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Ten-to-One Odds in District 6 CONT’DFROMP.9 terms of disaster preparedness,” she stated. All emergency communications, she continued, must be delivered bilingually; the city’s wildland fire protection plan, she noted, was written in 2004 and needs to be updated. Fischer has vowed to run no matter whom the council appoints. To avoid a conflict of interest, she has said she would step down from her current county job. More low-key than Fischer and less plugged in politically, Heaton sought to impress with her competence as a county transportation planner. After 13 years on the job, she knows the alphabet soup of all the funding sources keeping massive public works projects afloat. “That’s pavement, that’s bridges, that’s culverts,” she said. “I know I have the experience to get to work right away.” Heaton joined the Peace Corps out of college, doing a stint in Morocco. After that she joined AmeriCorps, working in Illinois. For the past three years, she’s served as chair of the Neighborhood Advisory Council and has recently joined the board of Peabody Charter School, where’s she’s vice president. On affordable housing, Heaton— like many applicants —stressed the need to impose inclusionary requirements on rental housing developments awarded special density bonuses and parking breaks to ensure such housing served working families and not just the well-off. “Development is a privilege, not a right,” she said. She suggested City Hall should also create an information clearing house to better connect people looking for a room to rent with home owners with empty rooms. Heaton acknowledged her county job could create conflicts of interest and announced she would quit her job. The outcome of next week’s selection process remains anyone’s guess. Several councilmembers have privately stated they were wowed by Meagan Harmon, a real-estate finance lawyer, who grew up in Lompoc, went to Harvard, spent time in Afghanistan, and speaks four languages, three fluently. Young, poised, energetic, and articulate, Harmon said she was moved to run by “the soaring rents and job insecurity” that make life in Santa Barbara for too many people “an insurmountable challenge.” As a kid, she remembered visiting Santa Barbara and being “awestruck.” Harmon serves on the county’s Housing Authority board and said she would make challenges to the city’s AUD rental housing program to ensure it benefited working families. She’d support a requirement that a certain percentage of all units built with density bonuses and parking breaks target middle-income families. “That’s the number one thing to do.” Gabriel Escobedo, likewise, made a strong impression, stressing the need for “housing first” strategies to deal with chronically homeless individuals stuck in the revolving door from the streets to county jail to hospital emergency rooms and ultimately to the morgue. “We cannot let the perfect get in the way of the good,” he said, acknowledging that 20 percent will be back on the streets within two years. The money saved from the 80 percent who get housed, he argued, would more than offset the failures.
“Climate change is real,” he stated, arguing that City Hall needs to be more aggressive about alternative sources of green energy not so susceptible to catastrophic interruption. Likewise, he argued City Hall needed to be more open to “tiny homes” and lessconventional housing approaches. Julia Lara, a program manager for the Foodbank with prior experience with Hospice of S.B., said she wanted the appointment to better deal with affordable housing, mental health, and food insecurity. She currently serves on the county’s Behavioral Wellness Commission. Lara, who is fluent in Spanish, highlighted the importance of City Hall reaching out to all sectors of the community before important decisions — like the location of the new police station—are rendered. “People don’t feel their voices are heard.”
After the meeting, there did not appear to be one obvious slamdunk candidate able to garner the necessary four votes to win the appointment. Waging an impressively aggressive email campaign is Kate Carter, who ran several businesses before starting LifeChronicles, a video production business specializing in end-of-life narratives that include Santa Barbara’s richest and poorest. Current Councilmember Oscar Gutierrez works for her. Carter talked about recreating downtown in the face of new economic realities where many malls across the country have closed. “They’re not coming back,” she said. She cited the success of the Night Market, a confabulation of small pop-up businesses that occupied the old downtown Macy’s building over Christmas vacation, as a positive new direction. Matthew Nehmer, CEO of the Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law, blew councilmembers’ collective hair back with his high-octane presentation, describing his considerable experience as an educational administrator steeped in public affairs in Chicago and Washington, D.C. Santa Barbara should look more into bringing other higher education downtown, suggesting CSU Channel Islands would be interested. Nehmer is not from Santa Barbara or even California, but from a Michigan town of only 800, so small he said it didn’t have even a stoplight. Education was his ticket out. With a PhD in leadership theory and organizational dynamics, he suggested he might help the city borrow ideas from other cities that have grappled with many of the same challenges Santa Barbara now faces. If CONT’D ON PAGE 12