FUNDING REQUESTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025 APPROPRIATIONS
Below are the projects put forward by Congressman Adam Schiff for the Fiscal Year 2025.
Union at Echo Housing Project
- Requesting Entity: City of Los Angeles, Mayor Bass’s Office
- Funding Amount Requested: $5,000,000
- Description: Union at Echo is a construction project on City-owned land to build a new housing project serving low-income individuals people experiencing homelessness.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
Burbank Central Library Reconstruction
- Requesting Entity: City of Burbank
- Funding Amount Requested: $3,000,000
- Description: Burbank is planning to construct a new 65,000 square foot replacement library as the centerpiece of the Burbank Public Library System. Burbank proposes using all awarded CPF funding towards construction.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
Glendale Community College, Urban Live Entertainment Technology Training Hub
- Requesting Entity: Glendale Community College (GCC)
- Funding Amount Requested: $1,190,900
- Description: Glendale Community College (GCC), in collaboration with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE Local 33), proposes the establishment of an Urban Live Entertainment Technology Training Hub. This initiative aims to bolster local economic development and workforce readiness in the live entertainment sector.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
Interim Housing on Highland Avenue
- Requesting Entity: City of Los Angeles, Council District 4
- Funding Amount Requested: $4,085,028
- Description: This project would fund for the creation of new interim housing for unhoused individuals with substance abuse and mental health clinical support. The new project would also include permanent housing navigation support to address unsheltered homelessness and diversify the portfolio of shelter unit types to meet ongoing critical needs. The project would locate a 23-bed pallet shelter on under-utilized property owned by the City of Los Angeles in Hollywood.
- This site is centrally located along Highland Ave near the Hollywood and Highland shopping center, and is a vacant, unpaved lot that appears to have a slight incline up a hillside. There is a mix of residential, hotels, and commercial business uses in the area around the site. The site is well-served by public transit: the DASH Hollywood bus is accessible one block away, and several Metro bus lines on Hollywood and the Hollywood Highland Metro rail station are three blocks away.
- The approximately $4 million in funding would cover construction, demolition, and site rehabilitation.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
Griffith Park Recreational Improvements
- Requesting Entity: Council District 4, Los Angeles City Council on behalf of Department of Recreation and Parks, City of Los Angeles
- Funding Amount Requested: $3,000,000
- Description: The Griffith Park Recreation Improvements Project would consist of four components: The refurbishment of the Riverside Tennis Courts including new playing surface, fencing, and shade structures and benches; Relocating the Griffith Park Visitor Center from its current location to the Los Feliz Adobe building, creating more space and the ability to add more visitor amenities; A new, de novo, large playground for the Travel Town Railroad, adding an added recreational element for families; A new, de novo, prefab restroom with an attached information desk at Lake Hollywood Park, the location with a popular view of the Hollywood Sign. This scope would also include sewer/utility work and ensuring an ADA path of travel.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
Glendale Regional Public Safety Communications Upgrade
- Requesting Entity: City of Glendale
- Funding Amount Requested: $3,000,000
- Description: Upgrade of critical public safety radio sites from FDMA to TDMA technologies to increase system capacity. The system cell presently experiences overloading due to limited capacity of FDMA. This project directly supports 41 cities, 35 Emergency Communications Centers, and more than 120 government agencies serving communities within Los Angeles County with a combined population of 2.5 million people. Upgrades to the Glendale portion of this regional network are essential to area-wide first responder communications capabilities in times of emergencies. The interoperability of regional first responders remains a national priority.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
Replacement Search and Rescue Helicopter Requesting Entity: LA County Sheriff’s Department
- Funding Amount Requested: $3,000,000
- Description: This project would fund the replacement of an aging H332L Airbus search and rescue helicopter which has been in service since 2013. This aircraft is no longer in production, therefore parts for service are difficult to acquire to ensure the aircraft is safe to operate.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
