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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2002
Volume 1, Issue 302
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
Candidates for school board explain positions Daily Press questionnaire puts them on the record Emily Bloomfield 1. The budget for Santa Monica and Malibu schools is short millions of dollars and funding from the state for education appears to be bleak. Locally, how can school district officials be more fiscally responsible given that funding
Julia Brownley 1. The budget for Santa Monica and Malibu schools is short millions of dollars and funding from the state for education appears to be bleak. Locally, how can school district officials be more fiscally responsible given that funding
Ann Cochran 1. The budget for Santa Monica and Malibu schools is short millions of dollars and funding from the state for education appears to be bleak. Locally, how can school district officials be more fiscally responsible given that funding
Oscar de la Torre 1. The budget for Santa Monica and Malibu schools is short millions of dollars and funding from the state for education appears to be bleak. Locally, how can school district officials be more fiscally responsible given that funding
Brenda Gottfried 1. The budget for Santa Monica and Malibu schools is short millions of dollars and funding from the state for education appears to be bleak. Locally, how can school district officials be more fiscally responsible given that funding
Sean McLoud 1. The budget for Santa Monica and Malibu schools is short millions of dollars and funding from the state for education appears to be bleak. Locally, how can school district officials be more fiscally responsible given that funding
will continue to fall short of students’ needs? Fiscal responsibility means understanding where and how revenue comes to the district and ensuring that it is budgeted for and See BLOOMFIELD, page 4
will continue to fall short of students’ needs? Carolyn Sackariason/Daily Press
I believe we have been fiscally responsible. As fiscal stewards, we must strive for efficiency and maximization of our precious resources See BROWNLEY, page 4
will continue to fall short of students’ needs? I think that Measure EE is one way that district officials are showing responsibility and other ways are continuing with the partnerships, See COCHRAN, page 8
will continue to fall short of students’ needs? If we pass Measure EE we will not have to experience a funding shortfall. Within the language of Measure EE there are various actions that must be put in place to See DE LA TORRE, page 8
will continue to fall short of students’ needs? The school district has already taken steps to greater fiscal responsibility by creating a Financial Oversight Committee composed of community leaders. This commit-
Santa Monica firefighters retrieve a woman’s body from the bluffs below Ocean Avenue on Tuesday evening.
Woman’s body found near Palisades Park By Daily Press staff
A woman was found dead Tuesday on the bluffs near Palisades Park. At about 12:30 p.m., Santa Monica police received a 9-1-1 call from a passerby who noticed the woman. She was found 20 to 30 feet below the park near Idaho and Ocean avenues on a small shelf surrounded by rugged terrain. It is not known how long the woman, who was in her 20s or 30s, had been dead. However, police said the body had not started decomposing. The woman, whose identity hasn’t been released, may have been
Jury deciding fate of man who murdered his father BY ANDREW H. FIXMER Daily Press Staff Writer
See GOTTFRIED, page 9
will continue to fall short of students’ needs? During a budget crisis, organizations need to decrease spending and increase funding. As a school board member, I would first want See MCLOUD, page 9
homeless. Los Angeles County Coroners arrived on scene at about 4:30 p.m. Unable to retrieve the body in the rugged terrain, the Santa Monica Fire Department was called. Firefighters lifted the body out of the area on a stretcher about 6 p.m. Police are investigating the incident and awaiting the autopsy report from the coroner’s office to determine if there was foul play. “We have no indication that it was a murder,” said SMPD spokesman Lt. Frank Fabrega. “There are no obvious signs.”
A jury began deliberations Tuesday on whether a Santa Monica man planned to bludgeon his father to death or whether he acted in self-defense. Albert Victor White, 45, is accused of first-degree murder for allegedly striking his 77-year-old father on the head more than eight times with a five-pound barbell on Feb. 5 in an apartment they shared on 21st Street.
A trial lawyer for White and the state’s prosecution made their closing arguments Tuesday — wrapping up the two week jury trial held before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William C. Ryan at the Airport Courthouse. Attorney Jack Alex said White acted in self-defense after his father, Pranas “Frank” Brazinskas, threatened him with a loaded semi-autoSee JURY, page 3