SBCAN Roundtables cancelled this week
Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments.
Thank you for your support and involvement with SBCAN.
Ken Hough
SBCAN Executive Director
Join us on March 4 for a CalGEM workshop in Santa Maria and rally before
With three projects on the horizon in the Cat Canyon Oil Field, Santa Barbara County is facing a massive increase in onshore oil and gas production using much dirtier and more dangerous extraction methods.
These projects that SBCAN and the Sierra Club are fighting together with theEnvironmental Defense Center would triple onshore oil production in the County and are located near the towns of Sisquoc and Garey.
The projects threaten surrounding communities’ air quality, drinking water, would add hundreds of oil tanker truck trips per day on their local roads and state highways and would bring the additional risk of spills threatening water, wildlife, and public health.
But, right now you can have a voice in California’s effort to update and strengthen regulatory oversight of oil and gas production to protect our communities and environment.
The California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) will hold a public workshop on Wednesday, March 4 at 6 P.M. at the Santa Maria Veterans Memorial Community Center, 313 W. Tunnel St., and they want to hear from you!(CalGEM was formerly known as the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR).
We will have a rally at 5 P.M. outside at the same location, then go inside to make comments.
SB Councilmember Meagan Harmon at SBCAN SC Roundtable Fri., Feb. 21
We'll hope you'll make our roundtable:
SBCAN South County Roundtable
Friday, February 21, 2020, Noon to 1:30 p.m.
NOTE LOCATION!
We are back at our regular location—the Hill-Carrillo Adobe
Hill-Carrillo Adobe, Board Room
13 E. Carrillo St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
DRAFT AGENDA
(Times are approximate, and feel free to bring your lunch)
- Call to Order by Chair and SBCAN Co-President Dick Flacks. Introductions; Agenda Review (5 min.)
- Discussion with Meagan Harmon, Santa Barbara City Councilmember, regarding housing and other issues. Councilmember Harmon last joined us eight months ago and a lot has been happening since then. (45 min.)
- NatureTrack Film Festival. Maureen McFadden will tell us about this festival, which will take over Los Olivos on the weekend of March 20-22. (5 min.)
- Green New Deal. Follow up on last month’s Green New Deal discussion. (5 min.)
- Brief updates from participants. (2 to 5 min. each)
- Open discussion about other items of interest. All (5 min.)
- Our next meeting is scheduled for March 13, 2020 at the Hill-Carrillo Adobe.
Volunteers needed for homeless count
We encourage you to help out with the 2020 Point-in-Time Count.
The following is information from Home for Good Santa Barbara County:
VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED FOR THE 2020 POINT-IN-TIME COUNT.
The Point-In-Time Count is the annual count of individuals and families experiencing homelessness on a given day. The Santa Barbara County effort will take place on Wednesday, January 29 from 5:30am-8:30am. Teams of volunteers and experts will canvas assigned routes throughout the county and will briefly document who is experiencing homeless. This information can be used to plan local homeless assistance systems and raise public awareness. Volunteer trainings will be held in January. Join us today. Change doesn’t happen without you.
VOLUNTEER SIGN UP
HELP US REACH MORE VOLUNTEERS
Print the Point-In-Time Count Poster
TRAINING DAYS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW:
Mike Jordan, Green Deal at SBCAN SC Roundtable Fri, Jan 17
South County Roundtable
Friday, January 17, 2020
Noon to 1:30 p.m
NOTE LOCATION CHANGE:
Hill-Carrillo Adobe, Board Room,
15 East Carrillo St., Santa Barbara
We are back at our regular location—the Hill-Carrillo Adobe—on a regular basis starting with this meeting.
DRAFT AGENDA
(Times are approximate, and feel free to bring your lunch)
- Call to Order by Chair and SBCAN Co-President Dick Flacks. Introductions; Agenda Review (5 min.)
- Discussion with Mike Jordan, new Santa Barbara City Councilmember. (30 min.)
- Green New Deal. Discussion item; the SBCAN Board of Directors has expressed its support for the Green New Deal and directed that discussions begin at our Roundtables as to how SBCAN should engage in this topic. Mariah Clegg from UCSB will participate and others active in environmental leadership have been invited to join us. (30 min.)
