BUENA PARK : City Awards $904,000 in Federal Grants

The Homewood Teen Center will continue to offer a boxing program for youths thanks to a federal grant that will help pay the facility’s rent.

Senior citizens in need of information, such as finding a roommate, will continue to get assistance because the salary for a part-time senior counselor also will be paid under the grant.

These are among the 15 social programs and community services that will receive money from the 1994-95 Community Development Block Grant program.

The City Council has decided how to spend $904,000 in grant money after receiving recommendations from a Citizens Advisory Committee.

Fifteen applications for funding were submitted and 11 of the requests were for city-sponsored programs.

Of the programs that will receive the money, $852,317 from the grant will go toward city-sponsored programs.

Because of the poor economy and limited revenue, the council decided to spend the bulk of the grant on city-affiliated programs, officials said.

City-affiliated recipients of federal funding include:

* The Code Enforcement Program, $65,000.

* The Graffiti Removal Program, $70,640.

* The Commercial Rehabilitation Program, $71,900.

* The Residential Rehabilitation Program, $233,660.

* “Positive Avenues for Youth,” a gang-prevention program, $50,391.

* A senior outreach case worker, $11,202.

* The reconstruction and widening of Court Street with curb and gutters, $180,000.

Nonprofit organizations that provide essential public services to the community were also chosen for the grant.

They include: the Buena Park Coordinating Council, which gives food, clothing and shelter to low-income and jobless people, $14,210; Homewood Teen Center, which offers the youth boxing program, $11,853, and the Boys & Girls Club of Buena Park, $11,417.