Santa Barbara Needs a Covid Czar

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SERVING MONTECITO AND SUMMERLAND

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden provides a much-needed respite from current stresses, p. 34

SANTA BARBARA NEEDS A COVID CZAR EXTRAORDINARY TIMES CALL FOR EXTRAORDINARY MINDS: AND FORTUNATELY, WE HAVE THEM! (EDITORIAL BEGINS ON PAGE 5)

Meet Me at the Mart

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A Hat Thrown in SB Mayoral Ring Coffee With a Black Guy’s James Joyce announces mayoral bid, p. 6

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Inside This Issue 5

Editor’s Letter

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On the Record

After almost a year into the COVID pandemic, it is clear that Santa Barbara needs a Czar to lead us on a path out of this mess James Joyce announces bid for Santa Barbara Mayor; Trev Broudy’s coppery water mystery continues

10 Letters to the Editor

A collection of communications from readers offering praise, questioning Cold Spring School leadership, examining State vaccine guidelines, and much more

11 Senior Portrait

Margery Baragona grew up in Montecito, and even after all these years, reassures us that the area has the same feel as when she was a child

14 On Entertainment

VADA teams up with The Environment Makers for art show at Lobero; new show at Sullivan Goss; Music Academy of the West’s Alumni Enterprise Award winners speak on panel; much, much more

16 Village Beat

Montecito Country Mart adds two new stores; Montecito’s Groundwater Sustainability Agency updates

18 Dear Montecito

Hope Saxon started volunteering at Friendship Center in Montecito in ninth grade, and quickly realized she had found her passion and purpose in life

20 Seen Around Town

The Lobero Theatre is one of Santa Barbara’s cultural institutions

22 Body Wise

Psychologist Don MacMannis offers wisdom on how to help families cope with the emotional stress of living in a changing, sometimes volatile world

28 Montecito Miscellany

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David Bolton hired again to produce Super Bowl for Fox Sports Latin America; SB Symphony looks to the future; SBCC awarded grant from Getty Foundation; much, much more 30 Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco What does “voter suppression” mean? What does it look like in real life? How bad is it? How much worse can it get?

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Santa Barbara Botanic Garden provides a much needed, safe respite from everyday stresses

38 Montecito on the Move

Senator Limón and Assemblymember Bennett to address Montecito Association Annual Meeting

Tide Guide 40 On Science

A look at Jupiter and its coterie of some 60 moons, almost a mini-solar system unto itself

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42 Muller Monthly Music Meta Crossword Puzzle 48 Nosh Town

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49 Brilliant Thoughts

What does it take to be original these days?

50 Our Town

This year marked Santa Barbara Audubon Society’s 121st Annual Christmas Bird Count

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Editor’s Letter

by Gwyn Lurie CEO and Executive Editor of the Montecito Journal Media Group

Santa Barbara Needs a COVID Czar

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f we’ve learned anything over the past decade, it’s that government alone cannot solve all our problems or foresee every disaster. But we can at least expect they will recognize their own inherent limitations or as the saying goes, “Lead or get out of the way.”

Last week in A.L. Bardach’s MJ cover story “Santa Barbara’s COVID Mess,” Bardach describes a local COVID vaccination process that many believe is rigidly narrow, falls short of state mandates and underserves large swaths of our most vulnerable residents – causing more anxiety and confusion than it is alleviating. Last week Jerry Roberts spoke with Bardach on his weekly Newsmakers podcast, where Bardach called for the County to appoint a COVID Czar to focus solely on pandemic issues – current and future – a person who could formulate a more equitable and efficient vaccination plan. I strongly endorse Bardach’s recommendation.

Czar: “A person appointed by government to advise on and coordinate policy in a particular area,” is the second definition in the Oxford Dictionary. The first being, of course, “An emperor of Russia before 1917.”

In 2015 I served on the SB County Child Welfare Safety Net Task Force to explore how our County could better serve our most vulnerable youth. After some 87 stakeholder hearings, our top recommendation was the establishment of an independent entity focused on our most at-risk children. In short, a Child Welfare Czar.

The Supervisors did not accept our recommendation.

Following the Thomas Fire and Debris Flow disaster, when our local leaders were admittedly “overwhelmed,” again the idea of a Czar was raised. One Supervisor brushed aside the idea “joking” that he’s “more of a Bonapartist than a Czarist.” However, since FDR, our federal government has created 343 Czar positions to deal with societal issues or unforeseen disasters. States and local governments too have increasingly used Czar positions to oversee – and spearhead – complex issues.

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So, here we are again, in another calamitous moment, dependent on local officials – hired pre-pandemic – to organize and strategize a path out of this mess

So, here we are again, in another calamitous moment, dependent on local officials – hired pre-pandemic – to organize and strategize a path out of this mess.

I called County Supervisor Das Williams to understand why our County, despite the State’s guideline for vaccinating those 65 and older, are only providing for those 75-plus, and leaving out those in the prior decade, even those with life threatening comorbidities.

“The biggest issue by far is supply,” Williams said. “I am not comfortable asking our 75 and older residents to compete with 75,000 others to get their vaccine… It’s a supply issue. A lot of vaccine has not shown up… On a given week we receive enough vaccine for just 1.3 percent of our population,” Williams said.

I could tell Das was frustrated by the supply issue, but I pressed him: “But what about those 65 and older with underlying conditions and who may be at more risk than some who are 75-plus?” Williams conceded the point: “I agree, it makes sense to segment by risk. I would be very supportive of a thoughtful tier system based on risk.”

“Is there anyone in our County working on creating an equitable system that takes risk into account?” I asked.

I kept returning to the question of why we weren’t trying to figure out that question locally, since the state has decentralized its approach, a decision Williams insists has added to the confusion. In fact, Long Beach has made the unilateral decision to include teachers and politicians in the group approved to be vaccinated. The first one of which very few people would argue. Williams

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On the Record

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our years ago, James Joyce III began an ambitious project called “Coffee With a Black Guy.” The idea was simple: Using a combination of wit, humor, and blunt honesty, Joyce sought to help Santa Barbara residents engage in a frank dialogue about issues relating to race and politics, both in our community and nationwide. The program started out with just a handful of audience members but gradually drew hundreds of participants before ultimately, morphing into a COVID-friendly podcast.

Meanwhile, the Black Lives Matter movement expanded into a crescendo of protests and rallies nationwide that united Black and White Americans fed up with heavy-handed policing and the lack of accountability over an epidemic of in-custody deaths of Black Americans culminating with the tragic killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year. Suddenly, “Coffee With a Black Guy” became a crystallization of Santa Barbara’s connection to the national zeitgeist.

Now, Joyce has perhaps an even more ambitious project on his hands: Along with city Planning Commissioner Deborah Schwartz, who just threw her hat in the ring for this November’s race, he’s running to unseat Santa Barbara Mayor Cathy Murillo. A progressive Democrat endorsed by labor unions and the state and local party establishment, Murillo has nonetheless faced criticism for being tone-death after she refused to take a knee in a street-corner meeting with local Black Lives Matter protesters last year amid an unsuccessful run for State Assembly.

We caught up with Joyce just before he announced his candidacy and asked

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Letters to the Editor

If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite H, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to letters@montecitojournal.net

Senior Moments

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ongratulations on the new column, Senior Portrait.

Just read the wonderful article on Peter van Duinwyck, whom I knew years ago from our Montecito Association Board. He certainly made big contributions to the success there and to all his other involvements, then and now.

Sure miss our “good old days” and look forward to reading about the other seniors in your future editions.

Jean von Wittenburg

Cannot Ignore These Crimes

Mr. Merovick’s plea to Speaker Pelosi is pragmatic, reasonable, practical, and noble. His plea is to forget impeachment of now ex-President Trump, and let bygones be bygone. President Biden assumed office at difficult times, and he needs a short honeymoon without distraction and partisan animosity of impeachment trial. However! Mr. Merovick’s plea fails to acknowledge the political facts on the ground. 74 million people voted for Donald Trump even after the Hollywood tapes, comments about Mexicans and African countries, ridiculing a disabled reporter, belittling a Gold Star mother, hundreds of bullying insults of foes and ex friends, and impeachment. They are not going away or changing their minds anytime soon. They firmly believe the election was stolen. The republican elected officials tried to deny Electoral College results even after the crowd encouraged by then President Trump attacked the Capitol to stop the count. The republican elected officials recognized that to keep the 74 million republican base they need Donald Trump. They know they cannot afford even slight wobble of support for Trump, since it would lead to instant condemnation and primary challenge. Think Liz Cheney! That’s why “My” Kevin McCarthy went to Mar-a Lago to plead for Donald Trump forgiveness and invite participation in Republican Politics.

Yes, second impeachment trial will be distraction, but ex-President inciting insurrection needs to be addressed. This crime cannot be ignored.

Donna Handy

More of the Same from Cold Spring Leadership

I was troubled but not surprised to read Cold Spring School Board President Michael Marino’s letter “Setting the Record Straight” in this publication.

Mr. Marino falsely claimed that “Oversight and implementation of the Cold Spring School Measure C facilities bond has complied with management best practices, all state laws and regulations, and generally accepted accounting principles.” His failure to mention or acknowledge that the $2.44 Million Measure C bond passed in 2008 only had a legally required Independent Bond Oversight Committee for only two of the past ten years suggests that Marino is living in an alternative reality or he thinks anyone paying attention is just plain stupid.

During the campaign for L2020, the district pushed the message that Cold Spring was a great school and that is why it deserved the taxpayers’ money to make the improvements to the facilities. However, not one member of the leadership bothered to do their homework and see that all the items they were asking for with L2020 were supposed to have been done with Measure C monies that we will be paying off until 2039!

A free and simple town hall meeting would have given them the insight into the history of bonds in the District. But the Board has made it clear for a while that they are not interested in what non-parent residents think. Their contempt for questions and concerns from constituents is evident in every communication including a letter mailed to every resident with the false claim that Measure C had proper oversight.

Problem is, things do add up. According to this cover story Gateway to School in the Montecito Journal February 2016, then Board President Goligoski claimed that that all the Measure C updates had been done and that we wouldn’t have to “touch the campus for many, many years.” So someone is lying. Either Gologoski in the article or the board and administration who pushed a bond for items that were already completed.

Either way, a lot of us want to know what happened to the $2.2 million of Measure C. Marino claims all the relevant documents are now on the school

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website, but the truth is there are bond oversight meeting minutes for only three meetings and one was the orientation meeting. In other words, there were only two documented independent bond oversight committee meetings to oversee the spending of over two million dollars.

It’s noteworthy that the Measure C audit approved by the board in 2016 included Goligoski as one of three members of the underappointed oversight committee – and this was when he was serving as School Board President!

Another violation of the law. Clearly the school board was not doing its job back in 2016 and yet Marino is attacking the residents who have raised these serious legal concerns.

Mr. Marino seems to think everything is okay just because a law firm selected by the very administration that has illegally spent bond money without the required oversight has told the District that they did everything right. It is no coincidence that the law firm Nixon Peabody was contracted to provide bond counsel had L2020 passed. Giving legal advice that helps the administration is a good way to secure future business with those very people. Such a conflict of interest with the very reason the state requires and INDEPENDENT bond oversight committee.

I long ago gave up hope that Mr. Marino was capable of understanding the issue of conflict of interest. Certainly his willingness to hire Yuri Calderon to serve as both CBO and General Counsel should make everyone concerned about his judgement. His defense of that decision included a claim on Nextdoor that the County Office of Education had encouraged the dual role. Problem is, I reached out to the County Ed office and they said they had no record of giving such advice. Not only that but there is no other district in the state that has General Counsel serving as CBO because there is a clear conflict of interest.

In the January Board meeting, Board Vice President Jennifer Miller actually asked two former board members which bathrooms were renovated with Measure C because no one knows. The truth is, they all were supposed to be, along with the fire alarms, roofs, electrical and communication systems. Marino wants evidence for an forensic audit? Here it is: we gave you $2.44 million, there is just about $200K left but nothing to clearly show where the rest was spent and the District asking for more money to do the same job.

The board can continue to ignore these serious issues and scream liars (without any specifics) all they want. The cold hard truth is Cold Spring will never pass another bond measure unless they can actually account for every dime of Measure C. Don Miller

Thank You for Always Publishing the Relevant

In support of Annie Bardach’s article, bravo!

This is Santa Bárbara County (California), NOT the heart of darkness of some backwash but surely more humane Banana Republic.

I would like to commend Annie Bardach for her vibrant and touching piece exposing the archaic stance and lack of empathy of Santa Barbara county’s Sups unappealing bureaucracy – one that never seems to stand on the right side of things to make us proud of sensible initiatives that our tax dollars would gladly support – especially now, in the face of this COVID pandemic. What kind of rules and regulations would supersede empathy and humanity for those at risk in a country that otherwise brashly calls for fairness and human rights all over the planet? And now in their own backyard shamelessly dashes the hopes of their own in the face of adversity and possible peril? ... Food for thought, not to mention the Cannabis mess – thank you Ralphs and all others who have done the right thing in offering the frail a possibility for relief – you give us hope.

And you Annie for yet again taking a stance in highlighting the good, the bad, and the unacceptable in a county that should be leading by way of positive example – now is the time!

All the best from the Philippines – stay safe!

John Edward Heaton

It’s Time to Join Hands with the Police

The “broken window theory” asserts that visible signs of crime, and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder which leads to more serious crimes. In Santa Barbara, we see people rolling through stop signs, holding their cell phones to their ears, parking illegally, and graffiti. We are seeing more thief of unlocked cars, more smash and grab crimes.

We are seeing the disrespect of police officers and shameless violent acts by gangs. Add to this the arrival in our neighborhoods of well-dressed Europeanlooking Chilean gang members who rent expensive black Escalades or similar.

They case expensive homes, park and wait until the homes become vacant then brazenly enter the driveway, disable security measures, break rear windows and

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Senior Portrait

by Zach Rosen

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Margery Baragona

anta Barbara and the surrounding areas have long been known for their small town feel. Often those who grow up here end up returning for the picturesque charm and quaint community. For Margery Baragona, after being raised here and later returning, she has found that the area still has the same beauty and general feel as the town she grew up in. Her father Louis Marcus was a custom tailor from England. Her parents were originally living in San Clemente but moved to Santa Barbara when her father accepted a job here. Margery was born a few months later. Her father soon started a tailor shop that was located at 19 East Canon Perdido, right next to the Lobero Theatre. It was near the end of the Great Depression, however with no other real competition, he still was able to do well for himself by serving many of the wealthy clients of Montecito.

The shop contained a diverse group of four other tailors. As the boss’s daughter and only child, Margery was doted on and fussed over by the other tailors. One of them gave her a carved chest that she still has today.

Margery would often accompany her father to deliver packages to the range of distinguished clients. Many of his customers included the actors and actresses living in Montecito, such as Joan Fontaine, Ronald Colman, and Leatrice Joy. She has childhood memories of playing with a “glorious” doll house in the notable John Wack house by architect John Van Bergen.

They would enter the houses through the service entrance with Margery having to curtsy to the hosts. Later in her teen years, she could forego the curtsy when attending client parties but still met the experience with some apprehension.

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In the after hours, theaters were their primary source of entertainment with her and her friends going almost every Saturday to the Arlington Theatre. For eleven cents they could see a newsreel, coming attractions, a cartoon, and two features. She remembers the distinct starry ceiling of the theater while going to see Gone with the Wind in 1939. There was a small candy shop next door and tropical birds used to line the walkway entering the theater.

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Letters (Continued from page 10) enter. Once inside they take their time finding valuables and safes which they either steal or open with acetylene torches, then boldly leave with sacks of valuables out the front door. There were 38 such break-ins in Montecito and nearby by these C-Gangs in 2019, only 20 in 2020 due to Covid-19 and already three this January. People in these “nice” neighborhoods either do not know their own neighbors or are not watching out for them.

There is also an inexplicable reluctance of victims of such theft to report the crime to the police. Making matters worse, the prosecution of “crimes against property” are minimal and the criminals are turned back onto the streets. The purpose of prosecution is that otherwise you, “get away with it” or is that passe? One feels foolish giving such a system respect and the police have already come to that conclusion when they see criminals let out of jail free. Why take the risk? Such contempt for the law will soon breed vigilante justice; hey, “you gotta do what you gotta do.”

The current Santa Barbara chief of police, Lori Luhnow, steps down in about two weeks. The search has started for a replacement and this is the perfect time to choose a chief that will re-invigorate law enforcement starting with the “broken windows.”

In addition, individuals, community groups, churches, and businesses must support the difficult efforts of their law-enforcement officers by providing their own “community watch” system by getting to know their neighbors and networking with them. Be alert, install cameras, recognize suspicious behavior, take mental notes, have that number ready and make that call to the police if something truly warrants investigation. Too many times criminals and crimes are just passed over by us and too many times people ignore or disrespect the people trying to protect our neighborhoods. The police need our support and assistance. It is time for us to get more involved in fighting crime in our town and join hands with the police.

J.W. Burk

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Settling In

Carlos, the Bear, still half asleep, sniffed the air, opened one eye, then glanced at his calendar clock. Thursday, January 28th, it read. His ears perked at the drumming on the roof of his den. Rain! He took a deep breath, a smile curling on his snout, then rolled over to continue his sleep.

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Zach Got it Right

I was honored to be profiled in your new column Senior Portrait.

