• Name: Barry A. Snell • Age: 55 • Occupation: Certified public accountant/ school board president • Marital status/children: Single with three children • Your neighborhood? How long have you lived there?: South of Montana, 15 years • Own or rent?: Rent • Public school or private?: Public schools in
• Name: Laurie Lieberman • Age: 57 • Occupation: Education activist/parent/ attorney • Marital status/children: Married/two children, three step-children • Your neighborhood? How long have you lived there?: 30-year Santa Monica resident; north of Montana (nine years); previously, Ocean Park and Suns
• Name: Chris Bley • Age: 37 • Occupation: High school history and government teacher • Marital status/children: Divorced/none • Your neighborhood? How long have you lived there?: Montana, Ocean Park, Harvard Street/34 years • Own or rent? Rent • Public school or private? Public through college exce
• Name: Oscar de la Torre • Age: 39 • Occupation: Founder/executive director of Pico Youth & Family Center and school board member • Marital status/children: Married with two children • Your neighborhood? How long have you lived there?: Lifelong resident of Santa Monica’s Pico Neighborhood • Own or
• Name: Patrick Cady • Age: 64 • Occupation: Retired teacher; Coach • Marital status/children: Married to Linda Cady, recently retired JAMS science teacher; One child, Kristin Cady Russio, graduate of Samohi • Your neighborhood? How long have you lived there?: Malibu.
• Name: Jake Wachtel • Age: 38 • Occupation: Parent/producer/college advisory board member • Marital status/children: My wife and I have two daughters; Mia is a second grader.
• Name: Nimish Patel • Age: 41 • Occupation: Small business owner, JD/MBA/CPA • Marital status/children: Married with two children in our public schools • Your neighborhood? How long have you lived there?: Montana Neighborhood/six years • Own or rent? Own • Public school or private? Public schools •
• Name: Ralph Mechur • Age: 60 • Occupation: Architect • Marital status/children: Divorced/3 grown children, all Santa Monica High School graduates • Your neighborhood? How long have you lived there?: Ocean Park from 1973 to 1980; Sunset Park from 1980 to 2010; North of Wilshire from 2010 to the pre
CITY HALL — In a bid to significantly broaden the scope of tenant protections in Santa Monica, the Rent Control Board wants to bolster rules that protect against evictions and extend those protections to cover all tenants in the city, rather than just those who live in rent-controlled apartments.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — A Seattle native with 25 years experience working in special education has been tapped to lead the same program in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District where officials are still repairing a department whose relationships with parents have suffered over the past several yea
