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Monday, June 17 2019

Legislation (SB 349) by Senator Anthony Portantino, adjusts the franchise fee for small business to relate more to the size of the company rather than requiring the same fee for all businesses regardless of their size.

Monday, June 17 2019

Money is the mother’s milk of politics,” and as Chairman of the State Senate Appropriations Committee, local representative Sen. Anthony Portantino (D) serves as something of a milkman who delivers.

Unruh, a force in California politics throughout the 1960s and ‘70s, knew something about the subject as he once occupied the treasurer’s post and wielded his sceptre over the State Assembly as speaker for seven years.

Saturday, June 15 2019

Two portions of channelized waterways within urbanized Southern California will receive more than $4 million from the 2019-20 state budget adopted Thursday to restore natural features by removing decades-old concrete barriers.

The city of Glendale will receive $800,000 to help with ongoing improvements of the Los Angeles River. Also, the Lower Arroyo Seco, an upper tributary to the L.A. River, has been allotted $3.5 million for restoration, announced state Sen. Anthony Portantino, D-La Canada Flintridge.

Thursday, June 13 2019

Sacramento, California — Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D–La Cañada Flintridge) is pleased that the State Senate passed the 2019–2020 balanced, on time and fiscally responsible state budget, today.  He also celebrated two important funding proposals he initiated through SB 217 and SB 568 which were included in the budget. 

Thursday, June 13 2019

Sacramento, California — Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D–La Cañada Flintridge) is pleased to announce that his budget requests for the City of Pasadena have been approved.  The 2019–2020 State Budget includes $3.5 million for the Arroyo Seco Watershed Restoration Project from Prop 68 and $40.7 million from Prop 51 for Pasadena City College’s Armen Sarafian Building.