I’ve been interviewed by journalists at least 1,000 times, maybe more, during my eighty years in show business and rarely did they get it right. This week, the Montecito Journal got it right... thanks to Zach Rosen!

Darryl Hickman

Question the State’s Guidelines, not Local Health Officials

I am writing in response to A.L. Bardach’s January 28, 2021 article titled “SB’s COVID Mess.” Ms. Bardach’s argument that private doctors and a private pharmacy should be able to determine which of their patients should jump the line for COVID vaccinations is misinformed. First, Ms. Bardach seems to imply that some people she knows who are currently hospitalized with COVID should be vaccinated. The CDC does not recommend vaccination for people who are currently sick with the disease. Second, Ms. Bardach states that several people she knows contracted the virus while at Cottage Hospital for other reasons. If her information is accurate, then the inability of Cottage Hospital to care for both COVID patients and non-COVID patients at the same time is the real story that needs to be investigated. Third, Ms. Bardach notes that “in mid-December, vaccinations began at hospitals and medical offices for all doctors, nurses, clerical staff – employees. Cafeteria staff, custodians, cleaning personnel were reportedly all included.” The current Phase A1 guidelines in CA call for healthcare workers who are at risk of exposure to the virus through their work in any role in direct healthcare or long-term care settings should be vaccinated first. Custodial staff who interact with patients are included. There are further guidelines to delineate which healthcare workers should receive the vaccine if there is not enough for everyone in Phase A1. Only after healthcare workers have been vaccinated was anyone else supposed to be vaccinated. Because of the shortages of vaccines, Santa Barbara County is now only vaccinating people over 75 with people over 65 up next. Ms. Bardach may believe that rule is arbitrary because other counties are able to start vaccinating aged 65 and above, but we do not have enough vaccines in the county to move that quickly. Perhaps Ms. Bardach can research a story on why Santa Barbara County is being allocated fewer vaccines per population that L.A. County. However, I do believe that there is likely a story regarding the vaccination of healthcare workers locally. I would suggest that Ms. Bardach determine how broad of a definition of “health care worker” our local hospitals and clinics used when deciding who received vaccines. Were administrators who have nothing to do with patient care included? I have heard that they were. Finally, Ms. Bardach laments that private doctors should determine which of their patients should be eligible to be vaccinated early.

Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived in Santa Barbara long enough knows, back in the old days, it was never very difficult to get a doctor’s prescription for medical marijuana. Advertisements offering a prescription for $100 ran weekly in local papers. The same can be said for opioids. As a citizen (and hence co-owner and purchaser with all other citizens) of the vaccines, I am unwilling to leave the determination of who gets vaccinated first up to private doctors who are just as proportionally liable as the rest of society to use their MD degree for corrupt purposes. That is why the state has a plan and it does not include private doctors determining who goes first. Ms. Bardach may

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Going forward, it is an understatement to say things will be radically different.

The question of the day, will the new president do what is best for America?

Already there are questions concerning this issue. How is killing our energy sector starting with shutting down the Keystone XL Pipeline, suspending drilling permits on federal lands, banning fracking and joining the Paris Climate Agreement good for America? Millions of jobs will be lost, gas and oil prices will go up, America will now become dependent on foreign oil, and the Paris Climate will mandate strict carbon emissions on the U.S., but not China and India who have poor standards. Then too, how is implementing a radical open borders immigration policy good for our country? How is stopping all deportation orders, encouraging amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants and not building a border wall to protect our borders good for America? Over 60% of deportation orders have gone through the court system and involve criminals.

As far as a border wall, it will give us security, safety and health and stop the huge caravans that will now start to come. A nation without laws and borders is not a nation.

Finally, are our freedoms to speak, to act, and to assemble being threatened?

How is the censorship, banning, and criminalization of conservatives good for our country? Do we still have first amendment rights when the media, Big Tech, Big corporations, and the socialists take away these rights from a former president, 74 million Americans, and conservatives? Now the left wants to label anyone who disagrees with them “domestic terrorists”?

Going forward, who is looking out for America? Hold onto your hats, it is going to be a bumpy ride in 2021.

Diana and Don Thorn

Can’t Just Move On

The hypocritical Republicans want to “Move on” from the terrorists’ attack on the Capitol. They don’t want to hold a citizen accountable, meaning: don’t impeach the former President.

One is reminded of the man who killed his parents then begged the court for leniency on the basis of his being an orphan.

The Republicans didn’t want to impeach a president, and now that he’s a citizen, they don’t want to impeach a citizen.

Really, should the courts have “moved on” from the “orphan’s” request? Why ruin the life of a man who is ALREADY an orphan? Consider that argument.

Think about that: should we inconvenience the President who allegedly incited the terrorists because he is no longer a president?

Should we “move on” because he has already done (maybe) all his damage?

Maybe we should not impeach him because he’s an orphan?

Should not impeach because after all, his words resulted in only five deaths, divided this country, has instigated elected Republicans to lie, lie, lie.

And the whole country can expect more riots.

Yes, maybe we should move on, ignore his aberrant behavior, and hope he can run again so he can harm this country a little more, maybe figure out how to stay in power forever a la Putin. Wouldn’t THAT be grand?

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On Entertainment

Santa Barbara High School’s Visual Arts & Design Academy will be projecting their work on the rear wall of the Lobero from February 5 to 7 (Artwork by Mali Szerwo, VADA SBHS)

by Steven Libowitz

VADA VADA Voom Art Show on Lobero’s Back Wall Quite a Project(ion)

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ost of what the students in the Visual Arts & Design Academy (VADA) at Santa Barbara High create is seen on the school’s near-downtown campus. But the program has made a lot of efforts to exhibit the students’ artwork in public places, including showcases as part of the monthly First Thursday gallery walk. But with COVID-19 closing down both the campus and all corners of community gatherings, there has been no way for anyone besides the students and teachers involved in the classes themselves to see what the talented kids are creating.

Until now.

In what can only be called an ambitious art adventure, VADA is teaming with The Environment Makers – the local design firm that specializes in using projections and lighting to temporarily transform familiar spaces in dramatic ways – for a virtual art show in which the students’ work will be

projected on the outsized rear outdoor wall of the Lobero Theatre for three nights this weekend. That’s the wall that annually exhibits the massive American flag every June 14, and is emblazoned with the SBIFF logo during the annual film festival. The VADA Projected Student Art Show will be visible from the north side of the building, from Anacapa Street, and the surrounding sidewalks, where Carrillo Street crosses Anacapa Street.

Virtually every student in the program, which has a full four-year tract from freshman through senior years, will be represented in the show – the first time anyone besides their peers and parents have seen their work.

“So much has been taken away from these kids over the last year because of COVID,” explained Daniel Barnett, program director and art instructor of VADA, noting that the Lobero show grew out of Art Without Limits putting him in touch with The Environment

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Makers for a much smaller “virtual high school yearbook” program for graduating seniors at Direct Relief International’s headquarters last summer. “When the idea of projecting at the Lobero came up, it felt like the dream of sharing the kids’ work with the public is finally getting realized.”

The show is for both the students and the public, Barnett suggested.

“We want them to build their confidence in sharing and showing their work, but it’s also for us,” he said.

“As I told my students just today: You guys are the prophets of the generation. We need to see your artwork, how you’re reacting to what’s going on, what’s happening in your mind, how you are responding to COVID.

We got to get the work out from under your bed and out for the city to see.”

What better place than one of Santa Barbara’s most historic landmarks and a hub for arts and entertainment?

“It’s the very biggest canvas you can have in town,” Barnett said. “It’s perfect for COVID because people can drive by and be able to see it without violating our values of keeping people healthy.”

It was The Environment Makers – the company whose previous work includes “Light It Blue” at the Sea Center to honor essential workers last year, projections on the State Street Underpass for Experiment Weekend,

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by Kelly Mahan Herrick Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.

New Stores at Montecito Country Mart

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wo new stores are calling Montecito Country Mart home as business picks up throughout the Mart following the lifting of the state’s stay-at-home order in January.

“People are here, they are shopping and eating, all in a safe way,” says Mart rep Kristin Teufel, who introduced us to the new shops earlier this week.

The Mart has undergone some changes as Space NK Apothecary closed its doors in October, and that space then became home to Studio C, the concept from C Magazine founder and editor Jennifer Hale, who, along with her team, continually curate an array of California-made items including ready-to-wear clothing, bathing suits, beauty products, fashion and Longtime Montecito retailer and buyer Nicole home accessories, homewares, and Green now manages Clic in Montecito Country Mart more. The former space of Studio C is now held by Clic.

Clic is the brainchild of Christiane Celle, who was the original founder of resort-wear company Calypso. The first Clic store was opened in 2008, as a photography gallery and bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. The store has

evolved, now offering a collection of contemporary photography, home goods, books, textiles, apparel, and accessories.

“There really is something for everyone,” said store manager and longtime Montecito retailer Nicole Green, who helped Celle open the store prior to the holidays. Green is likely a familiar face: she worked for Pierre Lafond for 15 years, owned Lola Boutique for eight years, and most recently managed Maison K for three years before coming to Clic. This is Green’s first foray working in the Mart, which she calls a retail hub in the community. “I see people I know here every day on their way to run errands or shop; it really is a special place,” Clic in Montecito is the company’s 8th location, with others locatGreen said.

The Montecito Clic store ed in New York, St. Barth, and Marin. The whimsical store offers housewares as well as apparel and accessories. is the 8th Clic to open; other locations are in NYC, the Hamptons, Marin, and St. Barth. The happy, whimsical store is full of colorful house wares, from textiles like blankets, rugs, and throw pillows, to handcrafted items like alpaca figurines and wood serving bowls, pottery, furniture pieces, coffee table books, photographic art, and much more. The store is also lined with racks of a variety of apparel, from resort-

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Dear Montecito

by Stella Haffner

Montecito Alumni Write Letters from Life’s Front

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t’s natural for students who move away from home to feel nostalgic about the place they left. I am reminded of this every week, reading letters about people’s experiences growing up in Montecito. Some speak to my own memories more than others. The letters about surfing and hiking... well, let’s just say I look like the sort of person who gets sunburnt after a day inside the house. But occasionally there is a letter that demands that I see and taste and hear every detail because it looks through the same glasses I was wearing when I grew up in Montecito. This week’s letter is from the lovely Hope Saxon, MUS alumna and recent nursing school graduate.

Dear Montecito,

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s I write this, I’m looking out the window of my apartment in Philadelphia, gazing at a flurry of snow cascading across the skyline I have come to love as a second home. But boy, is this home different than the one I grew up in! I’ve replaced sprawling July days in a Roxy swimsuit on Miramar Beach with some seemingly endless days in scrubs and N95 masks. And while at first glance, these two realities couldn’t seem more different, I feel my heart engaged and nourished so fully in each side of this dichotomy. I just graduated as a Registered Nurse from the University of Pennsylvania, and I have a special Montecito organization to thank for inspiring my career and my calling.

I started volunteering at Friendship Center in my 9th grade year at Santa Barbara Middle School, a school that shaped so much of the person I am today.

Although I had no prior experience interacting with adults with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and other cognitive differences, I instantly knew that this place was doing some special work. By the end of my week volunteering there, I had found my passion and purpose in life and knew I would be working with

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adults with Alzheimer’s as well as their families for the duration of my career.

I loved Friendship Center so much that I came back to volunteer in the summers during high school, and eventually, after college, returned for a full-time position there! Many of the things I often miss most about home are centered around my memories at Friendship Center, from sing-alongs and music history classes, to sunny days spent painting and doing puzzles on the patio, to my weekly ritual of stopping to scarf down a farm cake from Pierre Lafond on my way home (seriously, try it, you won’t regret it).

While I miss Santa Barbara and the proximity to my family, who are my favorite people in the world, living away from home has taught me so much about who I am and what I’m made of. I’d like to think that maybe some readers are preparing to move away for the first time, whether for college, a career, or a new adventure, and while I know the prospect of leaving SB can be daunting, I am so excited for you! I think that some of the biggest gifts my time away has given me are perspective and gratitude. It can be easy to take for granted the beauty and privilege our lives are often surrounded by and steeped in as people who live in paradise, and I think it’s important to take some space to see the world, meet people with different points of view and experiences, and realize that Santa Barbara isn’t like the rest of the planet. Yes, in some ways it is a representation of the best things, people, and a place can be and have, from our community’s resilience and support of one another after the debris flow, to the vibrant colors of Fiesta, to the wonderful schools, and the flavor of a carne asada taco from Lily’s. But there are other experiences we can have to more fully appreciate our town for all the incredible things it is and to help recognize the things that could use some change. So, if you’re as fortunate as I was to be able to study abroad in college, or take some time off to travel, I cannot recommend it highly enough. Living in Cordoba, Argentina helped me learn to be comfortable navigating a big city, have meaningful dialogue with people whose lives were so different from my own, and further solidified the love and appreciation I have for our little town. I can’t fully express the magnitude of meaningfulness my study abroad experience carries for me to this day, and I still believe stretching myself and leaving my comfortable California bubble for a semester to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

So, Montecito, I thank you for being such a lovely place to grow up, and I hold you in my heart from 3,000 miles away! Stay safe, happy, and healthy, and I’ll look forward to returning home for tacos, a tan, and some quality time with my family and dog!

Love, Hope P.S. Parents of Montecito children, if you have recommendations on people to feature in “Dear Montecito” please contact me, stellajanepierce@ gmail.com •MJ

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Seen Around Town

by Lynda Millner

Cultural Monuments Lobero Theatre Executive Director David Asbell (Photo credit: Stephanie Schuster)

The Lobero Theatre will celebrate its 150th anniversary on February 22, 2023 (Photo credit: Patrick Price)

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south of San Francisco – an architectural jewel and a State and City landmark.

In 1922 the theater was rebuilt by the renown architectural firm of George Washington Smith and Lutah Maria Riggs under the leadership of Pearl Chase. It was love of the arts and this community that gave us today’s Lobero. Opening night August 4, 1924 there was a gala production of Beggar on Horseback. The city gave back with a new celebration, the first Old Spanish Days, which still exists.

In 1938, the Lobero Theatre Foundation was incorporated and to this day manages, preserves, and programs the Lobero Theatre. In 1972, the Lobero Theatre Associates was established to serve as ambassadors for this uniquely historic venue with financial assistance and support. These ladies through the years have gotten a custom-designed tent for the courtyard and a fountain.

They also helped the theatre acquire a Steinway piano and state-of-the art ticketing software. In normal times the ladies have an annual Hats Off luncheon with the proceeds going to the theater to aid in their needs.

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

I spoke with executive director David Asbell who gave me a historical note new to me, “Jose Lobero’s hero was George Washington, so he timed his Lobero opening to be on George Washington’s birthday, February 22, 1873.” The board is already busy planning for the 150th anniversary on February 22, 2023 as well as the 100th anniversary of the theater reopening in 1924.

David is looking for ways to make the Lobero even more enticing to artists. So is the Associates group led by President Mindy Denson. It’s a favorite with many for its intimacy especially since its latest restoration in 2013. There have been celebs like Martha Graham to Mikhail Baryshnikov on stage, from rising stars to toddlers in tutus. Stars from Hollywood, Broadway, and London’s West End have been in our spotlight since the 1920s. It’s also a great place to enjoy a glass of wine before the performance now that the patio in front has been leveled. See you there after the shutdowns, of course, when we can gather once more.

If you’d like to help the arts, don’t forget about the Lobero. Phone 805963-0761.

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Body Wise

have many more months of interrupted routines and uncertainty, I asked my good friend, psychologist Don MacMannis to weigh in and offer some encouragement.

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I live in a three-generation household and worry about the negative impact of this wild ride for my grandchildren. These little guys are valiantly going along with all the Zoom school, drive-by birthdays, and cancellation of after-school sports. They’ve discovered the delight of Sunday roller skating, Land of Stories books, and cat puzzles. Even so, an elevated level of fussiness, defiance, sibling fighting, and screen dependency has become a new norm. Knowing that we

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One of the greatest benefits is that family members feel heard and respected.

Meetings also provide a means for reducing conflict and improving positive thinking and appreciation of others. Although a variety of options are possible, the following topics can work as a nice starter package.

Going around the circle, everyone is encouraged to share: Something new in their life that they feel good about A recent experience that was upsetting An appreciation of each family member As needed, the use of “I-messages” to help members work out emotional hurts and upsets with each other Additional topics can include the discussion of schedules for the coming week or making decisions and plans for the future, such as possible outings and things to look forward to. Try to conclude the process on a positive note, with some music, food, and/or a shared activity like a game. These are all proven ways to help bring out the best in everyone – processes that are especially important in these trying times.

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Q. Dr. Mac, I read the book that you and Debra wrote a couple of years ago, titled How’s Your Family Really Doing? 10 Keys to a Happy, Loving Family. Since then, it’s been a go-to resource for understanding family dynamics and finding ways for good communication. What wisdom might you offer right now to help our families cope with the emotional stress of living in a changing, sometimes volatile world?

A. Most, but not all families are really feeling overwhelmed by the effects of the pandemic.

Social isolation and Zoom fatigue have greatly contributed to a rise in the number of kids with mental health challenges.

Here’s one way to understand the situation: Imagine that we just discovered that aliens from outer space were threatening to invade, and they’re just over the hill. We’d be really scared about the situation, especially after learning that the aliens might have infiltrated our own tribe. Now, even our family or friends can be a threat to us, let alone strangers!

