Below you will find a list of the appropriations requests I have made on behalf of California’s thirteenth district for fiscal year 2010. These requests are alphabetized under each appropriations bill, and are not in order of priority.

Each of the following requests lists: the proposed recipient(s) for the project, the funding amount requested, the appropriate address for each request, and a description of each project. If the recipient has a website to describe the project, you can access it by clicking on the title of the request.

This webpage will be updated if and when the President passes the FY10 appropriations bills into law.

Please click on one of the appropriations bills below to see my requests for a specific appropriations bill, or scroll down to see the full list of requests.

•    Agriculture
•    Commerce-Justice-Science
•    Department of Defense
•    Energy-Water
•    Financial Services
•    Interior-Environment
•    Labor-Health-Human Services-Education
•    Transportation-Housing-Urban Development

AGRICULTURE

Alameda County Resource Conservation District ($1,750,000) – Requested by the Alameda County Public Works Department (ACPWD), 3585 Greenville Road #2, Livermore CA 94550. ACPWD has requested this project on behalf of the Alameda County Resource Conservation District. The purpose of this project is mitigation of the negative effects of soil erosion caused by upstream development, local urbanization, and channel instability resulting in a critical impact to endangered wildlife habitats.

COMMERCE-JUSTICE-SCIENCE

Bus Camera System ($3,000,000) – Requested by Alameda Contra Costa (AC) Transit, 1600 Franklin Street, Oakland CA 94612. AC Transit ridership has remained relatively stable with average annual increases of 1.1% over the past five years. Additional cameras will protect drivers and passengers. It will also offer information on a vehicle accident, a passenger claim, vehicle vandalism and other incidents.

Digital Connectors At-Risk Youth Program Expansion ($600,000) – Requested by Eden Housing, 22645 Grand Street, Hayward CA 94541. Digital Connectors is a community-based vocational training, academic enrichment and volunteer program that improves the ability of at-risk youth to interface with technology effectively, troubleshoot software needs and facilitate general comfort with common applications which promotes confidence and professional capacity.

East Bay Regional Communications System ($3,000,000) –  Requested by Alameda County, East Bay Regional Communication System Authority, 4985 Broder Boulevard, Dublin CA 94568. Alameda County has requested funding to help Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, 29 cities and four special districts to build and operate a state-of-the-art P25-compliant communications system for the public agencies within the two counties.

Family Visitation Center ($500,000) – Requested by Alameda County, Alameda Social Services Policy Office, 2000 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland CA 94612. Alameda County has requested funding for a family visitation center. The primary goal of the center will be to reunite children with the birth parent, with an expected outcome of reducing the reentry of families into the foster care system that successfully reunify. Typically, the various levels of government (federal, state, and local) become the parents of last resort to foster children, which is the most expensive and least efficient means of meeting the needs of abused and neglected children. Therefore, the establishment of a family visitation center embraces the concept of family and the rebuilding of families as the most cost-effective, nurturing and viable way of addressing the needs of abused and neglected children.

High School Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention Program ($250,000) – Requested by the City of Pleasanton, 123 Main Street, Pleasanton CA 94566. Federal funding will enable the Pleasanton Unified School District to provide drug and alcohol counselors in elementary, middle and high schools. This program will provide students with access to a wide range of medical, psychological and social support services within their schools. Through this initiative, students will acquire the necessary attitudes, knowledge and interpersonal skills that will lead them to respect themselves and others, understand safety and survival skills, set goals and take the necessary action to achieve them.

Police Facility Retrofit ($11,000,000) – Requested by the City of Fremont Police Department, 2000 Stevenson Boulevard, Fremont CA 94538. The City of Fremont’s Police Building is located within several hundred feet of the Hayward Fault and must be seismically retrofitted to prevent collapse in a large earthquake. It is critical to the City’s emergency response plan that the Police Building continue to be a fully functional building after an earthquake so the Police Department can respond to the emergency.

Similar to many steel frame buildings damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the Fremont Police Building was constructed with welded beam-to-column connections which are now known to be very susceptible to earthquake damage, but were considered the normal practice and design at the time. The City is quickly moving forward on a retrofit design to strengthen connections and add braces between existing columns to bring the building structurally up to the performance level of an essential service building.

