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# Residents offer proposed budget cuts
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/residents-offer-proposed-budget-cuts/
- Published: 2002-05-31T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:18:36.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Government & Politics, Santa Monica, #archive-import

The city of Santa Monica is facing an $8 million revenue shortfall this year. City administrators have proposed slashing more than $2 million from City Hall’s departmental operating budgets. And millions of dollars in capital improvements will be cut from what was budgeted last year. Officials are currently looking at ways to cuts the city’s expenses.

Here are your responses to this week’s Q-Line question: “Where would you cut from the city budget?”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 31, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/053102.pdf?ref=smdp.com)