The Santa Monica City Council will consider a change to election rules at next week’s meetings that would charge candidates for City Council, SMC Board and Rent Control Board a fee to offset the costs of printing and mailing candidate…
District staff and dsk Architects will present a new campus plan for the Franklin Elementary School campus at Thursday’s meeting of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Directors meeting (agenda). The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. and…
Starting with the first Friday in February, Santa Monica Next will be publishing a weekly e-news letter that will feature all of our headlines and news coverage from the past week. The newsletter will be free to subscribers, so don’t…
Unite Here! Local 11 and the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows that would end a contentious six month strike that had captured regional and even national attention. Fairmont Miramar becomes the second hotel in Santa Monica to reach an agreement…
Over the holiday break, the City of Santa Monica replaced intersections with two-way stop signs with ones with four way stop signs at nine high priority intersections throughout Santa Monica. The action follows the installation of two four-way stops at…
Well 2024 is now well upon us. Starting Monday, Next will resume its normal coverage which makes now the perfect time to look ahead at what we think will be some of the biggest stories of 2024. The Election This…
By a 6-0 vote, the City Council voted to study placing a measure on the November 2024 ballot that would tax paid parking to pay for transportation safety and parking modernization improvements. The motion, authored by Councilmembers Gleam Davis, Caroline…
Last night, the Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously for a public outreach process and consultant team to lead that process for how the land that the Santa Monica Airport now rests assuming it is closed on January 1, 2029.…
Tonight, the City Council will consider a request to extend the security contract for A. G. Coast, Corp. dba California Panther for another five years. City conducted a formal Request for Proposals (RFP) in October 2023, and received 19 different…
At tomorrow’s City Council meeting, a motion by Councilmembers Gleam Davis, Caroline Torosis and Jesse Zwick directs city staff to “evaluate the potential” to place a ballot measure on the November 2024 ballot that would tax paid parking structures (ie…
At Tuesday’s meeting, the City Council voted unanimously and quickly to create an “Request For Proposals Process” so that anyone can bring forward a proposal to take over the rehabilitation and management of the Santa Monica Civic Center (the Civic.)…
At last night’s meeting, the City Council unanimously approved a motion that allows the City Manager to enter into negotiations to bring Cirque de Soleil back to the Santa Monica Pier next fall. (Meeting Agenda, Item 5f.) Before the discussion,…
Much of the past year’s City Council meetings have gone long, often marked by heated exchanges and too much time spent debunking (or supporting) nonsensical conspiracy theories. But last night’s transfer of mayoral power from outgoing Mayor Gleam Davis to…
Santa Monica Next Is the Little News Outlet That Writes Big Stories. Won’t You Support Our Non-Profit Publication? Earlier this year, Santa Monica Next relaunched after a couple of years of very part-time publishing. Our goal was to be a…
The Los Angeles County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs (DCBA) began accepting applications for the Los Angeles County Rent Relief Program earlier this morning and will continue accepting them through January 12 at 11:59 p.m.. The program will now…
