WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29

MESSAGE FROM SALUD CARBAJAL

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TELEPHONE TOWN HALL

📱 Dial-in at: 833-946-1549
💻 Or listen in at: Carbajal.House.Gov/LIVE

Friends,

I’m hosting a Telephone Town Hall this Wednesday, October 29 at 5:30 PM PT to talk about the ongoing Republican government shutdown and the health care crisis that families are facing on the Central Coast and across the country.

This is an opportunity to hear the latest updates directly from me and share your questions or concerns. You can also pre-submit your questions by clicking here so we can address them during the call.

I hope you’ll join the conversation!
PRE-SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS
BY CLICKING HERE
Sincerely,
Salud Carbajal Signature
 
Congressman Salud Carbajal

  

CALENDAR

 

  

SPECIAL EVENTS:

  

Wed
Oct 29

530pm

 Salud Carbajal Telephone Town Hall Online

Thurs
Oct 30

4pm-
530pm

 Yes on 50 Banner Drop SM

Thurs
Oct 30

6pm-
9pm

 The Issue with Tissue SB
Sat
Nov 1

10am-
Noon

 Indivisible SM Member Meeting SM
Sat
Nov

Noon-
130pm

 Disappeared in America SB
Sat
Nov 1

10am-
noon

 Yes on 50 Overpass Brigade SB

Tues
Nov 4

 

 ELECTION DAY - VOTE YES ON 50!  
Tues
Nov 4

7am

 Stop Sable Rally & Hearing SB
Tues
Nov 4

530pm

 Carpinteria Indivisible Monthly Meeting Carp
Wed
Nov 5

Noon-
1pm

 Tenant Protections in Goleta Online
Sun
Nov 9 		2pm Tom Lehrer Tribute Show Orcutt
       
   

CALLS TO ACTION:

  
Every
Week 		 

No Kings Alliance Weekly Actions

  
Now -

Indivisible (national):
Spotify
Healthcare
Neighbor to Neighbor re Prop 50

  
Nov 1-
Nov 2 		   50501: Disappeared in America  
Now -
Help support Eastside SB

 Petition
       
   

WEEKLY EVENTS:

  
Every Monday 4pm-
530pm

Support Palestinians

 SM
Every Thursday  Noon-
1pm

Indivisible: What's the Plan?

 Online
Every Thursday 4pm

Culture of Protest
Songs for and about Mamdani (and Halloween)

 Online
 Every 1st Friday 330pm-
5pm 		 Climate Fridays SB 
       
    NEWS  
    Administration to offer oil and gas lease sales in SB Channel  
       

 

  

OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE:

  

Oct 29
Deadline

  

SBCAG Advisory Committees

  

Open until filled

   County Hiking and Riding Trails Advisory Committee  

Items in red are new since our last action alert.
Items in blue are SBCAN items.

   

    

SPECIAL EVENTS

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30

 

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MESSAGE FROM INDIVISIBLE SANTA MARIA 

Yes on 50 Overpass Banner Drop & Protest
October 30 (Thursday) 4 - 5:30pm

Meet us on either side of Stowell Rd overpass. Bring your signs & join the Banner Brigade!  Yes On Prop 50, or whatever you want to protest! 

[email protected] 

 

 

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MESSAGE FROM COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL

The Issue with Tissue
Thursday, October 30

Something spooky is happening to our old-growth forests…

Just weeks into the 2020 pandemic — while store shelves were stripped bare of toilet paper — filmmaker Michael Zelniker reflected on a devastating reality: vast, old-growth forests across the Canadian border were being clear cut to make it. His documentary, The Issue with Tissue, exposes the deep connection between the boreal forest, the Indigenous communities who call it home, and the destructive reach of the global toilet paper industry.

Join CEC and the Sierra Club Santa Barbara/Ventura Chapter on Thursday, Oct. 30, from 6 to 9 p.m. at CEC’s Environmental Hub (1219 State St., Santa Barbara) for a Halloween-themed reception and screening of this poignant film. The screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Michael Zelniker, moderated by Dr. David Pellow of UC Santa Barbara. Get into the Halloween spirit with festive refreshments, snacks, and community conversation!

