Granted Appropriations Requests-FY2009
After School Program Expansion ($285,000) – Requested by Eden Housing, a district non-profit that assists low-income constituents to find affordable housing. The funds for this project will be used to expand successful after-school programs in Alameda County and surrounding counties. The programs provide low-income students a safe place, close to home, to complete their homework and receive assistance and mentoring tailored to their unique needs.
After School Recreation Program ($29,000) – Requested by the City of Newark. The After School Recreation Program serves the Newark community’s youth by offering a program that recognizes a child’s need for recreational activities with caring adults to help foster social and emotional skills.
Alameda County Children’s Assessment Center ($530,000) – Requested by the Alameda County Social Services Agency. The Children’s Assessment Center is open 23 hours a day and is a countywide three-site program that allows frontline Child Protective Services workers to bring children to a safe, child-oriented setting when they have been removed from their homes. Multi-disciplinary teams of professionals who conduct preliminary assessments of the children staff the Center. Its core function is to provide an appropriate environment that provides the time and resources needed to make a full assessment and the most appropriate placement decision for each child.
Alameda County Children’s Screening, Assessment, Referral & Treatment (SART) Initiative ($476,000) – Requested by First Five Alameda County. The funds for this project will go toward developing the SART Initiative, a coordinated system of care for early identification of children ages 0-5 who have, or are at risk of, developmental and socio-emotional delays.
Alameda Creek Watershed Project ($1,337,000) – Requested by the Alameda County Public Works Department on behalf of the Alameda County Resource Conservation District. Arroyo de la Laguna is the main tributary to Alameda Creek, the second largest drainage to the San Francisco Bay. Rapid suburban development in the upper watershed has caused severe instability in the lower five miles of the Arroyo, resulting in stream bank erosion, channel widening, and increased sedimentation of Alameda Creek and the San Francisco Bay. This has adversely affected on-site wildlife habitat and degrades upstream/downstream habitat. This project will make use of bioengineered stream restoration practices that will focus on the control of stream flow within the Arroyo.
East Bay Regional Communications System ($1,170,000) – Requested by the East Bay Communications System Authority. The East Bay Regional Communications System will be a state of the art P25 compliant communications system for the public agencies within Contra Costa and Alameda Counties. Funds will assist with the development of three additional sites that will be a critical link between the two counties. When complete the system will have 32 repeater sites – equipment for 10 of the sites has already been purchased and is in the process of installation.
Estudillo Canal ($96,000) – Requested by the Alameda County Public Works Agency. This project funds the continuing feasibility study for the Canal in San Leandro, which will increase flood protection to approximately 1,800 residential properties and enable the District to submit a Letter of Map Revision for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to remove the flood plain designation of the study area.
Green Energy Job Training Initiative ($237,000) – Requested by the Peralta Community College District. Funds will go toward developing a career-training program for green energy related jobs in the Peralta Community Colleges.
Increasing Health-Related Educational Opportunities for Students in the Bay Area ($114,000) – Requested by Chabot College. Funds will be used to increase nursing and medical-related educational opportunities for students in the Bay Area. Chabot College will increase their capacity to serve additional students through teacher recruitment and ongoing training. Federal funds will be utilized to develop an outreach plan to attract and retain teachers.
Laguna Creek Watershed ($96,000) – Requested by the Alameda County Public Works Agency. This project funds the continuing feasibility study for the Creek in San Leandro, which will increase flood protection to approximately 525 residential properties and enable the District to submit a Letter of Map Revision for FEMA to remove the flood plain designation of the study area.
Park Street Pedestrian Safety Transportation Improvements ($475,000) – Requested by the City of Alameda. Improvements made to the Park Street Business District are revitalizing downtown Alameda. A phased approach is reversing the chronic leakage of retail sales out of Alameda by creating jobs and desirable business opportunities. This plan for a safe and walkable downtown promotes public safety and public transit usage while increasing access for the disabled.
School Resource Officer Program ($150,000) – Requested by the City of Newark. This program consists of a Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program for K-12, with a parent program, in addition to a seventeen week long program for sixth graders that covers drugs, their influence on the mind and body, peer pressure and alternatives.
Union City Intermodal Phase II – Commuter Rail Connection ($475,000) – Requested by Union City. Funds for this project will complete the remaining BART Station modifications to the east side of the station and accomplishes the critical BART connection directly to the planned Capitol Corridor/Dumbarton Rail Station.
