FY2010 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies
Project Name: Health, Nutrition and Well-being Program
Recipient: A Place Called Home - $300,000
Address: 2830 S. Central Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Project Description:
This proposal provides salary and benefits for a full-time bilingual therapist and a full-time case manager to help APCH provide counseling services to double the number of staff and to enable them to reach out to young people who prefer to communicate about sensitive life issues in Spanish.
Project Name: Aztecs Rising Gang Intervention Program
Recipient: Aztecs Rising - $225,000
Address: 3516 N. Broadway Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90031
Project Description:
This project will enable a jobs program through the Aztecs Rising organization, which will train and hire at-risk individuals to do clean up/brush clearance work as indicated by the City of Los Angeles. The work performed by the brush clearance crew will prevent fires and promote beautification in neglected areas of Echo Park, Silver Lake, Glassell Park, and in and around the LA River. In addition, by providing individuals who are interested in turning their lives around with jobs, this program will enable these workers to serve as role models within their communities, and will lead to increased public safety.
Project Name: Viva California
Recipient: Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles - $115,000
Address: 101 E. Wheeler Ave., Arcadia, CA 91006
Project Description:
To engage more Latina girls and their families, Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) created VIVA, a program designed to build a strong volunteer base of adults who understand the issues Latina girls face. Through this program, a team of highly-skilled, bilingual Girl Scout volunteers are trained to understand the needs of girls in the community, to build partnerships with key Latina community leaders and organizations, and to recruit and train additional bilingual volunteers through a specially-developed curriculum that prepares them to lead a Girl Scout troop. Through VIVA, GSUSA has crafted a training curriculum that not only helps our volunteers become successful troop leaders, but also helps them build skills for success in their personal and professional lives.
Project Name: At the Park After Dark
Recipient: LACER - $75,000
Address: 1718 N. Cherokee Ave., Suite A, Los Angeles, CA 90039
Project Description:
The Park After Dark Project is a project that has been successfully launched at three LA City recreation center/parks during the summer of 2007-2008. This appropriation would be seed funding to launch the program during the summer of 2010 at a new site: the Chevy Chase Park in North Atwater Village. This park is located in an area that has been affected by gang violence and which is the target of a new Toonerville gang injunction. There is a great need to provide adolescents and teenagers in the community a safe place to spend their summer evenings, which are traditionally the time when gang violence is on the up tick. This program will offer sports and arts recreation directed at at-risk youth in order to engage them with activities in a location where they will be safe.
FY2010 Defense
Project Name: Diversity Recruitment for the US Military Academy at West Point
Recipient: US Military Academy at West Point - $1,500,000
Address: 606 Thayer Road, West Point, New York 10996
Project Description:
For our military to most effectively protect our interests at home and abroad, they must represent the diversity and depth of our nation. As institutions that prepare individuals for leadership positions in our armed forces, the military service academies play an important role concerning the social representation of the military services. This funding will assist the US Military Academy in their efforts to expand diversity of applicants in order to better educate and train future officers who will lead a diverse force in service to our nation.
Project Name: Diversity Recruitment for Air Force Academy
Recipient: U.S. Air Force Academy - $1,500,000
Project Description:
For our military to most effectively protect our interests at home and abroad, they must represent the diversity and depth of our nation. As an institution that prepares individuals for leadership positions in our armed forces, the military service academies play an important role concerning the social representation of the military services. This funding will assist the Naval Academy in their efforts to expand diversity of applicants in order to better educate and train future officers who will lead a diverse force in service to our nation.
Project Name: Diversity Recruitment for Naval Academy
Recipient: U.S. Naval Academy - $2,000,000
Project Description:
For our military to most effectively protect our interests at home and abroad, they must represent the diversity and depth of our nation. As an institution that prepares individuals for leadership positions in our armed forces, the military service academies play an important role concerning the social representation of the military services. This funding will assist the Naval Academy in their efforts to expand diversity of applicants in order to better educate and train future officers who will lead a diverse force in service to our nation.
FY2010 Energy and Water Development
Project Name: Los Angeles River Demonstration Project
Recipient: City of Los Angeles - $5,000,000
Address: 200 North Spring St, Third Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description:
Demonstration project funding would allow the Corps to maximize benefits and minimize the costs of the Los Angeles River Revitalization study implementation, by allowing the Corps to evaluate new high-tech materials as alternatives to concrete, test effectiveness of wetlands for runoff management and water quality improvements, and assess methods to sustain different vegetation types. The demonstration projects were authorized in the 2007 Water Resources Development Act.
