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Volume 14 Issue 126

ALLOW CHILD CARE SEE PAGE 4

Buses and traffic circles in $19.4M consent BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer

Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures appearing on upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agendas. Consent agenda items are routinely passed by the City Council with little or no discussion from elected officials or the public. However, many of the items have been part of public discussion in the past.

BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON

CITY HALL City Council will consider

Daily Press Staff Writer

purchasing 29 new Big Blue Buses and metering the irrigation sys-

tems of four traffic circles on Michigan Avenue in a $19,440,112 consent calendar next Tuesday. Gillig LLC would get the bulk of that money — $19,420,112 — for providing 30-foot and 25-foot compressed natural gas-powered (CNG) buses. The purchases are necessary to meet the new services needs proposed to supplement the coverage of the incoming Expo Light Rail, city officials said in a report to council. Four 30-foot buses would replace four 40-foot buses that

have reached the end of their 12year life cycle. Another 25 aging, 40-foot buses would be replaced by new 40-foot buses. BBB is down-sizing those four buses because the 40-footers can’t physically make the turns at two locations proposed along new Expo-supporting routes. “BBB has explored various other options such as rerouting existing vehicles around these challenging turns, but was unable to find a suitable path for the bus,” city officials said. “Based on maneuverability and functionality,

staff recommends the purchase of four 30-foot CNG powered Gillig buses for replacement of the four 40-foot buses, with delivery dates as early as December 2015 and through January 2016.” These buses have about 30 seats and hold about 45 passengers. Each of the 30-foot buses would cost about $578,000 and the 40footers will cost about 594,000 apiece. City Hall has about $10 million for the project coming from a SEE CONSENT PAGE 3

CITYWIDE Two Southern California

restaurants are adding locations in Santa Monica, a local ice cream shop turns five, a ramen joint is getting good reviews, one massive chain is adding a space near the promenade, and one of Santa SEE FOOD PAGE 8

Scout’s service project seeks cleaner neighborhoods BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer

OLYMPIC BLVD. Sean McHugh had seen enough. While walking his family’s mini apricot poodle, Elvis, in his Pearl Street neighborhood, the Santa Monica High School senior was overwhelmed by the animal droppings: on the sidewalk, in the street, on residents’ lawns. He felt as if he were walking through a minefield of fecal matter. McHugh and his mother started thinking about all of the negative consequences of pets’ waste - not just the unsightliness, smell and toxicity, but also the ill will it can create in a community. “We wanted to change it,” McHugh said. McHugh decided to use his

PEEPSAPALOOZA

Matthew Hall

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Local youth, and a few adults, brought PEEPS dioramas depicting their favorite books to the Library’s PEEPSapalooza contest on April 7. SEE SCOUT PAGE 7

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