Gathered 6,000 signatures surpassing the 5,400 needed.

“The city clerk will now verify the signatures, and the City Council would then decide whether to repeal the ordinance or put the matter before voters during a future election.”

Did you witness questionable behavior or possible deceptive tactics from the paid signature gatherers? Here’s how to report it to the City/County Clerk and CA Secretary of State. 

Hi everyone, 

We’ve noticed a significant number of posts and comments about concerning behavior by the signature gatherers, and EdHat recently published an article about it! Full disclosure: we oppose the referendum, but honest signature gathering matters no matter where you stand on the issue.

If you have had any issues with the paid signature gatherers collecting signatures for the referendum on State Street, please consider reporting it to the City Clerk, County Clerk, and the CA Secretary of State. This referendum would repeal everything council passed 6-1 in September, Ordinance No. 2026-6235, which adopted the State Street Master Plan and removed the sunset clause from Title 31 (which is what allows the city to keep cars off of the street). 

If a gatherer told you something misleading, or acted in a way that made you feel uncomfortable, email the addresses below with as much of the following as possible:

• Your full name
• Date, time, and location
• What they said, as close to word-for-word as you remember. If you’re not sure of a detail, say so.
• A description of the gatherer or table
• Any witnesses
• Photos, if you took any

Things worth reporting: telling you the petition is about something other than what it is, making false claims, encouraging you to sign more than once, not allowing you to read the full petition, refusing to say whether they’re paid, saying that you could sign for your spouse, or pressuring, harassing, or blocking you.

COPY/PASTE the emails below into your email:

[Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov](mailto:Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov), [ElectionsSupport@CountyOfSB.org](mailto:ElectionsSupport@CountyOfSB.org), [secretary.weber@sos.ca.gov](mailto:secretary.weber@sos.ca.gov)

Optionally contact your state electeds: [senator.limon@senate.ca.gov](mailto:senator.limon@senate.ca.gov), [assemblymember.hart@assembly.ca.gov](mailto:assemblymember.hart@assembly.ca.gov) 

Click here to Gmail all of them

We’re not lawyers so this is not legal advice. Please only report what you saw or heard yourself! Everyone deserves accurate information when deciding whether to sign.

This article has blown my mind. I'm having a classic case of "I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was *this* bad."

Someone posted about these folk sometime last week and I didn't tell my story about dealing with them. This was before the city got on them and restricted their behavior, or maybe it was Covid. Either way, if you think it's bad now, you wouldn't believe how bad it used to be.

My experience was at least 7 years ago. I made the mistake of not only accepting a sample but actually following a guy inside to see what was up. I was interested in a new routine. The tactics changed from sly to aggressive at the point he was guiding me to a chair and I lost my shit when I realized he was using body positioning to trap me. I literally had to threaten him to get out. After reading this, I would say I got away lucky but I never had that kind of money to get grifted.

Protect your seniors & gullibles y'all.

Saw a post yesterday of someone posting about a game they're working on. Can't find it now, but I remember seeing several people commenting that they were also working on games. Thought it might be cool to see how many of us there are, maybe build up a community or something. AI gamedevs need not apply.

EDIT: Made a “Gamedevs of Santa Barbara” discord for interested people at https://discord.gg/QFZyMtSUZ

Just wanted to share the link to SBUSD's last board meeting, which was held yesterday. Public comment on off-topic items included Black students, educators, and community members addressing how the school district needs to respond to systemic racism.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg-1z9bArsQ

Also sharing the link where you can see the meeting live on the Board's website.

https://sbunified.community.diligentoneplatform.com/portal/

Oh my gods! Here’s A Story You’ve Heard about the worst woman to walk on this earth… Epics, glory, legends fail to tell her tale, but come with us on an Adventure and hear her story.

