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# Family emergency pushes vote on schools agreement
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/family-emergency-pushes-vote-on-schools-agreement/
- Published: 2007-04-26T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:38:31.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Malibu, #archive-import

*By DAILY PRESS STAFF*

CITY HALL Approval of a $750,000 increase in the city’s annual contribution to the school district through the Master Facility Use Agreement was tabled to a later date.

The City Council discussion item was postponed because Councilman Bobby Shriver was unable to make Tuesday night’s meeting due to a death in the family and had requested it be held.

City staff is recommending that the city up its current annual payment of $6.5 million to the school district to $7.2 million for fiscal year 2007-08.

Now in its third year, the Master Facility Use Agreement is a contract where the city provides unrestricted revenue to the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District in exchange for the city to use school facilities, particularly school fields. The five-year agreement was signed in June 2005, though it was retroactive to 2004, and will expire in 2009, unless it’s renewed again.

In addition to the Master Facility Use Agreement, the city provides an additional $5.3 million for school site youth programs and another $10 million annually for community-based off school site programs.

If the new terms of the agreement are approved, Council would appropriate the funds through the adoption of its fiscal 2007-08 budget, scheduled for June 19.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 26, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/042607.pdf?ref=smdp.com)