrofit a newly purchased property into a Sheriff headquarters and command center, which will house the core of their law enforcement operations, interrogation, armory, evidence storage, records, and response vehicles.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies
Porchlight Capacity Expansion and Support
Entity Receiving Funding: Porchlight, A Family Justice Center
Funding Level: $848,749
Description: This funding would expand PorchLight’s ability to serve survivors of domestic violence by covering rental expenses for a large facility and the salaries of a Bilingual Navigator and an Operations Coordinator for one year.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
FY25 Community Project Funding Requests
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Birch Elementary School/Birch Avenue Safety Improvements
Entity Receiving Funding: City and County of Broomfield
Funding Level: $1,800,000
Description: The project will construct safety improvements around Birch Elementary School to add ADA ramps and curb extensions.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Homeland Security
Roadway Wildfire Hazard Mitigation in Jefferson County
Entity Receiving Funding: Jefferson County Parks and Conservation
Funding Level: $1,875,000
Description: This hazardous fuels reduction project will allow Jefferson County to create a fuel break buffer on either side of high-priority roadways.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Water and Sewer Infrastructure for Affordable Housing
Entity Receiving Funding: Town of Westcliffe
Funding Level: $1,000,000
Description: Water and sewer infrastructure improvements for affordable housing would help develop water and sewer mains to six entire blocks of Westcliffe.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Fremont County for Water Main Replacements
Entity Receiving Funding: City of Cañon City
Funding Level: $4,000,000
Description: This project will replace several water mains located within public streets in Cañon City.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Glendale Apartments Rehabilitation
Entity Receiving Funding: Jefferson County Housing Authority
Funding Level: $2,000,000
Description: This project will make infrastructure and security improvements at Glendale Apartments, a 120-unit affordable housing apartment complex.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
City of Arvada North Trunk Wastewater Infrastructure Improvements
Entity Receiving Funding: City of Arvada
Funding Level: $2,321,801
Description: This project improves a sanitary sewer interceptor that is undersized and at the end of useful life.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Teller County Wastewater Expansion
Entity Receiving Funding: Teller County Government
Funding Level: $4,000,000
Description: This project would expand plant capacity to 120,000 gallons per day and moving treatment works out of the defined floodplain area.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Porchlight Capacity Expansion and Support
Entity Receiving Funding: Porchlight, A Family Justice Center
Funding Level: $619,668.32
Description: This funding would expand PorchLight’s ability to serve survivors of domestic violence by covering rental expenses for a large facility and the salaries of a Bilingual Navigator and an Operations Coordinator for one year.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Colfax Safety Project Phase II
Entity Receiving Funding: City of Lakewood
Funding Level: $1,982,174
Description: The Colfax Safety Project encompasses various initiatives to enhance safety along the corridor, including: sidewalks, improved pedestrian crossings, amenities, medians, traffic signals, enhanced bus facilities, access control, lighting, and landscaping.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Advancing Colorado Wildfire Preparedness Response
Entity Receiving Funding: Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control
Funding Level: $3,500,000
Description: This project will fund a pilot program researching integration of additional real-time satellite data into our nation-leading FireGuard wildfire early detection platforms, to improve prediction of wildfires.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Town of Alma Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements
Entity Receiving Funding: Town of Alma
Funding Level: $2,000,000
Description: The Town of Alma’s Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements project involves replacing the town’s ineffective wastewater treatment lagoons with a new mechanical treatment facility.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Global Energy Park, Roadway Improvements
Entity Receiving Funding: State of Colorado, Office of Economic Development and International Trade
Funding Level: $2,500,000
Description: This project would extend Denver West Parkway to reach and wrap around Global Energy Park (“Glo Park”) to support traffic, water, fire, and transportation safety, and include water detention areas for flood management and pedestrian access between the community and trails network.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Lake County Mountain View Village Mobile Home Park Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Upgrades
Entity Receiving Funding: Mountain View Village Water and Sanitation District
Funding Level: $2,027,900
Description: The Mountain View Village Water and Sanitation District in Lake County requires infrastructure upgrades to its drinking water system and sanitation plant. This request will support these drinking water and wastewater improvements.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
In Custody Medication Assisted Treatment Program
Entity Receiving Funding: Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office
Funding Level: $410,000
Description: This project will expand Jefferson County’s Jail-Based Behavioral Health Services by funding 250 doses of naltrexone for extended-release injectables, lab testing needed to administer medication-assisted treatment (MAT), and the nurse's salary for one year.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Chaffee County Sheriff Headquarters
Entity Receiving Funding:
Funding Level: $1,000,000
Description:The requested funding will be used to support the costs of construction to fully retrofit a newly purchased property into a Sheriff headquarters and command center, which will house the core of their law enforcement operations, interrogation, armory, evidence storage, records, and response vehicles.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
FY24 Community Project Funding Requests
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Carbonate Street Phase I - Housing Development
Entity Receiving Funding: Town of Buena Vista, 210 E. Main St., Buena Vista, CO 81211
Funding Level: $1,286,279
Description: Carbonate Street Phase 1 will create 60 deed restricted units and 5,000 square feet of childcare space core and shell. The Town of Buena Vista will use awarded funds to pay for direct modular manufacturing costs associated with housing units as well as the capital costs of the childcare building.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