Fortunately, our human species has been able to adapt and survive despite the many dangers we’ve overcome over thousands of years. This is due to the fact that our bodies are equipped with an important reactive response.

Perceived attacks activate the stress chemicals of adrenalin and cortisol. So with the threat of the pandemic virus, we’re pumped up and ready to defend – but with this enemy we can’t arm ourselves and then go fight. On the contrary, we’re stuck in isolation at home, often taking our frustrations out on each other.

Unfortunately, those fight or flight chemicals have no outlet.

One solution: It’s an excellent time to learn and practice methods of constructive expression, with subsequent efforts at trying to find solutions and lower our stress levels. Many people have discovered the benefits of physical exercise where they work up a sweat and scream in their heads at the “stupid pandemic enemy.” Others succeed with methods of relaxation.

In my efforts to help families I was inspired to write and produce a song that’s been dubbed “The Family Pandemic Dance Song” (www.happykidsvideos.com). Free to all, it’s become a national hit as it helps to instill hope, normalize family feelings about the situation, and provides a fun outlet and vehicle for expression through singing. After feelings have been normalized and expressed, it’s an opportune time for parents to sit down and talk things over – perhaps in a family meeting.

805.452.7985 themorehartgroup.com themorehartgroup@compass.com DRE 01130349 | 01319565 | 00828316

Don MacMannis, Ph.D. is a psychologist and co-directs The Family Therapy Institute with his wife, Debra Manchester, LCSW. He has been a therapist for fifty years. His practice includes work with children, families and couples, with a specialization in parenting kids ages two to twelve.

Co-author with Debra of the highly acclaimed book on families: How’s Your Family Really Doing? 10 Keys to a Happy Loving Family, he is also a music director and songwriter for the PBS animation series, Jay Jay the Jet Plane. His latest creative efforts are with Happy Kids’ Songs, an award-winning series of songs and activities to help children boost their social and emotional skills.

•MJ

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ORDINANCE NO. 5985

ORDINANCE NO. 5986

ORDINANCE NO. 5987

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

SANTA BARBARA ADOPTING THE CITY OF SANTA

SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE

SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE

BARBARA’S STORM WATER BMP GUIDANCE MANUAL

ACTING SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE DIRECTOR

ACTING SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE DIRECTOR

AND AMENDING CHAPTER 22.87 OF THE SANTA

TO EXECUTE A FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE POWER

TO EXECUTE AN OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO STORM

PURCHASE AGREEMENT WITH ACTION ENERGY, INC.

AGREEMENT WITH TESLA, INC. TO OPERATE, AND

WATER MANAGEMENT

TO ADD FIRE STATION 6 TO THE PROPERTIES SUBJECT

MAINTAIN A BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AT

TO THE AGREEMENT

THE CATER WATER TREATMENT PLANT.

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on January

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

12, 2021.

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on January

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on January

12, 2021.

12, 2021.

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

California.

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

California.

California.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

(Seal) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5985 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on January 12, 2021, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

(Seal)

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5986 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced December 15, 2020 and adopted by the

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of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on January 12, 2021, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

None

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on January 13, 2021.

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

on January 13, 2021.

Published February 3, 2021 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: E Salon, 5575 Hollister Ave, Suite C, Santa Barbara, CA, 93117.

Eleni Tziouvaras, 2019 Bath Street Unit C, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 21, 2021. This statement expires

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are do-

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Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on January 12, 2021, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on January 13, 2021.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published February 3, 2021 Montecito Journal

five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0000162. Published February 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced November 17, 2020 and adopted by the

on January 13, 2021.

on January 13, 2021.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my on January 13, 2021.

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced October 13, 2020 and adopted by the Council

NOES:

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

ORDINANCE NO. 5987

ing business as: Transform Through Arts, 4141 State St. Suite F6, Santa Barbara, CA, 93110. Yulia V. Maluta, 521 Alegria Road, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 26, 2021.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published February 3, 2021 Montecito Journal

is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0000211. Published February 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Country House Antiques, 525 A San Ysidro Road, Santa

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.” — Pablo Neruda

Barbara, CA, 93108. Jennifer Sanan, 1282 Pepper Lane, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 25, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0000201. Published February 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Take 5 Bodywork, 2020 Alameda Padre Serra, STE 104, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103. Suzanna Young Everett, 1646

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ORDINANCE NO. 5988

ORDINANCE NO. 5989

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

AN INTERIM URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL

SANTA BARBARA AMENDING TITLE 15 OF THE SANTA

OF

BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING CHAPTER 15.17

ORDINANCE NO. 5984 PROHIBITING THE CONVERSION

AND AMENDING TITLE 9 BY REPEALING CHAPTER 9.12,

OF SENIOR MOBILEHOME PARKS AND EXCESSIVE

BOTH PERTAINING TO SPECIAL EVENTS IN CITY PARKS

VACANCY RENT INCREASES FOR 10 MONTHS AND 15

AND ON CITY BEACHES, STREETS, SIDEWALKS, AND

DAYS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinance Committee of City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, which begins at 12:30pm. The Ordinance Committee will consider proposed amendments to the Historic Resources Ordinance. The proposed ordinance amendments will be incorporated into Title 30 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code as Chapters 30.157, 30.57, 30.237 and Sections 30.220.020 and 30.300.080 “H”. The amendments also include deleting Chapter 22.22, adding Chapter 28.100, amending Chapter 30.200, and other related Municipal Code amendments. The Landmark and Historic District maps will be incorporated into the Official Zoning Map. An Amendment to the Certified Local Coastal Program Implementation Plan is required to add Chapter 28.100. Staff reports and draft ordinance amendments can be found online at www.SantaBarbaraCa.gov/HROAmendments.

THE

CITY

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SANTA

BARBARA

EXTENDING

PLAZAS The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on January

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on January

26, 2021.

12, 2021.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

California.

California.

(Seal)

(Seal)

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5989

ORDINANCE NO. 5988 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced December 15, 2020 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on January 12, 2021, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on January 13, 2021.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on January 26, 2021, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on January 27, 2021.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on January 13, 2021.

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on January 27, 2021.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published February 3, 2021 Montecito Journal

Loma St, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 12, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-

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/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Runner’s High, 6604 Sabado Tarde Rd, Unit B, Goleta, CA, 93117. Cole Diemer, 6604 Sabado Tarde Rd, Unit B, Goleta, CA, 93117. This statement was filed with the

The Ordinance Committee will receive and consider public comment and discuss the Zoning Ordinance amendments at this hearing. This hearing will be conducted electronically via the GoToWebinar platform, as described in more detail below.

Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council Ordinance Committee via the City Clerk’s Office by sending them electronically to Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov. In order to promote social distancing and prioritize the public’s health and well-being, the City Council Ordinance Committee currently holds all meetings electronically. As a public health and safety precaution, the council chambers will not be open to the general public. Councilmembers and the public may participate electronically.

IN ORDER TO PROMOTE SOCIAL DISTANCING AND PRIORITIZE THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ISSUED EXECUTIVE ORDER N-29-20, WHICH ALLOWS THE CITY TO HOLD MEETINGS VIA TELECONFERENCES OR OTHER ELECTRONIC MEETING FORMAT WHILE STILL MEETING THE STATE’S OPEN AND PUBLIC MEETING REQUIREMENTS. AS A PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY PRECAUTION, THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS WILL NOT BE OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. THE CITY STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND WELCOMES PUBLIC PARTICIPATION DURING THIS TIME. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS: ELECTRONIC PARTICIPATION: Join the meeting electronically by clicking on the meeting link which will be found on the meeting agenda. You will be connected to audio using your computer’s microphone and speakers (VoIP). A headset is recommended. You can also select the option to use your telephone, but you must use the GoToWebinar software to interact with the meeting. Select “Use Telephone” after joining the webinar and call in using the numbers listed on the agenda that will be posted online. Oral comments during a meeting may be made by electronic participation only.

TELEVISION COVERAGE: This meeting will be broadcast live on City TV-Channel 18 and online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/citytv.

On Thursday, February 18, 2021 an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 including the items at Ordinance Committee will be available online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CAP. The Agenda includes instructions for participation in the meeting. If you wish to participate in the public hearing, please follow the instructions on the posted Agenda.

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/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published February 3, 2021 Montecito Journal

0000073. Published January 20, 27, February 3, 10, 2021.

The Agenda for the February 23, 2021 hearing will be available by 5:00 p.m. Thursday February 18, 2021 online at http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/CouncilMeetings.

For information, please email Nicole Hernandez, Architectural Historian at nhernandez@santabarbaraca.gov.

County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 5, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2021-0000028.

Published January 13, 20, 27, February 3, 2021.

Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager February 1, 2021 Published February 3, 2021 Montecito Journal

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 21CV00078. To all interested parties: Petitioner Erik Edward Ladd Hoegh-Guldberg filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Joseph Dillon Rush to Joseph Dillon Hoegh-Guldberg. The Court orders that

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all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to

be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed January 13, 2021 by Terri Chavez.

Hearing date: March 23, 2021 at 10 am in Dept. 3, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10

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On The Record (Continued from page 6) him why he’s running for office now and what he hopes to accomplish as Santa Barbara mayor.

Q. Politics have obviously always been part of your passion as a journalist and public figure. But what finally made you want to put yourself out there as an actual politician hoping to gain public office?

A. Well, I’ve always been a behind-the-scenes kind of guy. I worked for Supervisor Das Williams two years, then for Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson behind the scenes, keeping folks in her districts in the know when she’s up in Sacramento. I have seen how things work and don’t work, and how you can be more effective behind the scenes than as a candidate. But I turned 40 years old in June, and realized I have a skill set that I can use to move the city of Santa Barbara forward. There are so many good elements to our city: Educational institutions, philanthropic organizations, and an innovative business committee. But we have challenges. The area has been facing one disaster after another and COVID is just the latest example. Instead of demonizing people, in my career as a journalist and in public service, I feel and other folks in the community feel it could be useful at this time moving our city forward.

Tell us a bit about your background before you got into politics.

I was born and raised in Westminster, Maryland, which is a bedroom community near Washington, D.C. It was a pretty white town but had its own challenges, not the least of which was too much attitude and too much snow. At the end of the day I just didn’t want to endure that. So I went to Ohio University and obtained a journalism degree. I ran track but I was also extremely involved on campus, and ran for student senate, to help diversify the campus leadership. We did a lot of things, including building a new and improved student center. After graduating, I went into journalism and became an education reporter. I worked at the Toledo Blade and covered the 2008 Presidential election. Ohio was a battleground state that year. Joe the Plumber lived a half a mile down from me.

The actual Joe the Plumber? That’s certainly a name from the annals of presidential politics.

Yep, that Joe the Plumber. It was a wild time. I was one of six or seven report-

ers the Blade hired that year. But that’s when the economic crisis hit, and suddenly newspapers had to lay people off, so I ended up coming out to California and ended up unemployed, renting a room in Oxnard. I knew a woman who was the lead organizer for the Central Coast Alliance for a Sustainable Economy and she asked me to help elect Das Williams, and after that working for Senator Jackson, so that is how I got into local Santa Barbara politics.

Even though you’ve done some political work, especially given ‘Coffee With a Black Guy,’ you still have a considerable reputation as a journalist. Do you still consider that part of your calling?

Being a journalist is more than a job, but how you view the world. If your mom says she loves you, check it out. What I’ve noticed as a journalist over the years is I go to one side and then another side of an argument, and the root of the problem is these people just aren’t communicating with each other. What I’ve been doing with ‘Coffee With a Black Guy’ is celebrating the notion that we may not see eye to eye but you can still sit down and talk to each other and communicate. We can still do that, it’s a universal aspect to our approach of addressing tough topics.

So what are the most important issues we as a nation and a community aren’t adequately addressing?

Racism in America is a cancer, and we have to deal with it. We have to sit down with people and listen to each other and try to figure things out, and unfortunately that hasn’t been happening. To me, it’s pretty simple: You don’t solve a problem by looking the other way. You have to go into the problem, just like how law enforcement and fire firefighters, when everyone is running away, they are the ones running toward the problem.

So if your campaign had a motto it would be to talk less and listen more?

Talking is important, but mainly I just think we need to listen to each other. When I was a 22-year-old cub reporter I had a column called ‘Hmm. Interesting.’ which was a way to get people to think more deeply about issues and see the common ground. Too often the dialogue is between the far left and far right and the people in the middle, the majority of people, are left out of it.

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Senior Portrait (Continued from page 11) The summer was reserved for beach days. Margery and her friends would mix baby oil and iodine to improve their tan, spending more time preening than in the water. On one memorable beach day, they began to hear sirens ringing throughout the city as they headed home. With no smart phone to tell her what was happening, she returned home to find out that WWII had ended. Being an angsty teen, she remembers coming out later to tell her parents to quiet down as they celebrated long into the night with friends. After the war she noticed the area expanded with more shops filling Coast Village Road and the Upper Village.

For college, she attended the University of Colorado Boulder. It was her first time being in snow after living a life at the beach. She later transferred to UC Berkeley where she met her future husband, Tony Baragona, who was also from Santa Barbara. They had actually known each other in high school, working together on the school paper. Tony’s family also had an interesting history in the area. His mother, Valeria Belletti Baragona, originally came out to California in her early twenties with a friend, Irma. Her friend eventually returned back east and Valeria would write letters to Irma about her life as a secretary for Samuel Goldwyn. Years back Margery was reading a book by Cari Beauchamp on Frances Marion, a pioneering female screenwriter from early Hollywood.

In the book she mentioned Valeria and

Margery would visit the different Montecito estates with her dad to deliver packages

Margery decided to get in contact with Cari about her mother-in-law’s letters.

The two of them were able to turn the letters into a book, Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s, that gives personal accounts of Valeria’s Hollywood affairs, celebrity interactions, and insights on working with Samuel Goldwyn. Valeria later moved to Santa Barbara in 1931 and wanted to keep working, doing secretarial work in Montecito for such clients as Ganna Walska, noting the purchase of the renowned Lotusland in 1941, and

Margery and Tony Baragona attend a Santa Barbara High class reunion mid-1950s

Margery Baragona grew up in Santa Barbara and left for 24 years before returning to the area

Mildred Barnes Bliss, whose home later became Casa Dorinda, among many others.

After graduating, Margery and Tony worked in San Francisco for a while. Over the years they moved around for various career opportunities before returning to Santa Barbara in 1972 when Tony was offered a job with Larson, Bateman, and McAllister Advertising as a copywriter. After 24 years away from the area, Margery found that not much had really changed. People she knew would say hi as if she had never left. She began working in real estate and continued that for twenty years before retiring.

They spent the years raising their three sons, playing tennis, and taking every chance they could to travel. Tony regrettably passed and she later became married to her current husband, Jim. Today she has seven

grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, spending most of her time as an avid reader and enjoying the splendor of the surroundings. As a real estate agent for twenty years, she has certainly seen property values go up and the area be developed. Her parents originally bought their San Roque house for seven thousand dollars and it now sells for over a million. Today she lives in a house seven blocks away from where she grew up. Even after traveling the world, she still finds it the most beautiful place to live. While certainly there have been changes in the area over the years, overall Margery says that the neighborhoods have the same general feel today that they did as a child. While everything changes, it is reassuring to know that the qualities that bring people back to this area have been preserved over the decades.

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Monte ito Miscellany

SB Symphony’s tony triumvirate - Kathryn Martin, Nir Kabaretti and Janet Garufis

by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 13 years ago.

Another Touchdown for Bolton

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avid Bolton, Santa Barbarabased director of the California Missions Foundation, also has a successful career as a sports broadcaster for the Spanish language version of the Fox network.

And, despite the pandemic, he has been hired again to produce this weekend’s battle of the NFL titans, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at their home stadium in Florida.

David’s company, Cultural Media, will produce and coordinate the ninehour live coverage of Super Bowl LV, featuring veteran Tom Brady, 43, in his tenth appearance, with Patrick Mahomes, 25, who took the Kansas team to its first Super Bowl since 1970 against the San Francisco 49ers last year, for Fox Sports Latin America with his efforts and cameras seen by millions of viewers from Mexico to Argentina.

“It will be my sixth Super Bowl for them,” says David proudly. “We are the only U.S. production company providing on-site services for an international client. Some of the crew I’ve worked with for twenty-plus years and it is truly a team effort.”

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David Bolton at last year’s Super Bowl

Given the pandemic and new protocols, he says they’ve been asked to hire more American-based crew as the international Fox Sports crews are unable to travel.

“We are also undergoing rigid COVID testing, including a test two days before flying, an on-site test, plus a post-event test once home to then possibly conduct contact tracing if a positive test.”

The event week will also be very different. The $168.5 million Raymond James Stadium, which can normally accommodate 74,000, is only allowed to have 20 percent fan capacity, but due to social distancing supporters will be more spread out.

The NFL has also had to construct special viewing boxes for the broadcasters.

David, a graduate of Montecito Union School and Santa Barbara High, credits his fourth grade MUS teacher for his interest in the Spanish language. “Without it, I probably never would have worked a Super Bowl.”

Music to Their Ears!

Three of the key leaders of the Santa Barbara Symphony, president and CEO Kathryn Martin, artistic director Nir Kabaretti, and board president Janet Garufis, have committed to advancing the organization over the next half decade.

It will build upon the 67-year-old organization’s programming innovation, leveraging the symphony’s new momentum and growth to look toward the bigger possibilities ahead.

