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A project that would fundamentally change downtown Redding got a boost on Tuesday when a state board approved funding toward the ambitious $37 million project.

The Strategic Growth Council, the board tasked with promoting sustainable growth in California, approved unanimously at its meeting on Tuesday in Sacramento to award $289 million in Affordable Housing Community Program grants to 25 projects.

The downtown Redding project will get $20 million in state funding. About 70 percent, or 54 of the 79 units, would be classified affordable for extremely low and very-low income earners.

The project also would reopen vehicle traffic on Market, Yuba and Butte streets through the Market Street Promenade and provide a pedestrian loop, connecting the Sacramento River Trail with downtown.

The old Dicker’s building is in the middle of the Market Street Promenade.

K2 has been working with the city of Redding and the Shasta Regional Transportation Agency to build the project.

Construction could start in 2018.

Redding Public Works Director Brian Crane and Dan Little, executive director of the Shasta Regional Transportation Agency, were among the contingent from Redding that traveled to Sacramento to attend Tuesday’s meeting.

“The growth council staff made a good recommendation during the course of the meeting and didn’t feel the comments made would impact our project and our project moves forward. But proponents have said the project doesn’t happen without the state grant.

At $37 million, the K2 project is nearly seven times more than the $5.5 million refurbishment of the historic Cascade Theatre in 2004.

“I wouldn’t say it’s the final financial hurdle but it’s a big lynchpin,” Crane said of the $20 million grant. There are still processes that need to happen with the city.”

In addition to the $20 million, other funding sources for the project would come from tax credit proceeds ($7.4 million), a private commercial loan ($4.28 million), other developer funds ($515,138) and city of Redding housing funds ($4.8 million).

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That settlement yielded $550 million in cash and consumer relief for New York residents, Schneiderman said.

In June, the state Legislature passed the Abandoned Property Neighborhood Relief Act, which requires banks to register abandoned properties with the state and to maintain them during foreclosure and beyond.

aThey face a penalty potentially up to $500 a day for failing to maintain,a George said.

But local code enforcement, a digital azombiea property database and community engagement also will be key, said Mayor Bill Aiello.

The funding may allow the creation of a position under the cityas Code Enforcement or Public Works departments as well as perhaps a part-time attorney to assist city Attorney Nick DiCerbo Jr. aIf we have someone out there inspecting these properties visually from the outside, if you get broken windows or if the porch starts caving in, the order to remedy is there.a

Under the grant, the city also could point homeowners to foreclosure-prevention programs or facilitate deed-in-lieu-of-foreclosure proceedings or short sales, George added.

Aiello and Gonzalez shared in some disappointment the grant didnat include a portion for demolition, but they noted any additional support for Code Enforcement is welcome.

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Representative Ben Ray Lujan announced $300,753 to support the DreamTree Project’s Emergency Youth Shelter in Taos and outreach efforts throughout Northern New Mexico.

The two grants awarded to DreamTree Project, which are renewable for three years, will support an emergency shelter for youth ages 12 to 17 who need a safe place to stay, and outreach to youth ages 12 to 21 in Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, Taos and Union counties who are in need of shelter and housing, including youth who are victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking.

“DreamTree Project provides critical services to Northern New Mexico youth in need of a safe place to stay, and this funding will support the agency’s important programs and expanded outreach to young people who need its services,” Udall said. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I’ll continue working to support resources for programs like DreamTree Project that provide stable housing and skills and job training to vulnerable youth in communities across New Mexico.” I am grateful for the work that the DreamTree Project is doing in northern New Mexico to provide youth with not just shelter, but also address their educational, employment, and health care needs,” said Heinrich.

Catherine Hummel, Executive Director of DreamTree Project, said, “We are so grateful for this opportunity to expand our services throughout northern New Mexico.

DreamTree Project has operated its Transitional Living Program in Taos since 2000 and its Emergency Youth Shelter in Taos since 2011. More than 70 percent of youth served by DreamTree Project reunite with their family or move out of the DreamTree Project shelter and transitional living program apartments to live independently. DreamTree Project is the only agency in New Mexico enrolled in the National Safe Place Network, a national youth outreach and prevention program that aims to make help and safety immediately available to youth in communities across the country.

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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s philanthropy organization, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, just hired its first CTO: former Amazon search VP Brian Pinkerton.

Zuckerberg made the announcement through his Facebook page.

“Building a world-class engineering team starts with a great leader. Brian is a great engineering leader who I’ve wanted to work with for a long time,” Zuckerberg wrote.

Pinkerton spent the last 5 years at Amazon’s search unit, A9.com. Bringing engineering to social change is the basic idea of our work, and one of the unique capabilities we can provide.

