Important Message. Letter to Editor by Oscar de la Torre Two Seats, One Position -- Why I Haven’t Resigned from the School Board

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Please continue to ask the School Board to hire a 3rd party preservation expert to assess the costs and possibilities around adaptive reuse of the historic academic core buildings at Samohi on top of prospect hill. This assessment has never been performed. 

Address the 1) Educational Benefits, 2) Financial Benefits, 3) Environmental Impacts, 4) Express how much the community cares about education and that’s why $1.138 billion in bond measures have been passed since 2006. Let them know that you’d appreciate having your voice considered while they plan for another round of bond measures and spend $172M on Phase 3 of development which includes demolishing history. 

Please write the SMMUSD School Board at brd@smmusd.org and cc: the Superintendent, bdrati@smmusd.org, bshelton@smmusd.org, samohialumni@gmail.com, advocacy@smconservancy.org, fixsmmusd@gmail.com, council@smgov.net, senator.allen@senate.ca.gov

Anonymous letters can be sent to Attn: Save Samo, Santa Monica Conservancy, P.O. Box 653 Santa Monica, CA 90406-0653