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Triumph continues to fund high-paying jobs and workforce training

   December 18, 2020

The Triumph Gulf Coast Board announced its latest round of grants – that “bring either or both new high-paying jobs and certified workforce training.”  None involve residential housing (see earlier OLF-8 posts).

In Escambia County, the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Escambia County may get a grant for $6,078,795 as part of an overall $31 million project at the institute’s Center for Human Healthspan Resilience and Performance. The Triumph board approved for staff to begin negotiations with IHMC.

Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners got $6 million for infrastructure improvements at Santa Rosa Industrial Park East.

In Bay County, AMIKids Panama City Marine Institute Stem and Business Entrepreneurship Labs got $1,737,500.

In Walton County,  the Walton County School District got $3,846,000 for information technology and health care certification programs.

Here’s the list of other grants approved to date per the Triumph website:

PRE-APPLICANT – PROJECT $ REQUESTED COUNTY
29 Wakulla County School Board – Career and Technical Education Center $3,926,867 Wakulla
43 Okaloosa County – Hwy 90 East Water and Sewer Expansion $1,500,000 Okaloosa
46 Okaloosa County – Southwest Crestview Bypass $64,100,000 Okaloosa
49 Panama City Port Authority – PC Port Authority Eastern Terminal Dev. $10,000,000 Bay
69 FSU Marine Lab – Apalachicola Bay System Initiative $7,998,678 Franklin
72 Santa Rosa County – Whiting Aviation Park $8,523,655 Santa Rosa
98 Walton County Sheriff – Vocational/Technical Training Program $2,217,965 Walton
120 City of Pensacola – Comm. Aircraft Maintenance Campus $66,000,000 Escambia
143 Bay District Schools – Haney HVAC Program $847,955 Bay
148 Gulf District Schools – Agri-Science Program Expansion $125,000 Gulf
153 Gulf School District – Unmanned Systems $750,000 Gulf
157 Franklin School District – Franklin Environmental Career and Technical Training $2,327,322 Franklin
180 Gulf District Schools – WHS Welding Program $250,000 Gulf
185 Panama City – Panama City Industrial Complex $20,000,000 Bay
186 Gulf County BOCC – Hurricane Michael Recovery Ad Valorem Request $4,271,683 Gulf
187 Northwest Florida State College – Walton Works Training Center of Excellence $2,763,716 Walton
189 Bay County BOCC – Hurricane Michael Recovery Ad Valorem Request $10,728,317 Bay
190 Walton Economic Development Alliance – US 331 Infrastructure $1,742,407 Walton
191 Franklin County – Apalachicola Regional Airport Fuel System Upgrade $1,059,000 Franklin
198 Wakulla County School Board – UAS/VSO Certification Program $1,780,000 Wakulla
200 Franklin County School District – Career and Technical Training $1,215,000 Franklin
202 Gulf Coast State College – Gulf Campus – Tech Center for Em Resp and Comms $5,147,750 Gulf
207 GCSC Gulf/Franklin Campus – Nursing Simulation Center $2,200,358 Gulf
209 Santa Rosa BOCC – Project Lionheart $3,484,728 Santa Rosa
210 Gulf Coast State College – UAS Pilot Boot Camp for Exiting Military $2,259,063 Gulf
213 Florida’s Great Northwest (FGNW) – Education ROI Research and Marketing $665,000 Multi
215 Wakulla School Board – Wakulla/Lively Tech A&P Cert Program $2,940,000 Wakulla
216 Northwest Florida State College – Airframe & Powerplant $7,064,665 Okaloosa
217 AMIkids Pensacola Inc. – AMIkids Pensacola Workforce Development Program $1,125,000 Escambia
221 Locklin Technical College – Hurricane Michael Skilled Labor Recovery Fund $182,000 Santa Rosa
222 Okaloosa Technical College – Hurricane Michael Skilled Labor Recovery Fund $200,000 Okaloosa
223 Emerald Coast Technical College – Hurricane Michael Skilled Labor Recovery Fund $200,000 Walton
224 Wakulla County School Board/Lively Tech – Hurricane Michael Skilled Labor Recovery Fund $200,000 Wakulla
227 Panama City Port Authority – Intermodal Distribution Center Expansion $3,000,000 Bay
228 Pensacola State College – Infrastructure and Logistics Training Fund $74,000 Escambia
229 Tallahassee Community College – Infrastructure and Logistics Training Fund $276,500 Wakulla
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