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WHAT’S UP WESTSIDE ..................PAGE 2 SAMOHI ALUMNI ............................PAGE 3 LAUGHING MATTERS ....................PAGE 4 CRIME WATCH ..................................PAGE 8 MYSTERY PHOTO ............................PAGE 9
Santa Monica Daily Press
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City’s homeless crisis prompts hiring of new Sr. Advisor MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor
City Hall has created a new position with the City Manager’s Office dedicated to coordinating internal efforts to combat homelessness while also working with external government agencies to build regional solutions. The new position comes as homelessness is increasingly at the forefront of civic debate and city leaders said the level of focus and dedication needed to tackle the problem requires its own fulltime staff person.
“Our bandwidth, our resources have been overwhelmed and when that happens we have to start thinking about new ways to address the problem,” said Mayor Ted Winterer. He said City Hall is responding to a reprioritization of issues within the city and growing outcry from residents about homelessness within city limits. “The last couple of months, there’s not a day goes by that I don’t have some kind of outreach from a community member about homelessness,” he said.
Winterer said the new position will help with internal organization but he’s also expecting the new hire to help motivate surrounding agencies to step up their efforts because homelessness is a regional problem. “We do more than our fair share in terms of the resources we provide countywide,” he said. “We need to have someone out there going to other agencies to cooperate on the issue and advocate for other communities to step up. We’re looking for someone with enough experience at different lev-
els of government and relationships with those agencies to be able to open up doors for communication and action.” The early precedent for the role was the hiring of Ed Edelman, a former County Supervisor who was contracted by Santa Monica for a two-year stint to address homelessness within the City. Edelman is credited with making a substantial impact and City Manager Rick Cole said it was a model he referenced when he hired his first Sr. Advisor, Nelson Hernandez, to cover the airport.
Cole said there’s nothing “magical” about the title of Sr. Advisor but he wanted a job description that avoided the word “Czar” and the connotations that title brings. “This is different from the idea that one person is going to take charge of everything because, in my view, that’s actually counterproductive,” he said. According to Cole, homelessness reaches into many aspects of the city’s day to day life but is having a huge impact on local emerSEE POSITION PAGE 7
SMMUSD adds a new member to the team MARINA ANDALON Daily Press Staff Writer
At the September 13 Santa Monica – Malibu Unified School District Board of Education meeting, Dr. Jacqueline Mora was announced the new assistant Superintendent, Educational Services. Dr. Mora replaces Dr. Terry Deloria who is now superintendent of Jefferson Union High School District in Daly City. Mora will
begin her new position for SMMUSD on October 2. “I am really looking forward to getting to know our students, our families, the staff and the faculty and community members,” said Mora. “I am really interested in being able to learn about how to better serve each of the sites in order to support them and making the vision a reality.” Superintendent Dr. Ben Drati expressed his excitement during the meeting and believes she is the perfect person for the job. Mora brings 17 years of public education experience to SMMUSD and has been serving as the director of English learner and parent engagement programs at Santa Barbara Unified School District. She has had extensive experience in large school districts. She has served as an elementary school principal for schools in Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Glendale Unified. Before her career began she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Chicano
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