For the first time in a few years, the city’s budget shows a surplus. The majority of the surplus already has been earmarked for programs intended to improve the quality of life in the Pico neighborhood; help better address homelessness; streamline the planning process; better maintain streets, parks and landscaping; increase the focus on the arts; and build the new library.
So this week, Q-Line wants to know, “Where do you think the budget surplus should be spent? Are the city’s major needs being covered or has something been overlooked?”
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 June 21, 2005. Read the original PDF.