Project Name: Los Angeles River Revitalization Study
Recipient: City of Los Angeles - $2,100,000
Address: 200 North Spring St, Third Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description:
The study investigates and makes recommendations for a major restoration of the 32-mile LA River watercourse, stretching from the San Fernando Valley to downtown LA, through the urban core of the nation's second-most populous city. Recommendations will repair and enhance the entire region's natural environment through creation of habitat to support indigenous wildlife and avifauna and aquatic resource enhancements with associated water supply, water quality, public access, open space, air quality, recreation, and other benefits.
Project Name: Los Angeles Street Lighting Fixture Energy Efficiency Retrofit
Recipient: City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Street Lighting - $1,000,000
Address: 1149 S. Broadway St., Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Project Description:
This project would replace 2000 existing streetlight fixtures in the 31st Congressional District of Los Angeles with Light Emitting Diode (LED) fixtures. The LED fixtures will consume a minimum of 40% less energy than the existing fixtures. These new fixtures also have 2 to 3 times the life span of the existing fixtures and require less maintenance. The LED fixtures also produce a white light versus the yellow/orange light of the existing fixtures. Typically white light is preferred by communities and law enforcement agencies because it gives greater visibility and color rendition. These solid state fixtures also allow for better control of the light distribution which can reduce light trespass & pollution. This conversion will reduce carbon emissions by approximately 600 tons per year. The City will realize energy savings of $143,000 annually.
Project Name: Arroyo Seco Watershed
Recipient: Los Angeles County Flood Control District - $500,000
Address: 900 S. Fremont Ave., Alhambra, CA 91803
Project Description:
The purpose of this project is to complete a feasibility study that is consistent with a report previously completed by major stakeholders of the Arroyo Seco Watershed. The stakeholders' report laid a framework for future restoration efforts that would benefit the community and focus on (1) restoration of the natural hydrologic functioning of the watershed, (2) management of water resources and water quality improvement, (3) habitat restoration, and (4) improved recreational opportunities and open space.
FY2010 Financial Services and General Government
Project Name: East Hollywood Entrepreneurial Training and SBA Program
Recipient: Los Angeles City College Foundation - $300,000
Address: 855 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90029
Project Description:
The purpose of this program is to provide bilingual small business technical assistance and capital development opportunities for under-capitalized small minority businesses and unemployed and under-employed workers to start new businesses in the Hollywood’s State Empowerment Zone.
Project Name: 21st Century Hollywood Business Viability and Implementation Program
Recipient: Thai Community Development Center - $125,000
Address: 6376 Yucca St., Suite B, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Project Description:
This proposal provides businesses with tangible benefits through small business consultation, employee training programs, technical assistance on tax incentives, and many other programs that will help enable them to become successful in a community undergoing incredible physical, economic, and social change.
FY2010 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies
Project Name: Elysian Park Water Recycling Project
Recipient: City of Los Angeles - $1,500,000
Address: 200 North Spring St, Third Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description:
This program is an extension of the water recycling system at the Los Angeles/Glendale Water Reclamation Plant (LAG) which is co-owned by both the City of Los Angeles and the City of Glendale. Each municipality is entitled to 50% of the recycled water produced at the plant and each city owns and operates separate (but connected) recycled water systems that emanate from LAG. The City of Glendale's recycled water system terminates in the south part of Glendale near the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, on Glendale Avenue just north of San Fernando Road. This project will extend the Glendale system to reach Elysian Park, where the recycled water will be used to irrigate Elysian Park and industrial and irrigation users along the pipeline route, including Taylor Yard Park.
FY2010 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies
Project Name: Children’s Hospital Digital Vital Clinic
Recipient: AltaMed Health Services Corporation - $106,000
Address: 500 Citadel Dr., Suite 490, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Project Description:
AltaMed has begun implementing an electronic health records system throughout its clinic sites. Phase II of the project seeks to outfit all clinic exam rooms with vital digital equipment which will seamlessly connect with the electronic health records system. The digital equipment will take blood pressure readings, temperatures, pulse and weight and record it in to the vitals section of the electronic chart.