In this time of the pandemic and all its challenges, the tony triumvirate bring strong, steady, and inclusive leadership, and a keen sense of responsibility to inspire, engage, and educate the community through the many facets uniquely possible by a professional orchestra.

“When faced with the daunting financial and operational challenges the pandemic created, a strength and determination was revealed, and a collaborative approach was ignited,” says Kathryn.

Stay tuned...

Just in Time

Santa Barbara City College’s Atkinson Gallery and the SBCC Foundation have been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Getty Foundation to prepare for the next edition of the region-wide arts initiative Pacific Standard Time, scheduled to open in 2024.

Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented series of collaborations among institutions across Southern California.

In each, organizations simultaneously present research-based exhibitions, publications, performances and public conversations that explore and illuminate a significant theme in the region’s cultural history.

For Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x L.A. in 2024, the Atkinson Gallery joins a diverse community

“The giving of love is an education in itself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

John Connelly, Atkinson Gallery director (photo by Joanne Calitri)

of 45 cultural, educational and scientific institutions whose projects will explore the intertwined histories of art and science – past and present.

The gallery’s project “Cosmovision Indigena: The Intersection of Indigenous Knowledge and Contemporary Art” is a partnership with the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, and the Santa Barbara County Office of Art and Culture, with the support of Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project and the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.

“I am thrilled that Atkinson Gallery will have this opportunity to showcase its role as an essential educational art venue for Santa Barbara and southern California,” says director John Connelly. “While the gallery, its outdoor sculpture terrace and the expansive human-

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• The Voice of the Village •

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Perspectives

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

Rinaldo S. Brutoco is the Founding President and CEO of the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy and a co-founder of JUST Capital.

He’s a serial entrepreneur, executive, author, radio host, and futurist who’s published on the role of business in relation to pressing moral, environmental, and social concerns for over 35 years

Escaping Minority Rule: Voter Suppression Every Citizen’s Vote Deserves to be Counted

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hat does “voter suppression” even mean? What does it look like in real life? How bad is it? How much worse can it get? How can we ever enjoy a true democracy when citizens who are people of color, students, or ex-felons are not allowed to vote at all?

In 2018, then Georgia Secretary of State, now Governor, Brian Kemp was supervising the election he was running in against Stacey Abrams. He famously purged over 500,000 voters to provide himself with a narrow victory. Apart from how inappropriate it was for Kemp to “referee” an election he was running in, clearly, he perceived enormous electoral advantage by disenfranchising many voters he believed would vote for his opponent. Just as clearly, this is a classic case of voter suppression. The potential vote totals were intentionally “suppressed” so many voters could not vote. Simply stated, voter suppression is anything and everything which a party in power can do to “rig” the ability of certain classes of voters to actually have their vote count.

An even more stark example of voter suppression is how the State of Florida (through Amendment 4 on the 2018 ballot) voted in a general election to permit all ex-felons who had served their time and had returned to normal society (estimated to be 1,400,000 individuals), to have their voting privileges restored in time for the election of 2020. One can observe that the overwhelming number of individuals whose voting rights were to be restored were less educated, financially impoverished, people of color, and who happened to disproportionately register as Democrats.

Fearing that too many of these reformed felons would actually vote for a Democrat, and specifically, to prevent them from voting, the Republicancontrolled legislature passed a law making it almost impossible to qualify to have their voting rights restored. This was accomplished by imposing impractical and possibly illegal financial requirements which violate Federal mandates that a “poll tax” (a fee required to be paid in order to vote, specifically made illegal in 1964 by the 24th Amendment) can never be imposed.

Worse yet, when seeking to learn how much specifically each ex-felon would have to pay to have their voting privileges restored, they were told by state administrators that it was too complicated for the state to calculate, and the ex-felons would have to figure it out themselves. Well, that worked strikingly well. So much so that only 67,000 ex-felons actually were allowed to vote in 2020 – the remaining 1,333,000 are still trying to figure it out.

The Florida example may be the crudest, but there is a myriad of other ways that Republicans in various states are now working overtime to reduce voter turnout – particularly when there is a good chance more Democrats will be adversely affected. The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University released a tally just this week showing that more than 106 bills have been introduced in a total of 28 states to restrict voter access. These bills, according to the Brennan Center’s review, are specifically designed to: Limit mail-in voting access; 2) impose stricter voter ID requirements (and to disenfranchise students so they can’t vote by disallowing student photo IDs); 3) limit successful pro-voter registration policies; and 4) enable more aggressive voter roll purges.

New Hampshire has the distinction of introducing the most egregious suppression tool when it began debating a bill that would allow election administrators to remove voters from the rolls using data provided by other states. The courts have already held this premise violates the National Voter Registration Act. Pennsylvania, the swing state that in large measure delivered the Biden election victory, leads the nation with 14 specific proposals before their Republican-controlled legislature that overtly seek to suppress voter turnout.

New Hampshire comes in second (11 bills), followed by Missouri (nine bills), Mississippi, New Jersey, and Texas (eight bills each). Meanwhile, Georgia is actively working on making it much harder to vote absentee, pandemic or not!

And, North Carolina’s Republicans take the prize for using surgically effective, racially charged voter ID laws to suppress Democratic turnout there.

These measures attempt to limit who can vote by mail, make it harder to request an absentee ballot in the first place, restrict who can assist a voter who requires such assistance in casting their ballot, compelling “witness signatures” for absentee voting, and the old time favorite, restrict the locations and meth-

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Connect with the Environment

“Psychological Ownership” Boosts Environmental Stewardship

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re you more likely to pick up pieces of trash on your favorite beach?

Does litter on your favorite hiking trail make you particularly upset?

You’re not alone. Researchers from Cornell University found that people are more likely to become environmental stewards of public land that they feel personally connected to. The researchers designed their project to study the phenomenon of “psychological ownership.” This term describes the sense of ownership and responsibility we feel over things that we do not officially own. This can happen with a dream house you haven’t bought yet or the public lands we love.

In their study, the researchers first went to a lake in Wisconsin where they asked some kayakers to think of a nickname for the lake before they went out for a paddle. They found that those who picked a nickname for the lake picked up floating trash they found 41 percent of the time compared to everyone else who picked up trash only seven percent of the time.

Again, in a cross-country skiing park, researchers asked some skiers to plan out their route through the park before departing. The simple act of planning out a route and studying the land more than doubled the likelihood that visitors tacked on a donation to their skiing fee or offered to volunteer in the park.

In the last part of their study, researchers found that putting “Welcome” signs at the entrance of parks also increased positive environmental behavior, while signs indicating the number of daily visitors had the opposite effect.

Even if you didn’t realize it, you’ve probably been swayed by psychological ownership yourself. The “Smokey the Bear” campaign to prevent wildfires is one example that employs both a lovable character and the phrase “only you can prevent wildfires” to trigger a sense of psychological ownership over wildfire-prone parks. This is also why conservationists tend to name specific animals they are trying to protect and why local governments use public input when naming new parks.

Encouraging visitors to form a personal connection to public lands and develop a sense of responsibility for the future of the space is highly effective for maintaining public areas. This research shows that simple steps to promote a deeper connection between visitors and natural spaces can help reduce damaging behaviors like littering and erosion, especially at popular destinations, and keep these spaces beautiful for future generations.

•MJ ods allowed to be used in returning an absentee ballot. All of these devices are in addition to the oldest stand-by for targeting poor neighborhoods, minority neighborhoods, and districts where college campuses are located: reduce the number of polling places so that intolerably long lines make voting more challenging, particularly for the working poor who can’t easily vote during the day.

A major factor that has triggered the most outrageous actions by the states is the 2013 5-4 Supreme Court decision to “gut” the Voting Rights Act of 1965, saying that voter suppression was no longer an issue (unbelievable!). This released the nine worst offending Southern states from the requirement to pre-clear all voting rights matters with the Justice Department. Thus unleashed, voter suppression tactics kicked into high gear in those states, with others in the North to follow. Yup, that’s how we got to the point where millions of our fellow citizens are routinely denied fair and equal access to the ballot.

Where do we go from here? It turns out the House of Representatives in the last session adopted a comprehensive voting rights package. It’s been reintroduced into this session as the “For the People Act” containing voting rights and “clean government” provisions. The popular press often refers to this as the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, named in honor of the Civil Rights icon who fought for the passage of the Voting Rights Acts of 1964, 1965, and 1968.

Among other things the legislation would: permit same-day voter registration, “No Excuse” absentee voting, online voter registration, and mobile voting options; require a minimum of 30 days “early voting”; eliminate unfair voter ID laws; implement full restoration of the Voting Rights Act; restore voting for convicted felons upon completion of their sentence; require disclosure of donors to all PACs; allow public financing of elections; overturn the disastrous Citizens United Vs. FEC; and, require full disclosure of all online political purchases.

That’s how we’ll begin to escape from the tyranny of Minority Rule.

•MJ

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OTR (Continued from page 26 26)) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA - GENERAL SERVICES DIVISION PO BOX 1990, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93102-1990

It sounds like you are saying Santa Barbara has the ability to tackle these problems, but just isn’t getting the work done, thanks to a basic leadership crisis.

We have a lot of great assets that work for the city, employees that have worked here a long time and know the city and their departments. But they are only going to rise to the level of their leadership. Once you share what that vision is and have them understand as community members and city employees that they are part of it, that’s what is needed.

INVITATION FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for: BID NO. 5884 DUE DATE & TIME: FEBRUARY 23, 2021 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. INDIAN LAUREL FIG TREE PRUNING Scope of Work: Tree pruning services per specifications for fifty-four (54) Indian Laurel Fig Trees located on N. Milpas Street and upper State Street in Santa Barbara, CA. Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted.

So what exactly do you hope to accomplish as mayor, starting on day one?

The main thing I hope to do is set the right tone. The tone of the city council is not the greatest or most collegial and hasn’t been for some time. So my main goal right off the bat is setting the tone and listening to people. As a mayor of a city with a strong administrator, coming in with your own policy agenda isn’t the most realistic way to do that.

With homelessness for example, we have a contract with the nonprofit, City Net. While I would want to see if it is something that is working, for me to come in with an agenda on an issue like that where we just introduced something new would be tone deaf. I have walked the streets and have contacts in those areas but there is no easy solution. You can’t really say you are going to listen to folks and then come in with your own policy decision. I am going to listen rather than dictate from the top down. It may be heavy on the front end, but that’s a more transparent form of government.

If further information is needed, contact Jennifer Disney Dixon, Buyer II at (805) 564-5356 or email: jdisney@santabarbaraca.gov FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code.

BONDING In accordance with Civil Code § 9550, if the bid exceeds $25,000.00, the Successful Bidder shall furnish within ten (10) consecutive calendar days after written Notice of Award, a Payment Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the total amount of the bid as well as a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total.

LIVING WAGE Any service purchase order contract issued as a result of this request for bids or quotes may be subject to the City’s Living Wage Ordinance No 5384, SBMC 9.128 and its implementing regulations. If there is a difference between the City’s Living Wage rate and Prevailing Wage rates for similar classifications of labor, the contractor and his subcontractors shall pay no less than the highest wage rate.

PREVAILING WAGE, APPRENTICES, PENALTIES, & CERTIFIED PAYROLL In accordance with the provisions of Labor Code § 1773.2, the Contractor is responsible for determining the correct prevailing wage rates. However, the City will provide wage information for projects subject to Federal Davis Bacon requirements. The Director of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rates of wages and employer payments for health, welfare, vacation, pensions and similar purposes applicable, which is on file in the State of California Office of Industrial Relations. The contractor shall post a copy of these prevailing wage rates at the site of the project. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and its subcontractors hired to pay not less than the said prevailing rates of wages to all workers employed by him in the execution of the contract (Labor Code § 1770 et seq.).

Prevailing wage rates are available at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/PWD/index.htm It is the duty of the contractor and subcontractors to employ registered apprentices and to comply with all aspects of Labor Code § 1777.5.

There are penalties required for contractor’s/subcontractor’s failure to pay prevailing wages and for failure to employ apprentices, including forfeitures and debarment under Labor Code §§ 1775, 1776, 1777.1, 1777.7 and 1813.

Despite High Profile Meeting, Mystery of Trev Broudy’s Coppery Water Continues

Under Labor Code § 1776, contractors and subcontractors are required to keep accurate payroll records. The prime contractor is responsible for submittal of their payrolls and those of their subcontractors as one package. Payroll records shall be certified and made available for inspection at all reasonable hours at the principal office of the contractor/subcontractor pursuant to Labor Code § 1776.

Two weeks ago, the Montecito Journal reported that First District Supervisor Das Williams had set up a meeting where representatives of Cox Communications, SoCal Edison, and the Montecito Water District (MWD) could begin the process of establishing why exactly Broudy’s drinking water had tested abnormally high for copper, a problem that seemed to coincide with his house briefly turning into an electrocution hazard because of an electrical current that somehow tapped into his copper plumbing.

MWD first discovered the problem during routine testing late last year; Broudy subsequently paid an electrician to replace a length of copper pipe with plastic, which ended the electrical issue. Both Edison and Cox have denied any responsibility for the issue, and neither agency has so far offered a theory on how the problem started. Despite an initial meeting where representatives of the three utilities met remotely and failed to reach any

The contractor and all subcontractors under the direct contractor shall furnish certified payroll records directly to the Labor Compliance Unit and to the department named in the Purchase Order/Contract at least monthly, and within ten (10) days of any request from any request from the City or the Labor Commissioner in accordance with Section 16461 of the California Code of Regulations. Payroll records shall be furnished in a format prescribed by section 16401 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, with use of the current version of DIR's “Public Works Payroll Reporting Form” (A-1-131) and “Statement of Employer Payments” (DLSE Form PW26) constituting presumptive compliance with this requirement, provided the forms are filled out accurately and completely. In lieu of paper forms, the Compliance Monitoring Unit may provide for and require the electronic submission of certified payroll reports. The provisions of Article 2 and 3, Division 2, Chapter 1 of the Labor Code, State of California, are made by this reference a part of this quotation or bid.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently licensed to perform the work and registered pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5 without limitation or exception. It is not a violation of this section for an unlicensed contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

CERTIFICATIONS In accordance with California Public Contracting Code § 3300, the City requires the Contractor to possess a valid California C-27 Landscaping or C-61/D-49 Tree Service contractor’s license at time the bids are opened and to continue to hold during the term of the contract all licenses and certifications required to perform the work specified herein.

CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements. ______________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

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conclusions, Broudy says a subsequent virtual meeting last week was much more productive.

“The meeting went really well,” Broudy said. “It was incredibly productive. I was rather shocked to be honest.” According to Broudy, MWD’s executive director Nick Turner facilitated the discussion, which also included a supervisor from the California Public Utilities Commission, who promised his agency would get to the bottom of the mystery. Broudy added that Williams’ chief of staff, Darcel Elliott, was instrumental in asking tough questions that he hopes will lead more transparency from the agencies involved about how this happened.

“We need these agencies to be held to account for how this happened so that we can find out who exactly created this mess,” Broudy said. “We need to know what kind of oversight exists to prevent this from happening again and possibly affecting anybody else, because so far all the companies are saying, ‘Hey, we took care of this, the issue is resolved.’ The meeting was good, but Cox certainly looked like the bad apple. All fingers were kind of pointed at them.”

Speaking of Cox Communications, Charla Batey, a communications specialist, provided the Journal with the following statement which is notable in that while assuring that there’s no current cause for alarm, fails to address the lingering questions over how Broudy’s home became electrified in the first place.

“It has been affirmed that the Cox equipment in question has been repeatedly inspected and verified to be working properly,” Batey said. “There is no electric current running from our equipment to Mr. Broudy’s home. There have been no reports or findings to the contrary, nor have there been any similar complaints from other homes or customers in the area. We took the additional step to have a third-party certified electrician confirm there is no electric current running from Cox equipment to Mr. Broudy’s home. We remain committed to customer service and safety as we work with our elected officials and other service providers as they look at this issue.”

MWD’s Turner confirmed that the agency still does not know what caused Broudy’s water to get all coppery. “Thus far, MWD still doesn’t not have an explanation as to the cause of the current,” he said.

Supervisor Williams promised his office will continue to press for an answer to that question. “We had a productive meeting last week but there was still no conclusive resolution to where the current has come from,” he said on Monday, February 1. “The meeting resulted today in the California Public Utilities Commission pledging to schedule an on-site meeting with all utilities that have equipment in the area to once and for all determine where the current is coming from, how it came to be, and how to resolve the issue.

My office is also working with our state representatives and the utilities to review current policies and procedures in place to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.”

•MJ

MONTECITO PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING* DATE OF HEARING:

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Based on guidance from the California Department of Public Health and the California Governor's Stay at Home Executive Order N-3320, issued on March 19, 2020, to protect the health and well-being of all Californian’s and to establish consistency across the state in order to slow the spread of COVID-19, the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission hearings will no longer provide in-person participation.

We have established alternative methods of participation in the Montecito Planning Commission hearings, pursuant to the California Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20, issued on March 17, 2020, which states: • •

Providing an opportunity to “observe and address the meeting telephonically or otherwise electronically,” alone, meets the participation requirement; and “Such a body need not make available any physical location from which members of the public may observe the meeting and offer public comment.”

The following alternative methods of participation are available to the public: 1.

