Did Elk Grove Mayor Singh-Allen, city council secure rail crossing improvement money on their recent Washington D.C. junket?

How influential is Singh-Allen, her city councilmen?

As reported this morning, a new grant program from the U.S. Department of Transportation provided $570 million in 32 states, including California, for rail crossing improvements.
The $570 million is the first phase of the $3 billion five-year Railroad Crossing Elimination Grant Program. Among several cities receiving grants is Houston, which received $37 million for four underpasses and the elimination of seven railroad crossings on the city’s heavily industrialized east side.
Likewise, Pelahm, Ala. (population 24,000) will receive $41.7 million to build an overcrossing to alleviate a frequently blocked crossing that cuts off half of the city from timely emergency responses.
Seven California cities, counties, and multi-jurisdictional entities were included in the initial grant. Riverside will receive $15 million towards the construction of a four-lane underpass (see below).
Meanwhile, as we have heard during the April 26 city council meeting and numerous social media postings, Elk Grove Mayor Singh-Allen and three of her councilmen traveled to Washington, D.C. The trip was supposedly to lobby the federal government to send money to the region and Elk Grove.
In between posing for selfies and enjoying free alcoholic drinks and meals, did Madame Mayor press Rep. Doris Matsui or other federal officials for some of this grant funding? After all, much of Elk Grove’s population lives on the other side of the Union Pacific tracks and are at risk for slowed emergency responses.
Living on the other side of the tracks with the frequent train traffic, much less trains stopping and blocking several high-traffic roads, emergency services for this portion of our community are imperiled. Elk Grove needs to build at least three underpasses to address this.
It does not appear Elk Grove applied for the grant. If the city did and was not approved, it demonstrates what little influence Mayor Singh-Allen has with Rep. Matsui and other federal officials. It also highlights the meaninglessness of the taxpayer-funded Cap-to-Cap junket.  
Too bad our Elk Grove elected officials were too busy posing for selfies, noshing on free gourmet food, swilling unlimited complimentary cocktails, and not pushing to be included in this grant.
For all the talk of Measure E money improving emergency responses, until underpasses on at least three high-traffic corridors in Elk Grove are built, response times will not improve. Tough luck in medical emergencies for those living on the wrong side of the tracks.
But hey, as Councilmember Sergio Robles said, he had fun while in Washington, D.C., and what could be more important?