Appropriations Requests
The application window for the FY25 Appropriations Process is closed. Please see selected projects below.
Public disclosures for the below projects can be found HERE.
Commerce, Justice, Science, & Related Agencies:
Project Title: City of Oakland Department of Violence Prevention Enhancements (Operation Ceasefire)
Requestor: City of Oakland
Amount Requested: $3,173,078
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: The City of Oakland seeks funding to enhance the capacity of its Department of Violence Prevention to deliver intensive life coaching and violence interruption services for individuals who are most likely to be victims or perpetrators of gun violence in the next 90 days. These services are part of an evidence-based and intelligence-led approach to group violence that contributed to a nearly 50% reduction in shootings and homicides in Oakland from 2012 to 2019.
Project Title: BOSS Community-Based Violence Intervention & Prevention
Requestor: Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
Amount Requested: $850,000
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: BOSS is requesting Community Project Funding to expand our violence interruption and prevention work at our newest NEW flagship program in East Oakland – the Wellness Empowerment & Resiliency Campus (WERC) – by adding additional Violence Interrupters. This will directly benefit the target community by increasing community safety and connecting community members with education and living wage employment in a region of Oakland with one of the highest concentrations of poverty, violence, and crime.
Project Title: Public Safety Security Equipment
Requestor: Northeastern University Oakland
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: Funding to purchase Emergency Blue-light Phone Towers and security cameras necessary to better equip campus and local public safety to adequately support Oakland’s 135-acre campus and surrounding neighborhoods.
Project Title: UCSF Children's Hospital Oakland Pediatric Blood Disorder Research Center
Requestor: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland seeks to establish a pediatric blood disorder research center to advance discovery on blood diseases affecting children. This groundbreaking research center would house investigators dedicated to translating basic research into innovative, curative therapies that would directly benefit our patients and children across the world suffering from blood conditions, including sickle cell disease, thalassemia, leukemia, and bone marrow failure.
Project Title: Samuel Merritt University Oakland City Center Campus Research Equipment
Requestor: Samuel Merritt University
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: SMU’s City Center Campus, California’s 12th District’s technologically advanced hub for healthcare research, workforce development and healthier communities, includes specialized labs, a simulation lab, and a Motion Analysis Research Center– supporting research into topics including: 1) health sciences and simulation pedagogy; 2) best practices for maternal health equity and healthcare for victims of sex and labor trafficking; 3) provider wellness; 4) effective clinical interventions.
Project Title: Damon Marsh Trail Project
Requestor: Coastal Quest
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: The "Damon Marsh Trail Project" is a tidal wetland situated at Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline in East Oakland, at the northern edge of San Leandro Bay an area adjacent to historically redlined communities and surrounded by industrial buildings. The Marshy area is where several creeks drain into the estuary Bay making this area critical to protect and preserve its natural resources. This shoreline has been long-neglected, and its potential has been overlooked for years. Our focus would be to support the Ninth Root Restoration efforts of Degraded Wetland and Access and Engagement of the West Bottom Community.
Interior, Environment, & Related Agencies
Project Title: Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline Public Access Project
Requestor: East Bay Regional Parks District
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: This public access project embraces green infrastructure as a nature-based solution to enhance water quality. By strategically incorporating permeable surfaces, native plantings and vegetative buffers, the project seeks to naturally filter and manage stormwater runoff. These nature-based interventions aim to reduce pollutants, sedimentation and nutrient runoff into the San Leandro and San Francisco Bays and the greater watershed, promoting a healthier aquatic ecosystem.
Project Title: San Leandro Shoreline Development Project
Requestor: City of San Leandro
Amount Requested: $4,231,960
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: The City of San Leandro Shoreline Development Project will create a regional park along the East Bay shoreline with investments in clean water infrastructure and new recreation opportunities for residents. The city will improve wastewater and stormwater infrastructure at the site to protect the public health of constituents as well as the environment and aquatic resources along the watershed. Sanitary sewers and drainage systems will support municipal wastewater and stormwater management.
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, & Related Agencies
Project Title: Lincoln Avenue/Marshall Way/Pacific Avenue Corridor Improvement Project, City of Alameda, CA
Requestor: City of Alameda
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: Safety and mobility improvements will be made to a high priority corridor that connects neighborhoods across Alameda and serves multiple destinations including schools, commercial districts and parks. To reduce crashes and improve safety, the overall project includes a road diet, roundabout, flashing beacons, pedestrian/bicycle signals, modernized traffic signals, crosswalk improvements, school frontage improvements, disabled parking zones, improved lighting, and bus stop enhancements.
Project Title: The 40th Street Multimodal Project Phase 2
Requestor: City of Emeryville
FUNDS REQUESTED: $3,000,000
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: The 40th Street Multimodal Project will implement transportation infrastructure improvements to mitigate the inequitable impacts over the last eighty years that caused black and brown neighborhoods to be isolated by the construction of multiple freeways through historically “redlined” neighborhoods. In addition, the expansion of railroad corridors and the Port of Oakland further aggravated prolonged economic, social, health, and environmental inequities in our Project area.
Project Title: Adeline Complete Street and Ashby BART Transit Plaza
Requestor: City of Berkeley
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: Adeline Complete Street and Ashby BART Transit Plaza project seeks to redesign and reconstruct Adeline sidewalks including new landscaping and street trees, reduce number of traffic lanes and reconfigure intersections, and build a new pedestrian transit plaza adjacent to Ashby BART. The location is Adeline Street from Ashby Avenue south to the Berkeley/Oakland Border in Berkeley.
Project Title: East Bay Regional Fire Training Facility
Requestor: City of Albany
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: The East Bay Regional Fire Training Consortium is comprised of Richmond, El Cerrito/District of Kensington, Albany, and Berkeley. Phase 1 is to build out the East Bay Regional Fire Training Facility to use for first responder training. Training is a critical component of maintaining a workforce that is adequately prepared to engage in emergency response work. Responders encounter a variety of high-risk, low-frequency emergency scenarios that must be mitigated with little room for error.
Project Title: City of Oakland Capital Improvements for Core Service Providers
Requestor: City of Oakland
Amount Requested: $1,950,000
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: The City is partnering with the Magnolia Women's Recovery Program and Fred Finch Youth Center to help provide core services to those in most need. Funding at Fred Finch would rehabilitate a commercial kitchen and cafeteria for nonminor dependent foster youth and permanent supportive housing tenants. Funding for Magnolia would support a women's recovery program that offers transitional housing in Oakland.
Project Title: Peralta Community College District (PCCD) Manufacturing and Fabrication Pathway (FabLab)
Requestor: Peralta Community College District (PCCD)
Amount Requested: $985,820
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: Funding is requested to build the capacity of PCCD's Manufacturing and Fabrication Pathway Fabrication Lab (FabLab) facilities which provide students with access to the tools and experience required for successful digital fabrication careers. Funding will be used to purchase state-of-the-art equipment and implement structured training programs for students to enhance their skills in digital fabrication techniques to prepare them for future high-demand careers.
Project Title: Lake Merritt Uninterruptible Power Supply Relocation Project
Requestor: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
SUMMARY OF PROJECT: This request would fund the relocation and replacement of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for our Transit Operations Facility (TOF) from its existing location in the Metro Building, which is slated to be demolished to make way for transit-oriented development (TOD) on that site, to a new location under the plaza at the Lake Merritt BART Station across the street.