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Icon, ElizabethTaylor DiesLegendary actressElizabeth Taylor, whoseviolet eyes, tumultuouslove life and passion fordiamonds epitomizedHollywood glamour, diedWednesday at age 79.

Dating tipsfrom MikeDon’t throw things ator make fun of yourdate. Don’t call them bythe name of your formergirlfriend. Don’t talk in aforeign accent if youaren’t foreign.

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City loan policy under fireBY JOSHUA MOLINA

DAILY SOUND EDITORIt started with a $500,000 loan to

Police Chief Cam Sanchez in 2001.Then three more loans in 2002, to a

police officer, a city planner and awaterfront department employee.

In 2003, the number of city loanscrept up to 4. Two more police offi-cers and two additional waterfrontemployees were the recipients.

Slowly, the number grew. Everyyear the city loaned more money.

And now, today, Santa Barbara hasloaned about $4.4 million to cityemployees to help them buy homes.

Those employees have only paidback a combined $188,000.

At a time when the city is facing asevere budget crisis, choosing to closelibraries and pools on some days, the

MoneyLoaned

MoneyRepaid

$1 Million $2 Million $3 Million $4 Million

Since 2001, the City of Santa Barbara has givenloans to 37 employees to help them buy a home. Of$4.4 million lent, only $188,000 has been paid back.

SOURCE: City of Santa barbara

$187,832

$4,394,688

See LOANS, page 3

At a time of budget shortfalls, city spends millions on home loans

A cake represents the novel Planet of the Apes. DAILY SOUND / Elliot Serbin

Books oncakeSanta Barbara City College cele-brated its third annual Edible BookFestival onWednesday at thelibrary. Entrants are invited to pre-pare edible entries in the followingcategories: Most literary, Most likea book, Most beautiful, Most tasty,Easy and fun, Most humorous. Formore photos, see page 6.

BY NICK C. TONKINDAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT

Santa Barbara School DistrictSuperintendent Brian Sarvis congratulat-ed Ed Behrens and John Becchio on theirappointments as principals at San Marcosand Santa Barbara high schools atTuesday Board of Education meeting.The men have a combined 35 yearsworking with the school district.

“Two secondary schools will begin thenew school year with two new princi-pals,” Sarvis said.

Behrens replaces the retiring NormClevenger at San Marcos High. He start-ed off as an English language develop-ment teacher at Santa Barbara High andended up as San Marcos High School’sassistant principal—a position he’s heldfor the last fourteen years. Behrens saidhe’s looking forward to supporting theschool’s existing programs and introduc-ing some new ones.

“I look forward to working with dis-trict staff and the board,” Behrens toldthe board. “And I’m really looking for-ward to San Marcos meeting its truepotential as one of the top high schools inthe state of California.”

John Becchio is taking over from out-going principal Mark Capritto at SantaBarbara High. He’s already familiar withsome of the students and parents from hisfive years as principal of Santa BarbaraJunior High. Becchio said he’s lookingforward to reuniting with them. But he

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In a town that can go for months with-out rain, Santa Barbara has been gettingpelted this year with some of largest rain-fall in the last five years.

Cameron Benson, Creeks DivisionManager, said that Santa Barbara hasseen 25.85 inches of rain sinceSeptember.Benson said the normal rain-fall averages about 18 inches a year.

According to the Western RegionalClimate Center that’s the highest it’sbeen since 2006 when the city got nearly30 inches of rain.

The forecast is still a wet one for therest of the week. More showers areexpected Thursday. Friday is predicted tobe partly cloudy but rains are likely againon Saturday. Sunday will be partlycloudy but should begin to clear up intime for Monday.

One of Santa Barbara’s biggest drawshas been its beaches.

Steve Bowman and his family are vis-iting from Wales and are openly defyingthe rain as they stand in windbreakersand board shorts near the DolphinFountain on Stearns Wharf.

“It’s quite warm for us,” Bowmansaid. “We can wear shorts and all.”

