The $1.5 trillion omnibus appropriations bill passed last week by the U.S. Congress includes more than $73 million for projects in Northern California, according to the office of Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California.
Projects to receive funding include the following:
- $33 million to combine both the 940th Squadron Operations and the 940th Aircraft Maintenance Unit at Beale Air Force Base;
- $3.5 million for the East Bay Municipal Utility District’s Upper San Leandro Drinking Water Treatment Improvement Project;
- $2.7 million for the Santa Clara infrastructure improvement project;
- $2 million for the 7th Street connection project in Oakland;
- $2 million for the Crow Canyon Road Iron Horse Trail Bicycle-Pedestrian Overcrossing;
- $2 million for a homeless youth housing campus in Monterey County;
- $1.8 million to upgrade Napa countywide public safety radio and communication infrastructure;
- $1.7 million for the California State Coastal Conservancy’s Resilient San Francisco Bay Pilot Project;
- $1.6 million to expand the Coordinated Care and Empowering Self Sufficiency Sonoma initiative;
- $1.5 million for the city of Hayward’s Stack Center;
- $1.5 million for a new fire station in Brentwood;
- $1.2 million for Oakland’s Mental Health Resilience Project;
- $1.1 million to expand Contra Costa County’s Mobile Crisis Response Team;
- $1.052 million for the Santa Rosa Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program;
- $1 million for construction of the city of Santa Rosa’s Emergency Operations Center;
- $1 million for Levee Construction at Bel Marin Keys in Marin County;
- $1 million for Smart Water Meters in Santa Cruz;
- $1 million for Contra Costa County to develop a crisis hub to provide mental health services;
- $1 million for the city of San Jose’s Mobile Crisis Assessment Team;
- $1 million for the city of San Leandro water quality protection;
- $1 million for Futures Without Violence, an educational program from The Courage Museum;
- $1 million for Veterans Memorial Buildings Improvements in Contra Costa County;
- $900,00 for the Vallejo Community Mobile Mental Health Response Unit;
- $734,000 for a community responders program in Oakland;
- $700,000 for non-motorized access on East Sir Francis Drake Boulevard;
- $525,000 for dredging of Santa Cruz Harbor;
- $500,000 for Los Banos Creek Water Recharge and Recovery project;
- $500,000 for the SOMOS Mayfair Community Center in San Jose;
- $500,000 for a transitional housing project in the city of Alameda; and
- $500,000 for an economic mobility resource hub in the city of South San Francisco.
“This funding will go to local governments and community organizations that are directly serving our neighborhoods,” Padilla said in a statement. “Federal dollars will support projects to modernize our transportation infrastructure and spur economic growth. We are also investing in projects that will increase California’s capacity to treat patients and deliver mental health services.”
Ridiculous BS from a politician, reduce taxes and less government are better…
So much money and nothing will get better. Amazing how we spend until millions on things and society degrades worse and worse. People shave the money from these things with administrative costs to pay their family and friends.
On an a somewhat related note all these spending sprees will come to an instant halt if the US loses its reserve currency status.
China is going to start trading oil with the Saudi’s using yuans instead of dollars.
If the US loses the petro dollar, we are Venezuela in 24 hours so spend the money while you can to get what you want now. With the way joe Biden is bringing down this country we’ll be wiping our butts with $100 bills before the next inauguration (if there is one).
Democrats: if you like spending money on pet projects you need to get your stuff together. If the petro dollar goes into the history bin we’re all going to be killing each other just to get toilet paper, except this time there will be no restocking of the shelves.
Great.. since apparently we can just print money why even pay taxes, yeah?
How about money to help dredge Martinez waterfront. Then they could rent the slips out and make it nicer while making some money for once. It would be better used than some of that junk it’s going to.
Wow – a lot of mental health services. I predict nothing will change. And what’s up with Beale Airforce Base?
I can’t help but wonder how much of the money will actually make it to the projects it was meant for.
$2 million for the Crow Canyon Road Iron Horse Trail Bicycle-Pedestrian Overcrossing;
$1.1 million to expand Contra Costa County’s Mobile Crisis Response Team;
$1 million for Contra Costa County to develop a crisis hub to provide mental health services;
$1 million for Veterans Memorial Buildings Improvements in Contra Costa County;
This is a perfect definition of political pork.
A lot of money that doesn’t in itself do anything.
A great opportunity for kick backs.
+1
Give your group a name and send in a request.
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More debt.
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Might be worse than that.. maybe just printed paper that ends up devaluing the dollar.
It must be nice to SPEND OTHER PEOPLES MONEY!!!!
why not some fund to provide seniors and disabled that can not drive the ability to order food delivered without having to pay the crazy fees. I rather have my taxes go towards subsidizing something like that than ANY of the things on this list they are doing…..
Maybe expand Meals on Wheels?
Think of all these government parasites, sitting at their government jobs all year, scheming & cooking up more horse crap to justify requests for even more money. It’s a whole parasitic class feeding off us. All government is theft.
The payoffs for officials following orders and mandates continues…
Political favors for this cycle have been paid. Thanks taxpayers!
Meanwhile, the potholes in our roads worsen. Where did the money go to fix our roads in Concord?
…didn’t see any $$ for desalination plants, rain water retention facilities, etc…. … as said before… more pork for the politicians to puff up on for their constituents
Bring back the Spirit Poles
That would be awesome!
Establish a Corn Snake sanctuary at the Weapons Station Park.
Only thing you forgot was an olive garden
How about free endless bread sticks at the Olive Garden.
Think about how stupid and what a scam this…except for federal projects, which except for work at Beale, were there any? And this is where the stupidity and the scam happens: taxpayers get fleeced, those monies flow to the federal govt, only to be laundered then sent back to the states, counties, cities, etc.
And for the idiots who cheerlead this nonsense, did you see Saudi Arabia may start accept Yuan for oil sales to China? If that happens we are on the fast track to the END OF KING DOLLAR, the only thing which has propped up our insane spending, deficits, and debt…it all goes poof bye-bye if the petrodollar bites the dust.
Biden…I did that !