Thanks to an excellent turnout at the City Council meeting last night, and the flood of communications that Council Members received from supporters of the Civic Auditorium, that iconic mid-century structure will be seismically strengthened and renovated for use as a performance center. Four Council members voted to use Redevelopment funding for this purpose and all spoke movingly of the Civic’s important place in this community’s past and its potential to serve future generations.

The strength of your advocacy clearly impressed those Council members who found they could not support the use of redevelopment funds for this purpose. Each acknowledged the need to preserve it but differed on how that should occur.

Thank you again for your support of the Santa Monica Conservancy and your energy in this successful advocacy effort.

Carol Lemlein, President
On behalf of the Board of Directors