Of the billions of dollars being spent by the federal government on local stimulus efforts, Bainbridge Island will receive only a trickle.

As reported this week by the Kitsap Regional Coordinating Committee and the Kitsap Economic Development Alliance, Kitsap will receive roughly $19.5 million in funds for transportation and roughly $13.5 million for housing, law enforcement and education.

How most of those funds will be spent has been solidified by KEDA and KRCC.

“Lots of competitive grants are still being sorted out,” said Mary McClure of KRCC. “But we’ve been able to identify some of the impacts on Kitsap County.”

On Bainbridge, the city will receive $150,000 for continued non-motorized improvements in the Blakley Elementary School area.

It will also receive $17,663 in Justice Assistance Grants, which are aimed at bolstering local law enforcement efforts.

The Bainbridge Island School District will receive $735,000 for special education funding – the lowest amount of funds received out of all Kitsap school districts. Central Kitsap will receive over $3 million in stimulus funding.

About $8.5 million will be spent on ferry terminals in the county, and another $3.5 million on designing a low-wake passenger ferry for Rich Passage. Which terminals will receive the $8.5 million is still not known.

McClure notes that many of the choices KRCC had to make about where stimulus money would go was based on the ability for a project to get started within 90-days, and not always on the economic impact it would have in the area.

“That was part of the struggle in the regional council,” McClure said. “The question wasn’t what is the top priority project, it is what is shovel ready and shovel ready is defined pretty narrowly.”

Kitsap county has the fifth lowest level of unemployment in the state with about 9,000 unemployed workers. Most of the unemployed are in building industry, McClure noted.

Although large portions of the stimulus have already been divvied up, there are still regional efforts that may come to the community.

Large federal appropriations for health care, alternative energy and workforce training is still being sorted out and grants and proposals are still being drafted.

On Bainbridge, City Council member Hilary Franz is helping draft a regional alternative-energy proposal with other Kitsap officials.

The plan will not be firmed up until early April, Franz said.