SBCAN has been asked to invite interested parties to participate in Local Development under Climate Change: Evaluating Trade-offs Between Carbon Emissions, Water Sustainability, and Affordable Housing for Communities in the Central Coast.   

The focus of this meeting is a scenario analysis to understand tradeoffs between important goals for water supplies, land use, including housing, and climate change.

Researchers from UC Santa Cruz are looking for input from San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Stakeholders

DATE:   Wednesday, Nov. 3            
TIME:   2:30 PM - 4 PM Pacific Time

Please share with other interested parties.      

Principal Investigator Ruth Langridge
University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Team
Tamara Wilson, Paul Selmants, Benjamin Sleeter - USGS
Jim Thorne, Ryan Boynton - UC Davis
Karen Chapple, Tim Thomas, Julia Greenberg - UC Berkeley

Background information is below.

SBCAN appreciates the support of county supervisors on many of the issues we have spoken up about. Nonetheless, we support having districts that are majority-minority and have been working with CAUSE to propose new district lines.

Below is more information about the "United Communities" Map and reasons for the boundary changes.

Join The Society of Fearless Grandmothers, UCSB's Environmental Affairs Board and SBCAN at a Fridays for Future rally in downtown Santa Barbara this Friday at 4:30 p.m. 

YOUTH AND ELDERS TELL GOVERNOR: NO NEW FOSSIL FUEL PERMITS!

Students from UCSB Environmental Affairs Board and Sunrise Movement Santa Barbara are co-sponsoring a Halloween-themed climate rally and march on Friday, October 22 along with the Society of Fearless Grandmothers-SB, Santa Barbara County Action Network (SBCAN), 350 SB and Women’s March SB. Please see attached press release and flyer.

Global warming threatens the future of young people all over the world. UCSB students say, “Halloween should be scary, not our future,” so they are rising up to send the message to elected officials and adults in power: take action NOW to meet the climate emergency. They have a particular message for Governor Newsom: STOP approving new fossil fuel projects. And for California electeds: STOP taking fossil fuel donations! and No Climate-No Deal!

Join The Society of Fearless Grandmothers, UCSB's Environmental Affairs Board and SBCAN at a rally in downtown Santa Barbara this Friday at 4:30 pm to oppose Exxon's dangerous trucking proposal. 

GRANDMOTHERS AND YOUTH TELL COUNTY: DENY EXXON TRUCKING PROPOSAL!

WHO: The Society of Fearless Grandmothers-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County Action Network, 350 Santa Barbara, UCSB Environmental Affairs Board, Sunrise Movement-Santa Barbara, Women’s March-Santa Barbara, and other social justice and environmental justice organizations.

WHAT: Rally and March with Elders and Youth in support of the Fridays for Future Global Climate Strike

WHEN: Friday, September 24, Rally at 4:30 PM followed by March

WHERE: Rally at County Administration Building, 105 E. Anapamu, followed by march onto State Street ending at De La Guerra Plaza.

Our South County Roundtable is cancelled for this month. 

Please save the date for a special Roundtable meeting next month, on September 17th at noon via zoom. We will be meeting with State Assembly Member Steve Bennett to hear his thoughts on housing, particularly around SB 9 and 10 and Community Land Trusts, as well as his bill AB 896 that would remove bankruptcy loopholes for oil and gas companies that allow them to improperly abandon their idle wells. There will be plenty of time for any other questions you may have for him. Hope to see you there!

Let us know if you have any topics you'd like us to discuss in the upcoming months. 

Below is the agenda for our North County Roundtable on Thursday, Aug. 12 at 5 p.m. 

We are tentatively planning our South County Roundtable for next Friday, Aug. 20 at noon. We will send more information on that in a few days.

We hope you’ll come to our North County Roundtable this Thursday, Aug. 12 at 5 p.m. to hear about relevant issues SBCAN is involved with in the North County.

We will hear from Santa Maria city staff about the Santa Maria General Plan Update, from SBCAN staff about the Santa Maria River Healthy Watershed Project and from UFCW 770 about efforts to direct some of the American Rescue Plan's funds towards essential workers in our county. 

We will also hear an update about the push to change the Santa Maria school board logo and the city logo and we'll give an update on the Neighborhoods project.

Please let us know if there is anything else you would like to discuss. 

Santa Barbara County's Citizens Independent Redistricting Commission will have a hearing tonight, Aug. 4 at 6 p.m.

This is an important issue that SBCAN is tracking and may weigh in on in the future.

The commission is looking for input from community members and residents, especially from the Fifth District, on important communities of interest and neighborhoods that should be respected when drawing the county's new supervisorial districts.

The meeting includes: Redistricting overview, public input on communities of interest and the composition of districts. Mapping tools training. Business meeting.

Download the agenda here: https://drawsantabarbaracounty.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CIRC-Agenda-20210804-FINAL.pdf

A link to additional information is here. You can draw a map, view draft maps, view public comments and more: https://drawsantabarbaracounty.org

The meeting will be in-person and accessible via Zoom.

In person: Betteravia Hearing Room, 511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria

Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96627818457 or call (669) 900-6833 or (346) 248-7799 ID: 966 2781 8457