BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

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Would you all please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge

allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. Now I'd like to introduce Father Randall C.K. Day, who's going to give us today's invocation. Father Day is priest and rector of St. Marks in the Valley Episcopal Church in Los Olivos. He serves on the boards of the San Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation, the Los Olivos Business Organization and the San Inez Valley Visitors Association, and is a member of the Los Olivos Rotary.

Among various awards and recognitions through more than 25 years of ordained ministry, Father Day's favorite has been the Bergen County, New Jersey Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Observance Committee Award for outstanding service in bringing people of diverse cultures together. Ladies and gentlemen, Father Randall C.K. Day.

Let us pray. God of all whom we call by many names who is good, who is life It was always beyond our full comprehension, our possession and control. Give us a vision of Santa Barbara County that acknowledges your presence in your abundant constantly evolving and changing creation. The beauty of which we enjoy in unparalleled ways here in the great and enriching diversity of the human community and in the natural order.

Help us to recognize this place in which we gather and everywhere we go as being as sacred as church or temple, synagogue or mosque. And each person including the lost, the least and the left out as holy revealing divinity. You have set our elected officials and all public servants in our county government at tasks that call for their best and require their reliance on you.

Bless them With every ability they need, strengthen them and give them the spirit of wisdom, compassion and justice that with steadfast purpose they may faithfully serve in their offices to promote the well-being of all people. Be their companion and comforter. Uphold them in your mercy in times of anxiety, stress, loneliness, criticism, alienation and danger. Give them joy, delight and deep satisfaction in their many accomplishments.

We offer thanks for all who have served this community in the past and especially those who now leave the possessions of trust that they have held In gratitude, we honor those who have put service above self through the years. Renew the ties of mutual regard that form our society in this county. Save us all from easy answers, half-truths and superficial responses to complex and profound concerns in our public life.

Assist all who live and work in this county in maintaining Respectful decorum in our communication and engagement, not giving way to fear and hardness of heart but having trust and patience in our relationships with neighbors and coworkers. Guide us with compassion in times of challenge and conflict knowing that we can lose more than an argument within judicious speech and action.

I offer thanks for the common life that has been built in this county through the generations and, in particular, for the communities within our county. Ballard, Buellton, Carpinteria, Kismalia, Cuyama, Gary, Gaviota, Goleta, Guadalupe, Hollister Ranch, Hope Ranch, Isla Vista, Lompoc, Los Alamos, Los Olivos, Mission Canyon, Mission Hills, Montecito, New Cuyama Orchid, Painted Cave, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, San Ynez, Sisquac, Solvang, Summerland, Toro Canyon, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Vandenberg Village, Ventucopa.

And for the privilege we all have of receiving, nurturing and building on the legacy of these vibrant places that are the focus of our mutual care May we see and reach beyond our typical divisions, recognizing that we are not North County and South County but one county. We recognize the resources value and contributions of Vandenberg Air Force Base, the San Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, health care institutions including Cottage Health System, Lompoc Valley Hospital, Marion Medical Center and Sansom Clinic, our private In public schools and institutions of higher learning, including Allan Hancock College, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara Business College, UCSB, Westmont College.

In the campuses of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Antioch College, the many non-profit and community based organizations and our houses of worship of all faiths that strengthen and nurture people locally, nationally and globally. We give thanks for a vibrant arts community for parks and recreational resources And for all our businesses and employers, including those in agricultural, wine, tourism and hospitality, high tech, oil and aerospace, and defense industries.

Save us from discord, discord, disaster and confusion. From pride, arrogance and self-seeking that women and men of different backgrounds and with diverse viewpoints and varying talents may together find with one another the fulfillment of their God given humanity In times of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness for your abundance and generosity. And in times of trouble help us to seek your presence wisdom and merciful care may we dwell secure in your peace.

You continually bless us beyond what we can know or ask. Awaken us to the reality that absolutely everything we have and are all that is in us and around us is a gift And that we are stewards of all you entrust to us. I pray in the name of the source of all that is sacred, the God of life and hope and compassion who is all and in all who abides forever. Amen.

