Stimulus Watch: Carpentersville Projects

The U.S. Conference of Mayors released a list of “shovel-ready” projects that they would like to see receive federal funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the so-called “stimulus bill”).

An independent group of folks took this list and created “Stimulus Watch” to “help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to account for the taxpayer money they spend.”

The site allows people from all across the country to vote on where they think the money would be best invested.  This doesn’t mean that it will be in the final stimulus bill, but are simply “candidates for funding” that could come as a part of this bill currently being decided in Congress.

According to the site, there are 14 projects listed as candidates for Carpentersville, with a total of approximately $15 million being sought for those projects.