Bowman said not seeing SantaBarbara’s finest weather hasn’t affectedtheir experience much.

“Probably our favorite place since wegot here,” Bowman laughed.

Lars and Gilla Blacklumd, visitingfrom Sweden, also aren’t bothered by therain, with ponchos their only concessionto the weather.

Last Sunday’s weather kept them in,but they’ve otherwise taken a walkeveryday in their two weeks at SantaBarbara. The Blacklumds said Swedishwinters dish out far harsher weather than

Santa Barbara“This is nothing,” Gilla Backlumd said.Pyry Matikainen, strolling along the

bike path and snapping photos of thebeach, is in town for a business confer-ence. Matikainen said his hometownof Pittsburgh has more extremes thistime of year. Like the Backlumds, theSanta Barbara winter is mild enoughfor him.

“A proper winter is with snow,”Matikainen said.

While tourists from colder climatesdominate, a few locals have decided aday at the beach can cure cabin fever.Chris Pallanck grabbed rain gear for himand his two children Tristan and Katerinaand ambled along the waterline nearStearns Wharf.

Pallanck, though a Santa Barbaranative, doesn’t give rain much thoughtafter six years of living in Seattle.

“For us it’s just the whole explorationand journey,” Pallanck said.

Pallenck said it’s been a better year forrain than some others, recalling thefloods in previous years and said that itbeats the alternative of too little rain.

“I’d much rather have it like this thanwhen we’re facing the drought,”Pallanck said. “Realistically, how oftendo we have to experience this?”

Benson said that creeks have beenholding steady. Water flow in the creeksis measured in cubic feet per second.The weekend storm, a 10-year event,raised the flow to 1,050 cubic feet persecond.

By contrast, the heaviest rains inDecember only got the creek to 800cubic feet per second. A “10-year-event,” refers to the probability (1-in-10) of having a storm of that size duringthe year.

Benson said the creeks showed no

Rain soaks city;more to come

See SCHOOL, page 7See RAINS, page 7

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city loaned millions of dollars to 37 cityemployees to help them buy houses near thecity of Santa Barbara.

The money came from the city’s near-depleted budget reserves. About 17 of theemployees have not paid back any money yet.

That’s general fund money that could havebeen used for libraries, pools, parks, recreationand other community services.

About half of the loans came in 2007 andbeyond after the mortgage meltdown and theeconomy began to collapse.

“This whole thing is nuts,” said ErnieSalomon, a City Hall watchdog activist. “Thefact that the money was lent is bad enough, butthe fact that it was lent out of the reserve fundis unforgivable.”

Santa Barbara city officials say that no onecould have foreseen the mortgage meltdown in2002, when the program was approved, a yearafter the city loaned police chief Cam Sanchez$500,000 to buy a home.

City officials at the time believed the loans,which were for second mortgages, were goodinvestments on two fronts. The amount of inter-est the city was charging was equivalent towhat it would earn through its investment fund.

Helping city employees buy homes was also

a good recruitment and retention tool for SantaBarbara, which then and now has some of themost expensive housing prices in the country.

In 2002, offering mortgage loan assistanceseemed like a good idea to officials.

“At the time, we weren’t having the finan-cial problems that we are having today,” saidBob Samario, city finance director, adding thatthe program was driven by the City Council,not the city staff. “It is before the economytook a dive.

The terms of the loan program called foremployees to come up with 80 percent of thefinancing on their own. They also had to pay 5percent of their own money. The city loaned therest—up to 15 percent of the purchase price.

According to the terms of the deal, employeeswere only required to pay interest on the loan forthe first five years. The interest rates rangedfrom .56 to .46 percent. The market interest rateat the time was on average about 5.5 percent.

After the fifth year, the loan would be fullyamortized over a 30-year period. Employeeswould be required to make payments based onthe interest and the principal. Even though theloan payments would be amortized over 30years, the entire loan would be due after 15years, in what is known as a “balloon payment.”