Amen Thank you so much for those inspirational words Father Day Now we're going to be having a musical presentation by the Santa Barbara High School Madrigal Singers. And so they're gonna be coming in and as they're filing in, I'm gonna ask Supervisor Lavinino and Supervisor Wolf to go ahead and sit at the table over there because they're going to be standing up here.

The Madrigal Singers of Santa Barbara High School are under the direction of Philip McClendon. They were founded in 1968 and grew out of the larger acapella choir, the oldest high school choir in California. The Madrigals singers have been honored in their history several times for choral excellence by the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators National Conference.

The Madrigal Singers have presented 15 concert tours of Europe, visiting 12 countries since their founding. In June 2013, accepting several standing invitations afforded few American high school choirs, they will be performing in England and France in such venues as Ely Cathedral in the United Kingdom and Notre Dame Cathedral and the Church of La Madeleine in Paris.

So would my fellow board members already down here and all of you please join me in welcoming the Santa Barbara High School Madrigal Singers.

You see. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free In pastures fresh he makes me feed, beside the living stream. He brings my wondrous spirits back when I forsake this place.

He leads me for his mercy's sake in paths of truth and grace The shades of death, thy presence is my safe. One word of thus supporting breath drives all my fears away. My cup with blessings overflows, Thine oil anoints my head. The short provisions of my Lord, but tell me all my days. Oh may thy house be malleable and all my work be praised! Stranger or a guest, but like the child at your birth.

That was absolutely fabulous, wasn't it? One more big reason why we're so proud to live in Santa Barbara County. Have those wonderful young people here and let's just thank them again for their wonderful presentation. Okay, now I'd like to introduce Chandra Waller our County Executive Officer who's going to present the Santa Barbara County officials who were elected in 2012 and I'm gonna take my place down there with them.

Thank you it's now my pleasure to introduce the officials elected in 2012. Elected to judicial positions in 2012 we have the Honorable Judge Timothy Stoffel Judge Stoffel was born on December 1, 1956 and grew up in the Lompoc Valley where he attended school, played youth baseball and graduated from Cabrillo High School. He received his BA degree in journalism and political science from San Diego State University in 1978.

He also attended graduate school at San Diego State studying public finance. Judge Stoffel received his JD degree from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, graduating in 1985. Judge Stoffel was a daily newspaper reporter and sports writer prior to embarking on his legal career. While practicing attorney, Judge Stoffel specialized in the field of civil litigation. In 1992, Judge Stoffel was elected as 4th District County Supervisor and represented the Santa Maria and Lompoc Valleys in that capacity from 1993 through 1998.

He also served on the California Coastal Commission from 1995 through 1998. In June 1998, Governor Wilson appointed him to the Santa Barbara County Superior Court. Judge Stoffel. Judge George Eskin was first appointed to the Superior Court Bench in 2003. He's a native of Baltimore, Maryland, a 1960 graduate of the UCLA Department of Theater Arts at a 1965 graduate of the UCLA School of Law.

He served as assistant district attorney for Ventura County between 1968 and 1971, was assistant district attorney to Stan Roden in Santa Barbara County in 1975 Chief Assistant City Attorney to Burt Pines in Los Angeles between 1976 and 1981, and the law partner of his wife State Senator Hannah Beth Jackson between 1981 and 1998. He has three children, Meredith, Lucas, and Jenny, and four grandchildren. And for the past 19 years, he has served as the public address announcer for the UCSB women's basketball team.

Go Gachos! Arthur Garcia was born and raised in Santa Maria, California. Graduating from St. Joseph High School in 1971 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loyola Marymount University in 1975 and a JD from Loyola Law School in 1978. He was in successful private practice from 1978 until he was appointed Superior Court Commissioner in July 1996 to preside over the North County Juvenile Court.

In 2003, he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court in Santa Barbara by Governor Gray Davis. Judge Garcia is the Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Court and also was the Assistant Presiding Judge for Santa Barbara County for 2011 and 2012. Judge Garcia has also been a member of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, California Juvenile Judges Association, California Judges Association, and California Association of Drug Court Professionals.

