Salary Watch: Goleta Water District
What the top three employees of the Goleta Water District make.
Year: 2010
Supes Move to Increase Tourism Base
In an effort to increase the county’s tourism base, the Board of Supervisors agreed to allow lodging establishments in some unincorporated parts of the county to be a part of the Santa Barbara South Coast Tourism Business Improvement District, a five-year revenue source that would bump up marketing, sales, and promotional efforts to make the area more attractive as a tourism and event destination.
Capps Encourages Troops to Apply for Retroactive Pay
Congressmember Lois Capps this week encouraged Central and South Coast soldiers whose service was extended under stop loss orders in Iraq and Afghanistan to apply for retroactive pay.
Pascual Gamboa: 1930-2010
I remember that Fiesta when Pascual rode a horse through his restaurant at 30 E. Victoria, fueled by some extra Hornitos. He soon grasped the obvious: It’s one thing to ride a stallion onto a tiled floor in a packed tavern—and quite another to turn it around.
New Interim Public Defender Named
Raimundo Montes de Oca, a longtime attorney in the office of the Public Defender, has been named interim public defender to replace Greg Paraskou when he retires on 10/1.
Housing Authority Sells Huge Plot
Downtown Santa Barbara’s largest unimproved parcel—located at 535 E. Montecito Street—changed hands this week as the city’s Housing Authority sold the 1.79 acre property to Orange County-based developer City Ventures which plans to construct housing, including affordable units.
Warbler’s Warm Welcome
Santa Barbara’s newest tenants are stock piling the vinyl tunage on De la Guerra Street.
Anatomy of a Nuke Missile Test
Vandenberg launches an ICBM in a show of force.
Double Trouble
Outmaneuvered and out of time, the city accedes to the West Beach Festival promoters.
Broken Pipe Dreams
The city revamps and reduces its sewer line replacement program.