County Roadways to Colorado State Parks Infrastructure Improvements - PHASE 1
Entity Receiving Funding: Park County, 856 Castello Avenue, Fairplay, CO 80440
Funding Level: $850,000
Description: This funding will go to a new chip seal surface for County Roads 90 and 92. These two roads were last chip-sealed over 20 years ago and are beyond their designed life. Due to extreme safety concerns, 20.23 miles of paved roads must be completely ground, a new subgrade prepared and a new 8” chip seal surface placed. The road edges are disintegrating which narrows the roadway, the multilayer patching, which is performed annually, has lost integrity causing large potholes to form and are dangerous.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
GROW Institute Rural Upskilling Through Distance Learning
Entity Receiving Funding: Colorado State University, 555 17th St, Denver, CO 80202
Funding Level: $300,000
Description: The funding would be used to allow Colorado State University’s GROW Institute to provide rural upskilling efforts in Custer and Fremont Counties and that will help support job growth and economic development.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Idledale Water Infrastructure Upgrades
Entity Receiving Funding: Idledale Water and Sanitation District, 405 Urban St., Suite 310, Lakewood, CO 80228
Funding Level: $959,752
Project Description: The funding would be used to help Idledale Water and Sanitation District provide safe drinking water to its residents by decreasing radionuclide levels and increasing the quantity and quality of water available to resident drinking water and bringing the water system into compliance with existing state and federal regulations.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Jane's Place - Multi-family Affordable Housing Solar
Entity Receiving Funding: Chaffee County Government, 104 Crestone Avenue, Salida, CO 81201
Funding Level: $300,000
Description: This funding will go toward installing a solar array on top of Jane's Place, a 17-unit multi-family affordable housing and community program project being constructed in Salida, Colorado to help meet the needs of the local workforce and families experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Lake County Community Housing
Entity Receiving Funding: Leadville Lake County Regional Housing Authority (LLCRHA), P.O. Box 1683, Leadville, CO 8046
Funding Level: $850,000
Description: The proposed project is to install below grade infrastructure and continue site prep for building affordable housing on three parcels within the City of Leadville in Lake County, Colorado. These three parcels are infill sites, close to the Mineral Belt Trail (a paved 12-mile recreational trail) and are walkable to downtown, stores, schools and the library.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing Program - Wheat Ridge
Entity Receiving Funding: City of Wheat Ridge, 500 W. 29th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
Funding Level: $2,000,000
Description: This money will be used to provide grants to property owners to rehab rental units in exchange for the preservation of affordable rents. Wheat Ridge has thousands of aging rental units that are affordable to renter households with incomes below $75,000 and in some cases, $50,000.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Radium Mitigation
Entity Receiving Funding: Teller County Water & Sanitation Special District 1, 212 S. Chestnut St., Woodland Park, CO 80863
Funding Level: $959,752
Description: . The funding would be used for new equipment in a new building for treatment to reduce the level of combined radium below the maximum containment level of 5 pCi/L.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
SFOO Site Acquisition
Entity Receiving Funding: Upper Arkansas Area Council of Governments, 3224-A Independence Road, Cañon City, CO 81212
Funding Level: $255,000
Description: These project dollars would go towards site acquisition of property lots to be used for single-family owner occupied housing. The homes would be built through program participants in USDA/RD's 502 Mutual Self-Help housing program, with technical assistance in construction provided by the Upper Arkansas Council of Governments (UAACOG).
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Silver Cliff Town Plaza
Entity Receiving Funding: Town of Silver Cliff, 612 E Main St., Silver Cliff, CO 81252
Funding Level: $1,380,000
Description: This funding will be used for the Town of Silver Cliff to secure property which would allow the town to grow, allowing for mixed-use development with commercial and residential property.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
St. Vincent Hospital Surgical Equipment Expansion
Entity Receiving Funding: St. Vincent General Hospital District, 822 W 4th St, Leadville, CO
Funding Level: $579,159
Description: This project will provide surgical equipment for new outpatient specialists and service lines at St. Vincent Health including Urology and Spinal Care.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Tar Lined Pipe Replacement Phase 1
Entity Receiving Funding: Lookout Mountain Water District, 424 Vista Avenue, Golden, CO 80401
Funding Level: $959,752
Description: . The funding would be used to help Lookout Mountain Water District replace 2.2 miles of 20" tar lined pipe with 8" PVC pipe, including 13 new gate valves, 3 new fire hydrants, and 2 new air release valves and vaults.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
TDMA Radio Interoperability Upgrades
Entity Receiving Funding: Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, 200 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80401
Funding Level: $963,000
Description: This funding will go toward upgrades for all radios within Patrol, Investigations, and Command staff to support time division multiple access (TDMA) functionality to improve communications between jurisdictions in Jefferson County, neighboring counties, and state level systems.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Water in Westminster - New Water Treatment Facility
Entity Receiving Funding: City of Westminster, 6575 West 88th Avenue, Westminster, CO 80031
Funding Level: $959,752
Description: The funding would be used to help the Town of Westminster to replace its drinking water treatment facility that is nearing the end of its useful life. The project is an appropriate use of taxpayer funds because the infrastructure is deteriorating and ongoing threats such as wildfire in the watershed strains Westminster's ability to provide safe, clean, and affordable water to its residents and businesses.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
Homeland Security
Bachman Farms Park/Flood Attenuation Facility
Entity Receiving Funding: City of Golden, 1445 10th Street Golden, Colorado 80401
Funding Level: $1,383,069
Description: The funding would be used to inline detention facility in Lena Gulch to reduce the flow rate within the gulch. The project will prevent flooding among a number of low to moderate income homes in Golden.
Federal Nexus Statement and Disclosure
