City of San Marcos Airport
City of San Marcos
630 E. Hopkins
San Marcos, TX 78666
Amount Requested: $3 million
The addition of a new terminal continues previously approved federal funding for the San Marcos Airport, improving service to the flying public and helping to boost the local and regional economy.

Bastrop Police Department Technology and Equipment
City of Bastrop
904 Main, P.O. Box 427
Bastrop, TX 78602
Amount Requested: $40,000
These funds will enable the Bastrop Police Department to better ensure security for the community upgrading its law enforcement equipment technology. The funds may be used for upgrading computers, communication technology, officer-protection equipment, and other technology to better save lives and improve the efficiency of law enforcement operations.

Hays County Sheriff Department Equipment and Technology Upgrades
Hays County Sheriff Department
1307 Uhland Road
San Marcos, TX 78666
Amount Requested: $40,000
These funds will enable the Hays County Sheriff Department to better ensure security for the community by upgrading department patrol, communication, and information-sharing technology. These improvements will help increase the protection of Hays County officers and residents while improving the efficiency of law enforcement operations.

Lockhart Police Department Technology
City of Lockhart
P.O. Box 239
Lockhart, TX 78644
Amount Requested: $124,000
These funds will enable the Lockhart Police Department to better assure security for the community by providing new technological capabilities for police mobile patrol units and other local law enforcement efforts. The Police Department will be able to improve protection, communication, training, and reporting technology.

Gonzales Sheriff's Office Technology and Equipment
Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office
1713 East Sarah Dewitt Drive
Gonzales, TX 78629
Amount Requested: $80,000
These funds will enable the Gonzales Sheriff's Office to better ensure security for the community by upgrading its law enforcement equipment technology. The funds may be used for improving patrol and communication technology to better save lives and improve the efficiency of law enforcement operations.

Texas State ALERRT (Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training)
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 7866
Amount Requested: $2 million
ALERRT offers a well respected, proven program to train our National Guard troops by improving their response in active shooter situations, increasing their survivability as they play a vital role in ensuring our national security. Continued federal funding allows the National Guard to maintain this critical training.

Center for Entrepreneurial Action
Texas State University System
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
Amount Requested: $300,000
This funding advances economic development by helping start-up companies and small businesses with assistance and training for regional entrepreneurs and inventors.

Center for Hetero-Functional Materials
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
Amount Requested: $2 million
As conventional "semiconductor" manufacturing technology matures, new materials to create "single-chip-devices" are needed for a wide range of applications to ensure our national security. The Center will combine federal funds with state funds to acquire additional research scientists, equipment, infrastructure improvements, technicians, and technical staff in the physics, chemistry, engineering and biology departments. In addition to defense uses, the Center’s research offers potential health, energy, and environmental benefits.

Texas State Grosvenor Center
Center for Geographic Education Watershed Project
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
Amount Requested: $400,000
An adequate water supply is important for many reasons, including maintenance of ecosystem health and economic development. Funding will help resolve problems related to the many watersheds throughout Texas that the Environmental Protection Agency has identified as impaired, threatened or at-risk.

Huston-Tillotson University Math and Science Center
Huston-Tillotson University
900 Chicon Street
Austin, TX 78702
Amount Requested: $350,000
These funds will help develop the Math and Science Center at Huston-Tillotson University, a historically black institution. The program helps reverse the decline in scientists and mathematicians by focusing on matriculating undergraduates in these disciplines and supporting after school education programs for middle and high school students to help them pursue college training in these fields.

AVANCE Parent Child Education Program
AVANCE, Inc. - Austin Chapter
2800 S. I-H 35, Suite 160
Austin, TX 78704
Amount Requested: $350,000
AVANCE is a well established community nonprofit organization that seeks to prepare children for success in school by helping their parents to be their first and most important teachers. These funds will support training classes in Bastrop, Hays, and Travis Counties that focus on assisting parents to understand and meet the cognitive, emotional, and social needs of their children.

Schulenburg and Weimar in Focus Together (SWIFT)
SWIFT
411 Summitt Street
Schulenburg, TX 78956
Amount Requested: $200,000
Funding will enhance the mentoring, tutoring, and health and parenting education training by SWIFT that serves at-risk youth and their families in our community.

Onion Creek Flood Control and Ecosystem Restoration
Lower Colorado River Authority
P.O. Box 220
Austin, TX 78767
Amount Requested: $3 million
This area continues to experience frequent flooding and this project will help prevent future costly repairs and clean-ups. These funds would allow for the construction phase of this ongoing project to finally begin, including the leveling of land and demolition and relocation of structures within the floodplain.

Bastrop Old Town Visitor Center
1016 Main Street
Bastrop, TX 78602
Amount Requested: $200,000
This funding will contribute to economic development in Bastrop by expanding services for a growing number of visitors to this historic community with the renovation and expansion of facilities on Main Street including the Old Town Visitor Center.

Hays-Travis Trail Conservation
Hill Country Conservancy
P.O. Box 163125
Austin, TX 78716
Amount Requested: $750,000
This project will create five miles of cycling and pedestrian trails in public lands in Hays and Travis Counties. Existing trails are often filled to capacity by neighbors seeking exercise and an opportunity to share the beauty of the Texas Hill Country. Additionally, this project will attract tourism and encourage opportunities for area small businesses.