President Barack Obama today marked the 100th day of the stimulus package by releasing “100 Days, 100 Projects,” a report that highlights progress of the U.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Here are the Florida projects included in the report:

#22. The Department of Defense has started a project at the MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, which will repair severely deteriorated storm-drainage networks, originally constructed in 1942. Using $7.5 million in Recovery Act funding, the construction work will make the taxi areas structurally sound and eliminate the potential for mission interruption.

#24. Construction is underway at the Bartow Municipal Airport in Bartow, Florida. $750,000 in Recovery Act funds is being used to rehabilitate a taxiway there.

#37. “The Alachua County School District will use federal stimulus money to pay approximately 250 teachers on annual contracts for the next two school years. … Last week, the state received a waiver from the federal government and approval for $1.8 billion to go toward public education. Before the waiver, Florida had been ineligible to receive budget stabilization money from the federal stimulus to go toward education because the state’s education spending was below the 2006 level. For the Alachua County School District, the budget stabilization portion of the stimulus will be $9.1 million for school years 2009-10 and 2010-11. Keith Birkett, assistant superintendent for planning and budget, said all that money will be spent on teachers.” [The Gainesville Sun, 5/20/09]

#38. Recovery Act funds are saving 139 teaching jobs in Seminole County, Florida. “School-district leaders Tuesday reversed an earlier plan to eliminate 139 teaching positions, saying the $22 million in federal funds the district is set to receive means they won’t have to cut them..” [Orlando Sentinel, 5/13/09]

#52. Amtrak is using $1.5 million of Recovery Act funding to replace wood ties on tracks in various states, such as Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, and Florida.

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