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City Council Meeting. July 26, 1994
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STAFF REPORT
TO' Mayor and City Council
FROM- CIty Staff
SUBJECT RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE ALTERNATIVE ROUTE FOR ST.
JOHN'S HOSPITAL BOUNCING BACK PARADE
INTRODUCTION
This report recommends that the City Council approve a request for a parade on a
route other than the City's authorized parade route (SMMC Section 4 08 5801 for St
John's Hospital to be held Saturday, September 24, 1994.
BACKGROUND
Since the devastation of the Northnctge earthquake, St John's Hospital has been
rebuilding sections of the facIlity to reopen as soon as possible to serve the Santa
Monica and surrounding communItIes. The bouncing back parade IS a communrty
participation celebration that marks the opening of the hospital and welcomes back
the families It has served.
DISCUSSION
Staff recommends the following alternatIve route be approved. The parade WIll start
at 11.00 am at 11th Street and Anzona Avenue (OlympIC HIgh School) PartIcipants
Will proceed east on Arizona Avenue to 22nd Street (St John's HospItal} where the
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parade will end. Once at St. John's, a family picnic will begin with special awards,
speeches, food and musIc by Billy Vera and the Beaters
The parade wIll consIst of a marchIng band, trumpeters, a drum and bugle corp, an
elephant, several clowns, Santa MOnica Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, a doctors dnll
team, a nurses drill team, local dance and gym clubs, a rollerblade demonstration team
and In keeping with the bounCing back theme, basketballs, volleyballs and tenms balls
wIll be passed out to partIcIpants to bounce the. 7 mile dIstance. The Santa MOnica
Police Department Will provide all necessary traffIc control and security
BUDGET/FINANCIAL IMPACT
St John's Hospital Will assume and pay all event costs, Including the cost for Police
serVices, estimated at $4,400
RECOMMENDA TION
Staff recommends that the City CounCil approve the alternative parade route for the
St. John's HospItal BounCing Back Parade to be held September 24, 1994.
Prepared by Susan E McCarthy, Director
Annette Morales, Administrative Analyst
CommunIty and Cultural Services Department
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CIty CouncIl Meetmg: July 26, 1994
RESOLUTION NO. 8789
(CIty Council Series)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
AUTHORIZING THE HOLDING OF A PARADE ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1994 ON
A ROUTE OTHER THAN THE OFFICIAL CITY PARADE ROUTE
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 4.08.580 of the Santa MOnica Municipal Code,
the City Council may authorize a parade route as set forth herein,
NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS'
SECTION 1 That on September 24, 1994 at 11 :00 am participants In the St
John's Hospital Bouncmg Back Parade are authorized to conduct a parade along the
follOWing route
The parade Will start at 11 th Street and Arizona Avenue (OlympiC High
Schooll and proceed east on Arizona Avenue to 22nd Street (St. John's
Hospital)
SECTION 2. PermIssIon to conduct the parade IS granted upon the follOWing
. condItions.
a. Parade Units may not be brought to the staging area, the corner of 11 th
Street and Arrzona Avenue prror to Saturday, September 24, 1994
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b The necessary number of Pohce Officers, as recommended by the Santa
Monica Police Department, will 1:.e provIded for crowd and traffIc control along the
parade route at St. John's Hospital's cost
c. That any and all cost for bus reroutmg, barricading and coning of streets,
posting of signs, and purchasing of parking meters be assumed and paId by St. John's
HospItal.
d That 8t John's Hospital shall provide a Certificate of Insurance for One
Million Dollars ($1,000,000) per Individual occurrence naming the City of Santa
MOnica, It's CounCil, boards and commiSSions as addItional Insured.
e That St John's Hospital Will notIfy all residents and business two blocks
west, east, north and south, as well as along the parade route of the event and of
alternate traffiC routes, after approval of the notification letter by the CIty.
SECTION 3 The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of thIS Resolution, and
thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be In full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM'
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MARSHA JONES MOUTRIE
CIty Attorne-y
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Adopted and approved tins 26th of July, 1994.
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I hereby certify that the foregomg ResolutIon 8789 (CCS) was duly adopted at a
meellng of the City Council held on the 26th of July, 1994 by the followmg vote
Ayes' Councilmembers: Abdo, Genser, Greenberg, Holbrook, Olsen,
Rosenstem, Vazquez
Noes Councilmembers . None
Abstam Couocllmembers None
Absent Councilmembers' None
ATTEST.
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