Panel OKs Grant for New Memorial
A City Council panel recommended Monday that the city apply for a $200,000 state grant to create a police and firefighter memorial in the San Fernando Valley.
The council’s Arts, Health and Humanities Committee recommended that the council authorize the city to accept the grant.
City officials said they have not yet settled on a site for the monument.
State Sen. Richard Alarcon (D-Sylmar) pushed funding for the project and formed an advisory committee to oversee it.
Alarcon and other Valley officials began pursuing their own monument, to also include firefighters, after a Los Angeles Fire Department helicopter out of Van Nuys Airport crashed in Griffith Park last year, killing three firefighters and a child they were transporting to the hospital.
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