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I support the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy's request for state funding to create a wildlife restoration corridor, restore native trees and plants, and conduct wildfire mitigation.
Thank you for the hiking tour and a beautiful day on the Hill!
On Friday, I visited the hard-working frontline workers who are a part of the Committee of Interns and Residents at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. I stand in solidarity with their strike after months of bargaining for a fair, new contract.
As a former Torrance School Board Member, it was great to celebrate the Torrance Education Foundation's 30th anniversary of success supporting Torrance students, teachers, and staff!
Honored to be invited by the President and First Lady to attend a White House Rose Garden reception for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Great to see many friends, including Congressman Ted Lieu, US Deputy Labor Secretary Julie Su, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, and APIA Vote director Christine Chen. Also had the pleasure of meeting Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
Great Pro-Choice Rally on Sunday in Redondo Beach! Led and organized by some awesome high school students from Redondo Beach and Torrance - Zoe Nix, Zoe Eastham, Cecilia Apitz, and Michael Chang.
We need to fight to defend #RoevWade and women's rights. A woman's right to control her own body and reproductive freedom is fundamental for women's equality.
Our daughters deserve the same rights that have been well established for the past fifty years.
Lunch with Gardena homeboys Councilman Rodney Tanaka and Cherrystones Hawaiian Restaurant owner Leonard Kim. Tanaka is a former Gardena Police Lieutenant as well as a former chaplain at Union Rescue Mission in downtown LA Skid Row. Cherrystones is one of my favorite Hawaiian restaurants in the South Bay!
As a member of the API Legislative Caucus, this week we recognized the month of May as APIA Heritage Month and honored distinguished AAPI leaders through this year's "Excellence Awards." Each honoree continues to uplift the voices of the API community, enriches our history and culture through their achievements to give us hope and courage in times when we need it most. Congratulations to all!
Good discussion with Torrance Airport Commission Chair Anne O'Brien and members of the Torrance Airport Association about their efforts to abate noise from airplanes taking off and landing at Torrance Municipal Airport.
I'm working with school superintendents throughout the state to increase K-12 funding, especially the base grant of the Local Control Funding Formula.
Increasing the LCFF base grant has been one of my top priorities. I hear from all my local superintendents: raising the base grant portion of the Local Control Funding Formula will give all school districts greater flexibility with their local spending priorities as well as help school districts meet the needs to properly educate all their students. Rising fixed cost, inflation, declining enrollment/student absences, teacher retention, staffing shortages all are reasons that an increase in base funding is needed.
This year I introduced AB 1614: This bill adds $4.2 billion into the current base grant funding, using the existing Local Control Funding Formula, for the 2022-2023 budget year, with intent language that the Legislature strive to reach the top ten states in the country in K-12 per pupil spending.
Had a great visit in Sacramento with fourth graders from Redondo Beach's Riviera Hall Lutheran School in Sacramento this week. We talked about the legislative process and what it was like to be an Assemblymember here in Sacramento.
