Santa Monica College announced last month that because of severe financial cutbacks on the state level, it is too broke to throw the city’s only July 4th fireworks celebration. The $50,000 event, which the college has put on for 20 years, won’t happen this year. Mayor Richard Bloom has spearheaded an effort to keep the event going and brought the issue in front of the City Council last week. There has been discussion about looking to the community to help pay for it. A fund-raising effort is now underway.
This week, Q-Line wants to know: “Is it important for Santa Monica to have a Fourth of July celebration? Would you help pay for it?”
Call (310) 285-8106 with your response before Thursday at 5 p.m. We’ll print them in Friday’s paper. Please 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 May 21, 2003. Read the original PDF.