County is Claiming Significantly Increased Retirement Costs

Subject: FW: Signficant pension increases ahead From: “Miyasato, Mona” <mmiyasato@countyofsb.org> Date: November 7, 2016 at 4:08:28 PM PST To: “Alvarez, Tom” <toalvarez@countyofsb.org>, and others Subject: Signficant pension increases ahead Dear Department Directors: As you may have heard, the SBCERS Board of Retirement recently voted to change its actuarial assumptions, which determine our pension contribution.  Specifically,…

Santa Barbara Deputy District Attorney Association Urges a No Vote on Prop. 57

Prop. 57 claims to only apply to non-violent offenders, however, the plain language of proposition tells another story.  Instead, Prop. 57 amends the California Constitution to allow the state prison bureaucracy to undercut lengthy sentences of career violent offenders without any court or voter oversight.  After 5 straight years of shortening prison sentences and decriminalizing…