 | ~ Web portal allows all Virginians to submit projects for consideration ~ |
RICHMOND – Governor Timothy M. Kaine today launched Stimulus.Virginia.Gov, a unique web portal to gather project ideas for potential funding from the federal stimulus package, allowing localities and citizens to contribute to the decision-making process for the distribution of any federal funds that Virginia receives.
Citizens, groups and localities of the Commonwealth may submit and exchange project ideas via the website and are also able to view proposals in a web table updated daily.
After the stimulus package becomes law, projects from Stimulus.Virginia.Gov will be identified that may qualify for funding. Projects will be evaluated and selected through a process similar to the way Virginia develops its biennial budget. In some cases, the information will be sent to localities and other appropriate governmental entities because they will be responsible for prioritizing projects.
The Commonwealth will be accepting proposals submitted through the web site beginning today with an end date to be determined and announced when conditions and stipulations of the final economic stimulus package are known.
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The deadline for submitting proposals was midnight March 06, 2009.
We received a total of 9,160 proposals totaling $450 billion in 20 categories.
The five South Hampton Roads cities contributed more than 800 suggestions, many of them related to transportation.
Road improvements were a focus across Virginia - nearly one-fifth of all the ideas were for transportation projects with a combined value of $193.6 billion. Most of the citizen proposals won't get any of the roughly $4.8 billion Virginia will receive from the $787 billion stimulus package. But the volume of responses and Web site traffic suggest that people have strong ideas about where the money should go.
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