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Volume 14 Issue 29
Santa Monica Daily Press
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THE HANUKKAH BEGINS AT SUNDOWN ISSUE
California Incline work tops $3.3 M consent BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL City Council will consider
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.
spending $3,264,000 at Tuesday’s meeting with most of the cash going toward the California Incline project. As covered in-depth in the Daily Press last week, demolition and reconstruction of the California Incline, which takes drivers from up on Ocean Avenue down the bluffs to the Pacific Coast Highway below, is sched-
uled to start in February. The incline could close in March, for more than a year, and council will consider paying CALTROP $2,665,000 for construction management and communication services during the project. This isn’t the construction contract — that will be brought to council early next year. “Construction management services would include inspecting the contractor’s
work during construction and ensuring adherence to approved plans and specifications, verifying and documenting field changes and unforeseen conditions, monitoring and mitigating impacts as a result of the construction activities, attending contractor’s safety meetings, attending progress meetings, and maintaining all necessary SEE CONSENT PAGE 5
Faces of Silicon Beach: Zuma Ventures BY ERIK HUBERMAN Special to the Daily press
Serial entrepreneur and angel investor, David Carter joined forces former Myspace exec Allen Hurff to start Zuma Ventures. Zuma is an early stage startup studio that helps form tech companies. Erik Huberman, CEO of Hawke Media, talks to Allen and David about their paths to becoming entrepreneurs, Zuma Ventures and Santa Monica.
FIG TREE FUNDRAISER
Matthew Hall matt@smdp.com The Fairmont Miramar Hotel hosted “Meet Me Under the Fig Tree” on Dec. 14. The free holiday celebration included food provided by FIG restaurant, music performance, kids crafts, prizes, free photos with Santa, “snow” flurries and an opportunity to visit with public safety professionals. There was no charge to participate but residents were asked to bring food donations in support of OPCC and Olympic High School.
Erik Huberman: What made you want to become an entrepreneur? David Carter: I think I was born an entrepreneur. It seems that from an early age, I've been doing everything from shoveling people's walks, mowing lawns to creating a lawn mower repair business. I think the only change is the complexity of my businesses. I would say it's been almost built into my DNA. Allen Hurff: My dad was an IBM-er so I knew I didn't want to work for a big global Fortune 500 company because he would come home and talk about middle managers and middle management. I basically started playing around and tinkering at home with my own businesses. When I was 19, I created the largest dial-up service in Northern Virginia and I never looked back. E: Tell me about Zuma Ventures. SEE FACES PAGE 5
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