You may observe the live stream of the Montecito Planning Commission meetings on (1) Local Cable Channel 20, (2) online at: http://www.countyofsb.org/ceo/csbtv/livestream.sbc; or (3) YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CSBTV20

2.

If you wish to make a general public comment or to comment on a specific agenda item, the following methods are available: • •

Distribution to the Montecito Planning Commission - Submit your comment via email prior to 12:00 p.m. on the Friday prior to the Commission hearing. Please submit your comment to the Recording Secretary at dvillalo@countyofsb.org. Your comment will be placed into the record and distributed appropriately.

Video and Teleconference Public Participation – To participate via Zoom, please pre-register for the meeting using the below link.

When: February 17, 2021 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: Montecito Planning Commission 02/17/2021 Register in advance for this webinar: https://countyofsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1N8w6_iBQCyh45C07a1Lcw After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

OR PARTICIPATE VIA TELEPHONE: Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 213 338 8477 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 720 928 9299 or +1 971 247 1195 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 602 753 0140 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 470 250 9358 or +1 646 518 9805 or +1 651 372 8299 or +1 786 635 1003 or +1 929 205 6099 or +1 267 831 0333 or +1 301 715 8592 or 877 853 5257 (Toll Free) or 888 475 4499 (Toll Free) or 833 548 0276 (Toll Free) or 833 548 0282 (Toll Free) Webinar ID: 969 5699 7250 The Commission’s rules on hearings and public comment, unless otherwise directed by the Chair, remain applicable to each of the participation methods listed above.

The Montecito Planning Commission hearing begins at 9:00 a.m. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Montecito Planning Commission. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to speak in support or in opposition to the projects. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the Montecito Planning Commission, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101. Letters, with nine copies, and computer materials, e.g. PowerPoint presentations, should be filed with the secretary of the Planning Commission no later than 12:00 P.M. on the Friday before the Montecito Planning Commission hearing. The decision to accept late materials will be at the discretion of the Montecito Planning Commission.

Maps and/or staff analysis of the proposals may be reviewed at https://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/hearings/mpc.sbc or by appointment by calling (805) 568-2000.

If you challenge the project(s) 20APL-00000-00034, or 20CUP-00000-00012 in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Montecito Planning Commission prior to the public hearing.

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20APL-00000-00034 Appeal of Grassini Accessory Dwelling Unit 1775 Fernald Point Ln. Exempt, CEQA Guidelines Section 15270(a) Tess Harris, Supervising Planner (805) 568-3319 Chris Schmuckal, Planner (805) 568-3510 Hearing on the request of Larry Grassini, the Property Owner of 1775 Fernald Point Lane, to consider Case No. 20APL-00000-00027, an appeal of the Director’s decision to deny the Grassini Accessory Dwelling Unit project (Case No. 20CDP-00000-00076). The appeal was filed in compliance with Section 35-182 of the Article II Coastal Zoning Ordinance. The proposed project consists of the demolition of an existing unpermitted 1,300-square-foot (sq. ft.) accessory structure and the construction of a new 1,116-sq.-ft. Accessory Dwelling Unit on Assessor Parcel No. 007-380-007, located at 1775 Fernald Point Lane, in the Montecito Community Plan area, First Supervisorial District.

20CUP-00000-00012 848 Rockbridge Road Entry Gate Exempt, CEQA Guidelines Section 15303(e)

848 Rockbridge Road Tess Harris, Supervising Planner (805) 568-3319 Willow Brown, Planner (805) 568-2040 The hearing is a request by Matt Coffin, property owner, to consider Case No. 20CUP-00000-00012, which is a request for a Conditional Use Permit to authorize an existing 6’-8” entry gate located in the front setback; and to determine the project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15303(e). The application involves Assessor Parcel No. 011-040-035, located at 351 Woodley Road, in the Montecito Community Plan area, First Supervisorial District. (Estimated Time: 45 min.)

Long Range Planning Division FY 2021-2024 Work Program Countywide Dan Klemann, Deputy Director (805) 568-2072 Hearing on the request of the Planning and Development Department Long Range Planning Division staff to have the Montecito Planning Commission (1) receive and file a report regarding the Long Range Planning Division’s FY 2021-2024 Work Program; and (2) direct staff to forward any comments that the Montecito Planning Commission might have regarding the Work Program, to the Board of Supervisors (Board).

2020 Comprehensive Plan Annual Progress Report Countywide Exempt, CEQA Guidelines Sections 15060(c)(3) David Lackie, Supervising Planner (805) 568-2023 & 15378(b)(5) Corina Venegas, Planner (805) 884-6836 Hearing on the request of the Planning and Development Department Long Range Planning Division staff that the Montecito Planning Commission receive and file the 2020 Comprehensive Plan Annual Progress Report. Staff recommends that the Montecito Planning Commission follow the procedures outlined in order to provide by April 1, 2021, the 2020 Comprehensive Plan Annual Progress Report to the Board of Supervisors (Board), Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR), California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), and City of Santa Barbara.

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The Giving List

by Steven Libowitz

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is an ideal place to visit to unplug and recharge

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ust like nearly every place in town, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden closed for two months during the first phase of the stay-at-home orders designed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic last spring. But then the county decided that the Garden was an essential service.

Which, to anyone who has ever visited the 78-acre site that blends cultivated displays with stands of natural woodlands, was sort of a case of stating the obvious. Visiting SBBG is like taking a trip to a lush haven within the already inviting space that Santa Barbara and environs occupy between the ocean and the Santa Ynez Mountains. So welcoming people back to the Garden – as Joni Mitchell once sang – was a happy moment for SBBG Executive Director Steve Windhager.

“When I go for walks in the garden, it’s great to see people down in the woods, just recharging,” he said. “I can’t describe it any other way but that it’s almost like they’re plugging into something and getting renewed and refreshed.

To me, that’s what the garden is all about and why it is so important that we’re available during this difficult time for everybody.”

It also helps that, as Windhager said, it’s a “super safe place to go,” because social distancing is pretty easy in such an expansive space and the staff are committed to enforcing the requirement that visitors wear masks at all times, a restriction that hasn’t stopped the Garden from having its biggest year yet in terms of visitors in 2020, pro-rating the numbers from the months it was open.

It also doesn’t hurt that the Garden is easily accessible from anywhere in the area, just a short drive up Mission Canyon – “Literally four miles from the ocean, seven minutes from town, maybe a few more if you get stuck behind a slow-moving vehicle,” he said.

But what’s becoming readily apparent over recent years is just how important SBBG is beyond serving as a recreational space for locals looking for time in nearby nature during lockdown. That value is right in the Garden’s mission: “To conserve California native plants and habitats for the health and well-being of people and the planet.”

“We’ve been around for 95 years and everyone knows that we’re a garden, but what they don’t understand is that really we’re a conservation organization that happens to have a garden,” Windhager explained, noting that SBBG contains more than 1,000 species of plants native to California. “The reason we’re

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all about those plants is because not only are they incredibly beautiful, they support the biodiversity that supports all of our lives. They support pollination services, support our crops, restoration and, well basically, life on the planet.”

Correctly understanding what’s out there and making sure those plants continue to live for the coming generations is “the untold story about the Botanic Garden,” Windhager said. “We do want people to come visit us and be impressed by California’s flora, to come see the wildflowers instead of having to drive up to Figueroa Mountain – and they’re going to be gorgeous this year.

But I think species research and preservation is the bigger story.”

That goal is why SBBG has ramped up its Conservation & Research program, staffed largely by an ever-increasing team of PhD botanists and researchers, to study and understand biodiversity, protect rare plants, restore habitats, and engage in seed banking – the latter a 20-year-old program that got another jolt in 2016 when the Garden opened its new Conservation Center, an 11,500-square foot space that also has some public exhibits.

“An ecologist once said the first rule of intelligent tinkering is saving all the pieces,” Windhager said. “The truth is we still know so little about our planet that we don’t understand which species may form the critical link, which ones might provide the next cure for cancer, and which ones, if we lose them, will cause what’s called a trophic cascade, where all of a sudden, a third of the planet’s diversity disappears.”

All of this is nothing new, by the way, Windhager said, noting that the Garden was founded back in 1926 out of concern for species cataloging amid the rapid development of Southern California. But that function somehow seems to fade in the wake of the Garden’s beauty, which is why the ED said SBBG is investing time and energy in getting the word out.

“We’re like the Noah’s Ark for California’s rarest plants, going back to doing some of the first early explorations out on the Channel Islands, an incredible place to explore because they really are California’s Galapagos. Or rather, in many ways, they make Galapagos look really kind of chintzy, at least in terms of plant diversity,” he said.

While the Conservation Center remains closed during the pandemic protocols, the rest of the Garden is open and available. Late winter/early spring is a perfect time for visiting, Windhager said. “Just as a spring is a time of renewal, we’re going to see all these plants springing up.” With all of the recent rain, the manzanita – the Garden boasts a big section dedicated to the ground cover shrub – are beginning to bloom, boasting delicate bell-shaped flowers. “They’re just going to town and several others are about one or two weeks away from really starting to take off.”

He also stressed that the nursery is open, and right now is a perfect time to take home a beautiful California native species to plant in a home landscape.

“It’s the absolute best time of the year to get plants in the ground,” Windhager said. “Most people think about spring as the planting season, but that’s completely wrong in Southern California. Right now is the most pleasant and easiest time of the year for a plant to get established, put those roots down before it has to go through a long protracted drought here in California.”

Purchasing a plant to take home is one of the things people who might not have the means to make major donations can do to help with the Garden’s mission, too, since government funding for the Garden is on a contract basis, Windhager said. “Visiting, becoming a member, and taking home plants is what helps us continue to be a resource for Santa Barbara. Without the generosity of our community, we couldn’t exist.”

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Montecito on the Move

- Rules - Water, Parks, and Wildlife

by Sharon Byrne, Executive Director, Montecito Association

Senator Limón and Assemblymember Steve Bennett to address Montecito Association Annual Meeting

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he Montecito Association will host our Annual Members Meeting next Tuesday, February 9 at 4 pm via Zoom. We say goodbye to departing directors Peter van Duinwyk and Dorinne Lee Johnson, and welcome our newly elected board directors. We also appoint our officers at this meeting. Last year, we hosted California state Senator HannahBeth Jackson and Assemblymember Monique Limón. This year, we will be addressed by our newly elected California state Senator Limón and Assemblymember Steve Bennett. We look forward to hearing from them.

We’ve long had a close working relationship with Monique Limón, and this year she is the Chair of the

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Banking and Finance Committee. She is also serving on the Wildfire working group, very important to our area.

Our County fire chiefs convened a task force in late December to tackle three hugely important issues across the county: - Fires due to dispersed camping on our trails and front country - Fires from homeless encampments - Parking issues from overcrowding at trails and beaches that are impeding emergency vehicle access I am serving on the homeless encampment subcommittee. Ashlee Mayfield of the Montecito Trails Foundation is working on dispersed camping issues. Chief Kevin Taylor of Montecito Fire, one of the chiefs to call for this task force, and who led the formation of the teams, is working on the over-parked areas that impede emergency vehicle access. I connected with Senator Limón’s office Monday to give her an update on what the team here is doing.

Assemblymember Steve Bennett has the following state committee assignments: - Budget - Education - Elections - Privacy and Consumer Protection

At our Annual Meeting, we expect to discuss the housing bills put forth this year. Senator Wiener is chairing the Housing Committee. The hearings for these bills could start late February, but most likely will happen in March and April. We send email updates to our members on these hearings, and you can participate in them virtually due to the pandemic. Here are the bills we’re watching: Senate Bill 9, introduced by Senators Atkins and Wiener: Allows two residential units on a lot within a single-family residential zone to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing.

Proposed housing development cannot require demolition or alteration of existing housing that is affordable, nor require demolition of more than 25% of the existing exterior structural walls, and can’t be located within a historic district.

Senate Bill 10: Senator Wiener Would authorize a local government to pass an ordinance to zone any parcel for up to 10 units of residential density per parcel, at a height specified in the ordinance, if the parcel is located in a transit-rich area, a jobs-rich area, or an urban infill site, as those terms are defined. Does not apply to parcels in a high fire zone.

High fire hazard and housing bills:

Senate Bill 12: Senator McGuire Requires municipalities that contain a very high fire risk area to amend the land use element of its general plan to contain the locations of all very high fire risk areas and identify feasible

implementation measures relating to the protection of lives and property from unreasonable risk of wildfire. Municipalities must complete a review of wildfire risk reduction standards. The bill would require the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to review municipalities’ findings and make recommendations.

The Office of the State Fire Marshal, in consultation with the Office of Planning and Research and the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, by January 1, 2023, have to adopt wildfire risk reduction standards that meet certain requirements and reasonable standards for third-party inspection and certifications for a specified enforcement program. They also have to update the maps of the very high fire hazard severity zones and convene a working group of stakeholders to assist in this effort and to consider specified national standards.

Senate Bill 55 SB55: Senators Stern and Allen Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to determine, based on specified criteria, whether an area of the state is one for which the financial responsibility of preventing and suppressing fires is primarily the responsibility of the state. Existing law refers to these areas as “state responsibility areas.”

This bill would, in furtherance of specified state housing production and wildfire mitigation goals, prohibit the creation or approval of a new development in a very high fire hazard severity zone or a state responsibility area.

We encourage you to join the Montecito Association, attend our annual meeting, and stay on top of issues that affect our community.

You can join at montecitoassociation. org.

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On Science

by Tom Farr

Tom Farr joined NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1975 and has helped develop the first geologic applications of imaging radar using aircraft, satellites, and the Space Shuttle. He has taught a class on planetary exploration at Santa Barbara City College for more than 10 years. He currently resides in Montecito.

Our Solar System: Jupiter

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arch 9, 1979 and Voyager 1 had just left the Jupiter system en route to its rendezvous with Saturn. Linda Morabito, the cognizant engineer for the navigation team, noticed something odd about one of the images of Jupiter’s moon Io: There was a ghost image protruding from the side of the moon. She was using surrounding stars and the circular disk of Io to determine Voyager’s path, but a circle wouldn’t fit. Was it another moon peeking out from behind Io? Over the next few hours Linda and her team determined that the feature emanated from Io and was centered over a strange heart-shaped feature on the surface. Finally it dawned on the team: They were witnessing a volcanic eruption – the first one on another world.

Voyager 1 was commanded to look back at Io as it sped away from Jupiter and confirmed the interpretation. A few months later, Voyager 2 passed through the system and its programming was updated to concentrate on the new discovery. Io turned out to have multiple volcanoes almost continually erupting!

Jupiter and its coterie of some 60 moons is almost a mini-solar system unto itself. But four of the moons are about the same size as our moon and are called the Galilean satellites because they were discovered 400 years ago by Galileo himself. You can recreate that excitement with even a small telescope: The four small dots aligned next to Jupiter can be seen to move around from night to night. The moons display an interesting sequence from incredibly active Io, to Europa with its young icy crust, Ganymede with patches of old and new icy crust, to Callisto, an old and dead dusty ice ball. The difference in their appearance is related to their distance from Jupiter. And the reason is that the closer they are to Jupiter’s massive gravity, the more they’re pushed and pulled like taffy by tidal forces. You can get the same effect by rapidly stretching a rubber band; in fact, sailors know that nylon dock lines must not be allowed to stretch over and over too quickly or they can melt. But Io isn’t the only Galilean satellite harboring a mystery: it was immediately obvious that Europa was also anomalous. There were virtually no impact craters, implying the surface was very young, and there were huge rift zones and areas of fragmented crust that looked a lot like frozen ice floes in our arctic. Models now indicate that a liquid-water ocean exists below a thin ice crust, another product of tidal heating.

The moons of Jupiter are just some of the strangeness found in this part of the solar system. Out here beyond the asteroid belt, the planets are all huge and made mostly of gases, primarily hydrogen and helium. In fact, Jupiter on its own contains twice the mass of all the other planets combined. It could contain over 300 Earths. Jupiter is also so massive that it’s still radiating more energy than it receives from the Sun. Because of the massive gravity the planet exerts,

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it’s difficult to probe very far into the atmosphere, so that much of what we know about its interior is based on models. And those models are extreme. The pressure down inside Jupiter is about 40 million times that at Earth’s surface.

Extrapolating what we know about hydrogen to that kind of pressure implies that the gas may exist as a solid metal! Higher up in the atmosphere, we see bands of differing colors, visible even in small telescopes, that indicate circulation patterns. Many cyclones spin off of those bands and can be followed as they coalesce and eventually dissipate. One, though, has persisted at least for 400 years – the Great Red Spot was described by Galileo. It’s a cyclone that could swallow the Earth.

Pioneers 10 and 11 were the first spacecraft to do a drive-by of the Jupiter system. That was back in the early ’70s. But it was Voyager 1 and 2 that flew by in 1979 that really put Jupiter on the map. Launched in 1977, the Voyagers were sent on a Grand Tour of all the outer planets, a trip made possible by the fortuitous alignment of the outer planets allowing gravity-assist trajectories, literally sling-shot boosts as they flew by each planet. That alignment won’t occur again until 2150. Voyager 1 was diverted from the Grand Tour, however, so it could fly closely by Saturn’s largest moon Titan, which was found by the Pioneer spacecraft and terrestrial telescopes to have a thick atmosphere. (More on Saturn and Titan next time.) The two Voyagers are now leaving the solar system on a new, Interstellar Mission.

