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# Bury the hatchet, build a community
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/bury-the-hatchet-build-a-community-editor/
- Published: 2004-02-13T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:47:14.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Pico, #archive-import

*By Marc Sanschagrin Santa Monica*

It’s nice to see the issues of the Pico neighborhood garnering so many column inches in the local press, but I think we’ve about hit the saturation point. Clearly, Don Gray, Peter Tigler, Mat Millen and I saw the school funding measure in different lights. Their plan appeared timed to rescue the schools only after disaster had struck. This approach of allowing the victim to drown before attempting resuscitation did strike me as radical.

But now it seems to me that the many and divergent voices of our neighborhood need to find ways to agree to disagree and yet work together to improve the collective lot of all. Although they lost their seats on the board, the above are still members of the Pico Neighborhood Association and have been repeatedly invited (by myself for one) to attend meetings and lend their considerable expertise to the ongoing struggle to make our neighborhood a better place to live and raise a family.

I again extend that invitation. Enough of the battle of the op-ed pages. Let’s get together and expend our energy making things better for everyone.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 13, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/021304.pdf?ref=smdp.com)