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• March 6, 2001: HUD Announces $1.96 Million Loan for Senior Citizen Center. The money will be awarded the City of Rialto, Recreation and Community Services. The new Senior Citizen Center will allow the City of Rialto to enhance the services it currently provides to senior citizens. The facility will feature the following; banking services, postal services, a multi-purpose room, a beauty salon, a computer class room, a stage, a full service commercial kitchen, and an exterior courtyard.
• March 15, 2001: $100 million to help the nation’s fire service community from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Through the Fire Grant Program, FEMA provides funds for any fire service agency who provides fire prevention and control to local, municipal, district, county, parish, or tribal governments based on formally recognized arrangement.
• April 2, 2001: The San Bernardino County Public Housing Authority is eligible for $5,161,026 in public housing Capital Fund (CFP) and $423,572 in Drug Elimination (PHDEP) formula funds. The CFP provides grants to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) for modernization and management improvements. If applicable, replacement housing amounts have been included in the CFP formula amount. The replacement housing funds are only used to cover the cost of providing replacement housing. The PHDEP provides grants to eliminate drugs and drug-related crime in public housing communities. In general, the PHDEP formula includes PHAs that received funding in the recent past or whose communities are in the top half of a national index measuring violent crimes for individual communities.
• May 3, 2001: $213,345 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department for anti-money laundering efforts. These funds are being provided under the U.S. Department of Justice’s Financial Crime-Free Communities Support (C-FIC) Anti-Money Laundering program. The goals of the Department of Justice’s program are to provide seed capital for state and local counter-money laundering enforcement efforts, to assist in the development of programs and to encourage partnerships or collaboration among state and local investigators, prosecutors and regulators.
• May 11, 2001: $990,644 grant from the Federal Transit Administration to the Southern California Regional Rail Authority for track and rail bed improvements. The project will consist of double tracking a three-mile segment on the Metrolink San Bernardino line between Pomona and Montclair. The project will reduce delays and increase travel speeds for the trains. This grant is an expansion of a project with funds totaling $3,961,039 to this date.
• May 15, 2001: $25 million to help law enforcement agencies across the nation to obtain bulletproof vests from the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP). Through the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program, OJP provides up to half the cost of bulletproof vests. Last year, 3,500 law enforcement agencies across the nation received funding for over 180,000 bulletproof vests for state, county, and local law enforcement agencies. In addition, this year jurisdictions will be able to purchase stab-resistant bulletproof vest models. The State of California received a total of $1,275,000 in assistance. In the 42^nd Congressional District the following amounts have been approved: Colton City - $1,822.51, County of San Bernardino - $61,826.24, Fontana City - $2,019.22, Ontario City - $12,714.83, Rialto City - $3,515.44, Riverside County - $52,472.69, San Bernardino City Unified School - $4,569.43. The 42^nd Congressional District will receive a total amount of $138,940.36 or approximately 11 percent of the total State of California funds.
• May 16, 2001: $396,540 grant to the Fontana Unified School District from the U.S. Department of Education for elementary school counseling programs. The Fontana Unified School District will utilize these grant funds to support counseling programs in 7 elementary schools. The schools will be given the opportunity to establish or expand their capacity to provide counseling services and the school district an opportunity to identify model strategies, enhance its knowledge of what works, and expand the inventory of effective counseling programs. The emphasis of the program is on counseling services that focus on prevention and early intervention services for elementary school students.
• May 18, 2001: $150,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to the City of Rialto for airport improvement at Rialto Municipal Airport. The project will rehabilitate the aircraft parking apron and the perimeter fencing at the airport. The rehabilitation of the apron will extend the useful life of the airport and the rehabilitation of the perimeter fencing will enhance security.
