By Earl Glynn on July 29, 2010
Quick Stats from Recovery.gov about Stimulus Spending in Kansas, 2010 Q1
Recently Recovery.gov updated its data to include stimulus spending from the first quarter of 2010.
Hovering over Kansas on the U.S. map gives the quick stats summary shown at the right.
Some of the curious Recovery.gov Kansas stimulus spending projects that need more research:
- The Administration of Children and Families is spending $26,860 with Spay and Neuter Kansas to address “pet/animal overpopulation in low-income neighborhoods” in Wichita.
- The Kansas Corporation Commission reported 0.12 jobs “for continuing work on the marketing contract to promote Efficiency Kansas.” Is this effort, and the web site EfficiencyKansas.com, connected to the $281,990 spent with Trozzolo Communications Group for “advertising”?
- Part of a $552,500 grant from the Department of Energy to Johnson County included $8563 to buy 250 wire mesh compost bins from C. E. Shepherd Company, $220 for “worm composter bins” from Hayneedle, Inc., and $1500 for “Professional services for 2-day composting train-the-trainer workshop” from the Johnson County Extension Master Gardeners’ Association, and $538 for 30 “compost thermometers for trainers.” Also, $493 for “food, snacks and beverages for two-day composting training session for 27 volunteer instructors.”
- The Department of Energy awarded conditionally $2.4 million to the University of Kansas Center for Research in Lawrence to research a hot spring geothermal project in west-central Nevada. How does this create long-term jobs in Kansas by drilling slimhole exploration wells in Nevada?
- The Department of Justice gave various grants to Johnson County and many cities (Gardner, Leawood, Lenexa, Merriam, Mission, Olathe, Overland Park, Prairie Village, Roeland Park, Shawnee). In addition, Elsag North America LLC received $48,185 for a”mobile license plate reader, operations license and 3 year additional product warranty.” There was no description about how this equipment was to be used.
- The Federal Highway Administration awarded a grant of $24,575 to the Kansas Department of Transportation to “plant wildflowers within KDOT R/W at the Lenexa: I-435/K-10 Interchange to provide beautification along I-435.”
- The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers contracted with Weed Free Lawns to spray “weeds that were in the rip rap rock to make a more presentable park” as part of “spraying the weeds on the face of the dam and outlet areas.” This $5140 for 8 hours of work was spent presumable at Clinton Lake in Lawrence.