- Brief updates from participants. (2 to 5 min. each)
- Open discussion about other items of interest. All (5 min.)
- Our next meeting is scheduled for February 14, 2020 at the Hill-Carrillo Adobe.
Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments.
Thank you,
Ken Hough
SBCAN Executive Director
ken@sbcan.org
805.563.0463
http://www.sbcan.org/
SBCAN Roundtables: SC is Jan. 17, NC is Feb. 13
South County Roundtable
Friday, January 17, 2020
Noon to 1:30 p.m
NOTE LOCATION CHANGE:
Hill-Carrillo Adobe, 15 East Carrillo St., Santa Barbara
Happy New Year and New Decade!
We have rescheduled our next meeting from January 10 to January 17 from noon to 1:30 p.m. and we are back in our long-time meeting place at the Hill-Carrillo Adobe, 15 East Carrillo St., Santa Barbara.
We will discuss local connections to the Green New Deal among other matters. Please email me if you have something you want on the agenda. We will send a final agenda about three days before the meeting.
North County Roundtable
Thursday, February 13
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Giavanni's Pizza, 1108 E. Clark Ave., Orcutt
The meeting scheduled for January, first on the 9th, then on the 16th, is cancelled due to several conflicts. We now plan our next meeting to be February 13.
Please let me know if you will be able to attend and if you have topics for the agenda.
2020 Homeless Count volunteers needed
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SBCAN Membership Renewal for 2020
Dear Friend --
We at Santa Barbara County Action Network appreciate the support you have shown us over the years that has made it possible for us to continue nurturing our strong local network of progressive folks and creating bridges between environmental and social justice activism.
For eighteen years Santa Barbara County Action Network (SBCAN) has been the preeminent nonprofit organization working on both sustainability and social justice issues throughout the county.
We have many partner organizations, to be sure, but we always strive to be countywide and working on a wide range of progressive issues—especially looking for issues that might fall through the cracks otherwise. Please look at the attached inventory of what we have been working on. We are especially proud of our leadership on several North County issues.
In spring of 2020 we will convene our annual Membership Meeting in Los Olivos and we really hope we will see you there. We will schedule the meeting to occur after the primary election in March, and we'll let you know when a date has been set.
With increasing competition for foundation support, we are all the more reliant on our members, major donors, and fundraisers. Therefore, we hope that you will make a membership donation that suits your budget and helps SBCAN continue its educational and advocacy roles.
It is easy—as always—to contribute at: https://sbcan.nationbuilder.com/membership_annual_dues.
There is also an option for automatic monthly payments athttps://sbcan.nationbuilder.com/membership_monthly_dues.
Alternatively, you can mail a check to P.O. Box 6174, Santa Maria, CA 93456.
We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at our annual membership meeting.
Sincerely,
Janet Blevins and Dick Flacks, Co-Presidents
SBCAN NC Roundtable rescheduled
The SBCAN North County Roundtable scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 12 has been rescheduled.
It will be held Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020 at Giavanni’s Pizzeria, 1108 E. Clark Ave., south side of Bradley, in Orcutt.
SBCAN SC Roundtable is Fri., Dec. 13 at Louise Lowry Davis Center
SBCAN South County Roundtable
Friday, December 13, 2019, Noon to 1:30 p.m.
NOTE LOCATION!
(Bear with us; we will be back at our regular location—the Hill-Carrillo Adobe—on a regular basis starting in January.)
Louise Lowry Davis Center, Gilbert Room
1232 De La Vina St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
DRAFT AGENDA
(times are approximate, and feel free to bring your lunch)
- Call to Order by Chair and SBCAN Co-President Dick Flacks. Introductions; Agenda Review (5 min.)
- Future Housing Communities. Linda Honikman will update us on state and local affordable housing policies and projects. (45 min.)
- La Casa de la Raza. Discussion item; Ana Rosa Rizo-Centino will report on the status of La Casa de la Raza. (15 min.)
- Brief updates from participants. (2 to 5 min. each)
- Open discussion about other items of interest. All (5 min.)
- Our next meeting is scheduled for January 10, 2020 at the Hill-Carrillo Adobe.