In addition to loans for the second mort-gages, the city also agreed to buy down the

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NEWS IN BRIEFMan fires shots over burrito price

A Taco Bell drive-through customer who became enragedbecause of a price increase on Beefy Crunch Burritos fired a BBgun through the window at a manager on Sunday, police said.

No one was hurt from the shots fired by the man, who alsowaved a pistol and an assault rifle in the parking lot, PoliceSergeant Chris Benavides said.

As the restaurant’s employees and customers hit the floor, themanager called police, and when officers arrived, the angrypatron fired several shots at the police cars, Benavides said.

The man then barricaded himself inside a nearby motel room,sparking a standoff that lasted until police lobbed tear gas insideand the man surrendered.

The man never did get his burritos.

Britons want Charles as kingMore Britons want Prince Charles to become Britain’s next

monarch than his son William despite the huge interest in hisupcoming wedding and previous suggestions he was the popu-lar choice, a poll on Thursday said.

Shortly after William’s engagement to girlfriend KateMiddleton was announced last November, two polls showed amajority of Britons thought he should succeed Queen Elizabethand not heir-to-the-throne Charles.

However, according to a YouGov survey for ProspectMagazine released on Thursday, that sentiment has now beenreversed. The poll of 2,409 people found the public would pre-fer Charles to be the next king by a 45 to 37 margin, a reversalof a similar survey in 2005 which backed William by 41-37.

Prospect suggested one possible reason for the reversal wasthat the public felt William and Middleton should be allowed toenjoy as normal-as-possible a life after their April 29 wedding.US study: yes, sex can kill you

Sudden bursts of moderate to intense physical activity—suchas jogging or having sex—significantly increase the risk of hav-ing a heart attack, especially in people who do not get regularexercise, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

Doctors have long known that physical activity can causeserious heart problems, but the new study helps to quantify thatrisk, Dr. Issa Dahabreh of Tufts Medical Center in Boston,whose study appears in the Journal of the American MedicalAssociation.

The team analyzed data from 14 studies looking at the linkbetween exercise, sex and the risk of heart attacks or sudden car-diac death—a lethal heart rhythm that causes the heart to stopcirculating blood.

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Dating Tips from a GuyWho Wears SunglassesI’ve been hounded in the past few

weeks to write a column that containsdating advice for Santa Barbara Singles.Asking me to do this is a lot like askingthe captain of the Titanic for boatingtips, but like, whatever. To start, hereare a few quick tips for men:

Don’t throw things at or make funof your date.

Don’t call them by the name of yourformer girlfriend.

Don’t talk in a foreign accent if youaren’t foreign.

And for women:When in bed, never point and laugh.If you have a sharp tongue, have

sharper wits to hide it.Never throw up in his mustang.

***Okay, let’s get serious for a minute. I

have a few urban dating myths I’d like tomess with. First, that men want to hear allabout your ex-husband or ex-boyfriend.YES, THIS IS THE FASTEST WAY TOA MAN’S HEART! Every guy loves this.No really. You should expect a ring imme-diately afterwards.

***Guys, women will be impressed if

you talk about your job and yourself allnight. It’s good to never let them get aword in edgewise. They are probablyonly going to bring up something youdon’t know about anyway, like art.

***That women should never pursue

men. In the singles group Isometimes moderate and inthe many conversations I havewith friends over the years,it’s clear the vast majority ofmen welcome a friendlyphone call, email or text froma woman they are interestedin—and THE TRUTH ISMOST WOMEN DO PUR-SUE—but won’t admit it inpublic. Pursue away ladies.Just make sure you want whatyou’re after.

***That men are simpler than women.

Ain’t so. Men are from earth, womenare from earth, deal with it. However, itis true that we dudes are not always soarticulate about expressing how we feelabout the choices we face. For example,there’s not just one kind of beer outthere.

