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# Meyerside Chats: Evan Meyer & Gleam Davis
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/meyerside-chat-gleam-davis/
- Published: 2022-02-18T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-18T14:00:00.000Z
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- Tags: Featured, News, Meyerside Chat, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 12:28

Evan Meyer welcomes Councilwoman Gleam Davis for a chat.

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**Summary of the convo:**

\- Distrust in Santa Monica Politics and how to begin to solve it.  
\- Improving systems of community feedback  
\-Distrust and the beliefs of corruption - -"What's in it for me vs what's in it for the community" attitude.  
\- Day to day experience of a policy is hard to reconcile with long term strategy around the policy.  
\- Santa Monica in comparison to other cities (e.g. Beverly Hills)  
\-Homelessness and Housing  
\- Interoperability of public systems of different municipalities  
\- Making alternative transportation more convenient and the "economic calculus" of mode choice.  
\- Policy, weighing difficult choices, and an easily digestible transparency of rationale.  
\- Getting off the "one right answer" to policy mentality - "Name calling" needs to stop.  
\- Let's make Santa Monica a model for the way democratic processes can work  
\- "The most fundamental consensus we have is that we all care.  
\- 90% of SM council votes are actually unanimous.

Thank you Gleam Davis for your service, your commitment to Santa Monica, and for sharing this time with me.