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Presenter outlines Santa Barbara County services for residents
Summary
A county presenter provided an overview—in Spanish—of Santa Barbara County’s core services, from public safety and public health programs to housing, emergency preparedness and the county’s budgetary reliance on state and federal funds.
A county presenter outlined the range of services Santa Barbara County provides to residents, saying the county supports both eight incorporated cities and a large unincorporated area that stretches from the coast to the mountains.
The presenter said the county operates some regionwide programs and also provides city-like services where there is no municipal government, including road and park maintenance, land-use oversight and building-permit processing. The sheriff’s office serves as the primary law-enforcement agency in unincorporated areas and county fire departments provide wildfire and structural fire protection.
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