SANTA BARBARA CSDA Minutes for October 2002

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION

MINUTES
OCTOBER 28, 2002
Pending Approval

Attendees:

Name	Title	Representing
Arnold, Chuck	Director/President	Montecito Sanitary District
Beattie, Dan	Director	Santa Ynez CSD
Blair, Charles	Director	Vandenberg Village CSD
Emerson, George	Director	Goleta Sanitary District
Fox, John	Director	Goleta Sanitary District
Kemp, Jim	Executive Director	S.B.C.A.G.
McClain, Ron	Fire Chief	Montecito Fire District
McClain, Barbara	Guest
Meyer, Larry	Director	Goleta West Sanitary District
Nation, Mark	General Manager	Goleta West Sanitary District
Nix, Bruce	Director	Mission Hills CSD
Raggio, Jim	CEO	Lompoc Health Care District
Rogers, Carey	Director	Goleta Water District
Schlottmann, Cathy	Director	Mission Hills CSD
Schwartz, S. David	Director	Embarcadero MID
Smith, Jerry	General Manager	Montecito Sanitary District
Wilson, Larry	Director	Montecito Water District

Call to Order:
President John Fox called the meeting to order at 7:15 p.m. The attendees were introduced.

Approval of Minutes:
The September 23^rd meeting minutes were corrected as follows: Kevin Walsh is the General Manger of the Goleta Water District, not a director. Larry Meyer’s question of Phil Demery was "why does the road department pave over special district facilities without notifying the district in advance?" The minutes were approved as corrected.

Treasurer Report:
Treasurer Chuck Arnold reported that our checking account has a balance of $2,187.97 and the savings account has a balance of $6,163.23.

Guest Speaker:
President John Fox introduced our guest speaker, Jim Kemp, the Executive Director of Santa Barbara County Association of Governments. Jim is a graduate of U.C.S.B. and stated that after graduation, he was lucky enough to find a job in Santa Barbara as transportation to the predecessor of SBCAG. This year he was promoted to the Executive Director.

Highlights of his talk:

SBCAG is a joint powers agency. The Board of Directors has 13 members: Santa Barbara County’s five supervisors and a member from each of the eight city councils.

The agency has 18 full-time staff with an operating budget of $2 million. They administer pass-through funds totaling $20-25 million each year. Their sources of funds are State and local fuel taxes, local sales tax (Measure D), vehicle registration fees and grants.

The responsibilities of the agency are as follows:

Regional Planning: Transportation, Air Quality, and Land Use
Project Programming and Funding
- Regional Transportation Plan
- Congestion Management Plan
- Modal Studies: Transit, rail, bikeway
- Corridor Studies: Highway 101, etc.
- Clean Air Plan
  1. Our county is currently designated "serious" non-attainment area for ozone standards.
  2. Transportation plans and programs must conform to CAP
- Airport Land Use Plan
- Regional Growth Forecast
- Regional Housing Allocation Plan
- Federal Transportation Improvement Program
Measure D: Generates $25 million annually. It expires in 2010.
- 70% goes to local road needs
- 30% goes to the 15 projects identified in Measure D. Fourteen of these projects are completed. South Coast 101 is the last project.
Highway Call Boxes: 339 in Santa Barbara County, funded by $1.00 per vehicle fee
Clean Air Express: Lompoc/Santa Maria to Santa Barbara
Coastal Express: Ventura to the South Coast of Santa Barbara
Regional Housing Needs Allocation
- Local Housing Element update required every 5 years. The draft plan was approved on 10/17/02. Final plan is due in December 2003.

Contact Information:
Phone 805 961-8900
E-mail jkemp@sbcag.com
Website www.sbcag.org

Other Business:

David Schwartz, chair of the Program Committee, announced that the CSDA Legislative Advocate, Ralph Heim, is available to speak to us on December 9^th. It was moved and seconded to cancel our November meeting and have our next scheduled meeting on December 9^th to accommodate Ralph. Motion passed.

Carey Rogers, chair of the Nominating Committee, announced that John Fox, David Schwartz, Chuck Arnold, and Cathy Schlottmann have all agreed to continue in their officer positions for 2003. The election for 2003 officers will be held at the December meeting.

LAFCO: Carey Rogers reported the Commission was advised at the October 10^th meeting that the difference between the projected and actual fund balances for the last fiscal year was $7,941. Since the dollar amounts ranged from a low of less than $1.00 to the high for the county of $2,647.00, the Commission decided to use the funds to help finance next year’s budget.

The next meeting of the Technical Task Force for the Municipal Service Reviews is on October 30^th at 9:30 a.m. in the LAFCO meeting room in the County Administration Building.

Adjornment:
Meeting was adjourned at 9:00 p.m. The next meeting of the Board of Directors will be November 6^th at Cody’s Café in Goleta: One week early because of state conferences that will be held on November 13^th.

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Carey Rogers, Acting Secretary
SBCSDA