After serving three consecutive terms on the Santa Barbara School Board, trustee Bob Noël announced this week that he will not be seeking reelection to the post this November. A polarizing, outspoken, and occasionally feather-ruffling member of the five-person board since 1998, Noel has no immediate plans beyond spending time with his family and teaching a class at UCSB’s College of Letters and Sciences entitled Politics and Power in Local Education: A Political Scientist’s Perspective.