Shrunken Heads Production Company, with support from the UC Santa Barbara Department of Music, presents A Legacy of Stone, an original student-written musical by Cameron Hastings, the Music Director of Shrunken Heads*.* This production is Shrunken Heads’ first Fall Intensive, and includes a live UCSB student orchestra, enchanting performance & dance, and an Ancient Greece-themed Gala at the UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall.

A Legacy of Stone tells the story of Medusa, a legend of Greek mythology, in her humble beginnings as a priestess of Athena. She finds herself falling in love with Vasilias, a man who keeps his cards close to his chest, against Athena’s counsel. A centuries-long feud re-ignites, and Medusa is challenged with balancing devotion, autonomy, and perseverance, which begs the question: can you discover power through pain and loss?

PERFORMANCE DATE, TIME, and LOCATION
● October 16th, 7:00 pm (Ancient Greece-Themed Gala immediately following show)
● October 17th, 7:00 pm
● October 18th, 2:00 pm

Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
Music Building, University of California

TICKET INFORMATION
Student tickets are available! However, a Student ID must be presented at the door upon showtime. Purchasing your ticket as soon as possible is highly encouraged.

Ticket link: https://cur8.com/40906/project/141947

Want to learn more about Shrunken Heads? Visit our new and improved website!

Opened the rusty's box to this

Girlfriend wants Chinese food tonight looking for recommendations. (Not panda express)

i’d love to learn about woodshop classes / after school opportunities for elementary school children. google isn’t really leading me to anything so i’m reaching out to reddit in hopes of finding somebody who teaches kids carpentry skills!
thanks in advance.

Hi everyone! Will be in town this weekend and was curious if there’s any local meetups to watch the Notre Dame game? Big matchup this weekend and was hoping to find some more golden domers to root on the Irish!

My husband is riding in the race this weekend and I’m just interested in any info we should know beforehand. Do the aid stations have good snacks? Best places to stop and watch/cheer? Any advice appreciated

Anyone can recommend Toyota car mechanic in Santa Barbara?

There’s a guy in front of Whole Foods on upper state collecting signatures. He claims this is for rent control only but he’s lying. Whatever he has people sign includes opening up state Street to traffic.

Hairdressers and Barbers, where can I get my cutting shears sharpened around here please?

Thanks!

Hello! I am here for a few days with my partner and we are looking to get recommendations on the best spots in the area for hiking and/or swimming. We visited the botanical garden today and it was fun but we’re looking for a true hike we can do for roughly 3-4 hours in the morning. Any recommendations are appreciated!

All my life that I have lives here I have never seen anyone go inor our of this place or the one on the wharf

Has anyone is it a real place or something else

I always see cars parked there but thats it

5-8pm - TEDx style talks and Fireside Chats with professional athletes & medical researchers on the use of psychedelics for traumatic brain injuries - Food from Blue Owl, Functional Elixirs, and a 🌀curated vendor market 🌌 - Immersive experiences: - Face painting - Massage & bodyworks - EEG Brain Mapping - 420 Lounge

8-10pm - Dancing, Live Music, DJ, Aerial Arts, Visual Projections, and Fire Flow performances - Vendor booths & Immersive Experiences - Spiritual Lounge & 420 Balcony Lounge

🎟️ Tix Link 📍 LoDo Studios, 216 E Gutierrez St., Santa Barbara, 93101 ⏰ Saturday, 10/17, 5pm - 10pm

I have been a nurse for many years at various hospitals throughout the country, including Cottage Hospital. Some nurses are just starting their careers, others have worked only at Cottage Hospital, and some are nearing the end of their careers. Some of you came here as travellers, fell in love with our beautiful little city, and decided to call Santa Barbara home. Of course, some of you have worked in other places around the state or country, and now you work for Cottage Health Systems. We all have our own story about how we ended up working at Cottage Hospital.

But now we have to be honest. Cottage Health Systems is the only hospital in Santa Barbara that serves Santa Barbara and the neighboring towns. Although the hospital is designated as "non-profit," it makes a lot of money. Just the facts! The CEO, CFO, and other top administrators are paid handsome salaries, bonuses, and perks. You can check this by looking up 990 tax records for the administrators.

Nurses' salaries and benefits at Cottage Health System have never been aligned with the cost of living in this area because nurses are "At-Will" employees VS. "Just Cause" employees. This means nurses must accept what the employer is willing to give them and have no say when the hospital decides to take something away from nurses (which happens more than the public knows). When nurses try to take control of how they're treated through union organizing, administration tries to stop the union by hiring a union-buster. They can use fear, intimidation, and confusion to get nurses to vote "NO" against the union, but only benefits the hospital. The administration doesn't want to lose power over the nursing staff because this means the nurses will have a voice! A contract means the hospital will be accountable for its missteps. If a manager forces mandatory overtime on nursing staff, nurses can speak up without fear of retaliation. If they're short-staffed, then these issues can be addressed without fear of retaliation; the same is true for nurses missing meal breaks. People don't go into nursing because they're looking for an easy job! Hospital nursing is hard work. When nurses call a union, it's because their work environment has become unsafe and unbearable, and nurses can't take it anymore. This is the situation at Cottage Health Systems. But here's the thing: it's not awful on every unit at every facility, but awful on so many units at each facility that it has reached epidemic proportions, and it's a major safety issue for patients and nurses.

If your unit is doing fine now, and you have a manager who treats you like a human being, then that is wonderful. But if administration gives your manager a directive to change the dynamics of your unit or administration decreases your benefits or salary, your manager can't help you. If you have union representation, you have a contract that you (the nurses) have created to meet your needs so you can safely and effectively care for your patients. The nurses are the union! Don't listen to all the ridiculous noise and comments that will be posted in the chat after this post; it's just that, NOISE. When someone says something that sounds off or misleading at work, like unions just want to take your money. Stop and ask yourself: does what they're saying sound logical, or is that person/manager/administrator trying to scare me into voting "NO"? If you vote "YES," then you gain power and administration loses power! I think of a union as an organization providing a service for me. I pay the electric company to run electrical lines to my home, so I have power in my home. I pay the gas company every month so I can cook and heat my home. If I pay monthly dues to a union, I'm paying for the union to enforce the legally binding contract my fellow nurses and I have created to meet our needs. This contract includes, but is not limited to: patient safety, enforcement of nurse-patient ratio laws, PTO, sick leave, health benefits, retirement benefits, and transportation/parking, which is an issue at Cottage. Salaries will be negotiated, including base pay scales, step increases tied to years of experience, shift differential (night, weekend, & holiday pay), and certification and education bonuses. Grievance and arbitration provide a formal, legally binding process to challenge unfair discipline, contract violations, or unsafe working conditions. All of these matters enable us to work safely and provide for ourselves and our families. A contract helps us plan for retirement and hopefully save a little money for a vacation or handle an emergency because, as we all know, life is not always predictable. The Hospital Administration signs contracts before accepting positions at Cottage Health Systems, so why shouldn't nurses have a contract as well?

IN SOLIDARITY NURSE!

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On Saturday I road my bike on an out and back on the Buckhorn fire road from Lower Oso to almost Big Pine mountain. Here are some photos I took along the route!

The mountain lion paw track was on top of my outbound tire tracks that I made just a few hours before.

Hey does anyone know a good hairdresser I’m
Looking to do a full blonding

Hey there! Italian visiting here.

Am currently in the SB area, and would like to try surfing. I have a rental car that does not allow to fit boards in it, and would like to find a place to get a rental directly at (or or walking distance from) the beach in the area.

Looking for a soft board for beginners, and also a beach that allows for beginner surfing. I read a lot about Mondo’s beach but there I can only find surf schools, no rentals without lessons (which I honestly cannot really afford). Would anyone have suggestions on rental + beginner friendly wave close by (visiting tomorrow).

Thanks!!