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1

 

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MESSAGE FROM INDIVISIBLE SANTA MARIA

 Member Meeting
November 1 (Saturday)  10-12 PM

St Peter’s Episcopal, 402 S Lincoln St, SM.  Celebration is an act of Defiance!!!  Join us, to re-energize and continue on with this momentous journey.  Bring your friends and ideas on how we can topple this administration! Cake, drinks & camaraderie provided. 

Sign Up Here & Join Us

 

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MESSAGE FROM INDIVISIBLE SANTA BARBARA

Yes on 50 Overpass Brigade

Saturday, November 1
10am-noon

The activist organizations who led the No Kings rallies, including Indivisible, have formed a No Kings Alliance to coordinate ongoing actions to resist and defeat the authoritarian takeover of our country, including weekly calls to action.

Locally, Indivisible Santa Barbara (ISB) is focused on getting out the vote for Yes on Proposition 50, including a final Saturday morning overpass brigade on November 1st. After the election, watch this newsletter and our social media for information on continuing Saturday morning demonstrations through the end of the year.
 
Take action: If you have not already done so, mark your special election ballot “YES” and drop it in the mail or official dropbox as soon as possible. Then urge your family and friends in all parts of California to do the same.
This week's regular Saturday morning protest (10/25) will be a YES ON PROP 50 alphabet brigade protest on Highway 101 overpasses. If you want to hold one of our alphabet brigade letter posters, you need to sign up at this link: https://indivisiblesb.org/california-strong/. The hours for this protest will be the usual 10 am to noon. Hope to see you there! #Yeson50 #Indivisible
Want to get more involved? Volunteer with ISB to help continue this movement 
 
 

 

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MESSAGE FROM DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA

Disappeared in America

Saturday, November 1
Noon
Santa Barbara County Superior Court
118 E Figueroa St, Santa Barbara
Both sides of the crosswalk

Across the country, immigrant communities are under attack — targeted by raids, detention, and dehumanizing policies that tear families apart. These tactics are being weaponized as part of a broader authoritarian crackdown that threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone.

Now is the time to come together, to stand shoulder to shoulder, and to say clearly:

We will not stand by as families are disappeared, rights are dismantled, and democracy itself is eroded.

The Disappeared in America Weekend of Action is a nationwide mobilization to defend our shared values of dignity, freedom, and justice for all. Together, we’ll shine a light on the human toll of detention and demand an end to corporate and government complicity in this cruelty.

 

ELECTION DAY - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

VOTE!

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MESSAGE FROM LOMPOC INDIVISIBLE  

REMEMBER TO VOTE – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 – VOTE YES ON PROP 50! 

California state elections and polling place information – click the link: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/polling-place

If you are a last minute voter, please do not mail your ballot, as the USPS is not guaranteed to postmark it on time (unless you walk it into the post office and ask them to stamp it). Take it to a drop box (by city hall) or take it to your polling place and turn it in on voting day. 

IF you need assistance with transportation to vote, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll figure out how to help you get that done. 👍

  

 
Giving Tuesday

MESSAGE FROM ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER

EDC represents SBCAN and other groups in our effort
to protect our county from another oil spill.   

RSVP & MORE INFO

On November 4, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will decide whether to transfer Exxon’s oil and gas permits to Sable Offshore Corp.—the Texas company threatening our coast and communities with the restart of three aging offshore platforms, two onshore processing facilities, and the same pipeline that failed 10 years ago causing the devastating oil spill on the Gaviota Coast.

In September, a federal judge rejected Sable’s attempt to force an immediate transfer of permits for these oil facilities. That’s a big win for our community and our coast. But the fight isn’t over. The court ordered the Board to hold a new public hearing on whether to transfer the permits.

