County Board expands Mental Health Department with 29 new positions
The Board of Supervisors voted to add 29 positions to the County Mental Health Department after a report by Mental Health Director Norber McNamara. The move includes 18 community aide posts, six intermediate typists, one intermediate account clerk, two senior psychiatric social workers, one occupational therapist, and one mental health nurse. The nurse is to be paid by claim and five positions delayed until April 1. A $250 000 transfer from the $1.4 million budget shifts funds from inpatient to outpatient programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
Norber McNamara
Raymond D. Johnson
Wilbur Wagstaff
Wagstaff
Assemblyman seeks ban on leasing in Santa Barbara Channel
State Assemblyman W Don MacGillivray introduced a bill to ban oil and gas leasing in state waters of the Santa Barbara Channel. The measure declares the act an urgency statute and empowers the State Lands Commission to set boundaries with immediate effect upon the Governor's signature, co authored by Sen Robert Lagomarsino.
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W. Don MacGillivray
Rep
Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Channel
State Lands Commission
Robert J. Lagomarsino
Ojai
Mac-Gillivray
Mac- Gillivray
United States
County Supervisors Delay New Development Fee Proposal
County supervisors postponed a one week decision on a $25 development filing fee and higher planning service charges expected to raise about $19,000 yearly. Supervisor Curtis Tunnell suggested placing the new fee under Building Department fees to avoid cross-office resentment. They also proposed increasing variance and lot split processing fees and adding a $5 clearance fee, amid debates on rising building costs.
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County Planning Department
Curtis Tunnell
Santa Maria
Raymond D. Johnson
Tunnell
Jail-cost savings program shifts weekend inmates to Santa Maria
Santa Barbara County implements a jail-cost saving plan for women prisoners by housing weekend inmates in Santa Maria Jail up to county cost. County Counsel George P. Rading notes transport costs to Ventura are high and the program began recently under a court-ordered finding of inadequacy in the Santa Barbara unit.
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North County
Santa Maria
Ventura County
Board of Supervisors
George P. Rading
Ventura
King
Santa Barbara County
Condemnation suit cleared in court over Rancho Guadalupe dunes
The county ended a years long Superior Court case by obtaining 26 acres for Rancho Guadalupe County Dunes Park near Guadalupe. Union Sugar Co. resisted early on but agreed to a reduced acreage after fears of large payouts. The county will pay $15,000 into a court trust fund for Union Sugar Co.
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Superior Court
Board of Supervisors
Rancho
Guadalupe County Dunes Park
City of
Guadalupe
Union Sugar Co
Farm Labor Office outlines duties under HRD shift
Lompoc California January 14 Farm Labor Services Division keeps intact after the Department of Human Resources Development reorganization led by Deputy Director William H Tolbert. The Migrant Services programs join the division to better serve employers workers and migrants under one agency while training expands with public support. Visitor Jean Van der Davis of Christian College Missouri will interview juniors and seniors in Lompoc on January 21 marking the college's first male entrants after 118 years of educating women.
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Santa Maria
Harry R. Frederick
Farm Labor Services Division
California
Department of Human Resources Development
Department of Employment
William H. Tolbert
Frederick
Office of Economic Opportunity
Jean van der Davis
Christian College
Columbia
Missouri
Lompoc
Christian
Mississippi River
Commission On Aging
Reagan
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