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Santa Barbara County First District Supervisor Das Williams — Celebrating Local Workers as Labor Day Approaches

by Community Contributor • August 30, 2023 • Comments Off

Celebrating Local Workers as Labor Day Approaches

This Labor Day I am especially excited to announce that the County of Santa Barbara Community Workforce Agreement is 100% signed by Labor. This is the first-ever local-hire opportunity for workers on County public works projects. Residents across our county — from newly graduated high school students to our veterans returning home, the misplaced workers, or someone who just needs a second chance will benefit tremendously from this agreement. I want to thank the Tri-Counties Building and Construction Trades Council and our County Public Works Department for working diligently to get this agreement across the finish line, and my colleague Supervisor Joan Hartmann and former colleague Assemblymember Gregg Hart for championing these huge opportunities for local workers.

Paying workers and providing good benefits is good, but to truly honor American workers, we must support unionization – the only way to create an equal platform between employer and employees and the only way to empower the American worker. To do this, please buy Union. Here is a list of union products you can buy for your Labor Day BBQ.

Electrify Your Ride Applications Closing this Thursday

The deadline to apply for Electrify Your Ride incentives is coming up this Thursday, August 31 at 6 pm.

Electrify Your Ride provides access to a one-stop shop to apply for post-purchase incentives that will help save customers money and help residents and businesses make the switch to electric transportation

Customers with eligible purchases/leases, and/or installations dated in August or September can apply under the Electrify Your Ride Program upon relaunch of the program in October 2023. Applications for the following incentive programs will be closing until October as well:

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Welcoming HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge to Santa Barbara County

Last Friday I had a chance to visit with President Biden’s HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge and State Secretary of Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Lourdes Castro Ramirez, and tour the Buena Tierra homeless housing project site. The County worked diligently to utilize Federal housing vouchers to get folks off the street and into housing, along with supportive services. Because of this and State support, we are starting to see real tangible progress in addressing homelessness. This year, the number of people experiencing homelessness dropped in South County. We still have progress to make in North County, but we are hopeful that new projects like Hope Village will make a big difference. Thank you to Congressman Salud Carbajal and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness for arranging this visit from Secretary Fudge and partnering to make real progress.