The Board will once again consider whether Sable has the skills, training, and financial resources to operate safely and responsibly. This is not a simple paperwork issue—it’s a major decision about our County’s future. EDC and our partners will urge the Supervisors to deny the transfer of these permits. Sable has continuously shown disregard for the law, ignoring multiple cease-and-desist orders from the California Coastal Commission and digging up sensitive habitats without permits. Sable’s work in Santa Barbara County has resulted in a record $18 million fine from the Coastal Commission, a state Attorney General lawsuit accusing Sable of illegally discharging waste into streams and habitats, and 21 criminal charges filed against the company by the District Attorney, including five felonies. The company has proven to our community time and time again it cannot be trusted to operate these facilities safely or responsibly.

WILL YOU JOIN US TUESDAY NOVEMBER 4TH?

We need every voice. Every student, every parent, every surfer, every fisher, every person who loves this place. Let’s fill that hearing room.

IN PERSON: Testify in person at the hearing on Tuesday, November 4, 9AM at the County of Santa Barbara, 105 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara
RALLY: 8:00AM (Wear Read!)
DOORS OPEN: 7:30AM

VIRTUALLY: Testify virtually by Zoom - REGISTRATION REQUIRED
(Link to be released with agenda here)

EMAIL COMMENTS: by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, November 3 to [email protected] 

The Board has every right—and responsibility—to ask hard questions and require Sable to provide more information. Sable’s record makes clear this company is either unwilling or unable to follow the law and operate safely.

On November 4 the Board can—and must— deny the transfer of these permits. But they need to hear from us.

Let’s protect the places we love—together.

Thank you.

Tara Rengifo
Senior Attorney

 

 

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MESSAGE FROM CARPINTERIA INDIVISIBLE

Carpinteria Indivisible Monthly Meeting

Tuesday, November 4
5:30 – 6:30pm PST
Rancho Granada Mobile Home Park
5750 Via Real, Carpinteria

Carpinteria Indivisible holds monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of every month at 5:30pm - 6:30pm. We discuss calls to action and hear reports from our focus groups.

Currently our federal government (aka The Regime) hits us daily with one "crisis" after another. Indivisible partners with other groups for national events each month. We also hold marches and rallies for local events. So far we have held public visibility demonstrations at least once/month. Please bring your major concerns to the meeting.

Let's save democracy!

Register here: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/854010/

     

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

MESSAGE FROM THE CITY OF GOLETA

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Chapter 8.19 of the Goleta Municipal Code

More info: www.cityofgoleta.org/TenantProtections

 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-of-goleta-tenant-protections-lunch-learn-webinar-tickets-1860514863039 Goleta-Join_Us_for_a_Virtual_Lunch-2.jpg

   

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9

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Musical Showman Gale McNeeley Presents
Tom Lehrer Tribute Show

2pm Sunday, November 9

Home of Jeanne Sparks and Ken Hough
Orcutt
RSVP to [email protected] for address

Tom Lehrer left the planet July 26th, but his inspired music and lyrics live on.

In the 50s and 60s, Tom was a hit on college campuses with outrageous songs like Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, The Vatican Rag and So Long Mom, I’m Off to Drop the Bomb. He pushed the envelope with his take on religion, politics and war, taking jabs at the Boy Scouts, the Marines and Wernher von Braun.

Gale McNeeley’s Irish tenor vocals and wide musical and performance range make Lehrer’s satirical lyrics shine. And his performance background of unique material makes him ideal for bringing out the best of Lehrer’s work.

A former Broadway singer-actor, he’s a European trained instructor of Commedia Dell ‘Arte (Italian masked comedy) teaching nationally. Work like his ongoing touring show Archy and Mehitabel, allows for a rich interpretation of Lehrer zany words ands music. McNeeley says, “At my Jesuit college, The Vatican Rag was the naughtiest song I had ever heard. Tom inspired my career as a song parodist.”

Mr. McNeeley will be accompanied on the piano by Paul Marszalkowski from the Pacific Conservatory Theatre. There will be a suggested donation of $15 at the door. For more information text or call 805 406 4997.

