{"id":32531,"date":"2023-08-04T22:54:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T04:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bennet-secures-nearly-74-million-for-projects-across-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:58:45","slug":"bennet-secures-nearly-74-million-for-projects-across-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bennet-secures-nearly-74-million-for-projects-across-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennet secures nearly $74 million for projects across Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=aaf86aa6-6c5d-4ab8-ab6c-e5b5accb6642&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1320\" alt=\"U.S. Capitol building in Washington.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">U.S. Capitol building in Washington.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Associated Press file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The office of Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., announced July 31 that he has secured $74 million for 78 Colorado projects, including $2.8 million for projects in Montezuma County and Towaoc.<\/p>\n<p>Bennet\u2019s requests for these projects were connected with different appropriation bills, including housing and transportation, commerce and justice, interior and environment, and labor and education, according to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bennet.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/congressionally-directed-spending-requests\" id=\"link-eba1a1111c9d9aef0b8342402fbf5d46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Bennet\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The funds came from the congressionally directed spending process, known as earmarks, attached to various appropriations bills for fiscal year 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The bills Bennet earmarked have passed the Senate Appropriations Committee, and are expected to be voted on in the full Senate by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn total, this year\u2019s Senate appropriations bills included $79.3 million in funding for projects across the state,\u201d the news release said.<\/p>\n<p>In Towaoc, $2 million would go toward the Moguan Aftercare Housing Facility. In Montezuma County, $50,000 would go toward Southwest Colorado police and emergency communications. The town of Dolores would receive $750,000 for the second phase of the water distribution system replacement. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., also requested funding for each of the projects.<\/p>\n<p>The funding also would go toward statewide projects. County sheriffs would receive $917,000 for rural impact programs. In an effort to grow the state\u2019s construction and service workforce, nearly $1.9 million would be given to the Western States College of Construction. Another $750,000 would be put toward battling human trafficking by providing training and technical assistance for those efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom building water infrastructure to increasing access to mental and rural health care, these projects will help Coloradans meet the needs of their communities,\u201d said Bennet. \u201cI\u2019ll do everything I can to pass these bills and get this funding across the finish line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bills have not passed the full Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montezuma County, Dolores and Towaoc will receive funding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-32531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81830,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32531\/revisions\/81830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32531"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=32531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}