Padilla Secures Over $60 million for 33 Projects in Los Angeles Region

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) March 10, announced that he secured over $60.9 million in federal funding for 33 projects across Los Angeles County. These projects were included in the bipartisan FY 2022 appropriations package that passed the House yesterday. The President is expected to sign the bill into law next week after it passes the Senate. 

Senator Padilla said that this funding will go to local governments and community organizations that are directly serving neighborhoods. 

“Federal dollars will support projects to modernize our transportation infrastructure and spur economic growth by better connecting the Valley and Inglewood to the rest of Los Angeles,” Padilla said. 

Projects in the Harbor and surrounding areas that will receive federal funding include:

• $5 million for the Inglewood Transit Connector Project
  This project will provide residents and visitors with a state-of-the-art elevated guideway connecting the Crenshaw/LAX Metro Line directly to destinations in the City of Inglewood, including The Forum, SoFi Stadium at Hollywood Park, and the future Inglewood Basketball and Entertainment Center.
  

• $3.7 million for Water Pipeline Extensions in the City of Carson
  This funding will support the installation of 3,000 feet of pipeline extensions and assist in saving drinking water to supply households. This project will deliver approximately 35 acre-feet of recycled water for use at Mills Memorial Park and Curtiss Middle School, which are both in a disadvantaged area of the community. This is one segment of the West Basin Municipal Water District’s larger Harbor South Bay project, which is a cooperative effort with the US Army Corps of Engineers to develop up to 48,000 acre-feet of recycled water for municipal and environmental uses in the Los Angeles area.
  
• $3.5 million for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project
  The Sepulveda Transit Corridor project aims to improve the speed, frequency, capacity, and reliability of transit service between the heavy concentrations of households in the San Fernando Valley and the major employment and activity centers on the Westside. This is part of a larger, future project to extend the corridor further south to LAX.
• $1.5 million for the Los Angeles Conservation Corps
  This funding will support a collaboration between the Los Angeles Conservation Corps, Conservation Corps of Long Beach, and San Gabriel Valley Conservation to scale up activities and provide more paid job training, educational opportunities, support services, and career development services to young adults, with an emphasis on reaching underserved communities.
  
• $1.3 million for the Los Angeles Community College District to Expand Health Care and Biotech Programs
  This funding will help increase access to existing biotech academies and develop new cell culture programs at campuses across the Los Angeles Community College District. These career technical education programs will help meet local industry needs
  
• $1 million for Pathway Torrance, a Community Resource and Response Center
  This project would retrofit an unused former community health facility into Pathway Torrance. This dedicated community health facility would provide programmatic and specialized support, city paramedic response, emergency training, and education for area residents, students, and persons who are at risk for, or are experiencing, homelessness.
• $1 million for Homelessness Response in the City of Torrance
  This funding will strengthen city infrastructure, retain outreach workers and housing navigators, and identify city sites for potential permanent supportive or transitional housing for people experiencing homelessness.
  
• $1 million to Help Long Beach Transition to Zero-Emission Buses
  This funding will support the purchase of battery-electric or fuel cell electric buses to help Long Beach transition its aging bus fleet to zero-emission technology.
• $975,000 to Los Angeles City College for Students’ Basic Needs
  This will fund a project to address students’ basic needs to provide underserved students with the support they need to access higher education.
• $938,000 for the City of Torrance Airport Stormwater Basin Project
  This will fund a regional stormwater basin project at the Torrance Municipal Airport to divert, capture, and treat urban stormwater runoff.
  
• $700,000 for the City of Torrance’s Emergency Operations Center Power Supply
  This funding will allow for a back-up power source at the City of Torrance’s new Emergency Operations Center.
  
• $600,000 for the AltaSea Ocean STEM Pathways Program at the Port of Los Angeles
  This program will provide Los Angeles area students in grades 3-12 who qualify for free lunches with hands-on educational experiences in four sectors of the Blue Economy: sustainable aquaculture, ocean exploration and mapping, clean energy, and underwater robotics.
  

Details: A full summary of the FY 2022 Appropriations Omnibus package is available here.