***That women only want your money.

This also isn’t true. Although I did haveone attractive bird from the valleyrecently tell me with a frown: “With allthe books you’ve written, why aren’tyou really, really rich? That’s a realproblem for me.” Most women are notlike this, of course. They will usuallysettle for one ‘really’.

***That men are only after sex. This is

so not true ... Oh hey, will you look at

that! I’m out of time. Too bad,I was really, really going todisprove that crazy theory. Heygood luck out there in the dat-ing world. My best advice isjust be yourself, and if thatdoesn’t work, try being some-body else, probably somebodysexier.

***Before I sign off, I want to

acknowledge two specialanniversaries this week. Thefirst is to the Daily Sound for

turning a robust five years old—con-grats Jeramy for making it happen whenmost of print journalism is burningaround us …

***Finally, I have to give hugs to my

two daughters, Kristine and Michele—today is the anniversary of the day wemoved to Santa Barbara from NorthernCalifornia. They’ve grown up sincethen, gone to school, have lives of theirown and best of all—neither one is injail! (Yes, their eyes are rolling, I‘vebeen saying that since they were inkindergarten. Love you girls.)

See you at the Savoy ...

Michael Bowker is working hard onhis new book on dating tips tentativelytitled, How to Find the Love of YourLife in the Next 60 Seconds.

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As the parent of a daughterrapidly approaching the“tween” years, I’m alreadydreading a few questions that Iknow I’m going to have diffi-culty answering. Questionslike “Daddy, is there really aSanta Claus?” and “Daddy, areyou saving enough money formy college tuition?” not tomention, “Daddy, can we govisit Buster on that farmupstate where you sent himwhen he got old?”

But like most parents, thequestion I fear most is “Where dobabies come from?” And let me be clearthat I don’t dread this particular ques-tion because I’m a prude, or because Ilack a fundamental understanding of theanatomical principles involved (despitewhat my wife might suggest).

No, my problem is that what wasonce a relatively simple, if delicate,matter, has today become an issue ofsuch overwhelming complexity that justthinking about formulating an answergives me a headache:Daughter: “Daddy, where do babies

come from?”Me: “Well, Sweetie, you see, when a

man and a woman love each other verymuch, they, um ... no, wait, they don’tnecessarily have to love each other allthat much, but let’s say they’ve beentogether for a while and figure they’renot going to do any better... or, realisti-cally, maybe they just met at a club onenight, had a few cocktails and then they,um ... no wait, let’s start over. When aman and a woman love each other verymuch, or when two men love each othervery much and one of them has a reallycharitable sister, or when two womenlove each other very much and they also

happen to be close friendswith David Crosby ... ”

Of course it’s not justhuman reproduction that’sbecome more difficult toexplain to children. Who gen-uinely understands a smallpercentage of the worldaround us any more? Takeautomobiles. When I was achild, cars were much lesscomplicated, and not justbecause the wheel had not yetbeen invented.

My sister, when she was incollege, drove a small 1968 Volvo, amachine that was really quite simple. Sosimple, in fact, that when it would breakdown, to get it running again she merelyhad to check a few valves, clean off thespark plugs, and then call a guy friendwho knew something about cars tocome and fix it for free, because guysare such suckers for anything a prettygirl asks.

But good luck to any college guytoday looking to use his rudimentarymechanical skills to get to second baseby fixing a female classmate’s incredi-bly sophisticated 21st century vehicle.Maybe he’s got a chance if he also has adegree in computer science but, let’s behonest, having that kind of degree usu-ally indicates a host of other socialobstacles as well.

So as you can imagine, popping thehood to explain the inner workings of amodern engine to my children would bewell-nigh impossible for an ignoramuslike me, and not just because I frequent-ly can’t figure out how to pop the hood.

Frankly, I’m jealous of dads wholived in ancient times, back when youcould always point to some random godto explain the observable phenomena in

the surrounding world, such as why thesun rises in the east, who made themountains and why virgins needed to besacrificed to prevent volcano eruptions.Child: “Daddy, why does it rain?”Father: “Why does it rain? Because

the Rain God makes it rain, why do youthink? Kids today. Now go fetch yoursister and tell her I need to see her at themouth of the volcano.”

