An invitation from SBCAN Board Member Emily Allen:

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sEAED-nzRV-U8LpQq6kXwQ

Speakers Panel

Lisa Brabo, Ph.D., Executive Director, Family Service Agency

Rubayi Estes, Vice President, Programs Santa Barbara Foundation

Eder Gaona-Macedo, MPA, Executive Director, Future Leaders of America, Inc. & the 805 Undocufund

Kathi King, Director of Outreach and Education, Community Environmental Council 

Councilmember Meagan Harmon, City of Santa Barbara

Supervisor Gregg Hart, County of Santa Barbara

Abe Powell, Co-Founder, Executive Director, Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade

Frank Rodriguez, Policy Advocate, 

Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE)

Emily Allen, LWVSB Social Policy Co-Chair and Program Director of the United Way of Northern Santa Barbara County Home For Good Program, will moderate.

As a community we have been reacting to the COVID crisis. We are also starting to engage in discussions of what the future holds. We are pleased to bring together a panel to discuss the topic. We will provide an update on how our community has responded and the next steps of recovery and beyond. 

SBCAN has been discussing this issue at recent South County Roundtables and Board meetings, and we encourage you to act on this call to action from CAUSE:

SBCAN is looking for an Advocacy and Events Director to supplement the existing staff, which includes the Executive Director and Associate Director.

SBCAN’s Board of Directors includes activists and leaders of progressive non-profit organizations from throughout Santa Barbara County, and the board will be involved in the selection and approval of the successful candidate. 

Click here to view or download the description of the position. Please send a letter of interest and a resume to Ken Hough, Executive Director, at ken@sbcan.org. 

If you have questions about this position, please write to Ken at the email address above or call him at (805) 563-0463. 

Our first approach to advertising this position is via this email to over 1,000 people on our mailing list, people who have already paid dues or otherwise expressed interest in our work.

The best candidate might not already be on our list, and if you know someone who should be involved with SBCAN and might be a great candidate, please pass this along to him or her. We will also be announcing the position on other sites. 

This is open until filled, but we would hope to fill it within about six weeks.  

Thanks! 

Ken  

Ken Hough
SBCAN Executive Director
ken@sbcan.org
805.563.0463
http://www.sbcan.org/

SBCAN North County Roundtable

Thursday, September 24, 2020, 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Via Zoom

AGENDA

If you would like to be in on the meeting, email me at ken@sbcan.org and I will send you a link to join the meeting.

Ken Hough
SBCAN Executive Director
ken@sbcan.org
805.563.0463
http://www.sbcan.org/

SBCAN South County Roundtable

Friday, September 18, 2020, Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Via Zoom

AGENDA

If you would like to be in on the meeting, email me at ken@sbcan.org and I will send you a link to join the meeting.

Our North County Roundtable will meet Thursday, September 24 at 6 p.m. We will send out a notice next week.

Ken Hough
SBCAN Executive Director
ken@sbcan.org
805.563.0463
http://www.sbcan.org/

SBCAN is cosponsoring the Truth in Recruitment Townhall with Rep. Salud Carbajal: Will Congress ​Expand Military Draft Registration to Women?

We hope you will join in.

SBCAN South County Roundtable

Friday, August 21, 2020, Noon to 1:30

Via Zoom

AGENDA

1. Call to Order by Chair and SBCAN Co-President Dick Flacks. Introductions; Agenda Review (5 min.) A wide range of housing issues and initiatives are bubbling up and we’ve invited several of those doing the bubbling to brief Roundtable participants on the details of their work. New possibilities for housing justice!
2. The Santa Barbara City Council is deliberating strengthening of eviction and rent stabilization protections: Meagan Harmon, Santa Barbara City Councilmember, and Frank Rodriguez from CAUSE. (15 min.)
3. Formation of a Santa Barbara Tenants’ Council: Alex Entrekin, Legal Aid Foundation, and Stanley Tzankov, Fund for Santa Barbara. (15 min.)
4. Santa Barbara Housing Hub: Linda Honikman. (10 min.)
5. Eviction Protection Bills in State Legislature: Vianey Lopez, with Assemblymember Monique Limon (10 min.)
6. Housing for Santa Barbara’s State Street: Meagan Harmon, Santa Barbara City Councilmember (10 min.)
7. Brief updates from participants. Including Kate Connell regarding Truth in Recruitment Townhall; Linda Honikman regarding the Affordable Housing report from County Grand Jury and the City's response, effort to apply for a state funded Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities grant and the ongoing AIA charette. (2 to 5 min. each)
8. Open discussion about other items of interest. All (5 min.)
9. Our next meeting is scheduled for September 10, 2020 via Zoom.

If you would like to be in on the meeting, email me at ken@sbcan.org and I will send you a link to join the meeting.

Ken Hough
SBCAN Executive Director
ken@sbcan.org
805.563.0463
http://www.sbcan.org/

Application form: http://www.countyofsb.org/asset.c/5480

Applications are due August 21^st

Santa Barbara County is seeking 11 extraordinary people to draw the boundaries for the five supervisors’ districts. These districts will have a strong influence over policy direction for the entire County over the next decade.

To comply with the Constitution’s guarantee of one person, one vote, political districts are redrawn every 10 years after the census to ensure that each district has roughly the same population. If the 2020 Census shows that Santa Barbara County’s population is around a half million, then each supervisor’s district will have about 100,000 people. But how should they be grouped for elections?

Until this year, the supervisors made the final decision on district boundaries. Some complained that the supervisors were choosing their voters rather than the voters choosing their supervisors. So, in the November 2018 election, Santa Barbara County voters approved an initiative—YOU Draw the Lines (Measure G)—that creates an 11-person Citizens’ Independent Redistricting Commission to adjust the supervisors’ district boundaries.

The process was designed to select independent, representative, and qualified residents to take on this critical task. The final 11-member Commission must reflect Santa Barbara County’s racial, ethnic, geographic, age and gender diversity and be as proportional as possible to the actual voter registration of the County.

The commission will provide an open and transparent process that enables full public consideration and comment on the drawing of district lines. Commissioners will conduct themselves with integrity and fairness to create an independent and unbiased map (see the official document).