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Community amid COVID Carpinteria locals look out for business
Plate readers, cameras could be in Solvang’s future By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
At tonight’s meeting, Solvang city staff will recommend the Solvang City Council approve the purchase of up to $50,000 to implement license plate readers and discuss surveillance camera’s implementation. The readers and cameras would “improve public safety and marketing data collection,” according to the staff report. The Santa Barbara City Council recently voted to install these systems at public parking lots to enhance customer service and to ensure the downtown parking system is able to pay for itself and be financially solvent, especially after the loss of revenue due to COVID-19. The data is required to be dumped after a certain window of time. The only time data could be used is if law enforcement has a court order to do so. The Solvang City Council will also receive a staff report for Fiscal Year 2020-21, specifically on the first quarter finances. The presentation will include an economic COVID-19 update, an updated sales tax forecast for the city and economic recovery expectations, and sales tax and transient occupancy tax receipts including June, July and August Please see solvang on A6
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Zelda Prune and Wayne Babcock, owners of Spaces, opened the store after COVID-19 changed their plans. They live in a house that doubles as Angel’s Antiques, so they temporarily closed that business to be safe.
By ANNELISE HANSHAW NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Linden Avenue in Carpinteria was dotted with groups of two or three wandering from store to store Sunday afternoon. The street is lined with many local businesses, some of which just reopened. The COVID-19 pandemic caused Wayne Babcock and Zelda Prune to temporarily close one shop and open another one two doors down. They, like many other Carpinteria business owners, were forced to make tough decisions during a summer that should’ve been abuzz with tourist business. Mr. Babcock opened Angel’s Antiques in 1986 after getting laid off in a recession. He piles antiques up in and around his Victorian house, and locals and tourists alike dig through his finds. Much of Carpinteria’s youth got their first surfboards from Angel’s. But he didn’t feel safe allowing swaths of people from whoknows-where to bring germs into his home, so he closed the shop temporarily. Many people have wanted to come shop there again, so he’s trying to rearrange the yard as an outdoor-only store. Meanwhile, his partner Ms. Prune, who sells their high-end finds at antique shows, had to put that side of the business on pause as well. They packed her expensive furnishings in a storage unit and waited. Mr. Babcock owns his house, so Please see carpinteria on A6
By ANNELISE HANSHAW NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Mr. Babcock didn’t plan on opening another business but when the storefront two doors down was listed for rent, he thought it might be a good opportunity for his partner Ms. Prune’s high-end furnishings.
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Santa Barbara Unified school board drafts hybrid plan The Santa Barbara Unified school board meets 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and will give an update on its hybrid learning plan. During the last meeting, the board unanimously voted to delay secondary students’ return to campus until January. Board members were concerned that the district didn’t have a comprehensive plan, and administrators expressed a need for more classified employees. According to slides posted on the board’s agenda, the district still needs 62 employees to reopen under a hybrid plan. Applications for substitute teachers, paraprofessionals (both special education and general settings), floater custodians and playground supervisors are available on the district’s website, sbunified.org. Only three candidates have applied to be a playground supervisor, and 11 are needed. The position pays $13.96 per hour and is scheduled three to five hours per day. California’s minimum wage is $13 per hour and set to increase to $14 Jan. 1. Currently, the district is educating parents on the options for secondsemester learning. Parents will choose their students’ program next week. The two options are hybrid learning, which has two days on campus, or remote learning from home. Elementary students check in with a Please see unified on A6
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