THIS PROGRAM IS SPONSORED BY SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ACTION NETWORK

   

CALLS TO ACTION

 

NO KINGS ALLIANCE
  
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MESSAGE FROM NO KINGS ALLIANCE

There will be more mass protests in our future, but before that, there will be authoritarian overreach to defend against…and quickly. What we do will change week to week. Whatever the moment requires, we’ll adapt. Because authoritarianism doesn’t stand alone — it survives on silence, complicity, and cash flow. The No Kings Alliance is simple: make it impossible for anyone — in power, in profit, or in denial — to quietly capitulate.

THIS WEEK'S ACTION:
Collect your #NoKings moments
Pull together your photos, videos, or stories from No Kings Day - the signs, the crowds, the energy that said we're done with wannabe kings.
Tell your story
Post it. Write why you showed up and what you re fighting for.
Be loud, be proud, be defiant.
Tag it #NoKings.
Call your people in
Add something like this to your post: The fight doesn't end here. Join me at nokings.org/next for this week's action.
Keep it going
Come back every week for a new way to defy - one action, one story, one stand at a time.
https://www.nokings.org/alliance
No Kings Alliance has numerous partners including Indivisible, 50501 and Move on: https://www.nokings.org/partners
 

INDIVISIBLE (NATIONAL)

 

MESSAGES FROM INDIVISIBLE (NATIONAL)

Spotify is capitulating to the regime, but we can make them reverse course

Earlier this month, Spotify began running ads to recruit for ICE, making them an active enabler of the hiring spree to build an American secret police force. That’s bad, and if we want there to be consequences for capitulation, we have to be the consequence!

If you’ve joined a weekly "What’s the Plan?" call, you’ve probably heard me and Leah reflect on the lessons from the successful Disney/ABC/Kimmel campaign. The regime bullied, the institution capitulated, the people rebelled, the institution reversed course, and democracy sat up a little straighter the next day.

What worked to influence Disney can work with Spotify! Like Disney, Spotify is a multi-billion dollar corporation that relies on subscriptions. That means we, the paying customers, have real influence.

So on Thursday, Leah and I sent a formal letter to Spotify, pointing out their problematic ads and requesting a meeting. If they do not respond by tomorrow, we’re going to launch a campaign to push them from capitulation to active resistance. Stay tuned for more soon, and come to "What’s the Plan?" on Thursday to discuss next steps.

The GOP-caused implosion of healthcare

Regular Americans of all political persuasions are about to find out that Republicans blew up the healthcare market. We unpack this a bit more at the bottom of this newsletter, so here’s all you need to understand right now:

  • The Big Ugly Bill gutted Medicaid and killed really important subsidies that make health insurance affordable.
  • With health insurance open enrollment starting next week, the direct consequences of that are about to become very real and very personal. Millions of us are about to see our health insurance bills jump by thousands of dollars.
  • This is a crisis that’ll drive up costs for everyone, regardless of how you get insurance. When millions of people lose healthcare, it starts a “death spiral” that hurts us all.

Democrats are (mostly) holding the line in the Trump Shutdown fight to avoid all of this, so it’s especially important for your Dems to hear your appreciation this week. On the flip side, if you’ve got a Republican Member of Congress, you should ask why the hell they’re shutting down the government to blow up your health coverage.

Neighbor2Neighbor re Prop 50

CA Indivisibles: Sign up for Neighbor2Neighbor to knock doors on your time ahead of critical ballot measures. To thwart Republicans' attempt to gain permanent control of the House, we need to give our likeminded neighbors a nudge to vote by November 4! Our innovative Neighbor2Neighbor program lets you canvass your neighborhood on your time.

 

DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA
   

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MESSAGE FROM 50501

Disappeared In America

Protecting Immigrant Rights, Due Process & Democracy

Sign Up Here To Host An Event

Across the country, immigrant families are being detained, disappeared, and torn from their loved ones — part of a growing authoritarian campaign to erode rights and silence dissent.

