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# Readers Weigh In on How Council Should Spend Budget Surplus
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/013106-story-20060131-2/
- Published: 2006-01-31T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:06:45.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Community, Santa Monica, #archive-import

So this week, Q-Line wants to know, “How do you think the council should spend the budget surplus?”

Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 p.m. and we’ll print your responses in the weekend edition. Please try to limit your comments to a minute or less. It might help to think first about the wording of your response.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 31, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/013106.pdf?ref=smdp.com)