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Happy Holidays! City Hall will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 23rd and 24 th for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Best wishes from the City for a Happy and Healthy Holiday Season.
From the CITY MANAGER
Vol. 24, No. 7
Dave Durflinger
November 9 - 15, 2017
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Your Carpinteria General Plan
Small cities across the nation are facing unprecedented challenges. New and growing service demands and limited resources are testing these cities’ ability to meet the service needs of their communities. In California there are nearly 500 incorporated cities, the median population is just under 31,000. Of these, 144 California cities, about 30%, have fewer residents than Carpinteria’s 13,943. Small cities like Carpinteria have traditionally been responsible for such services as police and fire, planning & zoning, animal control, parks, and public works. Counties are effectively an arm of state government and a part of a system that delivers certain programs and services to all Californians. Those include health and welfare services as well as the criminal justice system. However, with shrinking state and federal funding, small cities and counties are doing more collaborating in order to ensure that service needs of their mutual constituents are being met. Traditional city and county roles are being emphasized less with more focus on cooperative work that can meet community needs. In Carpinteria, cooperative efforts include the City, community organizations and the county working to maintain branch library services and to address housing and health and human service needs. This includes service demands created by a growing number of people that are homeless in Carpinteria. Also, climate change is bringing more
severe weather events, wildfires and floods to the state. Carpinteria will need to plan for rising sea levels and expand its emergency preparedness and response programs in order to mitigate the hazards likely to occur in our area and promote recovery after a disaster. As significant as these external influences will be in shaping Carpinteria’s future, demographic and generational change are expected to be even more influential. The passing of time will require new stewards of Carpinteria’s spaces and places. To maintain and improve upon what’s valuable about Carpinteria, newcomers and next generations will need points of reference and guidance about its unique characteristics. To sustain the institutions and values that are at the heart of Carpinteria will require greater civic engagement and more diverse voices. This brings me to the General Plan. Cities are required to prepare and adopt General Plans that meet certain minimum legal requirements and in this way it provides a legal framework for city decision-making on land use and development matters. More broadly, General Plans are a context for implementing a vision about how the community will grow. Today, the need for cities to respond to new and changing service demands, such as I describe above, are reshaping General Plans too. It’s now common in city General Plans to find policies around issues such as community health, education, and civic engagement. Carpinteria’s General Plan update process is an opportunity for a community dialogue about the aspects of the built, natural and social environment that are important and make Carpinteria unique, and how to protect or promote them. This type of work cannot be done in a vacuum by City staff or consultants. A General Plans is, ultimately, the community’s plan and the process and resulting document is influenced greatly by the
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Administrative Services Director to Retire in January
After his 27 years of service, John Thornberry, Administrative Services Director, will be retiring from the City of Carpinteria on January 26, 2018. During his tenure, John has been the City’s go-to person when it comes to finances, which includes budget preparation, investments, and income and expense projections to name a few. Under John’s leadership and hard work for 20 years running, the City has annually received both the Certificate of Achievement in Financial Reporting Award for its comprehensive annual financial report from the Government Finance Officers Association and the Operating Budget Excellence Award from the California Society of Municipal Finance Association. John received Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemistry and Psychology at Purdue University in Indiana and a Master of Business Administration at the University of Southern California. Prior to his position at the City, John worked in the hospitality industry. John has a great attitude about work where, in spite of his busy schedule, he will always pause to answer questions or take time to help a fellow staff member. In retirement he plans to spend more time with his family and also continue volunteer work at his Church. The City wishes John all the best in his new journey; he will be missed at City Hall.
Land Trust Selected as City’s Fall Outstanding Community Partner The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County has been selected as the City’s Outstanding Community Partner award recipient for Fall 2017. The mission of The Land Trust is to protect natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces in order to benefit present and future generations. Since 1985 The Land Trust has worked to acquire land and conservation easements, promote the preservation, stewardship and restoration of wildlife habitat and watershed resources, and provide education programs, to name a few of their endeavors. The Land Trust has protected more than 25,000 acres in Santa Barbara County and is at work on a number of new, significant projects to conserve Linda BLue PhotograPhy wildlife habitat, open space, and The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County staff members family farms and ranches. The Land Trust is no stranger to • Hay Hill Carpinteria where they have been involved • Horton Family Ranch in several significant projects. Their most • Rancho Aldea Antigua recent undertaking in the City was the purchase and protection of the 21 acre CarpinThanks to the efforts of The Land Trust, teria Bluffs III property. Other projects in a diversity of special natural open spaces the greater Carpinteria community involving and places in Carpinteria and the greater The Land Trust include: region are maintained and preserved for • Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve all to enjoy. The City congratulates The • Franklin Trail Land Trust for Santa Barbara County on • Carpinteria Salt Marsh being named the City’s Fall 2017 Com• Rancho Monte Alegre munity Partner.
City Hall Welcomes New Employees
Alena Steen
Alena Steen joins the City of Carpinteria as the Coordinator of the Carpinteria Garden Park, a community garden in the heart of downtown with 100 raised beds for growing organic fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Alena’s background is in organic farming and native plant gardening, with more than a decade of experience. Most recently, she was a co-owner of an organic medicinal herb farm in northern California that grew fifteen varieties of medicinal plants for herbalists and clinics. She is delighted to have relocated to southern California. In her spare time, Alena enjoys working in her own large garden, learning how to surf, and exploring and botanizing in the deserts and mountains with her dog Maybelle.
Maria Adriana Olivas
Maria Olivas is the City’s new Receptionist/Office Assistant. Maria recently moved to Ventura from Eagle Rock, CA where she lived with her two daughters Brianna and Lucy. She graduated from Glendale Community College and worked in the insurance industry for more than 10 years. Maria grew up in Silver Lake, CA which is adjacent to Hollywood. Maria enjoys camping and spending time at the beach with her fiancé Gary. Some of her favorite hobbies are working on her fairy garden and making Halloween costumes. She is a big animal lover and supports pet rescue and adoption. Maria loves working for the City of Carpinteria, which she describes as friendly and beautiful. She hopes to purchase a home in the near future where she can raise all her pets.
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Holiday Parade set for Dec. 9th
The City of Carpinteria invites you to ring in the holiday season by participating in our Annual Holiday Spirit Parade. The 2017 Parade, sponsored by Downtown merchants and the Downtown-T Business Advisory Board, is set for Saturday, December 9th and begins at 3 pm on Ninth Street. For more information and to submit your parade entry application online, please visit www.holidayspiritparade. com. See you there!
Henry Menendez
Henry Menendez recently started at the City as a Code Compliance Officer. He previously worked for the City of Palmdale as a Neighborhood Compliance Officer, at Mojave Unified School District as a Severe Disabilities Aide, and has completed courses in Criminal Justice. His hobbies include exercising on a daily basis and watching Shark Tank. Henry is looking forward to getting to know members of the Carpinteria community.
Lions to honor Veterans
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Lety Garcia shows cityscapes
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Warrior girls golf wraps up season
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Valiant volleyballers
Warrior girls volleyball players Dyanne Perez (#15), Shayla Alexander (#8) and Crystal Sanchez (#4) played pivotal roles in a playoff push that landed the team a home postseason showdown against Glendale Adventist Academy. The team, however, would not advance past the second round after suffering a 3-0 (25-20, 25-22, 27-25) loss on Nov. 2 that included seven kills and seven blocks for Alexander. BILL SWING