Join the Disappeared in America Weekend of Action (11/1-11/2) — a national mobilization to protect immigrants, expose corporate complicity, and honor the lives lost in detention.

3 WAYS TO TAKE ACTION NOVEMBER 1-2, 2025

1) Protests at Home Depots: Calling Out Corporate Complicity

Home Depot has profited from anti-immigrant policies while turning a blind eye to the exploitation and fear its workers face every day. As immigrant families are detained and disappeared, corporations like Home Depot have remained silent — or worse, complicit. By organizing protests outside Home Depots nationwide, we’re sending a clear message: corporations cannot profit from cruelty.

Call to Action:

👉 Sign up to host a Home Depot protest

📘 Get the Host Toolkit

2) Freedom Vigils: Outside Detention Centers, Courthouses & Jails
Every day, people are detained in isolation — hidden from view, stripped of rights, and separated from their families. Vigils are an act of collective witness. They remind the world that behind every statistic is a story, a family, a person who deserves freedom and dignity.​Join communities across the country in holding vigils outside detention centers, courthouses, and jails.
3) Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos Actions: Honoring Lives Lost in ICE Detention
This Día de los Muertos, communities across the country are coming together to remember those who have died in immigrant detention — and to transform grief into power.​ From altars and art installations to processions and cultural gatherings, Day of the Dead actions remind us that remembrance is resistance. By naming those who have been lost, we demand that their deaths not be in vain — and that no more lives be taken in silence.
 
   

Help Promote Eastside Santa Barbara's Businesses & Resources

   

Last year, Eastside residents approached SBCAN for help to promote Eastside businesses and resources. Residents consider Milpas Street Santa Barbara's "second State Street," but do not feel like there is enough investment in the Eastside to help boost its economy. Long-standing businesses are struggling due to various factors including lack of visitation from tourists staying on Cabrillo and from locals. 

Thank you to our volunteer Abigail Lindros for helping create this petition to urge the City of Santa Barbara to help promote social and economic justice in Santa Barbara's Eastside. The Eastside is a community rich with diversity and resources and should be treated as such.

"To revitalize the Eastside, a community of Eastside residents alongside SBCAN and other organizations, propose creating a dedicated Eastside Resources/Businesses page on the official City of Santa Barbara website. This page would include hyperlinks to local business websites and contact information, enhancing visibility and accessibility for residents and visitors alike. Additionally, this page would promote Eastside resources such as libraries, community centers, and services for families to bolster community resilience and increase use of existing services.  

To elevate Eastside’s online presence, we call for the hiring of City staff or the designation of funds towards a local nonprofit to manage social media accounts that uplift our Milpas restaurants to attract more visitors and invigorate our community’s economy."

Please sign this petition to urge the City of Santa Barbara to create an Eastside businesses and resources tab on the official City website and designate funds to promoting Milpas restaurants on social media.   

 

WEEKLY EVENTS

 

MONDAYS

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Support the Palestinians
Every Monday 4pm-530pm

MESSAGE FROM SANTA MARIA RESIDENT GALE MCNEELEY

Come join us every Monday 4–5:30 PM at Main & Broadway in Santa Mara to Support the Palestinians and to Protest the Genocide in Gaza. We invite you to join us for all or any part of that time. Bring a sign expressing your hopes for the Palestinian people. We have been there for this last year, and the beeps in support are growing every week.  
Gale McNeeley 805 406 4997
 

THURSDAYS

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What's the Plan?
Every Thursday at noon
Online

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back.

The antidote: Coming together in community to process what’s happening, to sift through what’s important and what’s just noise, and coalesce around strategies for fighting back.

Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin each week, as we carve out an hour to discuss what’s happening and – more importantly – what’s the plan.

https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/773746/

 

 

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MESSAGE FROM DICK FLACKS

Culture of Protest
Every Thursday at 4pm
KCSB Radio, 91.9 FM in SB
www.kcsb.org

Songs for and about Mamdani (and Halloween)

An online quest for songs responding to the Mamdani campaign led me to a surprising number and variety, which I think is an indication that it's a real grassroots movement. So this week's episode is largely a Mamdani mix, and you may be impressed by its political and cultural as well as musical range. The finale of the show features three great, classic protest songs about vampires, witches and the Halloween parade,

You can listen right now or save the prerecorded show here.

SBCAN Co-president Dick Flacks has been doing a weekly radio how on KCSB (91.9 FM) for 43 years. Each episode is now pre-recorded, and he'll be sharing a link each week so you can download the episode, listen at your convenience, share it and keep it.

If you'd like to be on Dick's email list, contact him at rflacks@gmall com

 

FRIDAYS

 

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Climate Fridays Santa Barbara

Friday, November 7, 2025 (AND every first Friday in 2025)

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

CEC's Environmental Hub

1219 State St., Santa Barbara

Join CEC, the Society of Fearless Grandmothers Santa Barbara, and the Santa Barbara Sierra Club on the first Friday of each month. At these events, climate activists, students, community partners, and friends gather to learn about regional climate change issues and how to take collective action to protect our planet. November's gathering will focus on regenerative agriculture and feature guest speakers from CEC, Harris Gaviota Farm, and SEEAG, along with sustainable food expert Gerri French.

Learn more and register.

      

 

NEWS
  

MESSAGE FROM JIM HINES 

Administration to offer oil and gas lease sales in SB Channel

Greetings Santa Barbara-Ventura Activists: 
The Trump Administration has announced its intent to offer the first offshore oil and gas lease sale in 50 years in federal waters of the Santa Barbara Channel. The sale is scheduled to take place in the Spring of 2027.
Leases will be offered in federal waters from offshore of Oxnard up to the Gaviota area.
This is a general announcement but we are told that specifics will be available in the "coming weeks"....we have heard that before.
But we have time to plan our opposition, which kicked off at our Sierra Club California Coastal Committee meeting and this morning with the first public opposition to new offshore lease sales by the City of Santa Cruz (a lease sale will be held in the greater Monterey Bay area).  
The Administration has been working on this plan for some time.
Several months ago, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior ( the offshore leasing authority) signed a number of secretarial orders exempting both onshore and  offshore oil and gas leasing from major environmental laws, including marine mammal protection act, endangered species act and a host of others.
The Secretary based these exceptions on the President's order declaring a "National Energy Emergency" back in January.
The Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Interior visited the Santa Barbara Channel area recently. 
So get ready, get organized, we have a lot to do, on top of everything else which the Administration is planning for our region. 
for the wild,
Jim 

Jim Hines is Conservation Chair of Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter of the Sierra Club. Contact him at: [email protected]

 

OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE
  

MESSAGE FROM SBCAG

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Para consultar la versión en español de esta información, haga clic aquí.

  
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The Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) is accepting applications to fill vacancies on two advisory committees that provide public input on transportation funding and transit services in the region.

The openings include positions on the Measure A Citizens Oversight Committee and Santa Barbara County Transit Advisory Committee (SBCTAC).

“Serving on an SBCAG advisory committee is an excellent way to contribute to your community and bring your experience to the table,” said Marjie KIRN, executive director of SBCAG. “Public input is essential to ensuring local transportation decisions reflect the needs and priorities of people across Santa Barbara County.”

An “At-Large” seat is open on the Measure A Citizens Oversight Committee for a community member to complete a four-year term that ends in September 2027. 

The committee includes 11 community leaders representing North County, the South Coast, and the region at large. It independently oversees how Measure A transportation sales tax revenues are spent, ensuring that voter-approved funds are used as intended. Members represent a cross section of transportation users and the county’s geographic, social, cultural, and economic interests. Committee members serve without compensation, as outlined in the Measure A Ordinance, and typically meet twice a year.

For more information about Measure A, visit SBCAG’s website. The 2024 Annual Report is also available to download.  

