FY24 Community Project Funding
Interactive map of all the community projects Congressman Garcia submitted for FY24. Click on an icon to learn more about each project.
Congressman Robert Garcia has submitted funding requests for important community projects in our district to the House Appropriations Committee.
Under guidelines issued by the Appropriations Committee, each Representative may request funding for up to 15 projects in fiscal year 2024. Projects are restricted to a limited number of federal funding streams, and only state and local governments and eligible non-profit entities are permitted to receive funding. Eligible projects may be included in government funding legislation. If the projects are included in legislation passed by the House and Senate and signed by President Biden, federal funding will go directly to support CA-42 projects. Additional information on the reforms governing Community Project Funding is available here.
In compliance with House Rules and Committee requirements, Congressman Robert Garcia has certified that he, his spouse, and his immediate family have no financial interest in any of the projects he has requested.
Listed below are the projects Congressman Garcia has submitted to the House Appropriations Committee.
Cumulatively, these projects have been awarded $15,708,979.
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Projects Requested
Child Development Center Capital Improvements
Recipient: Associated Students Inc, California State University Long Beach
Address: 5700 Atherton Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90815
Amount Awarded: $3,443,700
Project Description: Since 1975, The Isabel Patterson Child Development Center offers affordable childcare for students who are also parents of young children, on the campus of California State University, Long Beach. A roughly $3.5 million investment will support long overdue renovations given the current facility has elements that are unsafe for children and are highly energy inefficient. The improved facility will provide care to students at CSULB who are earning a degree while raising small children, allowing students to pursue their education while providing high-quality childcare for their kids. The project will support economic and social mobility for roughly 300 households.
Space Beach Research and Innovation Equipment
Recipient: Long Beach Community College District
Address: Long Beach, CA 90808
Amount Awarded: $963,000
Project Description: Long Beach is a critical hub of the commercial space industry. The $963,000 in community project funding, from NASA, will buy the necessary cutting-edge manufacturing equipment that will train the next generation of highly skilled workers in Long Beach. The project will support economic mobility and ensure that our space industry continues to lead the nation.
Cudahy Seniors Affordable Housing Development
Recipient: City of Cudahy
Address: 5220 Santa Ana Street, Cudahy, CA 90201
Amount Awarded: $1,500,000
Project Description: Our district faces a serious housing shortage. The $1.5 million in community project funding will be used to build affordable housing for low-income and homeless seniors. Over 140 families with senior family members would see their lives directly improved this project. Cudahy is a deeply underprivileged city, and the development will serve as a catalyst for the redevelopment of the critical Atlantic Avenue commercial corridor.
Pritchard Field Park Renovations
Recipient: City of Bell, California
Address: 6330 Pine Avenue, Bell, CA 90201
Amount Awarded: $1,116,279
Project Description: In a poor and underserved community, renovating Pritchard Field in the City of Bell will create a key community gathering area that will catalyze community engagement and provide a well- suited open space for the people of Bell. In a currently unused and undesirable urban space, $1.1 million in community project funding will support the complete refurbishment of vacant but well-situated open space to become a safe green space for Bell and the adjacent highly dense communities.
Studebaker Road Corridor
Recipient: City of Long Beach
Address: 411 W. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90802
Amount Awarded: $1,000,000
Project Description: Studebaker Road is a key corridor for the City of Long Beach. With $1 million in federal funds, a 5-mile redevelopment will fund Complete Streets infrastructure. The project will deliver necessary improvements, including road repair and resurfacing, protected bike lines, and pedestrian safety investments. The corridor serves multiple schools and is a key transit route for folks throughout the city.
Bixby Park Improvements
Recipient: City of Long Beach
Address: 411 W. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90802
Amount Awarded: $850,000
Project Description: Bixby Park is a shovel-ready redevelopment project which, backed by $850,000 in community project funding, will renovate the park's community center. It will produce a safer and higher quality park in a currently underdeveloped site. Investing in badly needed improvements in a presently underdeveloped site will improve access for people with disabilities, improve park infrastructure, and will foster community development.
Heartwell Park Improvements
Recipient: City of Long Beach
Address: 411 W. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90802
Amount Awarded: $850,000
Project Description: Heartwell Park is a heavily trafficked and essential park between the cities of Long Beach and Lakewood, the park serves as a magnet for the broader region. $850,000 in community project funding will promote ADA accessibility and upgrade park infrastructure to better meet the needs of the 42nd district and will improve the health and wellbeing of the broader community. The project will install an artificial turf field. Park infrastructure improvements will promote water conservation and renovate damaged facilities to ensure communities from Long Beach and Lakewood can safely gather and continue to thrive in this shared public space.
Community Empowerment Hub at Downey Family YMCA
Recipient: YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles
Address: 11531 Downey Avenue, Downey, CA 90241
Amount Awarded: $850,000
Project Description: The Downey YMCA has served as a critical hub for the Downey community for decades, serving over 10,000 community members annually, many of whom are poor and underserved. Shuttered during the Covid-19 pandemic, the existing facility was deemed unsafe to reopen without a massive infrastructure refurbishment. The new facility will host desperately needed amenities, with an array of programs to support broader community needs, hosting food distribution centers, childcare and teen scholarships. In accordance with rules established by the House Republican majority, the requested $850,000 will not support pools or pool infrastructure but will restore a vital community space to the City of Downey.
