From improving street medians along Paramount Boulevard in Long Beach to adding a computer lab at a Lakewood community center, Rep. Linda Sanchez has requested nearly $23.5 million in federal appropriations for southeastern Los Angeles County projects.
The Lakewood Democrat, whose 47th District includes Cerritos, Hawaiian Gardens, Norwalk, Paramount, and a sliver of Long Beach, included request for schools, job programs, public safety, parks and transportation in her 2010 earmark requests.
There is no guarantee the wish list will be funded by Congress.
Education-related requests make up many of the appropriations' requests. On Sanchez's wish list is $315,516 for technology that can assist special-needs children in the ABC Unified School District.
Another request would provide environmental job training programs for at-risk youth served by the Long Beach Conservation Corps in Belmont Shore.
The congresswoman also asked for $250,000 to benefit Latina Leadership Alliances, a tutoring and mentoring program that seeks to lower teen pregnancy and dropout rates in Bellflower.
Another $36,000 would go to after-school youth programs in Artesia.
Long Beach's California Conference for Equality and Justice would get $75,000 for conflict-resolution courses.
About $500,000 would go for uniformed "resource officers" in South Gate schools.
The St. Francis Medical Center Foundation would get $445,000 for training programs.
About $7.5 million, would fund ship-design programs at Cal State Long Beach.
Sanchez is also seeking $204,800 to build and install eight bus shelters in Hawaiian Gardens and $200,000 for 25 bus shelters in South Gate.
Long Beach would receive $500,000 for median improvements, traffic signal upgrades and catch basins along Paramount Boulevard.
Lakewood is up for $240,000 in traffic signal improvements. South Gate would get $500,000 for street-light replacement.
An alternative-fuels program at Cerritos College would receive $293,500 to teach students how to repair hybrid and alternative-fuel cars.
Sanchez would like $128,000 for a computer room for senior citizens at the Burns Community Center in Lakewood.
About $250,000 would go toward solar lighting in Artesia's parks.
The Water Replenishment District of Southern California in Lakewood would receive $100,000 to teach environmentally friendly gardening techniques and water conservation.
ABC Unified would receive $137,700 for drop-out intervention and $132,000 for gang-prevention programs -- both for district students living in Hawaiian Gardens.
And the South Gate Chamber of Commerce could receive $85,000 to help businesses grow and expand employment.
There are several other projects on the congresswoman's website, http://lindasanchez.house.gov/
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