• May 23, 2001: The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) announced to members of Congress that they are making $75 million available to help public prosecutor’s offices hire prosecutors dedicated to the prosecution of firearm-related violent crimes. Under the Community Gun Violence Prosecution program, state, county, city and tribal public prosecutor’s offices can apply for grants to hire prosecutors dedicated to the prosecution of firearm-related violent crimes. The grants may be used to cover up to 80 percent of the salary and benefit costs of full-time prosecutors, up to $40,000 per year per prosecutor for three years. Cities with populations of 150,000 people or under will receive half of the funds and the other half will go to cities with populations over 150,000.
• June 26, 2001: $624,762 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for California State University - San Bernardino to expand its capacity to serve Hispanic and low income students. The funds can be used for a variety of activities, including scientific or laboratory equipment for educational purposes, the renovation of instructional facilities, faculty development, funds and administrative management, development and improvement of academic programs, acquisition of equipment to strengthen funds management and academic programs, joint use of facilities, academic tutoring, counseling programs, and student support services.
• July 4, 2001: $341,154 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to California State University San Bernardino for integrating technology into the classrooms.
• July 4, 2001: $9,919,103 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to San Bernardino County for Head Start projects.
• July 12, 2001: $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to San Bernardino County Public Health Department for the Maternal Health Program.
• July 17, 2001: a total of $7,674,000 in grants to four Inland Empire cities for community development projects awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The City of Ontario will be awarded $3,517,000 to renovate the Seniors’ Center among other projects. The City of Fontana will be awarded $1,981,000 for the purchase of a five-acre site and development of a high quality hotel and restaurant. The City of Rancho Cucamonga will be awarded $1,001,000 for the rehabilitation of the existing housing stock with emphasis on owner-occupied housing for extremely low, low and moderate-income homeowners. The City of Rialto will be awarded $1,175,000 for the construction of a Seniors’ Center.
• July 20, 2001: $13,488,000 in grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to the County of San Bernardino for community development projects. Major highlighted projects are: economic development and small business development, public facilities and infrastructure developments, demolition and code enforcement, public services, First Time Homebuyer Assistance, monthly rental assistance, and a cold weather shelter program.
• July 25, 2001: $24,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to a faculty member at California State University - San Bernardino, Mr. Chris Naticchia, for faculty research on arguing about justice in a pluralist world.
• August 1, 2001: $997,800 grant from the Department of Justice to the San Bernardino County Probation Department for the Night Light Program. The San Bernardino County IMPACT/Night Light program is a collaborative partnership between the SBCPD and the San Bernardino Police Department, dedicated to monitoring juvenile and youthful adult offenders engaged in street crime, assaults, homicides, graffiti, vandalism, and the illegal use of firearms. The program seeks to reduce crime by developing teams of one police officer and one probation officer in each of the five police districts in the City of San Bernardino. These teams will contact juvenile and youthful adult probationers and monitor their activities and compliance with court ordered probation conditions.
• August 22, 2001: $60,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians for water pollution control.
• September 14, 2001: $2,056,012 grant from the Federal Transit Authority for Omnitrans buses and the Rialto Metrolink station. Funds from this grant will provide for three buses for Omnitrans and improvements for the Metrolink station in Rialto.
• September 17, 2001: $288,962 grant from the Department of Education to the San Bernardino City Unified School District for the Drug & Violence Prevention coordinators For Middle Schools Program.
• September 20, 2001: $125,000 grant from the United States Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to the City of Fontana under the COPS in Schools Program. This money will fund law enforcement agencies to pay for the salary and benefits to hire one additional sworn officer to perform a variety of functions within a school.
• September 24, 2001: $281,411.00 grant from the Department of Education to the Ontario Montclair School District under the Comprehensive School Grants Program. This grant will provide funding for school-wide bilingual education or English-as-a-second-language programs and other special alternative instructional programs to schools with concentrations of limited English proficient students.
• September 25, 2001: $125,000 grant from the Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to the San Bernardino Police Department for the Value Based Initiative. The grant will be used to train communities to use the problem solving process to understand the causes of quality of life problems, build programs that develop specific tailor-made responses to the problems, and assess the impact of those responses. It will also provide training and technical assistance to both law enforcement and community members.
