• Infrastructure: Street lights, sidewalks, repaving
• Afterschool programs
• Gang intervention programs
• Community centers/senior centers
• Permanent housing for homeless
• Neighborhood beautification: medians, plantings
• Foreclosure prevention & counseling
• Career training centers

So. What will you vote for? I chose gang intervention, afterschool programs, and permanent housing for homeless.

There’s also a field where you can make suggestions–do you have a write-in idea for how to spend the stimulus cash? Ha. Hahaha. I just bet you do.

From the Los Angeles Times:

Los Angeles County officials are proposing projects that include more than $25 million to create renewable solar energy sources for county operations, $8 million to computerize some medical records at county health facilities and $186 million to pave roads.

You can download the entire list of proposals (.pdf) here.

In their request for federal funding, L.A. Supervisors included a eyebrow-raising variety of “shovel-ready” infrastructure projects for the region, such as:

• $8,000,000 for solar power projects in various parks
• $350,000,000 for new female detention facilities
• $90,000,000 for a new data center
• $4,083,000 for the replacement of large park lights with induction lights
• And $220,000 for a beach restroom solar powered lighting program

And that, friend, is why is takes 23 years to build 10 miles of subway.

Photo from silatix’s photostream