By Lookout Staff

February 13, 2026 -- City Hall will be closed Monday to celebrate Presidents Day, and facilities and programs will be scaled back or closed.

In addition to City Hall, the following facilities will be closed on Monday: The Transit Store, the Santa Monica Swim Center and Santa Monica Public Library.

The Big Blue Bus (BBB) will operate on weekend hours and parking meters will not be enforced except for those enforced daily, according to posted signage. Meters that are enforced daily must be paid.

However, preferential Parking (residential/visitor permits) will be enforced on Monday.

All City of Santa Monica beach lots and pay-by-space lots are enforced 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, including Presidents Day.

There will be no refuse, recycling, or yard/green waste collection or street sweeping on Monday.

Street cleaning regularly scheduled for Monday will take place on Tuesday.

Presidents Day is observed the third Monday in February in recognition of George Washington’s Birthday and to honor the history of the American Presidency.

Signed into law January 31, 1879, by President Rutherford B. Hayes,
Washington's Birthday became the first federal holiday to single out an individual's birth date, according to the National Archives.

"Everything about George Washington was entwined with the evolution of a young nation," according to an article in Prologue Magazine posted on the archives' website.

"His name was associated with virtue, honesty, strength, courage, and patriarchal leadership. Schools, bridges, towns, the national capital, and even a state were named in his honor.

"His likeness graced currency, stamps, sculptures, and paintings. Manufacturers deemed his image as public property," the magazine wrote.