Thankfully, the modern world hasbrought us one innovation - perhaps themost complex and remarkable techno-logical marvel in human history - thatcontains within it a rich, if at times con-voluted, store of information with thecapacity to explain not only its owninner workings, but also to answercountless other questions about the uni-verse. Of course I’m talking aboutCharlie Sheen. Ha, just kidding. No, Imean the Internet.

Admittedly, the Internet doesn’t helpwhen my kids ask questions that only Ican answer like about who ate all oftheir Halloween candy. But with morefact-based questions like what photo-synthesis is, I find that saying “Let’sfind out together on the Internet!”sounds a lot better than, “Hunh? What’dyou say, ‘photo-what-thesis?’”

But for obvious reasons, the Internetis no place to send a child inquiringabout where babies come from. Notunless you want to answer a lot of sig-nificantly more uncomfortable ques-tions, that is. So instead, I’ve decidedthat when the time comes I won’t avoidthe subject or beat around the bush. I’lljust sit my daughter down, look herdirectly in the eye and tell her: “Go askyour mother.”Assuming he hasn’t angered the Internet

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signs of erosion and didn’t overflow. But hecautioned another heavy storm could changethat. Without a period to “dry out”, existingflows and saturated ground soil can increasethe risk of a flood.

Water concentrations in the ground make itsofter and make the wind another factor inflooding.

After a rain, trees carry a lot more water intheir leaves which makes them more top-

heavy. The extra weight and softer earth makesit more difficult for their roots to keep themupright. Throw in a strong wind and trees canstart falling over.

A tree that falls into the street can stop traf-fic. And a tree that falls into a creek can stopthe flow of water into the ocean. The waterbuilds up and soon the creek is flooding.

Swimming in flood water is a bad ideasaid Ben Petterle, director of WatershedPrograms for Santa Barbara Channelkeeper,a water quality advocacy group.

Petterle said that water from the moun-

tains carries pollutants from construction,agriculture, and residential activity thatnormally stay in the ground.

This water eventually ends out in the oceanwhich can raise bacteria to toxic levels.Petterle said it’s recommended to stay out ofthe water for 72 hours after significant rain-storms.

While there are a lot of dangers from toomuch rain, there isn’t as much to panic about.Rainfall is well above the average, butBenson points out that Santa Barbara’s rainyseason will be winding down soon.

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also wants to concentrate on building a goodrelationship with the high school staff toserve the students.

“For me it’s going to be important tobuild relationships with staff,” Becchio saidto the board. “And I think that’s a strong suitof mine so I really look forward to that.”

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Airline Terminal Solar Photovoltaic ProjectRFP Number: 5057March 17, 2011

The City of Santa Barbara, Airport Department is solicitingproposals for an Offeror designed, financed, constructed, owned,maintained and operated solar photovoltaic generating systemto be located onAirport property pursuant to a long term landlease / use arrangement. TheAirport will purchase all powergenerated by the system at a predetermined price pursuantto a power purchase agreement.

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______________________________William Hornung, C.P.M.General Services Manager

Summary of Ordinance 4781

An ordinance amending Chapter 26 of the county code to clarifyvarious uses at county parks and adopt new uses at CachumaLake Recreation Area consistent with the ResourceManagement Plan recently completed by the Bureau ofReclamation. [11-00129]

Passed, approved and adopted this 15th day of March, 2011,by the following vote:

Ayes: Supervisors Carbajal, Wolf, Farr, Gray and LavagninoNoes: NoneAbsent: NoneAbstain: None

MICHAEL H. ALLENCLERK OF THE BOARDBy: Robert Cohen, Deputy Clerk

NOTE:A complete copy of Ordinance Nos. 4781 is on file withthe Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and is available for publicinspection and copying in that office in accordance with theCalifornia Public Records Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing withSection 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1.


