With just weeks left in the fiscal year, the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council is squeezing in its first beautification project — reviving mosaic planters along the historic Cesar Chavez Avenue corridor.

At last week’s Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council meeting, the board approved up to $3,000 of plants and supplies from local businesses to repair and replant along a stretch of the Brooklyn Avenue Historic corridor.

“Given that we haven’t been able to get any money out to the community this fiscal year, we really wanted to try to attempt to get some money out into the community by doing a community improvement project,” said Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council treasurer Wendy Polanco.

What took so long to approve a community improvement project?

In December, the Department of Neighborh

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