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.