In private practice, Judge Garcia was a general practitioner with an emphasis in family law matters. In addition, he served as a volunteer arbitrator and judge pro tempore for the Superior Court. Judge Garcia was also active with the Northern Santa Barbara County Bar Association and served as a director, newsletter editor, and member of its Judicial Evaluation Committee. Judge Garcia.

Judge Patricia Kelly was appointed to the Superior Court by Governor Schwarzenegger in August of 2010. She is currently the North County Supervising Criminal Judge assigned to Department 8 of the Santa Maria Court, where she handles a large caseload of felonies and misdemeanor matters. Prior to her appointment, she was a Deputy District Attorney for the Santa Barbara District Attorney, North County Division beginning in 2005.

From 1994 to 2005, she was a deputy district attorney for the Riverside County District Attorney's Office assigned to the Eastern Division in Indio. In both offices her main assignments were gang and major narcotics prosecution. Judge Kelly. Judge Anderson was born in Pasadena, California. He was raised in Southern California and graduated from LaSalle High School in Pasadena.

He attended the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana where he received a BA degree in English. where he received his JD in 1978. Judge Anderson then went to work at Hillsinger and Costanzo in Orange County, practicing in the area of insurance defense and litigation, concentrating in the area of product liability and malpractice defense. He moved to the Santa Barbara office in 1987, and in 1995 opened his own law practice.

Judge Anderson was appointed to the municipal court bench in September of 1997 by Governor Pete Wilson. With the unification of the courts of August of 1998, Judge Anderson became a Superior Court judge. Judge Anderson currently presides over the Felony Preliminary Hearing Department in the Criminal Division. Judge Anderson was the presiding judge of the Santa Barbara County Superior Court in 2004. Judge Anderson.

Judge Herman is a Santa Barbara County Assistant Presiding Judge, was appointed to the Santa Barbara Superior Court in 2005. Former assignments include juvenile presiding judge, criminal trials court, civil probate and family law, and the appellant division panel. He chairs the technology committee. As juvenile presiding judge he established a dependency drug court for parents at risk.

Judge Herman attended the University of California at Santa Barbara with his B.A. in 1971 and the California Western Law School with his J.D. in 1975, and the New York University School of Law as a Robert Marshall and Jacob Fushim Fellow. Judge Herman also has a certificate in Chinese Mandarin. Also elected to the Santa Barbara Court in 2012, but unable to attend today are Judge Donna Gack and Judge Colleen Stern.

I also wanted to make note that we have with us today Judge Tom Adams who is the senior judge in Santa Barbara County Superior Court and he has actually been with us since December of 1982 so I just wanted to make note that he was also with us today. Elected to the County Board of Supervisors in 2012 from the 1st District, Supervisor Salud Carbajal. 1st District Salud Carbajal was first elected to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors in 2004 and in 2012 was re-elected to a third term Salud received a BA from UC Santa Barbara and holds a Master's Degree in Organizational Management from the Fielding University.

He is a veteran with service in the United States Marine Corps during his tenure on the Board of Supervisors, he and his staff have consistently demonstrated a strong commitment to ensuring a responsive effective and fiscally responsible county government. Salute is married to Gina, and they are proud parents of Natasha and Michael. Supervisor Carbajal begins his third four-year term of office today. Supervisor Carbajal.

Third District Supervisor Doreen Farr is a native Californian and graduated from San Jose State University with a master's degree in history. She has lived in Santa Barbara County for 30 years, in both Goleta and the Santa Ynez Valley. She has been a partner in several local businesses, president of two community groups, a consultant to the city of Goleta, and served as a county planning commissioner prior to her election to the Board of Supervisors in 2008.

During her second term, Supervisor Farr and her staff look forward to continuing their work of protecting public health and safety, supporting the needs of residents, business, and agriculture, and providing responsive constituent service throughout the very large and diverse 3rd District. Doreen Farr is the proud mother of sons Nate, Rick and Greg and daughter-in-law Karen and enjoys spending time with her grandson Joey. Doreen begins her second four year term of office today. Supervisor Doreen Farr.