Public Safety Building Expansion ($3,000,000) – Requested by the City of San Leandro, 835 East 14th Street, San Leandro CA 94577. The communication center of the San Leandro Police Department must be expanded to provide services to the citizens and police officers now and in the future. Expanding technology, workspace ergonomics, accessibility, and the increased staffing required to handle cellular 911 calls are a few of the critical reasons that a new communication center is badly needed. Currently, cellular 911 calls are received at a local Highway Patrol dispatch center before being re-routed to San Leandro. The City is seeking federal funding assistance to construct a 1,050 square foot addition to the existing Public Safety Building for housing the communication center on the first floor, and add 1,050 square feet of floor space to the second floor for other police functions.

Public Safety Interoperability Program ($1,603,000) – Requested by the City of Newark, 3701 Newark Boulevard, Newark CA 94560. The City relies on the Alameda County Radio System for communications. However, the current communication system is not compatible with agencies not using the County’s Motorola “SMARTNET” system. Alameda County will be allocating funds received through Urban Areas Security Initiatives (UASI) and other sources to upgrade their system in order to become a Project 25 (P25) compliant radio system.

School Resource Officer Program ($143,500) – Requested by the City of Newark, 3701 Newark Boulevard, Newark CA 94560. Due to recent downturn in the economy, the City is finding it increasingly difficult to maintain an adequate level of coverage at its schools. In order to continue providing the needed support, the City is requesting funding for one School Resource Officer (SRO) position. This SRO would also be responsible for teaching the principles of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) to our youth.

Raising Student Achievement in Fremont Unified School District ($200,000) – Requested by Springboard for Improving Schools. 181 Fremont Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco CA 94105. The partnership between Springboard Schools and the Fremont Unified School District focuses on raising student achievement overall for Fremont’s 32,000 students, and narrowing the achievement gap for some of the district’s lower-achieving groups, including Hispanic/Latino and African American students as well as English language learners. Springboard’s cost-effective support services build the capacity of district and school leaders to implement the strategies and processes necessary to focus the work of all staff on the single goal of improving student learning.

Satellite Community College Campus at Public Transit Station ($500,000) – Requested by Chabot Las Positas Community Colleges, 5020 Franklin Drive, Pleasanton CA 94588. The District is planning to open satellite campuses at BART stations in the Bay Area to encourage students to use public transit and increase educational opportunities for students with limited transportation. The Community College District is requesting funding to study the feasibility of developing its first transit-oriented campus at the Hayward BART station in coordination with Chabot Community College. This project is especially important given the economic conditions and the need for increased educational opportunities.

"Schools of the Future" Expansion Project: NEA Community Learning Center ($250,000) – Requested by Community Learning Center Schools Inc., 210 Central Avenue #603, Alameda CA 94501. This funding will be used for the NEA Community Learning Center, a K-12 public school in Alameda opening fall 2009. Specifically, funds will be used to create a 21st century learning environment with modern computer technology and educational equipment for public school children.

The Eden Area Health Care Services Project ($1,500,000) – Requested by Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center Inc., 22331 Mission Boulevard, Hayward CA 94541. Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center’s Eden Area Health Care Services Project will continue the Center’s critical role as a safety net committed to protecting and increasing access to quality medical care for the underinsured and disenfranchised in unincorporated Alameda County.

Youth and Family Services Technology Upgrade ($170,000) – Requested by Youth and Family Services, a division of the City of Fremont’s Human Services Department, 3300 Capital Avenue, Fremont CA 94537. This funding will upgrade four existing video cameras used in the counseling process to help parents learn to communicate more effectively with their children and to purchase laptop computers, software and technical support for the Healthy Choices school-site counseling program located at 21 schools.

Youth Sustaining Community ($1,150,000) – Requested by Alameda Point Collaborative, 677 West Ranger Avenue, Alameda CA 94501. The Youth Sustaining Community will provide early career and job readiness training to more than 100 homeless youth and young adult residents of the Alameda Point Collaborative with a focus on the skills necessary to create and maintain an environmentally sustainable community at the decommissioned Naval Air Station in Alameda. Youth and young adult members of families who become homeless because of domestic violence or disabilities (including disabilities caused in service to their country) will work in their own community to increase food security, improve energy and water conservation, and improve their facilities in order to make a community where all residents can overcome the trauma of homelessness and flourish.