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31. $1.0 million - State of Minnesota for CriMNet 32. $1.5 million - Metropolitan Radio Board radios Education 33. $600,000 - Reuben Lindh Family Services' Family Focus Preschool Program, Minneapolis 34. $1.1 million - Jewish Family and Children's Service's Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities Program ($250,000 of total from Housing and Urban Development), St. Louis Park, Golden Valley, Hopkins 35. $300,000 - Plymouth Christian Youth Center's after-school programs, Minneapolis 36. $200,000 - Artspace, Inc.'s Collaborative Arts Education Project with Shubert Center, Minneapolis 37. $600,000 - Minnesota State Colleges and University's Program to Support Emerging Curriculum for the 21st Century (an e-learning project) Housinq and Urban Development 38. $425,000 - Southside Family Nurturing Center facility rehabilitation, Minneapolis Agriculture 39. $500,000 - Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development (Minneapolis) and Northern Great Plains, Inc. for agriculture diversification project 40. $300,000 - University of Minnesota Center for Farm Financial Management to create comprehensive farm financial information database 41. $300,000 - Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice Council research (Details on items in bold follow) 17. Access to Jobs Proqram/Reverse Commute Sabo said the bill includes $1 million for the Metropolitan Council's Access to Jobs program, which helps Iow-income workers transition more smoothly from welfare to work by providing them with various transportation services. These include access to public transportation to or from work sites; transportation to areas of high job demand for new job seekers; and access to transportation routes with child care drop offs for low-income working parents. Sabo provided $2.5 million for this program in previous years. 18. Hennepin County Community Works Sabo again set aside $1 million for the Hennepin County Community Works program underscoring his commitment to quality transportation that moves people and helps to renew neighborhoods. Over the past six years, Sabo has provided a total of $6 million to this vital urban renewal program in Hennepin County for projects such as the Humboldt Greenway and the 29th Street/Midtown Greenway. The program helps create good jobs, provide access to employment and build long-term value to the community by investing in infrastructure, public works, parks and the natural environment. 19. Minnesota Guidestar/University of Minnesota Sabo also provided $9.1 million for Minnesota's Guidestar program. With Sabo's support, this program has become a national leader using Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technology such as satellite bus tracking, ramp meters, and freeway electronic message boards to direct traffic and ease congestion on the 250 miles of Twin Cities' freeways. Including the FY03 appropriation, Sabo has secured over $68 million for Guidestar since 1993. The University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies and Humphrey Institute are important partners in this program. 20. Minneapolis Colleqe-Aviation Center MARC Air Traffic Controller School Sabo also included $2 million for the MARC air traffic controller training school. This program, initiated by Sabo in 1989, has become the FAA's sole provider of air traffic controllers in the nation for eh-route facilities. The program has already benefited from over $23 million in federal funds secured by Sabo. 22. FAA/NASA Quiet Aircraft Technoloqy Research Continuing on his landmark allocation of $20 million last year, Sabo championed $15 million for national research to reduce the environmental impacts of airplanes. Of this amount, Sabo earmarked $15 million for continued joint FAA/NASA research to spur development of the next generation of quieter aircraft technology. Sabo also directed the FAA to conduct further research on the impact that Iow frequency aircraft noise poses to communities near airports. 23. Low Frequency Aircraft Noise Research Sabo directed the Federal Aviation Administration to review and improve upon a study on the impact of Iow frequency noise, which affects Richfield and South Minneapolis homes and businesses.