$13,100,000

Pope Air Force Base
5446 Reilly Road
Pope Air Force Base, NC 28308

This project will replace the present fire station that was built in 1956 and designed for approximately 40 authorizations.  Today, the Pope Air Force Base Fire Protection Flight has 86 authorizations. 

This project will provide an adequately sized and configured Crash/Fire/Rescue Station that meets Air Force requirements.  The new facility will provide fire protection and fire fighting services for base facilities and aircraft crash rescue/fire fighting on Pope Air Force Base and the 4 additional auxiliary airfields off-base.

The facility will include space for vehicle parking, equipment storage, 24-hour crew quarters, administration, training, vehicle/equipment maintenance, 24-hour emergency response call center, biohazard clean room, chemical agent storage and all other associated space needed for a fully functional Crash/Fire/Rescue Station.

$300,000

Monroe Police Department
P.O. Box 69
Monroe, NC 28110

This request would reprogram FY2009 funds to allow the Monroe Police department to purchase digital radios rather than in-care cameras. 

$1,000,000

Southeastern North Carolina Regional Economic Development Commission
P.O. Box 2256
Elizabethtown, NC 28337

This initiative focuses on creating jobs by marketing to international markets and to foreign firms that want to establish facilities in the U.S. market. With the Port of Wilmington, several major multinational corporations, productive agribusiness and other industry clusters in the southeast region, there is untapped opportunity to integrate Southeastern North Carolina’s economy more closely with the global economy. Founded by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1994, North Carolina’s Southeast is the ideal entity to gather the technical and leadership resources needed to accomplish this Initiative. This proposal is supported by the Technical Advisory Group for North Carolina’s Southeast, which is represented by 29 different organizations, including all local economic development organizations, NC Ports, Dept. of Commerce., Dept. of Agriculture, community college system, universities, and several private firms and utilities. Additionally, North Carolina’s Southeast will collaborate with the Southeastern Economic Development Commission, the regional EDA (Economic Development Administration) organization for southeastern North Carolina to follow through on this initiative.

$750,000 -

Methodist University
5400 Ramsey Street
Fayetteville, NC 28311

The Cyber Security Education and Training Program is responding to the needs of the local community and the State of North Carolina to increase advanced technology used in the field.  In North Carolina, there is a critical need for qualified crime scene investigators/analysts to assist police and sheriff departments in the collection, analysis and preservation of forensic evidence.  To solve Internet-based crimes, students must be trained in the interactive computer communications capability and information service used exclusively for law enforcement, criminal justice and the public safety community.

$1,000,000 -

Textile/Clothing Technology Corporation
5651 Dillard Drive
Cary, NC 27518

Textile Clothing Technology Corporation is a not-for-profit corporation engaged in research and development to enhance competitive advantage of apparel sewn products and hosiery industry sectors, with support from more than two hundred companies and affiliations with similar organizations.

$866,000

Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office
700 East 4th Street
Charlotte, NC 28202

The most significant value of the Consolidated Data Sharing Portal project is the ability of the end product to provide the criminal justice user critical information pertaining to individuals encountered in the criminal justice system.  Not only is this a safety issue for officers, it also protects citizens by ensuring undesirable individuals don't slip through the cracks when it comes to sex offender verification or gun permit issuance.  The CDSP project will also increase efficiency in how users access the information, reducing downtime currently experienced because of the multiple systems used to retrieve data.

$500,000

North Carolina State University
Campus Box 7214, Admin Services III
Raleigh, NC 27695

