Department Organization

Department Functions

Administer the customer and commuter parking programs.  Park and process over five million vehicles per year.  Administer Parking & Business Improvement Area District providing for 75 minute free parking program.

Operate a high quality public parking system in the downtown area.  Staff and maintain nine parking lots and five parking structures with a total of over 3,000 parking stalls, serving over 5 million vehicles annually.  Provide customer accounting and billing services.  Provide grounds keeping and general maintenance services for 14 parking facilities.  Perform routine and emergency maintenance and repairs on computerized revenue control equipment.

Plan for and fund long-term capital maintenance programs.  Approximately 120 hourly employees are used to staff and provide excellent customer service in cashier booths as well as assist in routine maintenance needs.

Administer the Downtown employee, alternative transportation and parking programs.  Market the use of alternative transportation programs in the Downtown area.  Educate employees and employers on parking impacts and alternatives.  Manage the on-street resources for resident parking in the Downtown, City College and upper Modoc areas.  Coordinate program objectives and the initiatives with SBCAG (Traffic Solutions), MTD and Downtown merchants.  Administer the Downtown Parking funding of Alternative Transportation programs for MTD.

v      Beach parking is provided by the Waterfront Department.

v      Airport parking is provided by a private concessionaire

v      Parking Citations are handled by the Police Department

      Victor Garza,
     Parking / TMP Superintendent,
     VGarza@SantaBarbaraCA.gov

Rebecca Jimenez                                         Dion Tait
Parking Supervisor (Operations)                Parking Supervisor (Maintenance)
RJimenez@SantaBarbaraCA.gov                DTait@SantaBarbaraCA.gov 

Roy Forney                                                    James Hernandez
Parking Coordinator                                Maintenance Crew Leader
RForney@SantaBarbaraCA.gov                 JHernandez@SantaBarbaraCA.gov
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Arianna Castellanos                                    Brandon Beaudette
Parking Coordinator                                Administrative Assistant
ACastellanos@SantaBarbaraCA.gov           Bbeaudette@SantaBarbaraCA.gov

Justin Berman                                              Jay Hillje
Parking Coordinator                                Parking Resource Specialist
JBerman@SantaBarbaraCA.gov                 JHillje@SantaBarbaraCA.gov