Unincorporated South Whittier will be the location of the very first federal stimulus transportation projects anywhere in the Los Angeles region, Supervisor Don Knabe announced today. The two separate road resurfacing projects in South Whittier are part of a larger $2.3 million series of projects, which are the first to be funded before any other local city or government agency in the area.

The projects include resurfacing and improvements on Meyer Road from Leffingwell Road to north of Imperial Highway, and Valley View Avenue from Telegraph Road to north of Imperial Highway. Other resurfacing projects will be completed with the $2.3 million in federal funding from the Federal Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in the Florence-Firestone area. A total of 68 jobs are expected to be created as part of these projects.

ARRA is intended to not only save existing jobs and create new ones, but also to improve our local infrastructure with projects exactly like these. We will be using these stimulus funds not to grow government, but instead to grow our local businesses that we will be contracting with to complete these projects, said Supervisor Knabe.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Works will deliver 19 transportation infrastructure projects throughout the County using over $46 million of ARRA funds. Public Works is actively seeking small businesses and community based enterprises to bid on contracts for this and future ARRA Stimulus projects. County businesses seeking more information regarding these and future ARRA Stimulus projects may visit the Public Works Business Outreach website

at http://dpw.lacounty.gov/PRG/business

This project will be advertised for construction bids early next month.