FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011
Volume 10 Issue 220
Santa Monica Daily Press
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City Council wants people to be civil BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL When children first learn the power of cutting words, parents often respond with an age-old maxim: If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Then, it’s called a life lesson. When children grow up, apparently, it’s called a civility agreement. The City Council voted Tuesday to sign onto one such national document, and SEE CIVILITY PAGE 8
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IN A CLOUD OF DUST: A work crew moves dirt for a new synthetic-surfaced field at Santa Monica High School on Thursday.
Samohi shoots for the stars Daily Press Staff Writer
SAMOHI An Olympic-sized swimming pool. Six regulation tennis courts. Up to eight basketball courts. And, the crowning glory, a Vikings football stadium. Those are just some of the $360 million worth of sports facilities being imagined for the Santa Monica High School campus, which the Board of Education was asked to approve in concept Wednesday night. With that approval, staff would have the ability to incorporate the wider vision into an environmental impact document that’s needed before construction can begin on one piece of the vision that’s already funded — a resurfaced football field, brand new practice gym, restroom facilities and
improvements to the Greek Theater. Catherine Baxter, the dean of students at Samohi, told board members that she had instructed staff to dream big, but to do so once and then get down to the nitty gritty of how to make those dreams a reality. She characterized the approach, which sets specific infrastructure goals and orders them by importance, as a paradigm shift. “In 2007, we started thinking differently about how to use taxpayer money for construction,” Baxter said. “Before, we said here’s money, what do we wish we could do with it?” This time, stakeholders at the school worked together to form a plan so that when those dollars arrived, they would already have a purpose. With that in mind, a list of nine project priorities, numbered in order of desire
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rather than economic or temporal feasibility, was created. The first and second priorities were for a football stadium equipped with a competition-quality soccer field and a new baseball or softball field, also marked for soccer use. Next came what’s now known as the north and south gyms. The south gym, ranked fourth on the priority scale, is the project that’s already received funding through City Hall’s redevelopment agency. The next three, in descending order of priority, were an Olympic-size swimming pool, outdoor basketball courts and six regulation tennis courts. Rounding out the bottom two were improvements to the Greek Theater and a SEE SAMOHI PAGE 8
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housed 113 homeless people in the past year, making Los Angeles County one of the leading homeless housing providers in the U.S., according to a national report released Thursday. The report was authored by 100,000 Homes for the Homeless Campaign, a movement to permanently house 100,000 at-risk homeless people by July 2013. In its first year, the campaign has helped secure permanent housing for 10,244 homeless individuals. L.A. County accounted for nearly 30 percent of the homeless housings among large communities. Traditionally, officials have worked with homeless people who seem easiest to help, said Jake Maguire, communications director for Community Solutions, the campaign’s parent organization. “This often leaves the most at-risk people languishing on the street,” Maguire said.
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