By Joanne Gamlin Santa Monica
Re: “City’s economic outlook is stormy,” (SMDP, April 11). So the city’s deficit will soar to $12 million and endure to 2006. With the national economy threatening a double dip recession, city council members should have cut or drastically slowed down their pet projects, including an airport park, the expansion of Virginia Park and the new Main Library.
Since they failed to do that with the last project, Santa Monicans are discovering that they have no library service whatsoever on two days a week this month: Fridays and Sundays. If aspiring scholars need to do research on those days, the city council is telling them: “Sorry, buster, you're out of luck.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 14, 2003. Read the original PDF.