The biggest restraint in creating a sustainable and resilient City is that it costs slightly more to prepare for climate change, than to keep doing the same thing that got us into the climate change problem to begin with. Probably our biggest public offender is the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District because they are over funded in their capital budget which they squander on unnecessary overpriced projects, tolerate cost overruns, and neglect maintenance while they consistently refuse to take the necessary steps to build the really needed school district of the future. In other words SMMUSD has the funds but doesn’t have the vision of what’s really needed. 

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