Hart Park Improvements Project
- Requesting Entity: City of West Hollywood, California
- Funding Amount Requested: $1,000,000
- Description: The Hart Park Improvements project will include accessibility-related park upgrades such as reconstructed walking paths, stairs, and a parking lot, as well as a reconfiguration of the existing AIDS Memorial, fountain, and dog park around the existing historic Hart House.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
Glendale Central Park Block Project
- Requesting Entity: City of Glendale
- Funding Amount Requested: $2,500,000
- Description: The Central Park Block project will expand and construct 2.13 acres of new park space in Downtown Glendale as part of planned enhancements to improve the livability of the Downtown area.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
Cedars Sinai Microscope
- Requesting Entity: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Funding Amount Requested: $1,500,000
- Description: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is requesting $1,500,000 for the purchase of a three-photon microscope. This sophisticated imaging tool will enable longitudinal tracking of tumor growth from the first mutation through treatment and potential recurrence. It will enable time-lapse analysis of brain or spinal cord scarring and repair after injury. Finally, it will allow researchers to examine the earliest events of human brain development in 3D stem cell derived cerebral organoids.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
Project imPACT
- Requesting Entity: City of Los Angeles, Mayor’s Office of Community Safety
- Funding Amount Requested: $2,500,000
- Description: This funding would support efforts by the LA Mayor’s Office of Community Safety (MOCS) to continue to build out direct reentry service programming that enhances post-conviction poverty, and prevent recidivism, with a particular focus on support for housing. MOCS Project imPACT reentry providers provide direct services in 4 key categories: Behavioral Health Therapy, Housing Navigation, Employment Navigation and Case Management, and Legal Aid Support.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
City of Pasadena Water and Wastewater System Replacement (previously titled ‘Rose Bowl Stadium Water System Replacement’)
- Requesting Entity: City of Pasadena
- Funding Amount Requested: $3,500,000
- Description: This funding will enable the replacement and repair of the Rose Bowl Stadium’s water and wastewater (sewer) systems. This will support patron safety and health, improve environmental quality, ensure efficient operation, and enhance the venue’s historic infrastructure. The purpose and goal of the projects will be to replace components of the water and wastewater (sewer) systems.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
City of Burbank Water Treatment Facility
- Requesting Entity: City of Burbank, Burbank Water and Power
- Funding Amount Requested: $3,000,000
- Description: This funding would enable the City of Burbank to install an automated chloramine boosting system. BWP believes this new system is the best way to modernize the city’s drinking water system, add efficiencies to our system, benefit disadvantaged communities, provide sustainable and affordable service to rate payers, and ensure continued compliance with state and federal drinking water health and safety standards.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
Hyperion Street Safety Project
- Requesting Entity: City of Los Angeles – Council District 4
- Funding Amount Requested: $3,750,000
- Description: The Hyperion Street Safety Streetscape Plan and Traffic Signals Project will consist of two main components. The first is a new streetscape plan for Hyperion Avenue from Rowena Avenue to Fountain Avenue and for Fountain Avenue from Hyperion Avenue to Hoover Street. The second is the installation of new signalized crossings at three locations along Hyperion Avenue, a busy arterial bordering the Los Feliz and Silver Lake neighborhoods of the City of Los Angeles.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
Metrolink Wireless Grade Crossings at Burbank Airport Rail Stations
- Requesting Entity: Southern California Regional Rail Authority (SCRRA/Metrolink)
- Funding Amount Requested: $2,250,000
- Description: Wireless Crossing Nearside Station Stop is intended to reduce warning system pre-activations, decreasing the amount of time the gate is down at designated crossings due to scheduled commuter/passenger train stops at the station. This investment will significantly decrease the time the nearby crossing gates are closed, improving traffic flow in the surrounding neighborhood, and increasing safety benefits by lessening the number of pedestrians and drivers that circumvent the gates when they see them closed but don’t observe train movement.
- Financial Disclosure Letter
Click here to view the fiscal year 2022 requests.