Rubber City Recovery

The project requests for ARRA dollars keep pouring into the Ohio Recovery web portal. As expected requests far outweigh the available dollars. Just looking at Akron's request alone takes some time.

As of March 3, the City of Akron has submitted about 130 projects with an estimated cost of $478.5 million. The largest projects so far include an expansion of the CSO containment system ($30M), retrofitting lights with LED technology ($25M) and a new trash & recycle transfer station ($20M).

All three major capital outlays have an environmental tie-in and can be started within the next three to six months.

I wish some young enterprising geek would get a mash-up of Ohio's site going in StimulusWatch fashion. Until such time I give you Akron's requests in word cloud format courtesy of Wordle.

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