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November 18 - November 24, 2022 Volume CLXVII, Issue 171
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Torosis, Zwick and Negrete Still Lead in Santa Monica City Council Race Race for three seats on Santa Monica City Council remains mostly unchanged following Wednesday vote tally By Sam Catanzaro Following a Wednesday vote tally, Caroline Torosis, Jesse Zwick and Lana Negrete continue to lead in the race for three seats on Santa Monica City Council. As of 3:20 p.m. Wednesday with 35.5 percent of eligible voters counted, attorney and Rent Control Board Commissione Torosis holds the top spot with 19.11 percent of the vote. Public policy advisor Jesse Zwick has garnered 17.25 percent of the vote in second place while Lana Negrete – a current Council Member and small business owner – is in third place, collecting 12.55 percent of the vote. Financial analyst Natalya Zernitskaya, civil engineer Armen Melkonians and Planning Commissioner and environmental attorney Ellis Raskin trail Negrete by 782, 1,022 and 1,662 votes respectively for the third City Council seat. Santa Monica voters seem likely to approve a handful of local measures as well. Measure CS, which would increase overnight taxes for hotels and home shares to raise funds to address homelessness and improve 911 response times,
has collected 73 percent of the vote. Measure HMP, which would establish a business tax on every licensed cannabis business, including adult-use non medicinal cannabis retailers, seems likely to pass as well, collecting 66 percent of the vote. Measures to expand eligibility on City personnel boards and bolster rent control also seem likely to pass. Measure GS, a transfer tax on properties over $8 million to raise funds for schools, homelessness prevention and affordable housing, could pass as well, with 52 percent of voters casting a yes ballot currently. Measure SMC is also on the verge of passing. The measure would authorize $375,000,000 in bonds at legal rates, levying 2.5 cents per $100 assessed valuation, raising $23,000,000 annually to improve access to affordable education, provide affordable housing for homeless students, modernize instructional labs and upgrade obsolete vocational classrooms. it needs 55 percent or more of the vote to pass and currently has collected 56.66 percent of votes. Laurie Lieberman, Richard TahvildaranJesswein, Stacy Rouse and Alicia Mignano all hold conformable leads for four seats on the Santa Monica Malibu-Malibu Unified School District. For the Santa Monica Community College District Board of Trustees election, Sion Roy, Nancy Greenstein, Tom Peters and Barry Snell seem poised to take the four seats up for election. At the county level, incumbent Alex
Villanueva trails challenger Robert Luna by over 20 percentage points in the race to decide the next LA County Sheriff. Voters also seem on course to approve County Measure A, which would give the LA County Board of Supervisors the power to remove the Sheriff for cause, with the measure currently picking up over 70 percent of the vote. In the LA County Board of Supervisors race to replace the seat being left vacant by Sheila Kuehl for District 3 – which includes much of the Westside – West
Hollywood Council Member Lindsey Horvath leads State Senator Bob Hertzberg by 3.1 percentage points. At the statewide level, Governor Gavin Newsom holds a comfortable lead over Republican challenger Brian Dahle while at the federal level both Senator Alex Padilla and Congressman Ted Lieu each seem likely to hold onto their seats.
Santa Monica Brew Works Bringing Craft Beer Counter to Third Street Promenade Brewery exclusive beer within upcoming Kitchen United MIX
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By Sam Catanzaro
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Santa Monica Brew Works is bringing a craft beer counter to the Third Street Promenade. The brewery has confirmed it will be featured within the upcoming new Kitchen United MIX at 1315 3rd Street Promenade, the former home of the Gallery Food Hall, as the exclusive beer within the multirestaurant takeout and delivery kitchen. Santa Monica Brew Works has not released details about what its operation will look like other than that it will be
a “craft beer counter” to the Third Street Promenade. The brewery – the city’s first and only local and independent craft taproom at 1920 Colorado Avenue. Kitchen United MIX currently has 23 locations across the country, including one in Santa Monica at 2501 Colorado Avenue. The full list of restaurants for the promenade space has yet to be released. The restaurants currently operating out of the Colorado Avenue space include Trejo’s Tacos, Sweet Lady Jane, David Chang’s Fuku and SAJJ Mediterranean.