Caption: Aerial image of the proposed City Yards site Caption: Plaza at City Yards entrance on Michigan Avenue Caption: Proposed exterior for the new Fleet Building Caption: Outdoor courtyard serving as a crew lunch area and community space from https://www.santamonica.gov/blog/building-a-safe-sustainable-city-yards-for-our-community
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School is out for the summer in Santa Monica! Be sure you and your little ones thrive this summer with the countless events, programs, and activities our beautiful beachside city offers. Read on to learn about a few not-to-miss opportunities from Santa Monica Community Recreation! 1. Fitness Classes for Adults. 2. Inspire Creativity Outside of the Classroom with an Engineering & Science Summer Break Youth Camps. 3. Get BOGAFit! Take a Floating Fitness Workout. Get out of the gym and try something different at Annenberg Community Beach House. Floating Fitness Workouts with BOGAFiT is an innovative fitness program that builds strength, deepens flexibility, and improves balance and coordination. 4. Send Your Kids to Cooking Youth Camp this Summer Break. 5. Join an Adult Coed Volleyball League. Want to learn more about opportunities like this year round? Click here to subscribe to Community Recreation’s newsletter. from https://www.santamonica.gov/blog/5-things-you-don-t-want-to-miss-in-santa-monica-this-summer The Santa Monica Community Recycling Center, commonly known as the Buyback Center, will close effective June 15, 2019, until further notice. Q: What is happening to the Buyback Center? A: The Santa Monica Community Recycling Center, commonly known as the Buyback Center, located at 2411 Delaware Avenue will close effective June 15, 2019, until further notice. The drop-off recycling area outside of the Buyback Center will also close effective June 15, 2019. Q: Will the Buyback Center re-open? A: There is no immediate plan to re-open the BuyBack Center at the Delaware Avenue location or another location in Santa Monica at this time. The City is actively considering alternative options. Q: Why is the Buyback Center closing? A: The City of Santa Monica’s contract with Allan Company, the operator of the Buyback Center, was not renewed by City Council. This means in the foreseeable future separation of Santa Monica’s recyclable materials will occur off-site. Staff will return to City Council this Fall with a recommendation about how to move forward with a long-term approach to provide recycling services, including potential Buyback Center options. All curbside recycling collections will continue without interruption to our customers and the City remains fully committed to our Zero Waste goals. Q: Should I continue to recycle? Q: Will everything being placed in the recycling containers, which are typically blue, continue to be recycled? Q: Where do the recyclables go after I place them in my recycling containers? Q: Where do I go to redeem items that have California Refund Value (CRV), such as cans and bottles, for cash? A: Customers who want to redeem their CRV bottles and cans for cash can bring their items to the nearest redemption centers at the following locations: Q: What should I do with electronic waste (e-waste) and household hazardous waste? A: Three easy solutions: from https://www.santamonica.gov/blog/santa-monica-community-recycling-center-closure-effective-june-15-2019 Our city is on a mission to eliminate all traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2026. It’s a big goal, which is why we have launched the Take the Friendly Road campaign, but we can’t do it alone. We need all hands on deck — that’s why we’re asking for your input. from https://www.santamonica.gov/interactive-map The Santa Monica Fire Department, Santa Monica Police Harbor Guards, and Nurses from the AACN Chapter at UCLA, teamed up this year for the annual Sidewalk CPR event to support National CPR and AED Awareness Week. The event held at the Santa Monica Pier, June 5, 2019, educated 288 people in Hands-only CPR. Hands-only CPR focuses on chest compressions and is a temporary measure that can keep the heart and brain alive until Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrive to provide other treatments. Hands-only CPR, is used on adults and teens only, mouth to mouth breathing should still be used on children and infants. You can learn more about Hands-only CPR, and find Information about CPR certification training by visiting the American Heart Association website, https://bit.ly/2MtHbXs, or The Red Cross, http://www.redcross.org/ux/take-a-class. from https://www.santamonica.gov/blog/santa-monica-s-annual-sidewalk-cpa-event-reaches-288-people Santa Monicas data-driven approach to homelessness strengthens coordination and drives results6/5/2019 California’s affordability and housing crisis continues to dramatically impact the number of people living on the street throughout Los Angeles County. This week, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) announced a 12% increase with nearly 60,000 people now experiencing homelessness across the county. While this increase is jolting, including a 19% uptick on the Westside, it is consistent with what’s happening across the Southland. from https://www.santamonica.gov/blog/santa-monica-s-data-driven-approach-to-homelessness-strengthens-coordination-and-drives-results A version of this article originally appeared in the June edition of Seascape. from https://www.santamonica.gov/blog/the-power-of-the-arts As part of SaMo Pride Month, we’re proud to feature our very own former mayor Judy Abdo. We Are Santa Monica highlights outstanding individuals committed to creating a stronger community. To find out more, visit weare.santamonica.gov. Women at the Forefront of Activism in Ocean Park Speaking Up in the Face of Discrimination from https://www.santamonica.gov/Pride/Judy Santa Monica has officially kicked off SaMoPRIDE — our first-ever Pride Month—celebrating the LGBTQIA community, individuality, inclusivity, and love. “Earlier this year, City Council identified six values that provide the foundation for all the work we do – accountability, equity, inclusion, resilience, safety and stewardship. These values aren’t new to Santa Monica, they are engrained in who we are,” said Santa Monica Mayor Gleam Davis. “We take pride in being a safe and welcoming place where people of all backgrounds can thrive. And the LGBTQIA community is very much part of that. We believe gay, lesbian transgender, and gender-fluid people are integral to the social and economic wellbeing of our community. Miles of Pride—now on display at the Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica Place, Santa Monica City Hall and at the Santa Monica Pier—features rainbow lights shining brightly every night in June, serving as a backdrop for a full calendar of events that bring together the Santa Monica community and guests from around the world. In addition, City Hall is flying the Pride flag and is cast in Pride colors, a display in the lobby features members of our local LGBTQAI community, and a Big Blue Bus is wrapped for Pride Month. Staff raised the Pride flag on Friday, May 31 for the beginning of Pride Month. Big Blue Bus is getting in the spirit and wrapped one of their buses for SaMoPride. We hope you join us for family-friendly events presented by the City, Downtown Santa Monica, Santa Monica Pier and Santa Monica Place, including food festivals, storytime and crafts for kids, happy hours, silent discos and more. And, please join us for the June 11th City Council meeting for the City’s Pride Month proclamation. Prior to the meeting, we will have a reception in the lobby with refreshments. Here are a few event highlights: There’s are so many fun events happening for Pride! You can find everything happening on the Pier, Promenade, City venues, and elsewhere around town at smpride.com. from https://www.santamonica.gov/blog/celebrating-pride-in-santa-monica Wednesday, May 22 was Harvey Milk Day. He would have been 89 years old.Milk is remembered as the first openly gay official to win an election in a major city. His election in 1977 as a San Francisco County Supervisor made history, but just 11 months later, both he and San Francisco’s Mayor were assassinated. This month, Santa Monica inaugurates its first celebration of PRIDE Month in Santa Monica. The City, Pier, Santa Monica Place, Third-Street Promenade and other community groups and businesses will celebrate not only our LGBTQ+ friends, neighbors and co-workers but Santa Monica’s values of equity and inclusion. An incredible light installation — dubbed “Miles of Pride” — will span miles of city streets (including City Hall) and light up the sky with a rainbow of colors. With a focus on family-friendly art and community connection, more than 50 events have been scheduled including food festivals, a beach clean-up, story hours, silent discos and much more to help us celebrate love in every color.Milk would have been proud. He inspired millions to assert their pride and stand up for their rights. And his vision encompassed a broad coalition of allies who elected him to office — and who he passionately advocated for as an activist and elected official. Not only gays and lesbians but African-Americans, Latinos, seniors, youth, the disabled, workers, the poor and the marginalized.In fact, Milk’s words continue to resonate as cities struggle with market forces pushing neighborhoods and cities toward becoming enclaves reserved for the affluent. In a speech delivered shortly after he took office, Milk celebrated urban life and authentic community. “Isn’t it strange,” he asked, that as technology advances, the quality of life so frequently declines? I think what we actually need is a little more dirt on the seat of our pants as we sit on the front stoop and to talk to our neighbors once again. What’s missing is the touch, the warmth, the meaning of life.”He spoke during a time when cities struggled. It was the era of the “urban crisis” with widespread disinvestment in urban neighborhoods. Millions abandoned inner cities for the suburbs. Milk correctly predicted that the flight to suburbia would eventually be reversed. Calling cities “the wave of the future,” he insisted, “Cities will be saved. They’ll be saved and they’ll be run by the people who like to live in them. The people who prefer the neighborhood stores to the shopping mall, who go to the plays and eat in the local restaurants and go to the discos and worry about the education the kids are getting, even if they have no kids of their own. That’s not just the city of the future, that’s the city of today. It means new directions, it means new alliances, new solutions for old problems.” Milk celebrated cities “of many colors who speak in many tongues.” Milk credited those who were staying put with “renovating not only the physical city, they’re renovating the spirit of the city as well.”He challenged his listeners to cherish their city, to fight for just and sustainable public policies and his hope for San Francisco was that it could “set an example to show the rest of the country what a city can really be.” from https://www.santamonica.gov/blog/santa-monica-inaugurates-first-celebration-of-pride-month |
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