Community Spirit Sweeps Through Little Tokyo
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Volunteers gathered for a group photo in JACCC Plaza before the clean-up.
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“Let’s let the volunteer cleaning begin!” said George Tanaka of the Rotary Club of Little Tokyo.
A tenacious group of men and women gathered on Saturday in Little Tokyo for a cleanup and beautification event being held concurrently in five other ethnic communities in observance of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and National Public Works Week.
George Tanaka of the Little Tokyo Rotary Club announced that the group would resume monthly cleanings of Frances Hashimoto Plaza.
The Los Angeles City Council today will consider the 2021-22 fiscal year budget that was proposed by Mayor Eric Garcetti and revised by the Budget and Finance Committee, which includes historic spending to combat the homelessness crisis.
The city expects to receive that funding within the next month, with the second half expected 12 months from now.
Chief Legislative Analyst Sharon Tso told the Budget and Finance Committee that parts of the budget depend on federal guidelines for how the American Rescue Plan funding can be used. It is going to remain to be seen how those guidelines are interpreted and whether the budget is going to be consistent with those guidelines, Tso said. We believe they are. We believe that adjustments will be necessary though to make certain of that.
The city is scheduled to receive half of the funding in the next month and the second half a year later.
By City News Service
May 17, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Councilman Kevin de Leon, Assemblyman Miguel Santiago and Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia today voiced their support for Gov. Gavin Newsom s $454.5 million in proposed funding to clean up toxic chemicals that leaked into more than 10,000 properties from the Exide Technologies battery recycling plan in Vernon.
Newsom unveiled the added money Friday as part of an $11 billion plan to fight climate change and fund clean air and water projects across the state. The $454.5 million would go toward cleaning the properties, parkways, parks and public right-of-ways polluted by the Exide plant, which opened in Vernon in 1922 and operated for years despite continuing environmental violations.
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The intersection of Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Devonshire Street, where a $7 million dollar, 55-unit homeless housing is going to be built. (Google Maps)
CHATSWORTH, CA Members of the Los Angeles City Council Homelessness and Poverty Committee voted unanimously Thursday to drop CD12 Councilmember John Lee s motion to rescind HHH funding from a proposed housing development for the homeless and veterans in Chatsworth. The controversial project, many years in the making, is expected to break ground in late 2021.
Even Councilmember Kevin de Leon, who co-sponsored Lee s motion, ultimately voted against it. The broader Los Angeles City Council will now decide whether or not to take up the motion.