What Funding is Expected to Come to the Valley in Government Spending Bill - WFMJ

The U.S. Senate has narrowly avoided a government shut down with the approval of a $1.2 trillion spending package that would help fund key national concerns like border security and public school funding. President Biden has signed the bill, called the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, which will provide funding through September 30 of this year. The six-bill funding package contains funding for 32 projects throughout the state, totaling to more than $28 million. More than $10 million that is slated to come to the Mahoning Valley. The lion's share of funding will go to Mahoning County, with Columbiana next and only one project being funded in Trumbull County from this money.

Below is the full list of all the dollars expected to come to the valley and where it will go:

Mahoning County:

COMPASS Campus of care: Renovating a building to provide a behavioral healthcare/adult care/assisted living facility for individuals living with severe and persistent mental illness, $750 thousand.

Direction Home of Eastern Ohio: To support the organization's Kinship Summer Camp Program, $239 thousand.

Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation: For the redevelopment of a vacant and blighted theatre in Youngstown into a multi-purpose building with living and commercial space.

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