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Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor, whoseviolet eyes, tumultuous love life and passionfor diamonds epitomized Hollywood glamour,died on Wednesday at age 79.

The star of “Cleopatra” and “Who’s Afraidof Virginia Woolf?” died at Cedars-SinaiMedical Center in Los Angeles surrounded byfamily after a long battle with congestiveheart failure that sent her to the hospital sixweeks ago.

In a career spanning seven decades, Taylorfirst gained fame in 1944’s “National Velvet”at age 12 and was nominated for five Oscars.She won the best actress award for “Butterfield8” (1960) and “Who’s Afraid of VirginiaWoolf?” (1966) with actor Richard Burton,whom she would marry twice.

Taylor’s eight marriages, health problems,prescription drug addiction and ballooningweight often overshadowed her career, but sheovercame adversity and used her fame to advo-cate for causes such as AIDS education andresearch.

Her death triggered an outpouring of trib-utes from Hollywood luminaries like BarbraStreisand, recording stars such as Elton Johnand politicians including former president BillClinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Speaking for her family was her son,Michael Wilding, who called his mother, “anextraordinary woman who lived life to thefullest, with great passion, humor, and love.”

“It wasn’t just her beauty or her stardom. It washer humanitarianism. She put a face onHIV/AIDS,” Streisand said. John called her “aHollywood giant” and an incredible human being.

In a joint statement, the Clintons called her“thoroughly American royalty.”GLAMOROUS HOLLYWOOD LIFE

Taylor was born on February 27, 1932, inLondon toAmerican parents. She moved to theUnited States as a child and soon after her 10thbirthday landed the lead in the 1942 film“Lassie Come Home,” followed by her turn asa young girl who tames the fury of a wild horsein “National Velvet.”

She confirmed her star power in 1958 inTennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”and cemented her reputation as among thegreatest actresses of her generation playing afoul-mouthed alcoholic in “Who’s Afraid ofVirginia Woolf?”

She continued working through the 1970s,‘80s and ‘90s, taking a variety of roles inmovies and on television. In 1992, theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciencesgave her its humanitarian honor. Her lastmovie was the 1994 live action comedy “TheFlintstones.”

But Taylor’s fame went far beyond herscreen life. After marriages to hotel magnateConrad Hilton, British actor Michael Wildingand film producer Mike Todd, she found her-self in a scandalous love triangle with singerEddie Fisher and his wife actress DebbieReynolds, before marrying Fisher.

Reynolds, 78, was gracious in remembering

Taylor on Wednesday, calling her career longand productive and saying “no one else couldequal Elizabeth’s beauty and sexuality.”

While filming the lavish “Cleopatra”, at thetime the most expensive movie ever made, inRome in 1961, Taylor started a torrid affairwith her married co-star Burton. The pair firstwed in 1964 and Burton lavished her with fursand diamonds, including a $1 million pear-shaped jewel.

But the actorswere as famousfor their tempes-tuous relationshipas they were fortheir love. Theydivorced in 1974,only to remarry in1975 and divorceagain in 1976.

“We enjoyfighting,” Tayloronce said.“Having an out-and-out, outrageous, ridicu-lous fight is one of the greatest exercises inmarital togetherness.”

She also married U.S. Senator John Warnerand construction worker Larry Fortensky.“She was my ‘partner’ in laying the founda-tion for 30 years of public service in the U.S.Senate,” Warner said. “We were alwaysfriends—to the end.TRAGEDY ANDTRIUMPH

As she grew older, the Hollywood legendbegan drinking heavily and grew addicted toprescription drugs. Her weight ballooned andshe was lampooned by comedians. In 1983 sheentered the Betty Ford Center in California fortreatment.

Yet, she overcame those problems, andwhen her friend Rock Hudson died of AIDS in1985 she began a crusade to raise awarenessand money to treat the deadly disease.

