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UPDATE: U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) announced they’ve secured $93.8 million in Community Project Funding to support 52 Nevada programs and construction projects across the state as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 omnibus appropriations package. If passed, more than $8.2 million would go to Carson City projects.

Among the Carson City area projects the Nevada senators have helped secure, $2 million to construct an Emergency Operations Center, Fire Station, Emergency Dispatch Center in Carson City to improve emergency preparedness, $2 million to upgrade downtown Carson City streets and improve their safety, $700,000 to support a Commercial Driver’s License Training Program at Western Nevada College to alleviate supply chain backups and train recently displaced workers, and $500,000 in funding to support Carson City’s Safe Routes to School program…