FY 2023 Community Projects Funded

FY 2023 Community Projects Funded

Project Sponsor:  Chinatown Service Center
Project Name:  Expanding Dental Access for Underserved Communities
Project Sponsor Location:  855 S. Atlantic Blvd., Monterey Park CA 91754
Requested Amount:  $215,000
Project Description:  The project is designed to increase capacity by more than 600 patients per year by purchasing important diagnostic dental equipment, to reduce the need to refer out to specialists, improvement of oral healthcare outcomes and increase additional dental staffing capacity.
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Project Sponsor:  City of Alhambra
Project Name:  Multimodal Improvement Project at Valley Blvd.
Project Sponsor Location:  111 South First Street, Alhambra, CA 91801
Requested Amount:  $1,200,000
Project Description:  The goal of this project is to improve safety and accessibility along a predominantly motorized dependent roadway that is one of the busiest activity nodes in Alhambra and the San Gabriel Valley region, with heavy congestion during peak hours.  Specifically, the project improves access to transit via pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure improvements as well as bus stop improvements. Further, it supports the establishment of active transportation, a strategic priority for Alhambra. The project promotes multiple clean transportation options through upgrades to bus stops, pedestrian infrastructure, and bike routes to encourage greater active transportation use. The improvements can reduce exposure to pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions and consequently improve public health by encouraging residents to use active transportation to integrate physical activities in their lives while enhancing traffic safety.  The project rebalances the corridor into complete streets and closes existing gaps to mobility while ensuring greater local and regional connectivity. 
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Project Sponsor:  City of Arcadia
Project Name:  Colorado Street/Boulevard Corridor Complete Street
Project Sponsor Location:  240 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, CA 91066
Requested Amount:  $3,000,000
Project Description:  This project would implement compete-street improvements along Colorado Street/Colorado Boulevard between Michillinda Avenue and Fifth Avenue. The proposed improvements will close a gap in the bicycle and sidewalk network and will include Class II bicycle lanes, enhanced bicycle detection system, road widening or reconfiguration, sidewalk additions with special considerations to protect existing parkway trees, pedestrian amenities, landscape and hardscape, lighting, travel lane realignment, drainage and water quality improvements, roadway resurfacing and other auxiliary improvements.
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Project Sponsor:  City of Glendora
Project Name:  Glendora People Movement Project
Project Sponsor Location:  116 E Foothill Boulevard, Glendora, CA, 91741
Requested Amount:  $5,000,000
Project Description:  This funding will go towards Phase 1 of the People Movement Project. The overall project will see over 10 miles of active transportation facilities built linking Glendora with our neighbors and supporting truly multimodal travel throughout Glendora. Phase 1 includes 3.3 miles of Urban Trails which are fully separated bicycle and walking paths along flood control channels. Phase 1 focuses on completing an extension of the San Dimas Wash and the Little Dalton Wash. Improvements include ADA enhanced crosswalks, Class I facilities, native landscaping, furniture, interpretive signage, and wayfinding. In terms of first/last mile improvements, Glendora is proposing 2.2 miles of improvements along Foothill Boulevard and Glendora Avenue. These improvements include protected bicycle lanes, enhanced crosswalks, curb extensions, a protected intersection at Glendora/Foothill, and a roundabout at Glendora/Ada. These provide direct access to the new Glendora Metro L Line Station.
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Project Sponsor:  City of Pasadena
Project Name:  Pasadena Outreach Response Team (PORT)
Project Sponsor Location:  100 N. Garfield Ave., Pasadena, CA 91109
Requested Amount:  $900,000
Project Description:  The Pasadena Outreach Response Team (PORT) is a joint collaboration between the City of Pasadena Public Health and Fire Departments, as well as Union Station Homeless Services, to addresses homelessness as a public health concern. PORT provides field-based support and advocacy for people who are experiencing homelessness, living with chronic health conditions, diagnosed with mental health and/or substance use disorders. The PORT Team uses a proactive approach to establish relationships with program participants that build trust over time that allows the team to facilitate access to needed services. Through intensive case management, basic medical screenings, and linkages to housing and other social supportive services, this dedicated team has made an impact on Pasadena’s chronically homeless neighbors.
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Project Sponsor:  City of Pasadena
Project Name:  On-Street Dining Parklet Construction
Project Sponsor Location:  100 N. Garfield Ave., Pasadena, CA 91109
Requested Amount:  $1,500,000
Project Description:  This project will allow the City to purchase and install materials to create semi-permanent on-street dining areas in the public right-of-way. The creation of outdoor dining areas allows the City’s restaurants to expand their business into the public right of way to serve patrons who remain cautious of the impacts of COVID. The federal funds will allow the City to extend the temporary on-street dining initiative with more cost-effective purchased outdoor dining platforms, or pavilions that will also serve as parklets in the off-hours of outdoor dining.
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Project Sponsor:  Claremont Wildlands Conservancy
Project Name:  Clara Oaks Acquisition
Project Sponsor Location:  464 W. 7th St., Claremont, CA 91711
Requested Amount:  $3,000,000
Project Description:  This funding will provide for the acquisition of a 103-acre property in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. This acquisition of one of the largest remaining privately owned open space parcels along the San Gabriel foothills would add to the popular 2,507-acre Claremont Hills Wilderness Park (CHWP), which serves people throughout California's 27th Congressional District and beyond, receiving over 500,000 visits per year. Moreover, the Clara Oaks property would provide a critical link between the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park, the adjacent 657-acre Marshall Canyon Regional Park, and the wilderness corridor that extends westward along the foothills and San Gabriel Mountains National Monument.