Project Name: Higher Education Outreach Program
Recipient: Archdiocesan Youth Employment Services of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles- $91,000
Address: 3250 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1010, Los Angeles, CA 90010
Project Description:
The goal of this proposal is to expand higher education outreach program services to youth (ages 14-16) in areas where the population is underserved by inadequate Workforce Investment Act funding.
Project Name: Hollywood Senior Multipurpose Center
Recipient: Assistance League of Southern California - $25,000
Address: 1370 N. St. Andrews Place, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Project Description:
The grant will be used to support ALSC's Hollywood Senior Multipurpose Center, which provides services to low-income seniors
Project Name: Community Health Center
Recipient: Cleveland Chiropractic College Community Health Center - $225,000
Address: 590 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Project Description:
The project will increase health center capacity and improve quality of care for the uninsured and underserved from 21,000 patient visits to 23,000 patient visits per year.
Project Name: LACC Hollywood Program
Recipient: Harmony Project - $65,000
Address: 817 Vine St., Suite 212, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Project Description:
The LACC Hollywood after-school program teaches youth music instruction of various instruments and provides college credit to qualifying students, in addition to participation in orchestra and choir.
Project Name: Computer Lab Learning Center
Recipient: Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services - $65,000
Address: 210 S. De Lacey Ave., Suite 110, Pasadena, CA 91105
Project Description:
Hathaway-Sycamores' Computer Lab Learning Center has dedicated to serving the low-income, underserved students of Highland Park with one-on-one and group tutoring sessions and the utilization of our computers. They serve approximately 250 students every year with the educational assistance they need to improve in school. Most of the students are referred to them by Los Angeles School Unified School District, Department of Probation, local schools, and sometimes, parents themselves. Because of their success rate, the program is well known throughout the community for providing some of the most academically challenged students with effective academic support. It is the goal of the program to assist these students with obtaining good grades, graduate high school, and continue on with their education by enrolling in and attending college.
Project Name: LACC Nursing Program
Recipient: Los Angeles City College Foundation - $500,000
Address: 855 North Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90029
Project Description:
There is a terrible bottleneck in the nursing profession. Despite the demand and ready nursing school candidates, the costs remain an obstacle for LACC to expand their program. The nursing program currently has approximately 100 qualified students on a waitlist, with the requested increase of resources LACC would be able to take their nursing program and double the enrollment size from 64 students this year to about 120 students in 2010. Furthermore, these nurses possess a host of language skills and cultural competencies that are invaluable to their new employers and the communities they will serve.
Project Name: Santee High School Theater Arts Technician Program
Recipient: LAUSD Division of Adult and Career Education - $250,438
Address: 333 S. Beaudry Ave., 18th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Project Description:
The project would fund equipment for a theater art technician program at Santee High School. The program will provide students training in production to prepare them for entry-level employment in the entertainment industry.
Project Name: Community School Parks Green Team
Recipient: People for Parks - $180,000
Address: 1835 Glydon Ave., Venice, CA 90291
Project Description:
The purpose of this program is to offer at-risk neighborhood youth (12-19 yrs.) an alternative to joining one of 15 local gangs. Junior Community-School Park Green Team members will learn how to work on sustainable park projects and maintain native plants, and best storm-water management practices. The students who are eligible for the training program will become great stewards of the parks that they help build, helping to break the cycles of poverty, vandalism and blight. The two new local parks will be located on the school grounds of Trinity and 28th Street elementary schools. These sites will be open for public use on weekends and during school vacations and will serve youth living in areas that lack adequate public green space. Currently no local non-profits are trained to provide bilingual public education about tree care or to plant trees in these neighborhoods.
Project Name: Disease Management for Diabetes
Recipient: South Central Family Health Center - $200,000
Address: 4425 S. Central Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Project Description:
The primary purpose of the project is to support SCFHC's on-going efforts to diagnose, treat and prevent diabetes; and the program's design and implementation responds to a major community health problem (Type 2 Diabetes). The proposed project will play a vital role in helping to reduce health barriers and disparities by improving access to care for the underserved and uninsured populations that bear the burden of illness and disease in disproportionate numbers when compared to other groups in the County.
