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Mountlake Terrace presses on after RAISE denial; earmark for community center cut to $850,000
Summary
Mountlake Terrace’s federal lobbyist said the city’s latest RAISE grant application failed because USDOT’s economists judged the city’s projected downtown growth implausible, and reported that a congressional earmark request for $2.5 million was cut to $850,000.
Mountlake Terrace’s federal lobbyist told the City Council on Nov. 6 that the city will continue pressing for changes to federal grant criteria after a recent RAISE application was denied and a congressional earmark for the community center was reduced.
Jake Johnston of the Johnson Group said Mountlake Terrace helped secure a post‑2021 change that steered more U.S. Department of Transportation discretionary awards toward communities with populations under 200,000 and that the city aims to extend that threshold across other federal discretionary programs. He said a transportation reauthorization bill next year is a key opportunity to write that change into more programs.
Johnston said the city applied for a RAISE (formerly BUILD) grant this year and advanced through score…
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