Peter Adam is a fifth generation resident of the Santa Maria Valley. A long time Santa Maria farmer and grower, Peter has served as Vice President of Adam Brothers Farming Incorporated since 1994 and manages all phases of production for the company that grows and sells some of the finest fresh vegetables on the Central Coast including broccoli, lettuce, celery, and cauliflower.

Peter carries on a family legacy in farming the Santa Maria Valley that began in the 1860s. Peter Adam attended the California State Polytech University, San Luis Obispo and has a degree in crop science. Peter has served as a member of the West Trails Homeowners Association and the Santa Barbara County Human Relations Commission. He has also served as a director of the Santa Barbara County Farm Bureau and board member of the Santa Barbara County Cattlemen's Association.

Peter is married to Amy, and they are the proud parents of Victoria, Joseph, and Olivia. Peter Adam begins his first four-year term today. Supervisor Peter Adam. May I now introduce the Honorable Judge Thomas R. Adam who will administer the oath of office. Judge Adams moved to the Oregon coast from Iowa in 1952. While studying at Wilmette University in Oregon, he and three fraternity brothers began a recording career with RCA Victor Records for several years.

They recorded and toured internationally as a folk singing group called The Wayfarers. In 1965 Judge Adams returned to his studies at California State University, Northridge and then completed his legal studies at California Western School of Law where he was associate editor of the law journal. In 1976, he became the first commissioner of the Santa Barbara Municipal Court by Governor Brown.

A past recipient of the County Bar's Distinguished Service Award, Judge Adams started the Teen Court Program and was instrumental in establishing the Children-in-the-Middle program for divorcing parents. Judge Adams is the presiding judge of the Santa Barbara County Juvenile Court. Judge Adams if you would come forward?

Distinguished Supervisors and honored elected officials, and all of you wonderful invited guests. I didn't know

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that! That's interesting stuff. Yesterday when our wonderful Court Administrator Gary Blair stuck his head in my chambers, he said he wanted to remind me of the get-together today. And I said, oh how could I forget this? I am so honored to have been asked to be the guest main speaker here today and I've prepared about 30 minutes of comments Surprisingly, his reaction was not unlike yours.

He chuckled at that until he saw that I was very serious and like a cat he landed on his feet and quickly got a very serious countenance and said you know I think somebody should have probably told you that our guest speaker tomorrow is General Frederick Lopez, and that we were thinking maybe you could do like 45 seconds or a minute. Kind of like an opening act thing.

And so I'm a humble guy and so I could accept that. I quickly flashed back a couple of years She was kind enough to comment on my undergraduate experience at Willamette University in Oregon. While at Willamette, my closest friend, a roommate fraternity brother with a fellow also named Tom, Tom Hemingway and if there were two guys who who were destined for disgrace and dishonor, and lack of success. It was Tom Adams and Tom Hemingway. If you asked anybody in the fraternity house they would have got a lot of money that we would have never made it out of our freshman year.

And so a couple of years ago I got an email from Tom from Washington D.C., and he told me that he was retiring after a career in the Air Force And that he was retiring as a Lieutenant General and wondered if I might come back to Washington for his retirement and speak. And so, of course, I was overwhelmed and I made arrangements to go back there. When I got there, of course, I was staying with Tom.

On the night of the occasion, I introduced myself to the speaker coordinator And I told her how proud I was to be there and to have been asked to come all the way from Santa Barbara, to be the keynote speaker. And again, her reaction was just not unlike yours. And then she realized that again, I was serious. So she said well Judge Adams Someone should have probably told you.

The keynote speaker today is really General Hemingway's dear friend, Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina and we were thinking maybe you could speak for about a minute or so And so I had to revise my comments from 30 or 40 minutes down to about a minute. And what I shared with my dear friend was, I quickly reminisced about the fact that of all the guys in our house in our fraternity that the two that were felt could be easily voted the least likely to succeed were Adams and Hemingway. And I said, thank God, Tom, at least one of us made it. And I say to General Lopez today as one who still has never been invited to be a keynote speaker that thank god at least one of us has made it here. So let me then scrap a lot of the comments that I was going And let me invite all of the elected officials to please stand.

