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Votes at a glance: Santa Barbara City Council, April 15, 2025
Summary
Summary of formal council actions taken April 15, 2025: consent calendar actions, pulled items, and individual votes on State Street funding/pilot, tree appeal, Milpas Street CEQA exemption, CalPERS contract amendment, and the Cottage Hospital childcare community benefit designation.
Here is a concise rundown of the formal actions recorded by the Santa Barbara City Council on April 15, 2025. Items are listed by agenda number with the council's recorded outcome.
Consent calendar (items 6–11, 14 and remaining consent items not pulled): The council approved the remainder of the consent calendar (motion by Council Member Jordan, second by Council Member Sneddon); the motion passed unanimously with Council Member Eric Freeman absent. Specific consent items included the lease amendment with Breakwater LLC (item 6), records‑destruction resolutions for multiple departments (items 7–9), Transportation Development Act allocation (item 10), position salary control amendments (item 11), and acceptance of electric vehicle charging grants totaling $2,185,798 (item 14). These items were approved by the council as part of the consent action.
Pulled consent items and subsequent actions: - Item 12a: Reallocation of Measure C funds to the State Street Action Plan (approved; moved by Council Member Sneddon; vote: recorded as passing with Council Member Eric Freeman absent). - Item 12b: State Street pilot measures (approved after separate vote with added language "subject to approval as to form by the city attorney"). - Item 13: Resolution upholding the appeal re: East Anapamu street tree species designation (approved; moved by Council Member Sneddon, seconded by Council Member Gutierrez; passed unanimously with Freeman absent). - Item 20: Milpas Street crosswalk safety and sidewalk widening project — environmental determination (notice of exemption) (approved; motion by Council Member Jordan, seconded by Council Member Harmon; vote recorded 4–2; Council Members Santa Maria and Sneddon voted no; Council Member Eric Freeman absent). - Item 21: Designation of the proposed Cottage Hospital Childcare Center development at 419 West Pueblo Street as a community benefit project (opened as a consent public hearing and approved unanimously).
Item 22 (administrative ordinance/resolution action): Introduction of an ordinance and adoption of a resolution of intention to amend the city's CalPERS contract to include airport police officers in the local safety retirement category (mover Council Member Harmon, seconded by Council Member Gutierrez; passed unanimously with Council Member Eric Freeman absent). Next steps include an employee election and ordinance adoption after the statutory 20‑day period.
How votes were recorded in the meeting: Where the transcript recorded roll call or verbal outcomes, the clerk recorded the counts (yes/no/abstain/absent). When item details were brief, the clerk read titles and the council moved to adopt by title with unanimous consent; pulled items were debated and voted individually. The transcript includes the motions, mover/second, and final pass/fail notations for the items above.
If you need a specific line‑by‑line excerpt from the meeting transcript showing the motion language, mover, seconder, and vote tally for any single item above, those passages are recorded in the council minutes and the meeting transcript.