• September 26, 2001: $245,024 grant from the Department of Education to the San Bernardino City Unified School District under the Center for Civic Education Program for the Physical Education for Progress program. The funds with help initiate, expand, and improve physical education programs in local education agencies.
• September 27, 2001: $500,000 grant from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to the San Bernardino County Housing Authority in a Family, Resident Service Delivery Model Grant. The grant will provide links to support services, resident empowerment activities, and assist residents in becoming economically self-sufficient.
• September 27, 2001: $156,686.00 grant from the United States Department of Education to California State University, San Bernardino for the Teachers and Personnel Grants Program. The program provides discretionary grants for professional development of bilingual education teachers and other education personnel for the purpose of improving education services to limited English proficient (LEP) students.
• September 29, 2001: $110,000 grant from the EPA to the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians under the Indian Environmental General Assistance Program.
• September 30, 2001: $339,524 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to the Visiting Nurse Association of the Inland Counties to implement a Telemedicine Disease Management Program. The program will serve high-risk congestive heart failure patients in the rural areas throughout Riverside and San Bernardino counties in California.
• October 5, 2001:$600,00 from the Federal Transit Administration to the City of San Bernardino OMNITRANS for a Job Access grant. The grant will assist the local transportation agencies in providing the necessary transportation services for Welfare to Work participants to get to jobs and education/training programs.
• October 5, 2001: $52,945 grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to the Frazee Community Center of San Bernardino. This 2001 VA Homeless Providers Award will be used to create transitional housing for eight homeless veterans.
• October 10, 2001: $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Youthbuild Implementation Program to the Neighborhood Housing Services of the Inland Empire. Forty San Bernardino participants will learn on-site construction skills by working to build 3 new homes. The program will also provide a comprehensive and integrated effort to increase the academic, leadership and vocational skill levels of trainees.
• October 11, 2001: $171,742 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Service Coordinator Grant Program to the AFE-Pioneer Associates, LP of San Bernardino for the Pioneer Park Plaza Apartments. Funds will assist housing owners to employ a Service Coordinator for an initial period of 3 years. This staff person links elderly or non-elderly people with disabilities, who reside in eligible housing, to the community-based supportive services they need to continue living independently in their homes.
• October 17, 2001: $15,358,599 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors for Head Start projects.
• October 31, 2001: $10,290,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to TELACU of San Bernardino. The award provides funding to construct and operate a 75-unit project to enhance social, educational and recreational programs for low-income elderly.
• October 31, 2001: $12,490,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to Cooperative Services, Inc. of Ontario for the Ontario Senior Housing Project. This grant will allow for the development and operation of 90 new, affordable and energy efficient housing units for seniors.
• November 16, 2001: $804,444 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance to San Bernardino County for the State Criminal Assistance Program (SCAAP). The SCAAP award replaces funds used by states and localities to incarcerate criminal illegal aliens and can be used for any purpose.
• November 20, 2001: $4,416,517 grant from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to ten agencies in San Bernardino County for the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act’s Supportive Housing Program. The award will enable each of the following projects to acquire, build, renovate, and operate facilities that serve homeless families and individuals and help them to achieve independent living: Central City Lutheran Mission Homes of San Bernardino, $539,952; Option House, Inc. Fontana Housing Project, $176,664; Operation Grace of San Bernardino, $160,124; Foothill Family Shelter, Inc. of Upland, $110,000; Project Home Again of San Bernardino, $1,101,195; and Permanent Housing of Bloomington, $942,042.
• December 19, 2001: $524, 682 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Primary Health Care for the Health Center Cluster Project to the Community Health Systems, Inc. of Bloomington.
• January 2, 2002: $1,000,000 grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) to the City of Colton. The award will aid in the construction of infrastructure improvements to serve the Cooley Ranch industrial area.
• March 18, 2002: $125,000 grant from the United States Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to the City of Colton under the COPS in Schools Program. This money will fund law enforcement agencies to pay for the salary and benefits to hire one additional sworn officer to perform a variety of functions within a school.