Building a world-class engineering team starts with a great leader. He has been working on important technology problems for 20 years, including building software and tools for the Department of Molecular Biology and building the first ever internet search engine, Web Crawler, while he was in his PhD program at the University of Washington.

At the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Brian’s job will be to build a world-class engineering team to help take on some of the biggest opportunities and challenges our society faces today. I’m confident that under his leadership we’ll recruit a great team and work closely with our partners to find out what tools need to be created to unlock these major opportunities to benefit everyone.

On behalf of our entire team, I want to welcome Brian to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

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Chico >> Chico State University has had a prosperous month, receiving more than $5 million in new grants in recent weeks.

The university announced Monday that it had received a five-year, $4.2 million grant from the U.S.

Chico State became eligible to receive the $4.5 million Hispanic-Serving Institutions STEM grant in December 2015, about a year after the university’s enrollment of Hispanic students surpassed 25 percent of the total student body. The Hispanic-Serving Institution Designation makes Chico State eligible for a number of federal grants.

The grant’s purpose, according to the education department, is “to increase the number of Hispanic and other low-income students attaining degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering or mathematics.” It will have a major impact on our students.”

Villegas helped lead the application process for the grant.

Dean of the College of Engineering, Computer Science and Construction Management (ECC) Ricardo Jacquez said that the new grant will increase opportunity for Hispanic students to enroll and successfully earn degrees in those fields, according to a university press release. 7, the university announced it received two federal grants totaling nearly $900,000 to support undergraduate research and student success in the sciences.

The National Science Foundation awarded a team of faculty from the College of Natural Sciences and College of Engineering, Computer Science and Construction Management a $544,000 Major Research Instrumentation grant.

With that funding, the university plans to acquire a fluorescence-activated cell sorter, which will allow faculty and student researchers to separate cells for lab projects and conduct various kinds of research, including biomedical.

This is the second consecutive year that faculty in the College of Natural Sciences received an MRI grant. According to a university press release, the National Science Foundation grants are highly competitive.

Faculty members Carolynn Arpin of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Elena Harris of the Computer Science Department, Troy Cline, Dave Keller, David Stachura and Gordon Wolfe of the Department of Biological Sciences helped secure the grant.

Saugus District schools join Trash Free Lunch competition – Santa Clarita Valley Signal

Two Santa Clarita schools joined a yearlong competition to reduce lunchtime waste.

North Park Elementary School and Bridgeport Elementary School are participating in Grades of Green’s Trash Free Lunch Challenge for the first time this school year.

In the Trash Free Lunch Challenge, schools compete to see which can reduce the most lunchtime waste. The winning school will receive a $1,000 education grant and the four finalist schools will receive a $750 grant.

The competition teaches students environmental values and how to eliminate waste by packing lunches with containers, reusable water bottles, utensils and cloth napkins. Students often take their recycling knowledge to the classroom to their homes.

In schools, a reduction in lunchtime and classroom waste saves the school hundreds of dollars on trash bags each year and frees up time for maintenance staff to work on other projects, Wippel said.

Wippell expects all of the schools involved in this year’s challenge, including North Park Elementary and Bridgeport Elementary, to succeed in their waste reduction efforts.

“Whatever goal each school sets, we expect them to reach those goals,” she said.

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Volunteers work to restore natural landscape near Midway Village in Rockford – News – Rockford Register Star – Rockford, IL

ROCKFORD Every Tuesday, a dozen or more garden enthusiasts pull weeds and shrubs near Midway Village and replace them with appropriate if not more beautiful native plants.

The volunteer group gathers along the Midway Village Museum recreation path, a 1.4-mile loop along Guilford Road in east Rockford, and works to restore the land to the prairie it would have looked like before settlers changed Illinois’ natural landscape.

A dedicated bunch, they work in the field week in and week out through heat, rain and even snow.

“I think maybe a monsoon could stop us, maybe,” said volunteer gardener Jinnie Watson. We benefit from nature and we’re trying to restore as much of it as we can.”

For three hours the volunteer gardeners work to remove any species that are not native to the area and plant others that benefit the local ecosystem. It’s not only pretty but it benefits the wildlife.”

Most of the volunteers are also part of Wild Ones, a national nonprofit organization that teaches the benefit of growing native wildflowers in your own yard.

“This is also a good place to educate people on what native shrubs are and how you could possibly use them in your own landscape,” said Bobbie Lambiotte. “Hopefully, it can encourage people to use native plants in their home landscaping, because these plants are the foundation of our local ecosystem.”

How to help

Donations toward the project can be made to the Rockford Park District Foundation, and anyone who wants to volunteer can do so through Midway Village Museum.