On January 27, 2014, the City Council adopted a policy for City support of Special Events. This policy includes the creation of a Special Event Support Review Committee to review applications and make funding recommendations to the City Council, which will then review, edit (as desired), and award funding. The City Council purposely did not mandate that a certain scoring criteria be used to score applications, but did provide the Committee preference to fund events where proceeds are used locally within Simi Valley and preference to fund events with greater community/public benefits over events with lesser community/public benefits. 

The Committee is comprised of one member from each of the City’s four Neighborhood Councils and one member from the Council On Aging. This is a brief introduction meeting in which staff will explain the role of each Committee member and the process of making recommendations for funding at the upcoming meeting with applicants on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.