The National Textile Center (NTC) is a research consortium that serves the USA Fiber/Textile/Fiber Products/Retail Complex
THE NATIONAL TEXTILE CENTER
The National Textile Center (NTC) is a research consortium that serves the USA Fiber/Textile/Fiber Products/Retail Complex.
NTC was established to achieve three primary goals:
1.    Research: To discover, design and develop new materials, innovative and improved manufacturing, and integrated systems essential to the success of a modern U.S. textile enterprise.
2.    Education: To train personnel, establish industrial partnerships and create transfer mechanisms to ensure the utilization of technologies developed.
3.    Partnership: To strengthen the nation's textile research and educational efforts by uniting diverse experts and resources in unique collaborative projects.
We believe that this program continues to play an extremely critical role in helping to enhance the competitiveness of the U.S. textile and apparel industry, which employs nearly 600,000 workers nationwide and contributes nearly $60 billion to the nation’s gross national product on an annual basis.  Moreover, it should be noted that this industry is a primary supplier of employment to women and minority workers, with many of these jobs located in depressed rural areas, as well as major inner cities.  In North Carolina, 1,340 companies (9% public, 91% private) employ over 120,000 people in 90 of the 100 counties.  (See NC Textile Connect at www.textileconnect.com).
The NTC provides a unique and highly effective structure for maximizing fundamental research and development efforts of value to the textile and apparel sector.  Through the combined knowledge and expertise of the nation’s leading textile research universities, the NTC is leading an effort to address all key aspects of the textile industry, from fiber production to marketing.  These efforts include research in many areas related to critical national needs, such as protective clothing, biomedical textiles, electronics, alternative energy sources, and environmental sustainability.  While meeting its goals of research, education and industry partnership, the NTC also addresses concerns related to workforce training and job creation.  The value of new textile products and processes that have been created by NTC research is well over $300 million -- nearly 3 times the federal investment in NTC to date.  It is for this reason that NTC enjoys widespread industry participation and in-kind support.
THE NATIONAL TEXTILE CENTER
The National Textile Center (NTC) is a research consortium that serves the USA Fiber/Textile/Fiber Products/Retail Complex…
NTC was established to achieve three primary goals:
1.    Research: To discover, design and develop new materials, innovative and improved manufacturing, and integrated systems essential to the success of a modern U.S. textile enterprise.
2.    Education: To train personnel, establish industrial partnerships and create transfer mechanisms to ensure the utilization of technologies developed.
3.    Partnership: To strengthen the nation's textile research and educational efforts by uniting diverse experts and resources in unique collaborative projects.
We believe that this program continues to play an extremely critical role in helping to enhance the competitiveness of the U.S. textile and apparel industry, which employs nearly 600,000 workers nationwide and contributes nearly $60 billion to the nation’s gross national product on an annual basis.  Moreover, it should be noted that this industry is a primary supplier of employment to women and minority workers, with many of these jobs located in depressed rural areas, as well as major inner cities.  In North Carolina, 1,340 companies (9% public, 91% private) employ over 120,000 people in 90 of the 100 counties.  (See NC Textile Connect at www.textileconnect.com).
The NTC provides a unique and highly effective structure for maximizing fundamental research and development efforts of value to the textile and apparel sector.  Through the combined knowledge and expertise of the nation’s leading textile research universities, the NTC is leading an effort to address all key aspects of the textile industry, from fiber production to marketing.  These efforts include research in many areas related to critical national needs, such as protective clothing, biomedical textiles, electronics, alternative energy sources, and environmental sustainability.  While meeting its goals of research, education and industry partnership, the NTC also addresses concerns related to workforce training and job creation.  The value of new textile products and processes that have been created by NTC research is well over $300 million -- nearly 3 times the federal investment in NTC to date.  It is for this reason that NTC enjoys widespread industry participation and in-kind support.
Importance
Breakthroughs such as: 1) Innovative aircrafts made primarily from textile composite materials, 2) Protective clothing for firefighters, paramedics and policemen, and 3) Electrical energy stored in textiles have become a reality because researchers have been able to collaborate on advanced materials and textile projects through funding provided from the National Textile Center. 
For more than 15 years, the National Textile Center has strengthened the nation’s research and educational efforts by uniting faculty from eight leading United States research universities in unique collaborative projects in a manner that enhances the efficiency of resource usage through circumventing duplication of effort.  The advanced materials and textiles resulting from this research support sectors such as defense, aerospace, biotechnology, energy, semiconductors, electronics, nanotechnology and homeland security. 
Research programs sponsored by NTC at North Carolina State University College of Textiles have been conducted in 4 areas, namely Materials, Fabrication, Chemical Processes, and Integrated Systems.  Currently 9 research projects are funded under this program. 
Breakthroughs such as: 1) Innovative aircrafts made primarily from textile composite materials, 2) Protective clothing for firefighters, paramedics and policemen, and 3) Electrical energy stored in textiles have become a reality because researchers have been able to collaborate on advanced materials and textile projects through funding provided from the National Textile Center. 
For more than 15 years, the National Textile Center has strengthened the nation’s research and educational efforts by uniting faculty from eight leading United States research universities in unique collaborative projects in a manner that enhances the efficiency of resource usage through circumventing duplication of effort.  The advanced materials and textiles resulting from this research support sectors such as defense, aerospace, biotechnology, energy, semiconductors, electronics, nanotechnology and homeland security. 
Research programs sponsored by NTC at North Carolina State University College of Textiles have been conducted in 4 areas, namely Materials, Fabrication, Chemical Processes, and Integrated Systems.  Currently 9 research projects are funded under this program. 
 

