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WEEKEND EDITION
04.15.17 - 04.16.17 Volume 16 Issue 132
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Council to debate rule revisions for boards and commissions BY MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor
City Hall wants to streamline rules governing the two-dozen volunteer boards/commissions/committees that advise the Council. Santa Monica has 24 boards, commissions, committees or task forces that make recommendations to the City Council. The 171 members of the various groups cover the Airport, Architectural Review, Arts, Audit, Building and Fire-Life Safety, Clean Beaches and Ocean Parcel Tax, Disabilities, Downtown Santa Monica, Environment, Housing, Landmarks, Library, Personnel, Planning, Recreation
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and Parks, Redevelopment, Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica Travel and Tourism, Senior Community, Social Services, Status of Women, and Urban Forest. Three different ordinances currently govern the boards/commission. The first allows for reimbursement of expenses, the second establishes rules for making appointments to boards/commission and the requires ethics training, establishes term limits and extends rules limiting membership to one board/commission at a time. Staff are recommending the governing rules be consolidated SEE COUNCIL PAGE 6 Courtesy Photo
Sliding home: Jackie Robinson gets statue at Dodger Stadium BY BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer
He was the first black man to play in the major leagues, ending six decades of racial segregation, and a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Fittingly, Jackie Robinson is the first to be honored with a statue at Dodger Stadium. It will be unveiled Saturday on the 70th anniversary of his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Two years ago on Jackie Robinson Day, owner and chairman Mark Walter suggested a sculpture belonged at Dodger Stadium of the six-time All-Star second baseman who starred when the team was in Brooklyn. “He just felt it was an idea whose time had come,” said Janet Marie Smith, the team’s senior vice president of planning and development.
The 77-inch tall bronze statue depicts Robinson as a rookie in 1947 sliding into home plate, a nod to his aggressive base running. It weighs 700 pounds and is secured with a 150-pound steel rod. It stands in the left field reserve plaza, with sweeping views of downtown Los Angeles in one direction and Elysian Park in the other. Smith said the location was chosen because it’s where the majority of fans enter the hillside ballpark that opened 55 years ago. On the statue’s granite base are three of Robinson’s quotes as chosen by the family, including wife Rachel’s favorite: “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” “Our goal was to both celebrate Jackie Robinson as an athlete and
DESIGNERS: Local students are helping the city develop an outreach campaign around wellness.
MARINA ANDALON Daily Press Staff Writer
Santa Monica’s Office of Civic Wellbeing is eager to improve the health of the 90,000 residents, to help create a healthier city and local design students recently finished a project designed to help build community. In 2013, the City received $1 million in seed money to develop the Wellbeing Project, leading to the collection of data about the city and the citizens to create a multidimensional Wellbeing Index. For nearly two years, the City partnered with RAND Corporation, the New Economic Foundation and a team of international experts in the field of wellbeing science to research factors that make a city thrive. In order to promote their efforts, the City wanted to create a creative and innovative campaign. They turned to ArtCenter College of Design students to work alongside Santa Monica civic leaders and residents. The assignment was to incorporate the data collected from the Wellbeing Index and create a media campaign allowing residents to under-
stand the data. Organizers said if residents can visualize and understand the data and then the information could encourage them to create a healthier lifestyle. “This is a way for us, the City, to communicate with the public in an intimate way. To provide them with insightful information using creativity and innovation,” said Julie Rusk, Project Lead for the Wellbeing Project and Assistant Director of Community and Cultural Services. SEE CAMPAIGN PAGE 7
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