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# City Hall Adds $75,000 to Planning Contract as Staff Positions Stay Vacant
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/112205-story-20051122-6/
- Published: 2005-11-22T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T08:13:52.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Government & Politics, Santa Monica, #archive-import

CITY HALL PLANNERS The company helping City Hall’s understaffed planning department will get an additional $75,000 because more positions have opened.

Promotions in the department have left lower-level positions vacant. New employees won’t be hired until January of 2006, city staff said. Civic Solutions Inc. received a contract with City Hall in spring 2005 to provide independent planners who pitch in where needed.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 22, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/112205.pdf?ref=smdp.com)