Starting in 1995, Jupiter and its moons were the subject of intense scrutiny by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft after it went into orbit around Jupiter. That mission, however, didn’t go without a hitch – it was ready to be launched from the Space Shuttle in 1986, but the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger, with the loss of the crew, led to a re-design and a three-year delay, but finally it was on its way.

After gravity assists from Venus and the Earth, Galileo was on its way to Jupiter and the main communication antenna was commanded to unfurl. Much like a huge gold-mesh umbrella, the antenna had to be folded for launch. However, because it had been stored in its launch configuration for several more years than planned, a couple of the ribs stuck to the central post and the antenna only partially unfolded. As there are no repairmen making house calls in deep space, a workaround to the decreased data-rate of the smaller antenna had to be found or thousands of images of the Jupiter system would never be sent to Earth. Luckily, a new image compression algorithm had been invented around that time, called jpeg. The software was uploaded to the spacecraft as it sped toward Jupiter and the mission was saved.

The Galileo mission cemented Io’s reputation as the most volcanically active body in the solar system and refined our understanding of the dynamics of Jupiter’s atmosphere. It also added to the mystery of Europa. Was there a way to learn more about what might be going on in its subsurface ocean? Could life exist there? As its fuel reserves dwindled, in 2003 Galileo was commanded to do a death spiral into Jupiter’s atmosphere. As with the Jupiter atmospheric probe it launched into the atmosphere at the beginning of the mission, Galileo radioed data back about pressure and temperature until it met its end.

Exploration of the Jupiter system continues with the Juno orbiter, which is concentrating on the atmosphere. But new spacecraft are on the drawing boards or proposed. JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) is a European Space Agency project planned to launch in 2022 and set to orbit Ganymede, which also may have a subsurface ocean, after orbiting Jupiter for three years. And NASA is developing the Europa Clipper, set to launch in 2024. One goal is to use multiple flybys of Europa with its long-wavelength radar to see through the icy crust and determine its thickness. If the crust is thin enough, ideas are being kicked around for a lander that would melt its way through the crust and launch a submarine into a new ocean. Europa Clipper will also use sophisticated remote sensing instruments to look for surface manifestations of what is going on in the ocean below. These missions are the beginning of a series of initiatives to explore the Ocean Worlds of the solar system (https://www.nasa.gov/spe cials/ocean-worlds).

Jupiter, along with its neighbor Saturn, recently gave us a nice show when they came together in the sky, forming a bright Christmas star. They’re both now low in the west at sunset as they slip behind the Sun. •MJ

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Editor’s Letter (Continued from page 5) says he expects that a tier system is forthcoming from the state.

Certainly the task of vaccinating at least 70% of the world is a massive undertaking. And counties are faced with a microcosm of that Herculean challenge.

And relative to statistics that just came out, we’re doing a pretty good job. But more can and should be done.

As of today, the County has distributed 86% of all doses received. Presumably, the next tier will be those age 65-plus. At the moment, however, there is not yet a plan in place to include those with specific COVID sensitive comorbidities.

I asked Williams why the Supervisors hired a non-MD as our County’s Director of Public Health. Especially when the Public Health Officer at the time, also a candidate for the position, was a renowned and highly regarded epidemiologist Dr. Charity Dean?

“At the time we did not know we would be dealing with a pandemic,” Williams said. “There were important administrative aspects of the job and we saw the need for a strong administrator.” To put this statement in context, 22 years ago President Clinton procured $51 million and signed into law the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile, a repository for drugs and vaccines at the CDC for civilian use during pandemics. Likewise, in 2001, literally one day after 9/11, W and Cheney went hard into pandemic preparedness, fearing the next attack could be biological or virological. And it is well known that Barack Obama left a pandemic playbook for his predecessor. The takeaway is multiple presidents have been anticipating this moment for nearly a quarter century.

Pressed as to why Dr. Dean was not tapped for the top County COVID spot Williams responded: “I’d love to have Charity Dean back.” Williams in no way suggested that the County’s current Director of Public Health Van Do-Reynoso and the County’s current Public Health Officer Dr. Henning Ansorg are not capable professionals.

In Santa Barbara we have ongoing seismic activity, climate extremes, yearround fires, debris flows, and now we are getting slapped by a deadly pandemic. Isn’t it time we accept that disaster is part of our life? That disaster is something to anticipate?

SB County is packed with formidable talent who could be enlisted to boost our COVID strategy beginning with Thomas Tighe, CEO of Direct Relief (who reportedly was rebuffed when he offered Direct Relief’s renowned expertise and distribution assistance to the County back in November); and how about Dr. Charity Dean who is back in Santa Barbara?

Sup. Williams says he has no recollection of the County turning down an offer from Direct Relief. A spokesman for Direct Relief carefully says, “we have a standing offer with the County.” But if true, declining help from Direct Relief is jaw-dropping. I would think it would be all hands on deck.

Which brings me back to the question of a County COVID Czar. Not a Russian Emperor, but a respected pandemic strategist and sharpshooter backed by a team of our community’s best talent who can help support our well-intentioned officials in coordinating policy and moving us through this disaster.

And let’s face it, COVID will not be our last pandemic. And it certainly won’t be our last disaster.

We all have questions about our State and our County’s vaccination rollout.

So we have invited County Supervisors, County Public Health Officer Dr. Ansorg, and County Director of Public Health Van Do-Reynoso to participate in a community Zoom conversation on Friday, February 19 at 10:30 am so that they can fill us in on where we are, where we are going, and hopefully answer some of our other important questions. We will update you next week on the status of that Community Covid Zoom forum. In the meantime, if you have questions you would like to ask our supervisors, please send them to me at gwyn@montecitojournal.net.

•MJ

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Village Beat (Continued from page 16 16)) The full service shop offers an array of vintage and new age frames, as well as frame and lens repair, rehab, and adjustments

style dresses, to luxurious jackets, and everything in between. There is also jewelry, select kids’ items, and much more. “It’s carefully curated to evoke a certain sense of style,” Green said. A full array of the offerings is available on www.clic.com.

Also recently opened: Cynthia Benjamin, a Los Angeles-based optical boutique store owned by husbandand-wife team Cynthia and Benjamin Montoya. The pair has been in the eyewear business for over 25 years, with a successful and beloved store in the Brentwood Country Mart for the last 16. With the global pandemic prompting many Los Angeles residents to flee the big city and settle in Montecito and Santa Barbara, the Montoyas felt it was Optical boutique Cynthia Benjamin has opened a perfect time to expand into a second at Montecito Country Mart, managed by Jordan Feldman store in Montecito Country Mart. “A lot of our clientele frequent both areas, so it really was a perfect fit,” said store manager Jordan Feldman, who managed the Brentwood store for four years and moved up to Montecito to manage the Mart space, which is located in the former home of Merci To Go. At the heart of Cynthia Benjamin is the customer experience, which includes educating the client on fit, quality, and style of both sunglasses and eyewear.

“We make sure they leave with something that fits their face well and is a quality product; we are not about trendy frames here,” Feldman explained, adding that fit on someone’s unique face shape is emphasized over trends. “When we find the perfect pair for someone, we know immediately, and everyone gets really excited!”

The shelves at Cynthia Benjamin are filled with a mix of small, independent eyewear brands, as well as an impressive array of vintage frames, which date all the way back to the 1940s. The frames are from what is known in the industry as “dead stock,” or new, never used frames from old stock. Feldman pointed out signature frames that were once made famous by Grace Kelly, along with hard to find frames by Oliver Peoples, Persol, Ray Ban, and others. “They really are small pieces of art, and we work hard to curate a really beautiful selection that you are not going to find anywhere else,” Feldman said, explaining that the vintage frames are from Benjamin’s own collection.

New lines include Salt, Cult, Native Sons, Thierry Lasry, Eyevan, Jacques Marie, and more. All frames can be completely customized with optic lenses or for wear in the sun. The shop has its own lab to produce customized glasses, as well as equipment that can read eyeglass prescriptions from existing lenses. The full service boutique can also help with frame adjustments, troubleshooting, repair or rehabbing old frames, advising on prescription concerns, and more.

Cynthia Benjamin also carries a small line of ready-to-wear readers, as well as 4 – 11 February 2021

blue blocking lenses, and glass spray that prevents fogging of glasses while wearing a face mask.

Feldman says the store takes COVID precautions very seriously, including sterilizing frames after every try on, and offering portable handheld mirrors for customers to move outdoors to briefly try on a pair of frames without a mask. “It’s hard to find the perfect pair of glasses while wearing a mask, so we’ve found a way to do it safely,” said Feldman.

For more information, visit Cynthia Benjamin at Montecito Country Mart, or visit www.cynthia-benjamin.com.

The new stores, which are in longterm leases, join other Mart shops Clare V, Coco Cabana, George, Hudson Grace, James Perse, Malia Mills, Mate Montecito Country Mart businesses are happy to Gallery, Poppy Marche, Studio C, be able to offer outdoor dining once again Montecito Natural Foods, and Toy Crazy, along with Montecito Cleaners, Read N Post, and Montecito Barbers, which reopened last week when the stay-athome order was lifted.

Teufel tells us the eateries at the Mart: Bettina, Caffe Luxxe, Little Alex’s, Merci, Panino, Pressed Juicery, and Rori’s, are all excited to be able to offer outdoor dining once again, after only being able to offer takeout for the last two months. The Mart has plentiful outdoor seating for the various restaurants, as well as communal seating which can be enjoyed by all patrons. Bettina’s large outdoor patio, which is located in the center of the Mart, will be reopen for tableside service in two weeks. The Mesa Produce Farm Stand has increased in popularity during the pandemic, offering a satellite location of the beloved open air market on the Mesa. Open daily from 9 am to 5 pm, the stand, located in front of Union Bank, offers a quick place to stop for fresh produce.

For more information, as well as the latest happenings and events, visit www.montecitocountrymart.com. The Mart follows all COVID-19 precautions, including requiring mask wearing, offering hand sanitizer, and limiting the number of patrons in stores in order to encourage ample social distancing.

Water Updates

At a quarterly board meeting in late January, Montecito’s Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) reported that a study of the groundwater basin in Fall 2020 shows that the basin is still recovering after seven years of drought.

The GSA monitoring program investigated 60 Montecito Water Districtowned and privately owned wells, and showed that, on average, groundwater levels recovered six to eight feet in the past year, according to a staff report. Groundwater levels throughout the basin, on average, remain at or near historic dry weather levels and 17 to 72 feet below historic wet weather levels.

Local environmental consulting firm Dudek reports that there are 748 known wells in the groundwater basin, with approximately 567 active wells in the basin. Roughly 250 additional wells outside the basin have been identified, and the GSA is in the process of obtaining well records from Santa Barbara County Environmental Health Services (EHS); this work is expected to be complete by this spring. As of June 2020, the County’s EHS, which regulates the drilling of groundwater wells along with the California Coastal Commission, has been providing the GSA with all new groundwater well permits that they receive that are located in the Montecito area.

The GSA is currently seeking public participation and comments on the Groundwater Sustainability Plan Chapter Development Process. All draft chapters of the plan are or will be posted online for public review. Anyone can review the documents at www.montecitogsa.com/plan-gsp/chapters and send comments to info@montecitogsa.com. Once each chapter has been reviewed by the Montecito GSA’s Committees and the Board of Directors, they shall be integrated into one Groundwater Sustainability Plan Administrative Draft. The draft shall be available for the public to comment on for a review period of 90 days. The Public Review period is tentatively scheduled for Spring/Summer 2022. For more information, visit www.montecitogsa.com.

Montecito Water District also reminds district residents that the rainy season is the perfect time to switch off irrigation systems and save water. Last week’s atmospheric river event brought much needed rain to Montecito, while local debris basins and creek channels held up well despite heavy showers at times.

Visit www.waterwiseSB.org for more info on water conservation during the winter months.

•MJ

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ities art facilities will serve as a central hub for the overall Cosmovision Indigena exhibition, it’s exciting that there is potential for the entire City College campus and its many diverse departments to be involved and engaged with the project.”

Puppy Love

Prince Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle, 39, is going to the dogs!

The Duchess of Sussex’s rescue dogs have been a big support during the COVID pandemic and her “personal trials and tribulations” last year, the CEO of her patronage Mayhew, a London-based animal charity, has revealed.

Caroline Yates has offered a glimpse into her relationship with the wife of Queen Elizabeth’s grandson and says she often references how “important” her rescue canines – a beagle named Guy and a black Labrador Pula – have been.

“Particularly during everything that has happened with COVID and with the personal trials and tribulations she went through,” she tells the U.K. celebrity glossy Hello!

“It’s really nice to share our experiences with her about how important animals are when things are tough and what a comfort they can be.”

Let the Good Times Roll

Kevin Costner, who lives in a beach house in Carpinteria, a tiara’s toss from director George Lucas and TV talk show host Conan O’Brien, may be best known as an Oscar winning actor, but he’s no slouch when it comes to rock music.

And now I hear the 66-year-old Emmy and Golden Globe winner has joined the lineup for the tenth anniversary of the Outlaws & Legends Music Fest in Abilene, Texas, next month.

Kevin, currently the star of the hit Paramount Network TV series Yellowstone, and his band, Modern West, will headline the opening night of the two-day event.

The show also features music of the group, which has landed them on Billboard’s Top 100 Country Album list.

“We’re beyond thrilled and feel super fortunate to have Kevin and his group on our stage,” gushes event organizer Mark Powell.

Back on Sale

Carpinteria-based actor Ashton Kutcher and actress wife, Mila Kunis, have put their Beverly Hills home back on the market – with a substantial price drop.

When it was last listed for sale,

Ashton Kutcher puts his Beverly Hills home on the market – yet again (photo: themls.com)

the five-bedroom, five-and-a-half bath 7,351 sq. ft. three-story home in the gated community of Hidden Valley, was priced at $14 million.

Now the ask is $12.3 million.

The tony twosome bought the East Coast-inspired traditional property seven years ago, shortly after getting engaged.

Rest in Peace

On a personal note, I mark the passing of Kellam de Forest, who has died of COVID-19 at the age of 95.

I was lucky enough to meet the noted historic preservationist, son of Santa Barbara landscape architect Lockwood and his horticulturalist wife Elizabeth de Forest.

Kellam, who initially used a walk-

er, but progressed to a wheelchair as the years took their toll, created the largest historical research consulting firm in Hollywood in the ‘50s, working on such notable TV shows as Gunsmoke, The Untouchables and Star Trek.

The Yale graduate absolutely oozed intellect and was always a pleasure to engage in social intercourse at myriad events over the years.

A unique and charming individual whose life was devoted to protecting our Eden by the Beach.

Sightings will return in due course now Governor Gavin Newsom has lifted the total lockdown.

Pip! Pip! - Be safe and wear a mask

•MJ

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Notice Inviting Bids EL ESTERO WATER RESOURCE CENTER

Notice Inviting Bids: Bid No. 5889

DIGESTER DOME REPLACEMENT AND CLEANING PROJECT Bid No. 4012

Eastside Park Restroom Remodel

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its EL ESTERO WATER RESOURCE CENTER DIGESTER DOME REPLACEMENT AND CLEANING PROJECT (“Project”), by or before Wednesday, March 10, 2021, at 3:00 p.m., through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid Proposal and to receive addendum notification. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly. The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

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Bids will be received until 3:00 P.M., Friday, February 26, 2021. At this date and time all bids received will be electronically opened and posted.

It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Late or incomplete bids will not be accepted.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at El Estero Water Resource Center, 520 E Yanonali St, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, and is described as follows: Maintenance of the two anaerobic digester tanks occurs approximately every five to seven years, depending on their condition. Each tank has a 75-foot inner diameter, is 25 feet in height, and has a cone depth of 5.5 feet. Cleaning includes power washing the interior walls, roof, and piping inside the two tanks, and then followed by coating and concrete crack repairs. Prior to cleaning and performing any surface repairs, the contractor shall remove and dispose of all remaining digester contents, approximately 200,000 gallons from each tank. In addition, the work includes replacing the 8-foot diameter steel cover (digester dome) centered on the roof of each tank, replacing the digester gas equipment associated with each digester dome, and replacing various-sized digester valves. The Project also includes the installation of new pressure indicator transmitters (PIT) on the digester domes, and the modification of the existing digester gas piping in order to accept a new connection in preparation for a future City gas-piping project. This Project also includes the demolition of the abandoned sludge piping in the Digester Control Building.

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2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is $1,849,400.

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 30 consecutive calendar days after Notice to Proceed.

2.3 Estimate. The estimate for this Project is: $120,000.00 2.4 Bidders’ Conference. A MANDATORY bidders’ conference will be held on February 10, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., at the following location: Eastside Park Restrooms located at 1224 Yanonali Street for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. Bids will not be accepted or considered from parties that did not attend the mandatory prebid meeting. All attendees are responsible for bringing, wearing a facemask on-site, following current CDC and Santa Barbara County Public Health social distancing guidelines.

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3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A “General Engineering” and Class C-10 “Electrical”. If the Prime Contractor is self-performing the engineering and electrical work, then the Prime Contractor is required to have both licenses. Alternatively, an electrical Subcontractor is required to have a Class C-10 license

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

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Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of five (5) percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

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Prevailing Wage Requirements.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

5.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

5.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

5.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

5.4 Davis Bacon. Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the county in which the work is to be done have been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this Project, available at the City of Santa Barbara, General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and available from the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. The Federal minimum wage rates for this Project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the specifications and in copies of these specifications that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and bid forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project.