And it is my great honor, to be able to administer the oath of office to these distinguished people. If I might invite you all to raise your right hands and if you'll repeat after me please. I do solemnly swear or affirm. That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution of the State of California. Against all enemies foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance To the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of California, that I will take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.

And that I will well and faithfully discharge Upon which I'm about to enter, congratulations to you all.

Thank you, Judge Adams. Would the members of the board please take your seats at the dais? It's now my pleasure to introduce the 2013 Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. From the 1st District, Supervisor Salud Carbajal. From the 2nd District, Supervisor Janet Wolfe. From the 3rd District, Supervisor Doreen Farr. From the 4th District, Supervisor Peter Adam and from the 5th District Supervisor Steve Lavinino.

Thank you. And now it's my pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker, Brigadier General Frederick R. Lopez, United States Marine Corps, retired. Brigadier General Frederick R. Lopez was born in Santa Barbara, California He graduated from California State Polytechnic College at San Luis Obispo with a BS degree in mathematics and received an MS degree in computer science from West Coast University.

He joined the Marine Corps on May 26, 1967 and completed Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Virginia. General Lopez was deployed to the Republic of South Vietnam in July 1968. From July 1968 to July 1969, he served as a platoon commander with Company D 1st Battalion 1st Marines. For combat services in South Vietnam, General Lopez was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat V.

General Lopez is a graduate of the Joint Warfare course at Royal Marines Pool England and the Naval War College Strategy and Policy Course. General Lopez was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in December 1983 to Colonel in 1989 and to Brigadier General in 1993. His medals and decorations include the Vietnam Service Medal with four bronze stars, and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.

The Presidential Unit Citation with Bronze Star. The Selected Marine Corps Reserve Medal with three stars. The National Defense Service Medal with bronze star, the Navy Commendation Medal, a Bronze Star Medal with Combat V and the Distinguished Service Medal. Brigadier General Frederick R. Lopez retired from the United States Marine Corps on July 1st, 1998.

In addition to his military service, Brigadier General Lopez retired after 29 years as Director of Engineering for Raytheon Electronic Warfare Systems. He has also served on two study boards with the National Academy of Science and Engineering. Brigadier General Lopez is married to the former Anne Gallatly of Atascadero, California. They have two daughters, Dr. Jennifer Marsh and Ms. Jamie Lopez and a grandson Ryan Austin Marsh. Please join me in welcoming Brigadier General Frederick R. Lopez, United States Marine Corps retired.

Thank you very much for that kind reception. This is a first for me also, this is the first time I've ever had the audience warmed up by a superior or distinguished judge so thank you very much Judge Adams, I appreciate it. I want to thank you for inviting me to speak today. You know when Supervisor Carbajal asked me to speak after probably a number of libations at the military ball I was thinking about what exactly was I going to talk about. I contacted the staff here and asked them, you know, what topics had been presented before?

And the answer I got was pretty much you can talk about anything you want to which left the door wide open. But being a Marine certainly I want to talk about that but what I really wanted to talk about is maybe some of life's lessons that I've learned along the way Most of you in here, all of you in here know leadership very well just by your experience, by the positions you hold and by all the things that you come to the table. So none of these will be new to you.

However, maybe some of these will be a reminder. Some of these will kick off some thoughts from something else so that's what I would like to talk about and just like Johnny Carson said to his first four wives, I won't keep you very long. I'd like to start with a verse from Isaiah And I like to do my speeches and talks, start off with something from the Bible. I love Isaiah.

He was one of the greatest prophets of the Old Testament and he wrote during a stormy period of the ascension of the Assyrian Empire in the decline of Israel. In Isaiah 6-8 he said, Then I heard the voice of the Lord, Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And I said, here I am. Send me. Whenever I think of service to our country, service to our nation, service to our county, I think of this verse and it has a very special meaning.