Three volunteer seats are also open on SBCTAC, which serves as the county’s Social Services Transportation Advisory Council under California’s Transportation Development Act. Openings include a representative from the agricultural sector, a transit user from southern Santa Barbara County, and a social service provider serving seniors in southern Santa Barbara County. 

The committee includes 18 community leaders representing the North County and South Coast regions and advises SBCAG on transit needs, funding priorities, and services for seniors, individuals with disabilities, and residents with limited transportation options. Members serve three-year terms and may receive a $100 per-meeting stipend when funds are available, and training requirements are met. Meetings are typically held monthly or as needed.

“We’ve made it easy for residents to apply online, and our team is available to help with any questions about the process” said Lauren Bianchi Klemann, government affairs and public information manager for SBCAG. “We appreciate the time and commitment of those who volunteer to serve.”

Applications must be submitted online by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, October 29, 2025.

Any questions about the application process or the role of a committee member can be directed to [email protected] or by phone at (805) 961-8900. 

Advisory committee members are appointed by the SBCAG Board of Directors and serve in a public capacity. Applications are public records under state law and may be distributed to the Board and included in public meeting materials. Information provided in the application, including but not limited to name, occupation, and community affiliation, may be used in SBCAG websites, news releases, meeting packets, and other public communications.
 
 

COUNTY RIDING AND HIKING TRAILS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The County Riding and Hiking Trails Advisory Committee (CRAHTAC) has at one or more vacancy in each of its five supervisorial districts. It needs more community members to represent the needs of the public. SBCAN encourages you to apply to be on the committee.
 
CRAHTAC was established by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors in an advisory capacity to review programs, policies, and procedures affecting county recreational riding and hiking trails and their use. Committee members are concerned with the location, development, and maintenance of the recreational trails system countywide, to provide public access and links to the Los Padres National Forest, parks, beaches, and other public recreation areas.
 
The committee is comprised of a maximum of four members from each of the five Supervisorial Districts and serves at the pleasure of the appointing Supervisor. CRAHTAC meets regularly on a bimonthly schedule.
 
CRAHTAC Members
  • District 1 Kim Fly, Kevin Snow (2 Vacancies) 
  • District 2 Jack Bish, Otis Calef - Chair, Dan Gira (1 Vacancy)      
  • District 3 Faith Deeter - Vice Chair, Linda Rubenstein, Desiree Woodlill - Secretary (1 Vacancy)
  • District 4 John Karamitsos (3 Vacancies)
  • District 5 (4 Vacancies)   
For more information, contact Executive Assistant Teralyn Evans-Gutiérrez
Email Teralyn Evans-Gutiérrez; Phone: 805-568-2467
   
  
ELECTED OFFICIALS CONTACT INFORMATION

 

U.S. CONGRESS

Senator Adam Schiff
Washington, DC: (202) 224-3841
Los Angeles: (310) 914-7300
San Francisco: (415) 393-0707
Fresno: (559) 485-7430
Email

Senator Alex Padilla
Washington, DC: (202) 224-3553
Fresno (559) 497–5109
San Francisco (415) 981–9369  
Sacramento (916) 448–2787
Los Angeles (310) 231–4494
San Diego (619) 239–3884
Email

Congressman Salud Carbajal
Santa Barbara: (805) 730-1710
San Luis Obispo: (805) 546-8348
Washington, DC: (202) 225-3601
Email

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE

Senator Monique Limón
Santa Barbara: (805) 965-0862
Oxnard: (805) 988-1940
Sacramento: (916) 651-4021
Email

Assemblyman Gregg Hart
Santa Barbara: (805) 564-1649
Sacramento: (916) 319-2037
Email
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

1st District Supervisor Roy Lee
(805) 568-2186
[email protected]

2nd District Supervisor Laura Capps
(805) 568-2191
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3rd District Supervisor Joan Hartmann
(805) 568-2192
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4th District Supervisor Bob Nelson
(805) 346-8407
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5th District Supervisor Steve Lavagnino
(805) 346-8404
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