Long Beach City Councilmember Bonnie Lowenthal has been named to the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC). The eight-member MSRC allocates approximately $14 million annually to clean transportation projects in the South Coast Air District, which includes all of Orange County and major portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
Lowenthal, who has represented the first district of Long Beach since 2001, is also an elected member of the board of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and represents the MTA in her capacity as a member of the MSRC.
"As air quality and transportation issues go hand-in-hand in Southern California, I am excited to be a member of the MSRC and play a part in funding local community projects that actually help clean our air," said Lowenthal about the appointment.
The MSRC allocates Clean Transportation Funding from a $4 surcharge on vehicle license fees, specifically to be used for local projects designed to reduce air pollution from mobile sources such as cars, trucks and buses. Thirty cents of every surcharge dollar goes into the MSRC fund. More than $200 million has been distributed for air pollution-reduction programs since the MSRC was established in 1990. Clean Transportation Funding is heavily leveraged with investments from government agencies, as well as private sources, with billions of additional dollars contributed to projects throughout the region.
Lowenthal has been a strong leader on the issues of smart growth, transportation planning, and goods movement as well as affordable housing, rights for the disabled and transparency in government. She chairs the Long Beach Housing and Neighborhoods Committee and serves as Vice Chair of the Public Safety Committee. She is also a member of the 710 Freeway Oversight Committee. She chairs the City's Housing Authority, serves as a representative on the Southern California Association of Government's Transportation and Communications and Goods Movement Task Force, and serves as Chair of the Gateway Cities Council of Governments Transportation Committee.
Lowenthal, who has represented the first district of Long Beach since 2001, is also an elected member of the board of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and represents the MTA in her capacity as a member of the MSRC.
"As air quality and transportation issues go hand-in-hand in Southern California, I am excited to be a member of the MSRC and play a part in funding local community projects that actually help clean our air," said Lowenthal about the appointment.
The MSRC allocates Clean Transportation Funding from a $4 surcharge on vehicle license fees, specifically to be used for local projects designed to reduce air pollution from mobile sources such as cars, trucks and buses. Thirty cents of every surcharge dollar goes into the MSRC fund. More than $200 million has been distributed for air pollution-reduction programs since the MSRC was established in 1990. Clean Transportation Funding is heavily leveraged with investments from government agencies, as well as private sources, with billions of additional dollars contributed to projects throughout the region.
Lowenthal has been a strong leader on the issues of smart growth, transportation planning, and goods movement as well as affordable housing, rights for the disabled and transparency in government. She chairs the Long Beach Housing and Neighborhoods Committee and serves as Vice Chair of the Public Safety Committee. She is also a member of the 710 Freeway Oversight Committee. She chairs the City's Housing Authority, serves as a representative on the Southern California Association of Government's Transportation and Communications and Goods Movement Task Force, and serves as Chair of the Gateway Cities Council of Governments Transportation Committee.