• March 28, 2002: $23,305,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board for the Crime Victim Compensation Grant Program. This grant award provides funds from the FY01 Crime Victims Fund to enhance the State of California’s victim compensation payments to eligible crime victims.
• March 28, 2002: $6,374,011 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to the State of California Department of Community Services & Development. This grant will award the 2002 Weatherization Assistance program to the State of California.
• April 17, 2002: $326,457.57 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Fontana Unified School District. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• April 17, 2002: $8,484.84 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Mountain View School District. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• April 17, 2002: $8,542.16 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Mountain View School District. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• April 17, 2002: $19,951.20 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the San Bernardino County Library. This funding will be used for discounting Internet access.
• April 17, 2002: $22,404.42 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the San Bernardino County Library. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• April 17, 2002: $117,183.15 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the San Bernardino County Library. This funding will be used for discounting telecommunications services.
• April 17, 2002: $26,853.00 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the San Bernardino Public Library. This funding will be used for discounting Internet access.
• April 17, 2002: $55,386.00 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the San Bernardino Public Library. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• April 17, 2002: $1,418.40 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to St. Anthony’s Elementary School, San Bernardino, California. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• May 1, 2002: $582,072.57 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Colton Joint Unified School District. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• May 1, 2002: $176,054.00 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Rialto Unified School District. This funding will be used for discounting Internet access.
• May 2, 2002: $50,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to the City of Rancho Cucamonga. This FY 2002 EDI-Special Project grant will be used for the construction of a senior center.
• May 8, 2002: $ 379,000,000 grant from the California Transportation Commission to the Pacific Electric Inland Empire Trail. This money will be used to design and construct approximately three miles of the Pacific Electric Inland Empire Trail between Haven and Etiwanda Avenues in Claremont, Fontana, Montclair, Rancho Cucamonga, Rialto, and Upland.
• May 15, 2002: $80,162.65 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Alta Loma School District. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• May 15, 2002: $23,540.75 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Central School District. This funding will be used for discounting telecommunications services.
• May 20, 2002: $74,483 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs to the San Bernardino County, Office of the District Attorney. This award is made under the FY 2001 Community Prosecution Program Initiative and supports fully operational community prosecution program efforts that involve broad-based partnerships working to identify local public safety priorities, crime prevention issues, and problem-solving strategies.
• May 20, 2002: $200,000 grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency to San Bernardino County, California. This grant will allow local officials to clean up and revitalize underused, abandoned “brown fields.”
• May 22, 2002: $6,972.65 grant from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to County of San Bernardino. This money will be used to protect the loves of law enforcement by helping states and units of local and tribal governments equip their law enforcement officers with armor vests.
• May 22, 2002: $3,871.25 grant from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to Colton City. This money will be used to protect the lives of law enforcement by helping states and units of local and tribal governments equip their law enforcement officers with armor vests.
• May 22, 2002: $353.89 grant from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to Fontana City. This money will be used to protect the loves of law enforcement by helping states and units of local and tribal governments equip their law enforcement officers with armor vests.
• May 22, 2002: $1,095.46 grant from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to Ontario City. This money will be used to protect the loves of law enforcement by helping states and units of local and tribal governments equip their law enforcement officers with armor vests.
• May 22, 2002: $5,972.50 grant from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to Rialto City. This money will be used to protect the loves of law enforcement by helping states and units of local and tribal governments equip their law enforcement officers with armor vests.
• May 22, 2002: $44.76 grant from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to San Bernardino City Unified School District. This money will be used to protect the loves of law enforcement by helping states and units of local and tribal governments equip their law enforcement officers with armor vests.
• May 22, 2002: $9,276.77 grant from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to Riverside County. This money will be used to protect the loves of law enforcement by helping states and units of local and tribal governments equip their law enforcement officers with armor vests.
• May 29, 2002: $12,852.58 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Central School District. This funding will be used for discounting telecommunications services.
