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06.27.16 Volume 15 Issue 184
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Samohi valedictorian heading to Harvey Mudd
SMMUSD board supports city tax Increase expected to come before voters in November
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BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
He’s a viola-playing, karatekicking twin brother who wants to explore the connections between electrical engineering and neuroscience. Meet this year’s Santa Monica High School valedictorian. Christopher Ferrarin, who will continue his education at Harvey
The Santa Monica-Malibu Board of Education on Thursday voiced its collective support for a city tax that would support local public schools. Proponents have not yet hammered out the details of the tax, which is expected to appear before
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Council to hear revenue and spending proposals on June 28 BY MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor
BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
WHAT’S UP WESTSIDE ..................PAGE 2 LETTER TO THE EDITOR ..............PAGE 3 MY WRITE ........................................PAGE 4 EARTH TALK ....................................PAGE 5 MYSTERY PHOTO ............................PAGE 11
Revenue and spending take center stage at the June 28 Council meeting but development and zoning are still part of the agenda. Council will approve several contracts in the consent calendar, hear proposals for potential bonds or tax increases, modify purchasing rules, tweak zoning regulations and direct staff to come back for a future discussion on a ballot measure that could compete with the Land Use Voter Empowerment initiative.
The consent calendar contains multiple items that are considered routine, have already been discussed once or are otherwise lacking in controversy. Items of interest this week on the 15 item calendar include a $119,172 contract for restoring the Chain Reaction statue outside the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, a $400,000 five year contract for Business License Tax audit/compliance services and a $175,000 modification to an existing contract with RAND Corporation for the production of the second Local
Wellbeing Index. The first ordinance for discussion Tuesday continues a recent trend of tweaking zoning rules. Following the large-scale revisions to zoning rules last year, staff have complied a list of errors that need fixing. A majority of the fixes were relatively easy and had no real impact on the rules. Council previously adopted most at their June 14 meeting, but Council asked for more information on about twenty specific changes that had the SEE COUNCIL PAGE 3
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The Chris Mulkey Band performed at Santa Monica College’s Celebrate America event on June 25. The event draws thousands including Mazen Van Whaley who played with her plastic fireman hat while sitting in the lap of her mother Karen Vanheezik, Suzanne Haring who was dressed as the Statue of Liberty, Kinkade Spencer showing his spirit wearing a USA shirt and Javon Hampton painting the face of tiger on Abby Wallace.
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