FY2010 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies
Project Name: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Campus Visit Project
Recipient: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy - $200,000
Project Description:
For our military to most effectively protect our interests at home and abroad, they must represent the diversity and depth of our nation. As an institution that prepares individuals for leadership positions in our armed forces, the military service academies play an important role concerning the social representation of the military services. This funding will assist the Naval Academy in their efforts to expand diversity of applicants in order to better educate and train future officers who will lead a diverse force in service to our nation.
Project Name: Central Avenue Streetscape
Recipient: City of Los Angeles - $4,000,000
Address: 200 North Spring St, Third Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description:
The project is focused on the portion of Central Avenue between Washington Boulevard and Vernon Avenue, and includes the addition of bus shelters and lighting at bus stops to increase safety and encourage greater rider-ship. Widening the sidewalks will also create pedestrian safety while the addition of landscaped medians will prevent mid-block turns and keep vehicular traffic flow moving. The project will be connected to a façade improvement program, which will provide incentives to new businesses to locate along Central Avenue as well as encourage the expansion of existing businesses.
Project Name: Dunbar Hotel Rehabilitation Project
Recipient: City of Los Angeles - $350,000
Address: 200 North Spring St, Third Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description:
This project will result in a mixed-use development in a National Registry Monument on the Central Avenue Historic Corridor, providing affordable housing for seniors in the area and the creation of commercial, community and public museum space. The rehabilitation will restore the hotel to its original façade and preserve significant interiors dating back to its heyday as the only high-end hotel serving African-Americans in the City of Los Angeles during the early 20th Century. The hotel was the center of the African-American community in Los Angeles and the heart of west coast jazz during the Jazz Era.
Project Name: Echo Park/Sunset Blvd. Streetscape Beautification
Recipient: City of Los Angeles - $1,000,000
Address: 200 North Spring St, Third Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description:
The Echo Park Streetscape Beautification project will enhance the prestige and quality of the surrounding neighborhoods along the Sunset Boulevard. The purpose is to extend the efforts of streetscape beautification that began in Lincoln Heights, with a major focus on Broadway Avenue as a major transportation corridor, and will be a continuation along Sunset Boulevard also serving as a major transportation corridor. These specific streetscape improvements such as benches, street lights and trashcans will match those that were installed in Lincoln Heights along Broadway Avenue.
Project Name: Glassell Park/South Atwater Village Streetscape Plan
Recipient: City of Los Angeles - $1,000,000
Address: 200 North Spring St, Third Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description:
This project will improve neglected areas along the Fletcher Drive/Avenue 36 corridor that runs through the neighborhoods of Glassell Park and Atwater Village. A master plan for the streetscape project was completed in 2008 and was developed based on input collected during a series of community meetings. The master plan includes bump outs, stamped crosswalks, designer landscaping with irrigation, signage, and traffic calming measures. The purpose of this project is to improve pedestrian safety and public safety, and to clean and beautify blighted areas.
Project Name: Paul R. Williams Cultural and Historical Family Resource Center
Recipient: City of Los Angeles - $500,000
Address: 200 North Spring St, Third Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description:
The appropriation measures continue to work their way through the legislative process and the organizations and funding levels listed above are subject to revisions as the appropriations process moves forward. Rep. Becerra will continue to fight to secure funds for these important programs.
Project Name: Homeownership and Foreclosure Prevention Initiative
Recipient: Korean Churches for Community Development - $584,000
Address: 3550 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 922, Los Angeles, CA 90010
Project Description:
The purpose of this project is to provide cultural and linguistic assistance in homeownership, foreclosure prevention, and economic sustainability for the Korean American community in the 31st District. Such services are crucial for the Korean American community as it has the second highest level of ethnic isolation due high language barriers, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. For many, community services are not readily accessible or available so this program is designed to facilitate assimilation and community cohesion, as well community empowerment.
Project Name: Westlake Transit Improvement
Recipient: Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative - $600,000
Address: 900 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90017
Project Description:
This project would build on recent redevelopment efforts in the area to further enhance the living and transportation environment of the Westlake community. The installation of street trees, improved crosswalks, decorative bus shelters and trash receptacles, and pedestrian-friendly lighting elements along the busy transit corridor of 7th Street between Westlake Avenue and Carondelet Street will increase pedestrian safety and help encourage patronage of the commercial district comprised of small local businesses.