• May 29, 2002: $8,151.84 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Ontario City Library. This funding will be used for discounting Internet access.
• May 30, 2002: $1,164,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to the City of Rialto. This grant will be used for the Consolidated Plan Grant Program which highlights projects such as Public Improvements; Section 108 Debt Services for Senior Centers; Economic Development; Various public services for teens, youth, senior citizens, special needs persons, homeless individuals and families, victims of domestic violence; affirmative fair housing activities; landlord/tenant mediation; and program administration.
• June 5, 2002: $6,014,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to the City of San Bernardino. This funding will be divided as follows: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) - $3,913,000, HOME Investment Partnership Program - $1,964,000, and Emergency Shelter Grant Program (ESG) - $137,000. The CDBG funds will allocate its money for programs that range from public activities for youth, seniors, battered women, the disabled, families, homeless, child care, health services, employment training, crimes awareness, emergency services and legal services to economic development projects, code enforcement projects, and for clearing and demolition projects. HOME funds are used for single unit rehabilitation projects and down payment assistance programs. ESG funds will be used for homeless prevention, essential services and shelter operations.
• June 5, 2002: $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to San Bernardino County, CA. This grant will be used to create new permanent jobs, assist businesses with earthquake-damaged structures and abate slums and blighted conditions.
• June 5, 2002: $100,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Service’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau to San Bernardino County Public Health Department. This grant will be used to provide abstinence education, and at the option of States, where appropriate, mentoring, counseling, and adult supervision to promote abstinence from sexual activity, with a focus on those groups most likely to bear children out of wedlock.
• June 13, 2002: $273,450.81 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Colton Joint Unified School District. This funding will be used for discounting Internet access.
• June 13, 2002: $673.20 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Ontario City Library. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• June 13, 2002: $1,726.86 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Ontario City Library. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• June 13, 2002: $4,765.44 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Ontario City Library. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• June 13, 2002: $52,043.76 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Rialto Unified School District. This funding will be used for discounting Internet access.
• June 13, 2002: $3,780.00 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Rialto Unified School District. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• June 13, 2002: $338,289.36 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Rialto Unified School District. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• June 14, 2002: $983,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to the City of Rancho Cucamonga. Funding is awarded for the Consolidated Plan Grant Program which will highlight projects such as Single-family Home Improvements, sidewalk Repair and Grinding, Senior Center Design and Construction, Various public services for youth, senior citizens, special needs persons, homeless individuals and families, battered spouses, affirmative fair housing activities, landlord/tenant mediation, and program administration.
• June 14-, 2002: $9,140,150 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors. Funding will be used for the Head Start Projects.
• June 26, 2002: $3,844.08 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Etiwanda Elementary School District. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• June 26, 2002: $83,386.72 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the Etiwanda Elementary School District. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• June 26, 2002: $900,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs to the San Bernardino County IMPACT/Night Light Program (SBCINLP). The San Bernardino County IMPACT/Night Light program is a collaborative partnership between the SBCPD and the San Bernardino Police Department, dedicated to monitoring juvenile and youthful adult offenders engaged in street crime, assaults, homicides, graffiti, vandalism, and the illegal use of firearms. The program seeks to reduce crime by developing teams of one police officer and one probation officer in each of the five police districts in the City of San Bernardino. These teams will contact juvenile and youthful adult probationers and monitor their activities and compliance with court ordered probation conditions.
• July 11, 2002: $2,875.42 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• July 11, 2002: $10,321.92 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• July 11, 2002: $60,380.14 from the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) to the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools. This funding will be used for discounting Telecommunications services.
• July 11, 2002: $11,946,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy, Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs to the Inland Empire Utilities Agency. Funding used for the RP-5 Biomass Renewable Energy Project, under development by the Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA), is comprised of a series of full-scale demonstration projects that will showcase innovative combination of primary and secondary generation systems using methane gas derived from local processing of bio-solids, dairy manure and other organic material.

*Last Updated: August 1, 2002