FTA Section 5310: Transportation for Elderly Persons and Persons with Disabilities
East-West Gateway is taking applications for public transit and human service transportation project funding. These funds provide for transportation for the elderly and/or disabled where public transportation services are unavailable. Below is a link to application information for anyone applying for Missouri 5310 funds. The deadline for receipt of application materials is 5:00 pm, Friday, April 16, 2010.
How about a regional police force? Why mess with the earnings tax? The Renewing the Region blog has recently explored the current challenge to the city's earning tax, attempts at regional police forces in Pittsburgh that might work here in the St. Louis metro area, what goals the central city core might have for population growth and plans in Detroit to turn abandoned urban land into green space and maybe even farmland. Check out the Renewing the Region blog to get the latest ideas on local, national and global efforts to rejuvenate urban areas faced with economic, social and political challenges.
Project Update: Economic Stimulus Program - Since February 2009, EWG staff has been monitoring 94 Federal Economic Stimulus projects to make sure they can fulfill the deadline. More...
2009 All Hazard Mitigation Plan Update:East-West Gateway has reviewed and updated the 2004 All Hazard Mitigation Plan for the Missouri portion of the St. Louis region and is requesting that jurisdictions continue to review their respective processes. More...
An Illinois Levee Summit convened in August 2007 to provide an overview of the levee systems in the St. Louis region and described levee deficiencies and flood risks in the Illinois portion of the region. FEMA believes that the Illinois levees have significant underseepage problems that increase the risk of flooding. This could lead to the deaccreditation of the regional levee system. Read more here about what’s being done to eliminate this problem.
Safe travel is one of the top priorities of the St. Louis region's transportation agenda. Serious injuries from motor vehicle crashes continue to occur at alarmingly high rates. It is a tragic way to lose some of the best and brightest of our citizenry prematurely. More...
Staff welcomes the chance to respond to questions or comments about the St. Louis region.
STARRS Bid Items for February 2010: trailers, tents, defibrillators, translation equipment Note: Trailer specs have been updated with an addendum 02/25/10
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