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

SBCAN urges you to join with NAACP to honor the life of George Floyd on the first anniversary of his death. 

Meet at Santa Maria City Hall, 110 E. Cook St., and Lompoc City Hall, 100 Civic Center Plaza, at 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 25. Social distancing and masks required.

For more information, call 805.448.7869.

The Climate Justice Network's Green New Deal Subcommittee would like to invite you to the Junta Grande virtual celebration on Saturday, May 15!

This will be a celebration of the cumulation of over a year's worth of work gathering information from the community via house meetings. 

The event will be a chance for those who participated in house meetings to hear findings, and for those who are interested to learn about this project and how to help make it a reality. 

Please register at this link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrceqrrj4tHtVhjchsoYPhqAj7qX57bkDV

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/163762678999924

Junta Grande for the Green New Deal

Come learn about the Central Coast Green New Deal proposal
and join in the movement to make it a reality!

May 15, 2021, 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time

Junta Grande del Nuevo Acuerdo Verde

¡Venga a conocer la propuesta del Nuevo Acuerdo Verde de la Costa Central
y únase al movimiento para hacerlo realidad!

15 de mayo de 2021 12 PM en hora del Pacífico (EE. UU. Y Canadá)