The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage rate requirements in the specifications. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes "helper" (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage rate determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and subcontractors, the Contractor and subcontractors shall pay not less than the Federal minimum wage rate, which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.

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2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at Eastside Park, 1224 Yanonali Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 and is described as follows: Remodel restroom facility

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction for the Project is 496 working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed.

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Notice is hereby given that bids for Bid No. 5889 shall be received to furnish and deliver all services and materials for the Eastside Park Restroom Remodel per the attached terms, conditions and specifications. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids™ portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a bid. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal. Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.

This is a federally-assisted project and Davis-Bacon (DBRA) requirements will be strictly enforced. Federal Labor Standards provisions HUD-4010 will be incorporated into the successful bidder’s contract. Contractors, including all subcontractors and apprentices, must be eligible to participate. Federal Wage AttDetermination #CA20210014 dated 01/22/2021 is incorporated herein and is attached hereto as Appendix B; document H. However, actual prevailing wage rates will be determined as of the bid opening date. If any modifications have been issued to the wage decision, the contractor must adhere to the modified wage decision.

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of onehalf of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

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Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide separate performance and payment bonds for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

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Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., at the following location: El Estero

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Subcontractor List. Subcontractors shall be submitted through PlanetBids portal. Failure to do will result in rejection of your bid.

Contractor to provide the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price.

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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

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“It seems right now that all I’ve ever done in my life is making my way here to you.” — The Bridges of Madison County

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 14 14)) “Forward into Light: The Passing of the 19th Amendment” with lighting and projection on buildings around town, several installations at the Lucidity Festival, and ongoing projects on the front window of Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery – who came up with the concept of projecting the images on the outside of the Lobero’s oversized wall.

“I’ve been drooling over doing something with that great, big white wall for years,” said co-founder and projectionist Jonathan Smith. His partner, Kym Cochran, explained that they needed to find a big open area, “one where it would be a huge image so people wouldn’t come up close and stare at it where they’d be too close to one another. You can see this from a lot of places and still have social distance.”

Indeed, the show, an approximate 20-minute loop that will run 6 to 8 pm nightly February 5 to 7, is “meant to be a non-event,” Barnett said, adding that while some of the VADA students have been desperate to connect, and suggested handing out t-shirts but, of course, congregating is prohibited even though the full lockdown has been lifted. So a couple of teachers will be out there waving to kids as they come by with their families, and suggesting that people who park in the nearby No. 9 city lot stay in their cars.

Still, it’s a massive undertaking, as artwork from all four class years will be exhibited, about 250-300 works of art in all will be projected on the Lobero’s back wall, each for approximately four seconds, via two ultrashort throw projectors working in tandem in a technique known as stacking to ensure a bright image, Smith said.

More importantly, though, the show meets VADA’s mission of treating the students equally, not as competitors in a magnet school elimination round, Barnett said.

“You’ll see work all over the talent spectrum, because we’re not only about the best of the best – that’s not our vision,” he said. “But you’ll get to see the progression of the whole program from ninth to twelfth grade,” from drawing, to painting, photography, and senior thesis projects worksin-progress. It’s going to be great.”

Visit vadasbhs.org for more information, and vadasbhs.networkfor good.com to donate to the program, which is in the middle of raising funds through their annual campaign.

Also in Art: Goss Goes Graphic

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Barbara’s finest art gallery: where Los Angeles and San Francisco meet to explore, discuss, and collect American art.” As such, the focus of the next show came from noticing a pattern among three SoCal artists – Claudia Borfiga, Yumiko Glover, and Julika Lackner, who also happen to share previous connections to the gallery – including a graphic sensibility rooted in simplified and abstracted shapes with “highly-stylized and meticulously designed work,” nature as a persistent motif, as well as a desire to use decorative patterns and clever design to push their own agendas, suggests the show’s announcement, noting that the artists pay tribute to the Pattern & Decoration movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Thus was born “Pattern Recognition,” featuring a number of works by Borfiga, Glover, and Lackner, who also share being born outside the U.S. before converging in Santa Barbara. The exhibition opens February 5 and hangs through March 29 at Sullivan Goss. Also on view, a new Winter Salon with works by Whitney Brooks Abbott, Phoebe Brunner, Richard Haines, Wosene Worke Kosrof, Angela Perko, Nicole Strasburg, Ray Strong, and others, plus 18 more days of “Peace & Quiet,” an exhibition devoted to quietude for the new year featuring late 19th and early 20th century Tonalist and Impressionist paintings and “meditative” midcentury abstractions. Check out the exhibitions virtually at www. sullivangoss.com and/or arrange an in-person viewing via appointments for socially-distant showings at the gallery.

Classical Corner

Words and Music from MAW AEA Winners Last week we profiled two of this year’s most innovative grant recipients of the Music Academy of the West’s Alumni Enterprise Awards.

Now you have the chance to hear from all six of the winners who were chosen for proposals that impressed the panel in projects that “align with or challenge MAW’s mission to further classical music education while cultivating discerning, appreciative, and adventurous audiences.” In addition to the cash prizes, each winner will be mentored individually on their projects by a selected leader in their industry in addition to receiving coaching sessions on their business plans. But first, they’ll talk to the MAW community online from 5 to 6 pm on Wednesday, February 10, when they’ll discuss their trailblazing projects in an event that also might include some musical moments. Visit www.musicacademy.org for details and registration.

Say Shalom to Felder’s Pre-Fiddler Focus

Hershey Felder, the irrepressible musical/theatrical impresario who over the course of the pandemic has portrayed Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and others via his self-created solo productions at some of the world’s most prestigious theaters, now embodies Sholem Aleichem, the beloved writer of Yiddish literature whose work and the character of Tevye the Milkman inspired the hit musical Fiddler on the Roof. Felder’s new show, Before Fiddler, dives into the culture that gave rise to the musical’s “If I Were a Rich Man,” “Matchmaker,” and “Sunrise, Sunset,” among others, the music of the old world that imitated talking, laughing, weeping, and singing, and where the musicians spoke in song through Klezmer. Felder as storyteller Aleichem is joined by Klezmerata Fiorentina, a group of musicians who are also virtuosos in Florence, Italy’s world famous Maggio Musicale symphony, for a show that was filmed on location where events actually took place. Partial proceeds from the world premiere production livestreamed from Florence at 5 pm Sunday, February 7, benefit the artistic and educational programs of Rubicon Theatre Company via tickets purchased at www.rubicont heatre.org. Ticketholders will also have access to a recording of the production for an additional week through Sunday, February 14.

Ambassador Blondell World Play at Westmont

The Westmont College Theatre Arts Department has established a new initiative expanding its focus on diversity, justice, global engagement, and intercultural competency. Beginning this fall, as part of Westmont’s Justice and Global Engagement in the Theatre Arts Initiative, John Blondell – the longtime Westmont professor, an award-winning director and the founder of the avant-garde Lit Moon Theater Company – will become the new global ambassador in the performing art for the Montecitobased Christian College. Blondell has also served as director of the Lit Moon World Theater Festivals and co-founder of the Bitola (Macedonia) Shakespeare Festival, directing more than 80 professional productions and producing another 60 for Lit Moon’s various international festivals.

In his new role, Blondell will teach and direct for one semester at Westmont and spend the remaining semester working in international theater. With the COVID-19 virus still raging, Blondell’s winter and spring plans include directing three international, networked productions featuring international actors in Chekhov’s Ivanov and The Three Sisters and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.

The new initiative also establishes a new artist/scholar-in-residence for

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diversity, equity, and inclusion in theater arts who will interact with the larger Santa Barbara community through workshops, productions, guest lectures, and artistic collaboration.

Race to Justice

Learning from a ‘Little Rock Nine’ Legend, Plus a Clarion Bell

Minnijean Brown-Trickey was just 15 when she helped to change civil rights history as a member of the so-called Little Rock Nine, walking through the front doors of the formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, in a test of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. It wasn’t just a symbolic act: the state’s governor had called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students’ entry into the high school before President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort them into the school, drawing national attention to the civil rights movement.

But that act was just the beginning of Brown-Trickey’s career as a social activist, a body of work that includes serving in the Clinton Administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Workforce Diversity at the Department of the Interior. She’s been awarded the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal, the Spingarn Medal, the Wolf Award and a medal from the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, among other citations. From her unique perspective as a living witness to history and one who helped shape it, Brown-Trickey, now 79, will explore social change, diversity, and the battle against racism through the decades, from the beginnings of her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement to the present day, in the next presentation from UCSB’s Race to Justice series on Friday, February 5. Her conversation with Anne H. Charity-Hudley, Chair in the Linguistics of African America and Professor of Linguistics at UCSB, will be followed by a Q&A session.

Next up: Ending Racism in About an Hour with W. Kamau Bell, the host and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning CNN docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell, host of the critically-acclaimed podcasts Kamau Right Now!, Politically Re-Active, and Denzel Washington is The Greatest Actor of All Time Period, and a stand-up comedian whose latest comedy special, Private School Negro, is available on Netflix. Bell, who is also an author and the ACLU Celebrity Ambassador for Racial Justice, will engage in conversation with Belinda Robnett, UCSB Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, followed by a Q&A, on Thursday, February 11. Tickets for each event are $10, visit https://artsandlectures.ucsb. edu.

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by Claudia Schou

GEARING UP FOR A LOVERS’ WEEKEND?

SHOW SOME LOVE TO OUR LOCAL EATERIES, TOO!

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his year, diners are getting ready for a different kind of Valentine’s Day with restaurants focusing on both dine-in and takeout options. Because the holiday falls on a Sunday, some eateries are offering their special menus on preceding days. It’s one of the busiest days of the week on one of the busiest days of the year, so make your reservations now.

Whether you want to dine in the intimacy of your own home (with lit candles and oldschool tunes by Marvin Gaye and Tony Bennett as part of your ambient evening), or reserve an outdoor table out on the town, here’s a look at some of the city’s most romantic meal options on February 14.

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itrus groves, olive trees, brilliantly colored lantanas, lily pond, and the sweet smell of lavender and rosemary are the backdrop for Valentine’s romance here. The culinary team has devised a three-course Sunday brunch menu and a four-course dinner menu for this special occasion. Pair your wines from the menu or make a reservation for a pre-dinner tour of the wine cellar and choose from a variety of vintages and regions.

Valentine’s Day Fare: Brunch starters include house-smoked salmon, duck spring roll, oysters on the half shell, and The Stonehouse at San Ysidro Ranch prawns. Your choice of main dishes includes roasted vegetable shakshuka, Maine lobster benedict, buttermilk fried chicken and waffle, peanut butter crunch French Toast, and grilled prime New York steak. The dessert selections include the Ranch’s Meyer lemon tart, red velvet cake, and Valrhona chocolate souffle. Guests will be treated to bottomless G.H. Mumm Brut, France, Bisol “Jeio” Brut Prosecco, Italy, Ty Bellinis and Mimosas, fresh juice, and coffee ($120 per person, tax and gratuity not included). The evening menu will begin with your choice of house-smoked salmon tart, seared foie gras with puff pastry and port glazed cranberries, carpaccio of venison loin. Choose from sweet corn bisque or roasted heirloom beet and strawberry salad for the second course. Butter braised Maine lobster, seared tuna, apple cider glazed duck breast, and grilled prime veal are selections for the main entree. Finish the evening on a sweet note with red velvet cake with berry coulis or a warm molten Valrhona ganache with cherry yogurt ice cream ($185 per person, tax and gratuity not included).

San Ysidro is located at 900 San Ysidro Lane in Montecito.

For more information or to make a reservation, please call (805) 565-1700.

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re Lune will offer fine authentic Italian cuisine with romantic Old World charm on its outdoor patio. One of the restaurant’s busiest days of the year, make your reservations early or place pick-up orders in advance. Care to eat at home? Order for pick up via Tre Lune’s snazzy car hop service.

Valentine’s Day Special: A sumptuous four-course dinner featuring Beau Joie Brut Champagne. The dinner features a zesty burrata caprese salad; housemade lobster ravioli with a creamy saffron sauce; and a prime beef tenderloin Tre Lune’s luscious lobster ravioli grilled with fresh herbs and served with farmers market vegetables. Not included in the four-course meal but equally delicious and available to order is the tender rack of lamb with rosemary and garlic. For dessert, loosen your belt and indulge in a warm chocolate cake with a mixed berries compote or make it á la mode. The cost is $250 per couple or $175 without Champagne, tax and gratuity not included.

On this evening, take your time and enjoy a classic Negroni or Aperol Spritz before your meal.

1151 Coast Village Road, Montecito.

To make a reservation or place a to-go order call 805-969-2646 or visit trelunesb.com.

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s truffle season winds down, Little Dom’s Seafood in Carpinteria will celebrate the day of love with a touch of truffles served with its Italian classics.

Valentine’s Day Special: One black truffle that guests can shave over each course beginning with asparagus salad or Hamachi Crudo and pappardelle with imported butter and parmesan.

Vanilla panna cotta is included for dessert. Add truffle slicer for $12. Price of $150 is for two guests.

Hamachi Crudo at Little Dom’s Seafood 686 Linden Avenue, Carpinteria.

To make a reservation or place a to-go order call 805-749-7400 or visit ldseafood.com.

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uests can enjoy a romantic afternoon or evening al fresco with Ca’Dario’s Tuscanstyle cuisine created by popular local chef Dario Furlati on a spacious outdoor patio or to go.

Valentine’s Day Special: Chef Furlati is preparing a refreshing mix of Italian favorites such as lobster and creamy tomato bisque; polenta with porcini mushrooms; fontina fondue; watercress and red endive topped with pears, walnut and blue cheese crumble; sautéed sole with lemon sauce; roasted duck breast with Cipollini onions and balsamic glaze and charred steak with broccolini and parmesan sauce. Guests may choose between chocolate mousse with berry sauce or freshly made panna cotta. The cost is $80 per person, tax and gratuity not included. Guests receive a complimentary Prosecco split with each entree.

1187 Coast Village Road, Montecito.

To make a reservation or place a to-go order call 805-884-9419 or visit cadariorestaurants.com/montecito.

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vailable for patio seating or carry out, Caruso’s at Rosewood Miramar is offering a sixcourse dinner for two.

Valentine’s Day Special: The six-course dinner features selections such as a dozen Kumamoto Oysters; yellowtail crudo with tangerine, pickled kumquat and pistachio; seared scallops with minted sweet peas; black cod with chickpea and almond crema; duck with parsnips, fregola sarda (tiny ball-shaped Sardinian pasta) roasted beet, fennel and orange and Angus filet with truffles, potato and wild mushrooms. For dessert, savor a Guanaja (Caribbean) chocolate mousse with raspberry sauce. The cost is $325 per couple.

1773 South Jameson Lane in Montecito.

To make a reservation or place a to-go order call 805-900-8388.

BOSSIE’S KITCHEN

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ocated in the landmark Live Oak Dairy building at the corner of Milpas and Canon Perdido streets, Bossie’s Kitchen will offer a full menu that will be available for takeout and patio dining, weather permitting, from 5 to 8 pm. Some dishes sell out quickly so schedule your orders in advance.

Valentine’s Day Special: Braised beef brisket, mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, horseradish crème fraiche ($23.50); seared scallops, spring vegetable and truffle risotto with chive butter ($32).

901 North Milpas Street at Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara.

Orders may be placed by calling 805-770-1700 or visit bossieskitchen.com.

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izza, salad, and pasta lovers will enjoy a sweet deal for two with a prix-fixe menu featuring some of the restaurant’s most popular dishes.

For Valentine’s Day diners can order any of their favorite CPK pizzas on special heartshaped crispy thin crust for no additional charge.

Valentine’s Day Special: Choose an appetizer, two entrees (salads, pizzas, or pastas) and dessert for $35. Add

At CPK, diners can order any of their favorite pizzas on special heartshaped crust

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Brilliant Thoughts

by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara since 1973. No children.

Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000.

Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

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t’s getting easier to copy – but it’s still hard to be original. However, it’s also now much easier to tell if an idea is original – although, even if it’s not, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a copy. There is, after all, such a thing as “independent creation.”

For that reason, whenever I get an idea which I’m pretty sure is original, the first thing I do is Google it. This has led to some big disappointments.

For example, some years ago, this idea came to me, which I was sure nobody could ever have thought of before: “Bless me Father, for I have sneezed.” Google soon revealed that not only wasn’t I the first to think of it, but, among other usages, it was actually the title of a play someone had written.

Of course, we do have copyright and patent laws, in which protection is a matter of priority. The law is on the side, not of who thought of it first, but

of who first took the trouble to register it. With copyrighting, this is a relatively simple procedure (or at least was, when I last did it). But with patents (which I’ve had no experience of), it can be lengthy, difficult, and expensive – (hence a lucrative field for lawyers).

All this comes under the heading of “Intellectual Property,” which also includes Trademarks – of which I did have one remarkable experience. Since “Brilliant” has been my real surname since birth, and since I was making a career of writing epigrams, at some point it occurred to me to start calling them “Brilliant Thoughts” – and to register this as a Trademark – although I thought it very unlikely that anyone else would use those words commercially. I was soon disabused of this notion. Before I knew it, someone had come out with a collection of quotes (including none of mine, but about twelve of the “Editor’s” own)

called “The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time, In Two Lines or Less.”