“She was among the first to speak out onbehalf of people living with HIV when othersreacted with fear and often outright hostility,”said The American Foundation for AIDSResearch, of which Taylor was foundingnational chairman.

In May 2000, Taylor received the title“Dame,” the female equivalent of a knight-hood, from Queen Elizabeth.

When her friend Michael Jackson was triedand acquitted on child molestation charges in2005, she defended him in public.

In her final few years, the once legendarybeauty took to using a wheelchair in public tocope with crippling back pain, but she was stillmaking appearances at charity events.

She was first diagnosed with congestiveheart failure in 2004. She also had three hipreplacement operations, a benign brain tumor,skin cancer, pneumonia and heart surgery.

Taylor died surrounded by her children,Michael Wilding, Christopher Wilding, LizaTodd, and Maria Burton. In addition, she is sur-vived by 10 grandchildren and 4 great-grand-children.


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Known as a “points loan,” the city essential-ly bought down the interest rate by as much astwo points; if the interest rate at the time was 7percent, the city would buy it down to 5 percent.

Finally, city employees also had the oppor-tunity to have parts of their points loan forgiv-en by the city.

After 5 years of city employment, beginningwith the time of the loan, 25 percent of the loanwould be forgiven. If the employee stays for 10years, another 25 percent, for a maximum of 50percent of the points loan, would be forgiven.

“It is not lost money,” Samario said. “It isjust money that is in loans.”

Santa Barbara City Councilwoman MichaelSelf is outraged by the loan program. She saidthe city should not be in the business of pro-viding mortgage loans.

“We do not have the due diligence or thefiduciary understanding to implement a loanprogram,” Self said. “That is out of ourpurview. These people are getting benefits thatno private company could pay for.”

Employees were allowed to buy homeseven outside the city of Santa Barbara, fromCarpinteria to Gaviota. The loans wereapproved administratively, and not by thecouncil, although the council approved theparameters of the program.

Self said it’s one thing to loan money in2002 or 2003, but that loaning money to buyhomes in 2008 and beyond, after the mortgagemeltdown, makes no sense.

“Especially in 2008 and 2009, nobody wasreally lending money,” Self said. “So why arewe jumping in when the house of cards isfalling apart?”

In April of 2006, the city loaned $179,000 tohelp a city attorney buy a $1.8 million house.

In October of 2008, the city loaned$111,000 to a parks and recreation employee tobuy a $626,000 house.

The last loan the city did was in March of2009, when it loaned an employee in the planningdepartment $126,000 to buy a $700,000 house.

That was the most recent loan the city gaveout. Why did the city stop?

It depleted the fund. It ran out of money.“Probably everything from the middle of

2007 is upside down,” Self said.The councilwoman believes the program

should be suspended. The council should notgive any more loans or fund the programagain, she said.

“We should work to recoup what we canwith the existing loans,” said Self, “and notwalk into this wall again.”

The council doesn’t have the legal authorityto “foreclose” on a property, so it is unclearhow, or if, the city would ever be able to recov-er money lent on properties where the value isnow lower than the amount of the loans.

Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider saidthe council was trying to figure out creativeways to recruit and retain employees.At the timethe program was approved, the median price ofa home in Santa Barbara was about $1 million.

“The cost of employee turnover in the mid-90s was significant enough that the councilthought this was a good recruitment and retentiontool,” said Schneider who noted that the programwas approved before she was on the council.

She said the city must honor these loans,which are contracts with the employees

“These were contracts the city made withcertain individuals and the council cannot justrenege on the contract,” Schneider said.

Schneider, however, acknowledged that it wastime to revisit the program to determine whathappens to city money if banks foreclose on aproperty.

“I don’t think anyone would have seen thishappening in the mid-90s,” Schneider said.

Salomon, however, said the city shouldn’tbe loaning taxpayer money in the first place.

“These people sat there and watched thisgo on,” Salomon said. “No one did anything.A large percentage of this money will neverbe recovered.”

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