Santa Barbara News-Press: February 12, 2021

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Former Congressman Robert Lagomarsino dies at age 94 By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Former Santa Barbara-Ventura Congressman Robert Lagomarsino died Sunday at the age of 94 at his home on his family ranch in Ojai. The old-school Republican politician and UCSB alumnus is remembered for serving under five presidents during his nearly twodecade career in Congress, serving the Central Coast communities for 13 years in the California Senate and serving the city of Ojai as mayor for three years. Mr. Lagomarsino also championed the establishment of the Channel Islands National Park and CSU Channel Islands. A mainland visitors center at

the Ventura Harbor was named after him, according to local news reports. The seasoned politician was born on Sept. 4, 1926 in Ventura, and attended Ventura High School. He served in the U.S. Navy as a pharmacist during WWII, and graduated from UCSB in 1950 and Santa Clara University School of Law in 1954. The year 1958 marked the start of Mr. Lagomarsino’s political career. He was elected to the Ojai City Council, and shortly after, served as its mayor at the age of 32. While he was mayor, he met his late wife Norma, and they got married in 1961. Norma had two sons when she married Mr. Lagomarsino, and

the two had a daughter together. Norma died in 2015. Then, in 1961, he was elected to the California Senate and named one of five outstanding young men in the state by the California Junior Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Lagomarsino served in the state Senate from 1961 to 1974, and served under then-governor Ronald Reagan. He became the senior ranking senator from Southern California and a member of the five-person Senate Rules Committee. His achievements during his time as a state senator include the Garrigus-Lagomarsino Act (1963) which authorized vocational education centers in each county of California; the California Child

Anti-Pornography Act (1969); the Marine Resources Protection Act (1970); the California Wild and Scenic Rivers legislation; the Jury Reform Act (1972); the Consumer Protection Act (1972) which authorized cities to create anti-fraud units; and the Welfare Reform Act (1973). Mr. Lagomarsino then served as a U.S. Congressman from 1974 to 1992. While there, he authored legislation that created the Channel Islands National Park and the Los Padres National Forest, among others. His congressional record consistently supported clean air and water, conservation, Please see lagomarsino on A6

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Robert Lagomarsino and his wife, Norma, on Nov. 9, 1988, celebrating his re-election.

52 ‘cart’ pickup?

City officials hope to pass an ordinance to recover and manage abandoned shopping carts By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

It’s estimated that the city of Santa Barbara’s Streets Division collects between 700 and 800 abandoned shopping carts throughout the city every year. In 2020, the city’s sole contractor retrieved 538 abandoned shopping carts from the streets of Santa Barbara, and that’s only including the city’s contractor, excluding other businesses that retrieve them. The Creeks Division also has to gather carts from Santa Barbara’s creek beds. In 2017, the city seized 64 carts from city beaches and creeks; in 2018, 32 carts; and 2019, 20 carts. Now, the city is ready to clean up the carts and figure out a system to return them to their owners. To do that, city staff is proposing an ordinance to provide a mechanism to place primary responsibility for managing cart service with the owner of the cart and to set requirements for the prompt retrieval of carts that have been taken off business premises. “It reflects state regulations and it is strictly focused on empty abandoned carts, and working with businesses to make sure they have a plan in place to limit carts from being taken from their property,” René Eyerly, the city’s environmental services manager, told the News-Press. State law already makes it unlawful to remove a shopping cart from business premises or to possess it after it has been removed. This ordinance won’t add any additional penalties for individuals unlawfully removing carts, but instead, it will focus on cart recovery and management. If shopping carts appear to be in use by individuals experiencing homelessness, they will be left alone. Ms. Eyerly said that collecting the carts being used to store personal belongings will need to be a separate conversation from this one. “We are having conversations as part of our strategic plan about how to provide temporary storage, so I would say that in the next year or so, we’ll be having more conversations about how we might approach that topic separately,” she said. If approved, this ordinance would require shopping cart owners to secure their carts during

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The windows at Santa Barbara High School, located at 700 E. Anapamu St., are in need of repair or replacement.

Window replacement planned at SBHS School district intends to replace 102 windows RAFAEL MALDONADO/NEWS-PRESS PHOTOS

hours when their business is closed and conspicuously mark and identify each cart with the name, address and telephone number of the owner, along with a notification that removing the cart is a violation of state and local law. The businesses would be responsible for any costs for a cart containment system or to add identification to their carts. The ordinance was originally scheduled to be brought to the Santa Barbara City Council for approval last Tuesday, but the item was postponed for a later date. “It’s definitely both a safety measure to make sure that these carts aren’t in the public right of way and somehow impeding car traffic or foot traffic, and also just the general contribution to blight,” Ms. Eyerly said. Carts in Santa Barbara are typically found in highly concentrated areas such as several blocks on either side of State Please see carts on A6

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The city’s shopping cart ordinance would only apply to abandoned, empty shopping carts, so carts being used for storage, such as these at the Highway 101 northbound onramp at Castillo Street, will not be removed.

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The Santa Barbara Unified School District will be consulting with the city’s Historic Landmarks Commission for a proposed $1.3 million window replacement project at Santa Barbara High School. The school board discussed the proposal during its Tuesday meeting, with board member Laura Capps requesting to pull the item from the board’s consent agenda to request consultation with the HLC. The district consulted with the HLC in 2017 while it tested its plans for aluminum-clad windows at Santa Barbara High. The high school building is a historic landmark, but because it is owned by a public entity, the HLC can’t demand changes. Nicole Hernandez, project planner and architectural historian for the city of Santa Barbara, was on site to see a test run of five windows. She and her colleagues did not think the new windows were in close enough

resemblance to the original wood windows. “Being a really important building and a school, we really think they should be the best match possible,” she told the News-Press. While at the high school campus, located at 700 E. Anapamu St., she noticed that the windows on the front of the building could be restored. Others were rotten and would be hard to repair. The current proposal only includes windows on the southfacing facade. The district did not choose to replace all the building’s windows because of budgetary constraints, Steve Vizzolini, director of facilities and modernization, told the News-Press. Ms. Hernandez didn’t know the district had bid the project or intended to replace 102 windows soon. She said she was surprised when the district didn’t provide all the documents the HLC requested in 2017. Four contractors submitted Please see windows on A2

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The city of Santa Barbara is working on passing an ordinance to recover and manage abandoned shopping carts like this one on the corner of Chapala and Carrillo streets in downtown Santa Barbara.

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