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No less a personage than Lynn Jacobs, California’s director of Housing and Community Development (HCD), boarded a chartered bus this week to tour potential housing sites in Goleta. The October 5 inspection kicked off a daylong workshop to commence the revamping of the city’s housing policy, which has yet to win state approval. Jacobs was accompanied by two assistants and 40 or so city residents, staff, developers, activists, and press members.
Again revisiting the ongoing budget chaos plaguing the school district, the Santa Barbara School Board finally approved its unaudited figures for the 2006-07 school year at its meeting Tuesday night. Several questions remain as to how the board went from making more than $2 million in supposedly necessary cuts this past spring to having an apparent multimillion-dollar surplus just a few months later, in June.
The UCSB CALPIRG campaign joined the national U.S. PIRG Education Fund to inform students of traps used by credit card companies.
UCSB announced on 10/9 that a $10-million donation from the Charles D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will fund the establishment of a national program-based at UCSB-focusing on law and neuroscience.
The Santa Barbara-based Walking Company plans to open six new stores throughout the U.S. this month.
The Santa Barbara City Council is soliciting bids from land use consultants to craft a plan for outer State Street.
Raytheon announced that its Goleta-based Tactical Airborne Systems division was awarded an $11.9-million contract to manufacture 13 radar warning receivers for a U.S. Air Force base in Georgia.
ExpressJet Airlines began selling tickets for its new service to Santa Barbara Airport on 10/8.
The Santa Barbara County Supervisors voted unanimously to temporarily remove the two agricultural industry representatives from the Agricultural Preserve Advisory Committee.
The financial advice columnist shares secrets of the trade as learned from identify thief Frank Abagnale, of “Catch Me If You Can” fame.
