After grappling with a $30.7-billion deficit, California lawmakers approved this week a budget that includes additional funding for child care and climate change initiatives and struggling public transportation agencies.
The $311.7-billion budget also includes $10 million for various local projects in the Peninsula district represented by Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, a list that includes $2 million for a permanent Black history museum in East Palo Alto; $1 million for an affordable senior-housing project that is being developed by the Palo Alto-based nonprofit Alta Housing in North Fair Oaks; and $1 million to bolster protection for mobile home parks in a flood-prone section of Redwood City, Becker announced Wednesday, June 28.
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