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Maylin
@maylin.bsky.social
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Freelance reporter in LA. Bus shelters, bathrooms, sidewalks, trees.

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Noticing that there appear to be more departments available on this NextRequest dropdown, including Rec & Parks (RAP)

#foia #losangeles
December 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Still can't get over how LA County Public Works took over an LAUSD schoolyard greening project bc the nonprofit that received the grant money couldn't hack it — then took over 10 YEARS to actually implement the project.

It could take longer — the project is supposed to break ground next year.
Hillcrest Drive Elementary in the heart of L.A.’s Crenshaw District was awarded a nearly $1 million Prop 84 grant to green its schoolyard in 2012 as one of the top-ranked projects by the California Natural Resources Agency. After the original nonprofit could no longer shoulder the cost of working with LAUSD, the L.A. County Department of Public Works took over the Hillcrest greening project in 2015. Ten years later, a spokesperson for the agency told AfroLA that the project is set to break ground in 2026, 14 years after the grant was awarded. Records obtained by AfroLA show that the project has repeatedly missed deadlines for completion.
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Happy #foiafriday to all who celebrate
Black box that reads "Internal Deliberative Process" in white letters.
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
If anyone has insight into the years (decades?) long negotiation between the city of LA & LAUSD over opening schoolyards as public parks, I'd love to talk to you:

maylintu@gmail.com
Acquiring new park property, as I noted earlier, has historically proven difficult for LA. But even though the team identified existing public land each of those proposed park areas, there's least one park just waiting to be developed in every single high-need grid cell — an LAUSD schoolyard. Last week LAUSD's board unanimously voted to approve a long-awaited joint-powers agreement with the city to operate parks on campuses. This new agreement means LA no longer needs to go through a separate permitting process for each new school it adds, says Councilmember Nithya Raman, who has been spearheading the city's Community School Parks program.
September 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM