Email the Santa Monica City Council
Santa Monica City Council: council@santamonica.gov​
Santa Monica Mayor Lana Negrete: Lana.Negrete@santamonica.gov
Santa Monica Mayor Pro Tem Caroline Torosis: Caroline.Torosis@santamonica.gov
Council Member Dan Hall: Dan.Hall@santamonica.gov
Council Member Ellis Raskin: Ellis.Raskin@santamonica.gov
Council Member Barry Snell: Barry.Snell@santamonica.gov
Council Member Natalya Zernitskaya: Natalya.Zernitskaya@santamonica.gov
Council Member Jesse Zwick: Jesse.Zwick@santamonica.gov
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City Clerk: councilmtgitems@santamonica.gov
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If possible, please cc on all emails:
jennifer.taylor@santamonica.gov
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Here are some ideas to help get you started. You needn’t use all these points (or any of them!) You may also prefer to write about a personal experience you’ve had at the Civic.
What We Want
Ownership
Revenue For the City
A restored, vibrant, PUBLIC Civic Auditorium serving as a venue for the performing, musical and visual arts. Such a Civic would make our City a cultural and arts destination for Santa Monicans, Southern Californians and beyond; a source of pride (and tax revenue!) for the people of our great City.
A Civic Auditorium is owned by the residents of Santa Monica. Keeping public spaces public is vital to residents’ sense of being a community.
A revitalized world-class concert and performing arts center would provide the City with a revenue stream for decades, as opposed to a one-time sale. And the economic ripple effect for Santa Monica would be huge as a restored concert and performing arts venue in the heart of our city would attract people from all over the region and beyond, generating economic activity (and tax dollars!) for hotels, restaurants, etc., enhancing our City’s destination status.
We Can Do It!
Within the next 30 days, our City Council will decide in Closed Session whether to enter into negotiations with RPG (Revitalization Partners Group LLC) to seismically upgrade, restore, program, and operate our landmark Civic Auditorium as a performing arts and cultural center. Santa Monica residents will continue to own the Civic. RPG will not ask the City for any funds. RPG is a consortium of Make Good Group, Geyser Holdings, Irving Azoff, Oak View Group, and Live Nation.
Write to the Council supporting this opportunity!