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Project Sponsor:  County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation
Project Name:  Charles White Park Renovation
Project Sponsor Location:  1000 S. Fremont Ave., Unit #40, Alhambra, CA 91803
Requested Amount:  $750,000
Project Description:  The proposed project is the renovation of Charles White Park located in the unincorporated community of Altadena. The existing park has not been renovated extensively since its creation in 1980. The proposed renovation includes park-wide infrastructure improvements, walking paths, a pickleball court, improvements to lighting and site furnishings, and the modification of the design, landscape to improve safety at the park. Additionally, the project will feature Civic Art honoring the park’s namesake Charles White, who was an African-American artist known for his chronicling of the African-American experience.
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Project Sponsor: Garfield Health Center
Project Name:  GHC Rosemead Health Center - Expanding Access to Health Care in Rosemead
Project Sponsor Location:  210 N. Garfield Ave., Ste. 203. Monterey Park, CA 91754-1746"
Requested Amount:  $480,000
Project Description:  Garfield Health Center (GHC) is a Federally Qualified Health Center Look Alike that provides comprehensive primary care health services to low-income, uninsured, and under-insured residents of the San Gabriel Valley, including Rosemead, regardless of ability to pay. The proposed project will renovate the GHC Rosemead Health Center (currently offering medical and dental services) in order to covert/reconfigure two large storage areas (2,500 sq. feet) into two medical exam rooms, two behavioral health (mental and substance use disorder services) counseling rooms, and two chiropractic exam rooms, enabling the Rosemead Health Center to provide an additional 14,210 healthcare visits annually and expand the menu of services available to include behavioral health and chiropractic for the first time at this location.
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Project Sponsor:  Haynes Family of Programs
Project Name:  Transitional Housing Units for Reducing Homelessness Among Former Foster Youth
Project Sponsor Location:  233 Base Line Road, La Verne, California 91750
Requested Amount:  $750,000
Project Description:  Benefitting youth leaving the foster care system and at risk of impending homelessness, this project purchases two single family homes that will supply transitional housing in conjunction with supportive services. The project creates stable transitional housing for eight concurrent male former foster youth. The program objective is to reduce homelessness among male former foster youth by providing them with reliable housing and support as they progress toward self-sufficiency.
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Project Sponsor:  Nature for All
Project Name:  LA-San Gabriel Mountains Urban Shuttle System
Project Sponsor Location:  201 W. Garvey Avenue, Suite 102-503, Monterey Park, CA 917454
Requested Amount:  $750,000
Project Description:  The LA-San Gabriel Mountains Urban Shuttle System’s purpose is to establish equitable public transit routes into the Angeles National Forest/San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, providing access and for diverse, underserved communities across the Los Angeles basin. It will also be an economic development driver expanding regional tourism access, support small business district visitation and spending from spillover visitor traffic, and support national climate goals with alternative transportation and opportunity for zero-emission transit vehicles. This scope of work is development of the “Mt. Wilson Express/Highway 2” shuttle route including design and construction of 5 shuttle stops, and a 1-month pilot weekend shuttle service operation, with workforce stipends for naturalist staff and visitor services technicians recruited from the local community to provide visitor interpretation and stewardship education.
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Project Sponsor:  Pasadena Community College District (PCC)
Project Name:  Family Resource Center at Pasadena City College
Project Sponsor Location:  1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, California 91104
Requested Amount:  $500,000
Project Description:  Pasadena City College (PCC) seeks Federal support for its Family Resource Center. This networked Center will provide academic, social, and nurturing support to students who are expectant mothers and fathers and parents of young children.
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Project Sponsor:  San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority
Project Name:  San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund
Project Sponsor Location:  1720 W. Cameron Ave., Suite 100 West Covina, CA 91790
Requested Amount:  $10,000,000
Project Description This project provides for groundwater cleanup in the San Gabriel Basin and the Central Basin in Southern California. It will support activities at 32 active groundwater cleanup projects that use the latest technology to remove contaminants. The Basin provides 90% of the drinking water supplies for over 1.8 million residents, of which more than 400,000 are in disadvantaged communities.
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Project Sponsor:  San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments (SGVCOG)
Project Name:  San Gabriel Valley Mobile Crisis Program
Project Sponsor Location:  "1000 S. Fremont Avenue, Suite #42, Alhambra, CA 91803
Requested Amount:  $1,500,000
Project Description:  The San Gabriel Valley Alternative Mobile Crisis Response Program will establish alternative mobile crisis response teams to respond to and improve the outcomes of non-violent service calls and proactively engage youth on mental health. By dispatching clinicians and peer support navigators to non-violent service calls, the Program will foster and build trust in communities that are calling out for change while freeing up law-enforcement to respond to the types of calls they are trained to handle. Importantly, the program will also proactively engage with the community around mental health resources to reduce the instance of mental/behavioral health crises from happening in the first place.
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Project Sponsor:  San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust
Project Name:  San Gabriel Valley Project Pipeline
Project Sponsor Location:  "1000 S. Fremont Avenue, Unit 42, Building A-10N, Suite 10-210, Alhambra, CA 91803
Requested Amount:  4,000,000
Project Description:  This project provides for site acquisition, construction and capital improvements of affordable housing developments as prioritized by the SGVRHT Board of Directors. Subgrantees are restricted to nonprofit developers or cities that are constructing the homeless housing or affordable housing projects. California is facing an acute shortage of affordable housing units and homeless shelter beds. The SGVRHT affordable housing project pipeline identifies 1,188 units of affordable housing in developments proposed in 11 San Gabriel Valley cities that could advance to construction if provided relatively modest federal funding.
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