CITY HALL — Elected officials and staff from City Hall and the school district met last Friday to begin conceptualizing how to honor voters’ wishes to give half of Measure Y funding to Santa Monica and Malibu schools.
CITY HALL — Santa Monicans, have no fear — your City Council members aren’t breaking your bank with unearned salaries. According to compensation information posted to the smgov.
MAIN LIBRARY — The Santa Monica City Council ended a long-standing practice of sending council members to board and commission meetings for fear of prompting litigation at its retreat Sunday.
DOWNTOWN — Santa Monica’s mayor will continue to be selected by the City Council after a motion to allow voters more influence failed to gain support Sunday from a majority of those currently sitting on the dais.
CITY HALL — If you like taking a dip at the Santa Monica Swim Center, are an avid lawn bowler or have a kid enrolled in a city-run sports league, be prepared to pay more come July 1.
Three council persons who’ve accepted thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from developers dug in their heels on campaign finance disclosure again at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.
CITY HALL — By any measure, Councilman Kevin McKeown’s latest proposal to provide the public with greater access to officials’ campaign disclosure records was a modest one.
CITY HALL — The City Council on Tuesday fulfilled a long-delayed promise by voting to ban Santa Monica retailers from giving out free single-use plastic bags at the cash register — a move environmentalists say will encourage people to bring reusable bags to the store and reduce litter and carbon emi
CITY HALL — Bracing for a fight with Sacramento, Santa Monica’s City Council joined a raft of other California cities this week by moving to shore up tens of millions of dollars per year in Redevelopment Agency funding that Gov.
Last Tuesday, Councilman Kevin McKeown requested that his colleagues vote to ask city staff to look at additional campaign financial disclosure regulations involving City Council members who’ve received campaign contributions from a person, company or entity with business before the council — primar
CITY HALL — There will be no new requirement for members of the City Council to verbally disclose whether a developer has contributed to their campaign before participating in a major decision that affects the developer, the council decided on Tuesday.
Tomorrow night, Councilman Kevin McKeown will present a plan for additional financial disclosure requirements from persons sitting on the City Council.