It appeared under the distinguished rubric of HarperCollins. This led to some fancy legal maneuvering, which finally ended in a sizeable settlement.

As far as copyright is concerned, when my own first book was published, I chose to make its title what was already my most-copied epigram: “I MAY NOT BE TOTALLY PERFECT, BUT PARTS OF ME ARE EXCELLENT.” I can tell you exactly how I got that idea. My inspiration was a cartoon by George du Maurier, which I saw in an 1885 issue of the British magazine, PUNCH. In those days, a cartoon could be captioned with several lines of dialog. In this one, a young Curate is dining at the table of his Bishop, who says with hospitable concern, “I’m afraid you’ve got a bad egg, Mr. Jones” – to which the timid guest replies, “Oh no, my Lord, I assure you! Parts of it are excellent!”

I did own the copyright of my version, but unfortunately, one of the first products I licensed to use it (a set of tote bags) printed the copyright line in such an inconspicuous position that nobody was likely to notice it. And the product itself was so successful and widely distributed that I was soon confronted with a flock of “knock-

offs,” especially on T-shirts. One of the most egregious cases wound up in Federal Court, where the Judge’s decision established my right to claim copyright protection for a work as short as twelve words.

That particular infringement may have been at first unintentional (although the culprits refused to stop, even after being notified). But what about the conscious, deliberately deceptive copying, which we call forgery? Look out! – Here comes another confession. Yes, I once committed an act of forgery.

I was 14 years old and was accustomed to doing well at school – one way I could make my parents proud of me. But we’d only recently moved back to England from America. In my new school, I had much catching up to do – and the grades on my first report showed it. Students had to get a parent’s signature on their report, and then return it to the school. I was too ashamed of my low grades to let my parents see them. So, I forged my mother’s signature. Somehow, I was very quickly found out. I probably received a stern lecture on forgery, but wasn’t very severely punished, although I also wasn’t very contrite.

Fortunately, I never had another occasion to commit that particular type of crime.

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by Joanne A. Calitri

Joanne is a professional international photographer and journalist.

Contact her at: artraks@yahoo.com

The 121st Annual SB Audubon Christmas Bird Count

An Osprey bird spotted during this year’s bird count (photo by Liz Muraoka)

Joanne interviews the Santa Barbara Audubon’s 2021 Christmas Bird Count Team via Zoom

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ll things bright, beautiful, and birds are well noted even during our cold winter lockdown, thanks to the Santa Barbara Audubon Society, who decided to hold its annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) after weighing in on all the variants. The team organized the count with proper precautions and rules in place, including masking, distancing, and no groups unless they are a family or household. Volunteers signed up on the SB Audubon website and then submitted their data online as directed. A group count Zoom was also held with all the volunteers. The current data suggests that SB County ranks 5th in the U.S. for bird species, pending all results still being tallied nation-wide.

The annual count is renowned for its data contributions to ornithology and related sciences for 120 years. It is the longest running citizen science survey in the world, with origins dating to December 1900 when ornithologist Frank Chapman asked people to count birds not hunt them for sport at Christmas time. This shift in priorities began an international bird count that helped repopulate declining bird species due to the hunt. The Audubon shares the data with fellow scientific communities, universities, wildlife agencies, as well as local, state, and federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, to assess bird populations, migrations, habitats, environmental issues, agriculture, urban health, and as indicators of climate change.

Since 2011, our area Head CBC Compiler is Rebecca Coulter, a 25-year bird expert, and Manager of Volunteers at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The team is Joan Murdoch, south Santa Barbara and Montecito team Composite photo of the Christmas Bird Count Team leaders in the field leader and compiler and long-time birder; Libby Patten, north Santa Barbara relative of a long-time participant; two birders conducted the offshore survey team leader and compiler; Liz Muraoka, north Goleta team leader and com- onboard. From shore, six people conducted sea watches, including one person piler; Dave Compton, south Goleta compiler; Wim van Dam, mountain team who did a seven-hour stint at Coal Oil Point Reserve. All participants were leader; Glenn Kincaid, rarity mapping coordinator and eBird compiler; Bill expected to comply with Audubon’s and Santa Barbara County’s strict distance Pollock, compiling coordinator; Joan Lentz, long-time birder and former CBC and no-group guidelines. We conducted our usual evening gathering via Zoom. compiler; Dolores Pollock, SB Audubon Society President; and Katherine Emery, PhD Executive Director SB Audubon Society.

How did you compile the count this year?

I interviewed Rebecca and Katherine via Zoom and emails for the stats on After Count Day, the compiling team pulls together all the data collected this year: from the participants from the entire 15-mile circle. For the first time in its history, because of COVID restrictions, this year did not include paper forms Q. What is our count area? filled out in the field and submitted at the end of the day; instead, everything A. It is a 15-mile diameter count circle, centered at Highway 154 and Foothill was submitted digitally. Since many birders now use it, eBird, a project of Road. Approximate count circle boundaries are: San Ysidro Road on the east, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, has become our core data source. Participants Paradise Road on the north, Coronado Road on the west, five miles offshore submit checklists from their field observations, and we pull them together on the south by boat. The count includes sea birding onboard a boat, as well as into a giant spreadsheet. We then add data from other participants who did night birding with volunteers trained in each type of area. not submit eBird lists. Once we have everything together, we hold a long final compilation meeting, this year on Zoom, four hours and very challenging! We How many birders were involved this year? go through possible duplication, etc. When it’s final, I (Rebecca) submit all the Because of COVID-19 safety guidelines, significantly fewer birders were numbers and supporting documentation-photos, descriptions, audio recordinvolved this year: about 155 people in total. For night birding, six people con- ings to our regional compiler at the end of January. We then have until the ducted owl surveys. For ocean birds, the boat and captain were donated by a end of February to enter our final checklist numbers to the national Audubon

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database. THEN it’s done.

Whew! National Audubon takes the rest of the year, from February through October, to compile the whole big thing, which is released around Thanksgiving.

Total Number of species in our area found for 2021?

206 (preliminary until 2/1) How did we compare to other top birding areas in the U.S.?

All these are preliminary as compilers continue to work.

At this time, it looks like Santa Barbara is 5th in the nation.

San Diego 220 Santa Barbara 206 Morro Bay 202 Texas count results: Mad Island/Matagorda 223 A Barn Owl photographed by Hugh Ranson Guadalupe Delta 213 Freeport 210 The top five species this year new to Santa Barbara County?

Dusky Flycatcher Hammond’s Flycatcher Black-legged Kittiwake Tennessee Warbler Yellow-crowned Night Heron The benefits of birding?

Birding anywhere, even in urban settings, is a way to connect to the natural world.

Birding at home, watching feeders and birdbaths, is a great start. Get to know the birds in your yard and neighborhood. It will help you understand their habits, learn when they are here or not (their migratory cycle), and provide hours of enjoyment. Use native plants in your gardens, enjoy your A Dusky Flycatcher photographed by Mark Bright during the dog walks on-leash, and help bird count maintain our area’s richly diverse habitats that support birds.

In conclusion, there is an urgent need to work together to protect birds, and the CBC helps do this by collecting important long-term local avifauna data, encouraging birders to be involved, and increasing overall environmental stewardship for nature’s gems. As renowned Cornell ornithologist Dr. Ken Rosenberg presented to a jam-packed Santa Barbara auditorium in January 2020, there are dire population losses across much of the North American avifauna over the past 48 years, for a net loss approaching three billion birds, or 29% of 1970s abundance.

We can each do our part to protect birds and their habitats now. Here are some ways that YOU can help: (1) Observe and enjoy birds in your backyard and at our uniquely beautiful and nature abundant Santa Barbara area open spaces.

(2) Join Santa Barbara Audubon Society, learn about local bird issues, and support SBAS education, conservation, and community science projects!

(3) Participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count February 12-15, 2021.

(4) Speak out to reinstate critical bird protections under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. This is America’s most important bird protection law. In January 2020, the federal government moved to kill America’s most important bird law.

A change to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act would make permanent the administration’s position that killing birds is legal if it’s unintentional. Bird supporters can help reverse it by taking action.

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Nosh Town (Continued from page 48 48)) wine for two for $12. Mexican-style street corn, crunchy Thai salad, (heart-shaped or regular pie) barbecue chicken pizza, chicken tequila fettuccine, and red velvet cake are just a few options.

719 Paseo Nuevo (along Chapala Street) at Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center.

To place an order call 805-962-4648 or order online at CPK.com.

SANTA BARBARA ZOO TO HOST ZOO BREW @ HOME Santa Barbara Zoo is going virtual this year with Zoo Brew @ Home on Saturday, February 13

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pen for takeout or patio service, Eureka! offers a bevy of all-American dishes paired with local craft beers and small-batch whiskeys.

Valentine’s Day Special: Perfect for celebrating the day of love with your family bubble, Eureka! offers an eclectic meal package for four people. It includes crispy glazed Brussels sprouts; mac ‘n’ cheese balls; a pair of Eureka!

Eureka! classic cheeseburgers with a offers an eclectic side of fries; rich and savory Valentine’s Cobb salad, family-style; Day meal spicy fried chicken sandwich package for with fries on the side and two four personal-size bourbon barrel cakes. The meal includes your choice of a bottle of red or white wine ($60).

The Eureka! mixology team has devised a cocktail to commence the evening called Young and in Love, a delicious concoction featuring vodka, elderflower, St. George raspberry, blood orange shrub, and lemon.

601 Paseo Nuevo (along Chapala Street) at Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center.

To place an order call 805-618-3388 or visit eurekarestaurantgroup.com.

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his casual Asian bistro – that goes by the name of its first owner – offers an intimate atmosphere and MSGfree Chinese cuisine. Locally sourced produce drives a menu of family recipes (including gluten-free options) from glazed and sticky barbecued spareribs and a brothy shrimp and chicken wonton soup and to elegant cumin lamb and ginger duck entrees.

Valentine’s Day Special: Casitas Greens featuring lightUncle Chen’s spicy basil beef and shrimp and chicken wonton ly sautéed spinach, bok choy, soup are sure things broccoli, snow peas, black and white mushrooms, and ginger ($11.95); pan-fried or steamed pot stickers made with chicken and ginger ($8.25 for 8 pieces); sautéed chicken breast simmered in a tangy orange sauce ($11.95); spicy basil beef sautéed with chilies, mushrooms, zucchini, carrots, broccoli, cabbage and onions ($12.95). The fried banana egg rolls or mango ice cream will add a tropical twist to your romantic evening.

1025 Casitas Pass Road, Carpinteria. For more information, call 805-566-3334

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he annual fundraiser that brings beer lovers and zoo supporters together to benefit the Santa Barbara Zoo is going virtual this year, with Zoo Brew @ Home, on Saturday, February 13 from 12:30 to 3:30 pm. The “wildly” popular event is already sold out, however, livestream tickets are available for $25. Organizers said a full list of beverages from participating breweries, wineries, and more will also be sent prior to the event for livestream guests who wish to purchase drinks on their own.

Hosted by Surf ‘n’ Suds co-founder Andres Nuño, Zoo Brew @ Home guests are in for an exciting day of sipping a whole herd of beverages, listening to zookeeper talks, and meeting some of the Zoo’s most famous animal couples. This year’s “brew-tiful” event is three hours long and will include a walkthrough of 14 beverages from 13 craft beverage makers from California, including beer, cider, hard seltzer, kombucha, and wine. Hear from the people who craft those great-tasting beverages, check out some music, and turn your house into the ultimate beer festival zone.

“We’re blown away by the amazing response to Zoo Brew @ Home, and really excited about putting together another entertaining Virtual Beer Festival,” said Nuño. “Guests will get to enjoy some great behind-the-scenes moments at the Zoo, and discover some great alcoholic beverages, all while raising funds for the Santa Barbara Zoo during these challenging times.”

To purchase a ticket to the livestream-only event, please visit sbzoo.org.

MAKE SOMETHING SWEET FOR YOUR SWEETHEART

MARTHA STEWART’S EASY CHOCOLATE-DIPPED SHORTBREAD HEARTS Yield: Makes 4 dozen 2 1/2-inch heart cookies INGREDIENTS 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter 3/4 cup sifted confectioners’ sugar 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, plus more, for dusting 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped 1 teaspoon canola oil or pure vegetable shortening 2-inch heart cookie cutter DIRECTIONS In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter, sugar, and vanilla until combined. On slow speed, beat in flour and salt until combined. Wrap dough in plastic wrap; chill until firm, at least 2 hours or overnight.

On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough until 1/16-to-1/8 inch thick. Cut out hearts with a 2-inch heart cookie cutter. Transfer cookies to an ungreased baking sheet; chill for 30 minutes.

Heat oven to 300 degrees with a rack in the center. Press the tines of a fork into each cookie to make designs. Bake until just beginning to brown around the edges, about 18 minutes. In the top of a double boiler or in a heatproof bowl set over simmering water, melt the chocolate, stirring occasionally. Stir in the oil. Dip half or one third of each cookie into the chocolate mixture. Transfer cookies to a cooling rack to cool until chocolate has set.

Cook’s Notes: For the most beautiful cookies, don’t reroll the scraps. Cookies will keep in an airtight container at room temperature for about five days.

•MJ

“With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.” — Ilsa in Casablanca

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DINE OUTSIDE |TAKE-OUT Montecito Journal wants to let readers know who’s offering a taste of winter with take-out and delivery service and outdoor dining.

We encourage you to support your local dining venues and wine boutiques!

CAFE SINCE 1928

GREAT FOOD STIFF DRINKS GOOD TIMES SUNDAY THRU THURSDAY 7:00 AM - 10:00 PM FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 7:00 AM -12:00AM

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COME JOIN US BREAKFAST OR LUNCH OPEN EVERY DAY FRESHLY BAKED BREADS & PASTRIES

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7am to 2pm

25 W. GUTIERREZ STREET (805) 962-5466

Antipasti

ZUPPA DEL GIORNO Fresh lobster and creamy tomato bisque. or TIMBALLO DI POLENTA Soft polenta with porcini mushrooms, fontina fondue. or INSALATA DI CRESCIONE Watercress, red endive, pears, walnut, crumble blue cheese.

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VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIALS

Antipasti

CUORI ALL’ARAGOSTA Lobster ravioli, creamy lemon sauce, fresh chives. or RISOTTO ALLE PUNTE D’ASPARAGI Creamy Arborio rice with asparagus spears, lemon zest.

ZUPPA DEL GIORNO

Fresh lobster and creamy tomato bisque.

or TIMBALLO DI POLENTA

Soft polenta with porcini mushrooms, fontina fondue.

or INSALATA DI CRESCIONE

Watercress, red endive, pears, walnut, crumble blue cheese.

STEAKS - CHOPS - SEAFOOD - COCKTAILS

Primi

CUORI ALL’ARAGOSTA

Secondi

Lobster ravioli, creamy lemon sauce, fresh chives.

or RISOTTO ALLE PUNTE D’ASPARAGI

ANATRA CON CIPOLLINE Moulard duck breast with cipollini onions, balsamic glaze. or TAGLIATA AL PARMIGIANO Sliced charred steak with broccolini, parmesan sauce. or SOGLIOLINA AL LIMONE Fillet of sole with lemon sauce, served with cauliflower.

Creamy Arborio rice with asparagus spears, lemon zest.

Secondi

1279 COAST VILLAGE ROAD (805) 565-7540

ANATRA CON CIPOLLINE

Moulard duck breast with cipollini onions, balsamic glaze.

or TAGLIATA AL PARMIGIANO

Sliced charred steak with broccolini, parmesan sauce.

or SOGLIOLINA AL LIMONE

Fillet of sole with lemon sauce, served with cauliflower.

Dolce

Ichiban Japanese Restaurant/Sushi Bar

MOUSSE AL CIOCCOLATO

Chocolate mousse, wild berries sauce.

or PANNA COTTA

Eggless custard with amarene cherry syrup.

Dolce

$80 per person, tax and gratuity not included.

Prosecco split on the house for each order.

Lunch: Monday through Saturday 11:30am - 2:30pm Dinner: Monday through Sunday: 5pm - 10pm

MOUSSE AL CIOCCOLATO Chocolate mousse, wild berries sauce. or PANNA COTTA Eggless custard with amarene cherry syrup.

1812A Cliff Drive Santa Barbara CA 93109 (805)564-7653 Lunch Specials, Bendo boxes. Full Sushi bar, Tatami Seats. Fresh Fish Delivered all week.

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$80 per person, tax and gratuity not included.

Prosecco split on the house for each

Now offering online ordering at cadariorestaurants.com, or call 805-884-9419 ext 2.

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Auction Liaison navigates options and has helped clients sell items for record breaking prices. If you are considering consigning fine art, furniture, silver, jewelry, wine, coins, rare books or other collectibles, please contact Leslie A. Westbrook for a complimentary consultation.

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It can be preserved as family treasure, or it can fade away. I write biographies and autobiographies, producing beautiful books that are thorough, professional, distinctive, impressive and entertaining. Many of my projects are gifts to honor beloved parents or spouses. I also assist with memoirs or other books.

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We do free evaluations and private consultation.

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ADVERTISE IN THE LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY (805) 565-1860

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DONATIONS NEEDED Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary Menagerie 2340 Lillie Avenue Summerland CA 93067 (805) 969-1944

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Donate to the Parrot Pantry!

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The flock at SB Bird Sanctuary could always use some extra love and socialization.

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