Every year, we work with our state legislative delegation to bring some of San Diego taxpayers’ dollars back from Sacramento so we can invest them into critical community projects here at home.  

This year, we secured nearly $25 million for projects across our city that will help make neighborhoods safer, address homelessness, improve our parks, libraries and streets, and expand housing opportunities. Even in a tight budget year where the state budget saw spending cuts, our state legislators delivered for San Diego. 

We held an event to announce these budget wins and thank our state legislative delegation. It took place at Balboa Park’s Spreckels Organ Pavilion, which will benefit from $500,000 in funding to re-leather the organ so that Civic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez and future organists can continue to produce music at free concerts in the Pavilion.  

Other projects around the city that received funding championed by state legislative representatives include: 

• Improved lighting for sports fields at Memorial Community Park in Logan Heights - $3.5 million 
• Phase 2 construction of the San Diego River Park Foundation’s Grant Park River Center in Mission Valley - $2.5 million 
• Fleet Science Center expansion - $5.6 million  
• Core internal systems upgrade at the Natural History Museum - $1.28 million 
• Creation of a new San Diego Regional Gun Violence Response Task Force - $2.2 million 
• Expanded housing capacity at the City-owned Casa Colina property in City Heights, in partnership with the San Diego Housing Commission - $2 million  
• Business Improvement District community programming - $1.5 million 
• New fire boat for the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department - $1.25 million 
• Streetscape improvements in La Lolla Village - $1 million 
• Homelessness Outreach Task Force, San Diego Housing Commission - $750,000  
• Repair of Roswell Street in Emerald Hills - $710,000 
• San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force enforcement - $600,000 
• Re-Leathering of the Spreckels Organ in Balboa Park - $500,000 
• Partial funding for design work on replacement of Hodges Dam - $500,000 
• Various materials for San Diego Libraries - $500,000  
• Feasibility study for a new City lifeguard garage facility in La Jolla - $250,000 
• Restoration of “The Black Family” statue at Mountain View Park - $195,000 

We’re so grateful for our dedicated and hard-working representatives who bridge the funding gap that help us improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods for all San Diegans. 

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