Palms Park Community Center Improvement Project
Recipient: City of Lakewood, CA
Address: 5050 Clark Avenue, Lakewood, CA 90712
Amount Awarded: $850,000
Project Description: Lakewood Palms Park is a critical park and community center which serves as a hub for Lakewood and the surrounding cities but urgently needs infrastructure improvements. Over nearly half a century of use has left the facility deteriorated with needed improvements to remove blight, improve energy efficiency and to allow the facility to continue to provide its traditional array of community services, including food distribution for those in need. The interior space needs to be fully remodeled to meet modern needs. It also needs new ADA accessible restrooms. ADA improvements will ensure that the facility can continue to benefit all citizens of the community. $850,000 will promote development and growth in the local working-class community.
Bell Gardens Veterans Park Refurbishment
Recipient: City of Bell Gardens, California
Address: 7100 Garfield Ave., Bell Gardens, CA 90201
Amount Awarded: $700,000
Project Description: $700,000 will be used to renovate damaged, worn and deteriorating park facilities, including restrooms. Modernized park irrigation can reduce water waste and reduce blight. The project will improve the usability and value of scarce public, open space in a badly underserved community. Bell Gardens is the 9th most densely populated cities in California, and community development, especially in park space, is a key priority to promote economic growth.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Park
Recipient: City of Long Beach
Address: 411 W. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90802
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Project Description: Located in an underserved section of the City of Long Beach, the MLK Park investments would improve park infrastructure and better serve the needs of a diverse community. The park regrettably has considerable blight and needs considerable rehabilitation. The project includes renovations for the park structures which have not been updated since its construction in 1970, improved lighting for public safety, HVAC installation to allow the park to act as a cooling center during heat waves, and renovation of outdoor park facilities.
Public Safety Updates
Recipient: City of Bellflower
Address: 16600 Civic Center Drive, Bellflower, CA 90706
Amount Awarded: $870,000
Project Description: Public safety is a priority, and everyone deserves to live in a secure community without fear. $870,000 in federal funding will install security cameras at facilities throughout the City of Bellflower with an emphasis on the city’s parks. These cameras will deter unlawful or antisocial behavior to ensure that the city’s public spaces are truly for everyone.
City of Maywood Sewer Project
Recipient: City of Maywood
Address: 4319 E. Slauson Avenue, Maywood, CA 90270
Amount Awarded: $1,216,000
Project Description: Previously supported by longtime community champion Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard, this critical project, authorized by the 2022 Water Resources Development Act for $1.2 million, will prevent sanitary sewer overflows and other problems such as: blockages, equipment failures, broken pipes, and vandalism. Urgent investments are needed to safeguard public health in a disadvantaged community, which happens to be the densest city in California. The project will upgrade an aging infrastructure that is clearly susceptible to failure. Sewer system improvements are needed to avert an environmental health and transportation related emergency requiring immense cost, at the taxpayers’ expense. Moreover, the Atlantic Blvd and Slauson Ave Corridors are among the most highly used residential and commercial transportation corridors in Los Angeles County. This project will be overseen, supervised and implemented independently by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Catalina Island Ferry Landing Project
Recipient: Catalina Island
Address: 410 Avalon Canyon Rd., Avalon, CA 90704
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Project Description: Though a small and rural community, the City of Avalon, on Santa Catalina Island, hosts over 1 million visitors per year. Exposed to the elements in a harsh environment, the Cabrillo Mole Ferry Terminal needs redevelopment so that it can continue to function as a key intermodal hub for the community and its many guests. $500,000 will replace a damaged and deficient structure with a facility which is ADA compliant and better suited to supporting modern vessels which visit the Island. The proposed project will transform the existing Cabrillo Mole Ferry Terminal facility into a modern, multi-modal transportation hub that will facilitate travel to all parts of Santa Catalina Island. A significant portion of the existing infrastructure will be either replaced are rehabilitated including the demolition of the existing terminal building which is proposed to be replaced with a new two-story replacement terminal. The new building will support ferry boat public and administrative functions, public restrooms, passenger amenities such as food and beverage service, retail and visitor services including support facilities for the adjacent transportation modes (transit, taxi, bicycle, private vehicle, pedestrian) and entities that provide access to recreational activities.
Bus Operations, Maintenance, and Administration Facility
Recipient: City of Commerce
Address: 5555 Jillson St., Commerce, CA 90040
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Project Description: The City of Commerce’s transit facility, which services the Los Angeles County South-East Region, is unable to meet the growing operational needs of the city’s transit fleet. $500,000 will support a project to provide the city with critical infrastructure needed to meet those demands through a sustainable and community-conscious approach which will stimulate the regional economy. Located in a historically disadvantaged community and an area of persistent poverty, this project will address past environmental wrongs by catalyzing a transition to a zero-emission bus fleet. The new transit facility project would be constructed on a 6.51-acre former Commerce Refuse to Energy Authority (CREA) site. The project location is in a historically disadvantaged community (HDC) and area of persistent poverty (APP) needing redevelopment. As such, a new transit facility will improve community connectivity, including mobility, access, and economic development. Additionally, the project would increase affordable transit service, accessible, and multimodal access to daily destinations like jobs, healthcare, grocery stores, schools, places of worship, recreation, and park space.