$1,500,000

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
601 East Trade Street
Charlotte, NC 28202

Charlotte has continued to see a substantial increase in gang activity.  There are over 1,655 documented gang members and 199 gang affiliates in approximately 151 different street gangs in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.  Between the years 2003-2008, the number of gangs has grown from 30 to 151 (403% increase), the number of gang members and associates has grown from 606 to 1,854 (206% increase), and the number of gang related incidents has grown from 499 to 1,340 (169% increase).
The Gang of One Pilot Program is a gang prevention initiative that provides a network of resources to youth who are being pressured to join a gang or need assistance to get out of a gang.  The resource network responses are based upon individual needs.  These responses include prevention, intervention, and education. 
Since 2004, Gang of One has received over 2,600 calls to its Hotline, provided gang education and gang resistance training to approximately 15,000 adults and youth in over 400 workshops, and assisted over 115 youth with agency resources in support of gang disassociation.  For FY2011 is seeking to expand current programs, convene a "best practice" Multidisciplinary Gang Intervention Team, support new community-based programs, and initiate a longitudinal assessment of programs.
In addition, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) is restructuring its Police Athletic League to a Police Activities League (PAL) which provides a broad range of programs to at-risk youth in the community.  The goal is to provide programs that help these at-risk youth academically, introduce them to possible career choices, and provide a broad range of supervised recreational activities that extend beyond sports in an effort to give them the necessary skills to make appropriate life decisions.  PAL also seeks to establish a community-based safe haven that would engage at-risk teens who reside within various underserved areas of the community, as there are currently few teen specific programs within Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

$2,000,000

Cumberland County
117 Dick Street, Room 512
Fayetteville, NC 28301

This project ensures the safety of residents and the first responders who protect them. Since 1996, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) and Fayetteville Police Department (FPD) have utilized the 800MHz Radio System.  In 2005, the City and County shared in an upgrade of the system at a cost of $4.7 million, splitting the cost based on number of radios used by each.  After 2009 the system cannot be expanded without converting to a P-25 compliant system.  FPD and CCSO have identified areas in the unincorporated areas of the County and in the newly annexed areas of the City with less than the standard 95% coverage, using a 3-watt, hand-held radio in the street.  To reach adequate coverage, major upgrades are needed and the system must be converted to a strictly digital system by year 2014.

The City of Fayetteville and Cumberland County are pursuing funds in this account because there are no state funds available for this purpose as they are all dedicated to getting the state system implemented.

$81,000

Stanly County Sheriff's Office
223 South Second Street
Albemarle, NC 28001

The office, like others in our area, is continually striving to improve the delivery of service to our citizens, while providing the officers and courts with accurate information for disposition of criminal and civil proceedings.  This project will improve public safety, accountability, and law enforcement services.  In these hard economic times, funding for a project such as this is impossible for local taxpayers.