Santa Barbara City Council to hold special meeting to replenish emergency reserves

Santa Barbara City Council melts down over whether to freeze police officer positions at budget hearing

The sequel is rarely as good as the original. Except when it comes to Santa Barbara budget hearings. A week after a public flare-up over burning through budget reserves, a new controversy emerged Tuesday at the Santa Barbara City Council meeting. Councilmember Wendy Santamaria chastised, even politically threatened, her colleagues over their opposition to freezing three vacant Santa Barbara Police Department positions to save $576,000. “Just kno…

Santa Barbara City Council to hold special meeting to replenish emergency reserves

Santa Barbara City Council to hold special meeting to help replenish emergency reserves SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) The city of Santa Barbara County is getting closer to approving a budget and has not given up on trying to protect depleted reserves. The council clashed over reserves and their next $257 million plus general fund budget . The Santa Barbara city council took some actions on Tuesday night. The city will not hire or fill certain pos…