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# Santa Monica budget surplus: where should the money go?
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/062405-story/
- Published: 2005-06-24T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:17:21.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Government & Politics, Pico, #archive-import, Homelessness

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 24, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/062405.pdf?ref=smdp.com)