Former Santa Monica Police Department Chief, Inglewood Mayor and MC, James T. Butts oversees as the Palisades Optimist Club counts their money during Salvation Army's Red Kettle Day Counting Party at the Santa Monica Family YMCA on Friday, December 9, 2011. The Red Kettle campaign, the oldest annual charitable fundraiser of its kind in the United States helps raise money for those who need it most in communities nationwide - providing toys for kids, coats for the homeless, food for the hungry and countless social service programs year-round.