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DeLauro touring DESK drop-in center last April.
High school students and the hungry were among the New Haveners to benefit from the $1.7 trillion fiscal-year federal government bill Congress passed before rushing home for the December holidays.
The budget includes money to support the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen’s drop-in center and health care and outreach efforts; the expansion of Fair Haven Community Health Center; an upgrade of Wilbur Cross High School’s athletic facilities; and construction and capital improvements at LEAP (Leadership, Education and Athletic in Partnership)‘s 31 Jefferson St. Roslyn Milstein Meyer Community Center mothership.
These were among the final bring-home-the-bacon victories of New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s two-year term as chair of the House Appropriations Committee. Now that the Republicans have regained control of the House of Representations, Democrat DeLauro will continue to play an influential role on the committee, but will no longer chair it.
Click here for a previous story detailing the projects boosted by the funding bill, and click here to read DeLauro’s full press release about $26.9 million in “community project” funding in Connecticut’s Third Congressional District through this bill.