Earmarks

Was poking around Jerry Costello's website and found this list of appropriations requests/earmarks that he's received from various constituents. There's one from Brhem Prep. School to help create a database for tracking learning disabilities, several from SIUC to keep funding various programs and build a transmitter tower, one from the Paul Simon Center to complete a federal funding appropriation, two fromJackson County to renovate the courthouse and sheriff's office and two from Carbondale proper. The Oak Street Extension has been submitted for approval, the Sycamore extention, not yet:

* Carbondale (#1) – Oak St. Extension City of Carbondale P.O. Box 2047 200 South Illinois Avenue Carbondale, IL 62902	$2,700,000	The Oak Street Extension will be a one-half mile improvement from Wall Street to Lewis Lane. The extension will provide a direct connection of the Northeast Carbondale neighborhood, a primary minority neighborhood, with the regional commercial center on the east side of Carbondale. It will also facilitate the development of in-fill housing opportunities in the neighborhood.
Carbondale (#2) – Sycamore St. Extension	$1,920,000	Extend Sycamore to New Era Road parallel to IL Rt. 13