REP LIEU SECURES OVER $7.5 MILLION FOR CITY OF LOS ANGELES PROJECTS IN APPROPRIATIONS BILL

July 5, 2022

Press Release

WASHINGTON -Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that the over $7.5 million in federal funding he requested for five community projects in Los Angeles has been included in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill that will be brought up for a vote in the House in the coming weeks. These projects will address issues around homelessness, improve spill prevention and containment at the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, create safe pedestrian walkways along the Pacific Palisades Pedestrian trail and support college and career preparation programs for students.

Last year, Congressman Lieu secured $2.5 million for Los Angeles community projects.

"I'm pleased to be able to advocate once again for valuable and impactful projects in Los Angeles. These projects will address multiple different community needs including helping ensure Angelenos in need have excellent medical care at Venice Family Clinic and access to job training programs at St. Joseph Center. Additionally, this money will help modernize the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, ensure the City of Los Angeles can create a safe pedestrian pathway along the Pacific Coast Highway, and expand college and career bound programs at the Boys and Girls Club of Los Angeles Harbor. I look forward to championing these projects as they move through the appropriations process. Securing funding to support these programs is a top priority."

$500,000 for Furnishing and Equipping Rose Avenue Clinic:The goal of this project is to fully furnish and equip the Venice Family Clinic to ensure it can provide the high-quality comprehensive care upon which its patients depend. The improvements, including IT equipment and pharmacy and care team meeting room workstations, will accommodate the tremendous growth of Venice Family Clinic's scope of services, including the dramatic expansion of its behavioral health, substance use, optometry, health education, and case management programs. These areas have functioned with inadequate space for many years but will soon have the means to operate at their fullest potential.$898,053 for Purpose Lab Employment Project: Workforce Development: The goal of the Purpose Lab Employment Project is to expand the successful job training and career development programs at St. Joseph Center, which serves people who are experiencing homelessness or those who are at risk of becoming homeless. Purpose Lab includes four innovative training programs: (1) Codetalk, a job training program for low income, homeless, and previously homeless women; (2) Fortifi LA, a web technology training program for extremely vulnerable populations, such as those recently released from prison and people with long histories of homelessness; (3) Bread & Roses Training Kitchen, a program that prepares low-income adults with histories of homelessness or incarceration to enter the food service industry as chefs, sous chefs, caterers, and managers of industrial kitchens; (4) KeySkills, an intensive, three-week career coaching course that provides support for vulnerable adults seeking employment.$3,500,000 for Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant Modernization for Spill Prevention and Containment:The Hyperion Water Reclamation project will help modernize the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, which requires improvements for spill prevention and containment that were not considered when the plant was rebuilt in 1998. The project will connect headworks equipment to the existing Distributed Control System of Hyperion's treatment processes, which will allow for more efficient and faster monitoring and control. The project will also convert three bypass channels for the passive overflow of raw sewage which will greatly reduce the chance of any potential sewage spills so that our beaches and communities stay clean and healthy.$1,150,000 for Pacific Palisades Pedestrian Trail:The Pacific Palisades Pedestrian Trail will transform 36,000 square feet of underutilized land along the hillside adjacent to Pacific Coast Highway into a half-mile long connection trail between Temescal Canyon Road and the George Wolfberg Park at Potrero Canyon Park, a valuable coastal resource providing substantial public benefits including walking trails, educational interpretive signs and overlooks. The new trail will provide access to Will Rogers State Beach, a historic beach that attracts residents across all of Los Angeles County and tourists from around the world. Funds will allow for the grading and installation of a 3,000-foot long, 12-foot wide decomposed granite trail and protective fence that will meander over the naturally hilly terrain along Pacific Coast Highway to the nearest signaled intersection and crosswalk at Temescal Canyon Road. Since there is no traffic signal or pedestrian crossing at the mouth of the canyon, a safe pathway to the Temescal Canyon intersection leading to the beach will provide public access to the coast and is necessary to prevent park and beachgoers from attempting to cross Pacific Coast Highway dangerously.$1,000,000 for Providing the Pathways to Success - College & Career Support:The Providing the Pathways to Success project will serve 300 or more teens in the Harbor City region. This project will expand upon the successful College Bound and Career Bound programs provided by the Boys and Girls Club of Los Angeles Harbor. During the 2020-2021 academic year (while schools were closed due to COVID-19 protocol), over 95% of the students who were involved in the program graduated from high school on time. Of that group, 90% attended college this fall. The digital expansion of these successful programs will produce similar results among a new class of young adults.

Background:

Last year, in Fiscal Year 2022, Congressman Lieu secured nearly $11 million in federal funding for local projects in Los Angeles County. The projects address homelessness, protect our environment, support our veterans, and more. These Los Angeles projects are among the 15 community projects for which Congressman Lieu has requested funding in Fiscal Year 2023.

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