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VOLUME 21, NO. 3
Homeless Initiative Takes a Back Seat to Home Improvement Grants Mayor Beck: ‘Our priorities are out of whack.’ BY MALAK HABBAK
Arcadia’s Homeless Initiatives Program will be allocated $20,000 for the 2017 – 2018 fiscal year.
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rcadia City Council approved Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program funds for the 2017 - 2018 fiscal year for home improvements and repairs to low and moderate-income residents. Initially, Mayor Tom Beck questioned the resolution’s allocation of funds detailed in the staff report, wondering why about $230,000 would be spent on 12 income-qual-
Arcadia Library to Host Naturalization Information Session
On Saturday, Feb. 4 at 2 p.m., the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services will be holding a free information session on Citizenship and Immigration
Services at the Arcadia Public Library. For more information please call (626) 821-5569. SEE PAGE 10
ified homeowners while less than a tenth of that number would be spent on somewhere from 15 to 25 permanent homeless persons in the city. “It seems our priorities are out of whack,” said Beck, who suggested more resources should be given to CDBG’s Homeless Initiatives Programs. “Shouldn’t we be doing more than $20,000 when we’re
– Photo by Terry Miller/Beacon Media News
doing so much for home improvements for our residents?” Beck asked the council. Councilmember April Verlato noted that CDBG funds are specifically allocated and are primarily meant for housing. SEE PAGE 10
Arcadia Depot & Hotel Historical Marker Dedication Jan.26 City, Historical Society officials 2 p.m. at Arcadia Transit Plaza
The Arcadia Historical Society’s 11th “History Lives Here” historical marker, featuring the many railroads that once crisscrossed Arcadia as well as
Lucky Baldwin’s stately Hotel Oakwood will be unveiled at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26. The marker will be unveiled at the Arcadia Transit
Plaza, the former site of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway’s Arcadia Depot. Earlier this year the Foothill Gold Line resurrected train service and a station plat-
form at the same location. For several decades in the first half of the 1900s, three different train lines, SEE PAGE 11