(State Legislature approves proposed budget)..The 2020 state budget proposal will now be sent to the Governor

. Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia said he was pleased to see funding for two Imperial Valley projects remained in the proposed budget following the vote Monday. Garcia said even with all the difficult choices the state faces as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic, the Legislature acknowledged his district’s persistent advocacy, as well as the public health, economic and environmental urgency of the New River and Salton Sea projects. In the budget proposal the New River Improvement Project in Calexico would still receive $18 million from the General Fund and $10 million from Proposition 68 to commence with clean-up. The Salton Sea North Lake Project would be allocated $19, 250,000 of Proposition 68 funds.