Big Ideas,
Real Impact.

​Thank you for contacting the Santa Monica City Council Members advocating for Santa Monica Trapeze School. We’ve provided you with a sample email below, the names and emails of the Council Members as well as suggested messaging for social media. Please feel free to add your personal stories of how the trapeze school in Santa Monica has made an impact on your life and community.

NOTE: Please keep all communication as a part of this campaign positive. We want to highlight how the circus community and staff have impacted the community, partners, students, and staff positively!

Action steps:

1. Email the City Council Members

2. Post on Social Media.

3. Show support at City Council on Tuesday September 8th at 5:30pm. We would love to have a ton of support in City Hall, but want to make sure our voices are heard. For this reason, we are asking to limit the number of folks who want to speak for us.In lieu of speaking, the public is encouraged to submit written comments on agenda items via email to councilmtgitems@santamonica.gov. Written comment submitted before 12:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting will be available for online viewing. Please note the agenda item number in the subject line of your written comment as “item K”.

1. EMAIL CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS: Use the draft email language and please add why the SMTS community is important to you. You can either email all 7 councilmembers in one note or send individual notes, whichever you choose. If you are a Santa Monica resident, please include your address as well.

City Councilmembers to Email: Copy & paste these emails into the TO field.

Caroline.Torosis@santamonica.gov; Dan.Hall@santamonica.gov; lana.negrete@santamonica.gov; jesse.zwick@santamonica.gov; Barry.Snell@santamonica.gov; Ellis.Raskin@santamonica.gov; Natalya.Zernitskaya@santamonica.gov 

Suggested Subject Draft: Consent calendar Item K- Trapeze School to Park

Suggested Email Draft:

Dear Santa Monica City Councilmembers:

Santa Monica has long cast itself as a champion of small businesses and a beacon of sustainable and smart development, which is why millions of people a year flock here. Yet the process for small businesses to lease – and maintain – commercial spaces is broken and this dysfunction is currently playing out in what is happening to SMTS.

If Santa Monica truly wants to support small businesses as they claim they do, the way to do this is to support businesses like the Santa Monica Trapeze School!

Without a physical location, SMTS will not be able to share the transformational lessons achieved through flying with our students or support the community programs. The team have been working to find alternative locations in LA County to move the Trapeze School but have had no luck thus far.

The team at SMTS creates this amazing place, a place that hosts multiple pride shows a year, an AAPI heritage celebration, PE credit for approved Santa Monica Students, as well as a number of other community benefits. We need to keep circus arts and circus training in Santa Monica.

City council members, please vote to enter into Concession Agreement with Santa Monica Trapeze School for Concessionaire and Recreation Services at Clover Park.

Thank you for fighting for local circus in Santa Monica.

Thank you for your time,

Warmly, 

[Your Name here]

2. POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Instagram

Support Local Circus in Santa Monica!

[ WHY SMTS is important to you]

#Isupportlocalcircus #SMTS

@ellis_raskin @Councilmanbarrysnell @lananegretesantamonica @zwickforsm @ctorosis @electdanhall @natalya4citycouncil