I want to first of all talk about Marines, my favorite subject. There's many thousands and thousands of stories that I could pull and talk about. This one that I'm going to tell you It really shows and denotes what Marines are all about, their dedication and what they do and why we have them. had his attention on Operation Desert Storm. In a short three days later, we would start the air war on January 7th of 1991.

All eyes were focused there on the casualties that were going to happen. What would Iran do? What would Israel do? How are we going to win this war? What happens in the rest of that part of the country, that part of the world? In Mogadishu, Somalia There was something else happening. A couple of the warlords had gotten together and decided they wanted to have their own replay of the Iranian hostage crisis, and take out our embassy and get American hostages and hold them for ransom, and get huge sums of money which they could live forever on. They thought it was a great idea. So on January 4th early in the morning with about 300-350 of these rebels so to speak from Somalia Led by these two warlords, they decided to attack the embassy.

They surrounded the embassy, started shooting, let their wishes known that they wanted everybody to surrender and give it up. We had a small contingent of Marines at the embassy there at the time—seven to be exact—that were going to hold these rebels off. The ambassador decided it was time to call for help 460 miles away sailed a Navy amphibious ready group, an ARG.

An ARG is consisted of a number of different amphibious ships that held the combat-ready force of a reinforced battalion of Marines. There was about 850 Marines with their aircraft, with their landing vehicles, with their weapons all armed and ready to go. They're at the tail end of their six-month deployment. They were waiting to see what was going to happen in Iraq before they were able to finish up their tour.

Early in the morning, they launched all the CH-53s they had on the aircraft carrier. This is a fairly heavy long range helicopter whose unique capability was that it had a long probe fuel probe on the end of it and they needed that because they were about 460 miles away and they needed to refuel which they did twice on the way in the air. They came in at dusk and landed right down in the middle of the compound, taking their turns discharging the Marines. The Marines immediately manned the compound, went up to the walls and stood ready and ready to fight, ready to take them out.

Karen Aguilar who was an assistant at the embassy relates the following she said They told our perimeter guard to open up or we'll blow you away and then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with those really big guns. And the leader said in Somali, which means excuse me I didn't mean it my mistake. And they backed away. The force rescued 280 civilians by helicopter And by sea, and they returned from whence they came to sea.

That's our Marines. That's what they do and that's what they do for you today. God bless them. Just a couple of... I have a running list of life's lessons and lessons that I've learned along the way, lessons in leadership. I'm up to about 161 and certainly won't repeat all of them but...and the list continues to grow but I continue to refine where they lay in the order of importance. The top seven I've got right now and they're in no particular order are the following and these I've learned from the easy way and the hard way The development of the individual is fundamental.

We need to establish our credibility first and foremost, and then we have to set a baseline for our moral, physical, and mental toughness. Don't be afraid to take on challenges. You only fail if you don't try. Teamwork is everything. The easy way is always mind. I found this the hard way a couple different times Maintain absolute integrity. That is what I believe the most vital, the most indispensable characteristic of leadership.

Genuine leaders get power from their moral authority influencing thoughts and actions of others through inspiration, persuasion, trust and loyalty. Take care of your people. Put duty and family before yourself. It takes years to build trust and only seconds to destroy it. A very hard lesson that some of our national leaders have learned. On the lessons of being an individual, when you go to Marine boot camp certainly you have the tests that you've there. You're there initially as an individual. You are going to be tested on your mental and physical toughness. Can you make the grade? Will you fold under fire? Can you lead? What will you do?

It's all individual as you go. And then, as you progress through your training and those of you that survive, you will

Well on behalf of the entire Board of Supervisors and everybody in the room and everybody watching on television, thank you so much Brigadier General Lopez for being here today. For honoring us with your presence, with your words of wisdom, and for all your years of service to this country. Thank you very much. All right, now it's my pleasure to call to order the 2013 Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors.

This marks the 163rd convening of Santa Barbara County's highest legislative body and now I'm going to accept nominations for the position of chair and vice-chair for 2013 of the board of supervisors and of the board of directors The Water Agency, the Flood Control and Water Conservation District, the Santa Barbara Fund for Public and Educational Access, and other special districts.