By Daily Press staff
City Hall is turning to Santa Monica’s youth to shape the future. The entire Santa Monica community is invited to attend an open house and student presentations highlighting the visions of Santa Monica youth for the city’s next 20 years on Thursday, April 21, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Santa Monica High School cafeteria. More than 500 students have been working on projects for this event since the project began in January. Class projects will be on display and students will make presentations to the community and city officials in Samohi’s Barnum Hall at 7:30 p.m. The event will be covered by CityTV of Santa Monica.
The program is part of the city of Santa Monica Planning and Community Development Department’s outreach efforts in what’s known as “Shape the Future 2025,” a project that will develop the community’s vision for how people will live, work and play in Santa Monica during the next 20 years.
The following schools have a class or program participating: Crossroads Middle School, Edison Elementary, Franklin Elementary, Lincoln Middle School, McKinley Elementary, Olympic High School, Santa Monica High School, and SMASH. A group at the Police Activities League are preparing a project, too, and during spring break, children enrolled in the CREST camps at Grant, Roosevelt, Edison, John Muir/SMASH, and John Adams Middle School Teen Center worked on a variety of projects to be included in the open house. Even pre-school kids are getting some early planning education at the Growing Place, Hill & Dale and through programs of the school district’s child development services. Altogether, more than 500 children will be participating citywide in shaping Santa Monica’s future.
More information on Shape the Future 2025 is available at www.shapethefu-ture2025.net <http://www.shapethefuture2025.net/>. Contact Liz Bar-El at (310) 458- 8341 or for more information on the youth planning project. Fifth grader a poster child for compassion
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 7, 2005. Read the original PDF.