NEW ITEMS:

* Stop the Coup! Saturday, Feb. 8 at 1 p.m.

* Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan

CONTINUING ITEMS:

• Combined SBCAN Roundtable on proposed Marine Protected Areas Friday, Feb. 14 at noon via Zoom
• Public Review of the Santa Maria General Plan Update
• Renew Membership with SBCAN 

A message from Indivisible Santa Barbara and Commit to Democracy:

Stop the Coup!

NEW ITEM:

Public Review of the Santa Maria General Plan Update - First Planning Commission Study Session is on Thursday, February 6 at 1:30 p.m. Other opportunities for comment are available through March 2.

Please read the items below:

1. Give input on SpaceX launches on Thursday-link is below
2. Combined Roundtable Friday with Sup. Roy Lee and Councilmember Wendy Santamaria
3. Message from CAUSE re ICE
4. Fill out City of SM Survey
5. Renew Membership with SBCAN 

Give input on SpaceX proposal to launch 100 rockets annually

Members of the public are invited to give input on SpaceX’s proposal to use a second launch site to boost their number of rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base to 100 per year.

A virtual public scoping meeting will be held Thursday, Jan. 23 at 6 p.m. 

The Zoom link is:
 https://mantech.zoomgov.com/j/1608982564

Here's a message from our allies at the Gaviota Coast Conservancy:

Meet new County Supervisor Roy Lee and new SB City Councilmember Wendy Santamaria during our Combined Roundtable Friday, Jan. 24 at noon.

SBCAN Combined Roundtable
Friday, January 24, 2025
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Via Zoom

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. First District Supervisor Roy Lee gives brief remarks followed by questions and comments from participants
3. Santa Barbara City Councilmember Wendy Santamaria gives brief remarks followed by questions and comments from participants
4. Other issues or announcements
5. Closing

Register for the Zoom meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_9Kj2Q09RESOPWmYkbMgKQ     

Give input on SpaceX proposal to launch 100 rockets annually

Members of the public are invited to give input on SpaceX’s proposal to use a second launch site to boost their number of rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base to 100 per year.

The Department of the Air Force is seeking input as it prepares an Environmental Impact Statement to evaluate the potential environmental effects associated with changes to the Falcon Launch Program.

We hope you're enjoying the holidays.

We’re stepping up our game – and we hope you’ll step up with us!

We have new initiatives we’ve implemented and more we’ve planned. Please read our 2024 “Highlights” for details. And as always, we are continuing to work on environmental, economic and social justice issues.

Thanks for your support through your participation, membership, sponsorship or donations.

You are integral to our success. You have helped us build a strong network of progressive activists, save prime farmland, create more affordable housing, work to improve water quality, fight increased trucking of fossil fuels and restarting of the pipeline that burst into the channel, and more.

We are making our annual membership appeal now. If you recently paid your membership, or sponsored one of our events, or made a donation, you are already a member for 2025. We’re not asking you to contribute again – unless you want to! Mostly, we hope you will read our 2024 Highlights and continue to be involved with us.

If you have not made a recent contribution, we hope you will become a member or renew your dues now to help us continue to doour vital work. We rely on grants, sponsors, donors, fundraisers and you to keep doing our educational and advocacy work.

The average amount of dues our members pay is $10/month, however, we welcome higher or lower membership dues – whatever level works for you.

Please make your donation online at sbcan.org/donations, or send a check to P.O. Box 6174, Santa Maria, CA 93456-6174. We especially like monthly contributions!

We’ll send information soon on our 2025 Annual Membership Meeting and Election.

If you are not receiving emails from us, please sign up for our Action Alerts at sbcan.org/sign-up, and like us on Facebook at facebook.com/SBCANorg

Enjoy the holidays! Happy New Year! And thanks again!

Sincerely,

Jeanne Sparks and Ken Hough
Co-Executive Directors

We’re stepping up our game – and we hope you’ll step up with us!

We have new initiatives we’ve implemented and more we’ve planned. Please read our 2024 “Highlights” for details. And as always, we are continuing to work on environmental, economic and social justice issues.

Thanks for your support through your participation, membership, sponsorship or donations.