The Santa Barbara City Council faced a grim reality Tuesday when City Finance Director Rob Pierson notified elected officials that City Hall was confronting a $5.5 million general fund shortfall for this current fiscal year-which ends the last day of June-and a $9 million projected shortfall for the following one.
A sense of the past hangs over Santa Barbara like a strong perfume, but by the time most residents can differentiate between the Carrillos and Castillos-or discover that former Mexican Governor Micheltorena’s poor battle record was caused by a killer case of ‘rhoids-they’ve been forced out of town by the one-two punch of Santa Barbara’s astronomical housing prices and low paying jobs.
Department heads asked to prepare for $3 million in cuts.
A judge said the project can’t go forward without an election.
Santa Barbara City Councilmember Roger Horton experienced a change of heart regarding whether the City Council should provide voters an alternative to the new building height limit proposed by Save El Pueblo Viejo next November.
Which homes and what areas, however, has yet to be determined.
In a 4-3 vote, members of the Santa Barbara City Council opted not to craft an alternative, less restrictive building-height-limit proposal at its November 18 meeting.
The man had incurred four moving violations, though never while he was carrying passengers.
The task force has been unable to supervise as many negotiations between tenants and landlords.
In the last year, according to a report read at the City Council’s October 7 meeting, the City of Santa Barbara determined the cause of 89 percent of all fires it investigated, mentored 200 youths in the Job Apprentice program, witnessed DUI traffic collisions drop by 21 percent, repaired 124,500 square feet of streets and sidewalks, saw occupational injuries drop 11 percent, completed 19 Public Works projects at a cost of $58 million, cleaned 206 miles of wastewater pipes, scrubbed graffiti from 123,000 square feet of building surface, achieved a three-minute 25-second response time to calls for fire emergency service, answered all 911 dispatch calls within three seconds, planted 390 new trees, saw a 7 percent increase of visitors to the downtown and Eastside libraries, and increased participation in teen programs by 22 percent and youth sports by 96 percent.
