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The Water Vision Stakeholder Group

The City has invited 30 community leaders representing the diverse water needs of our community to participate in the Water Vision Stakeholder Group. The group formation follows a stakeholder mapping exercise while the group size blends manageability with an equitable representation of the 8 stakeholder segments the City identified.

Each delegate of the Water Vision Stakeholder Group will be asked to share the perspective of their constituents/customers within 5 interactive and educational workshops scheduled from April through January 2021. All insight gathered from the group will be summarized and shared with the public, relevant staff, Water Commission, and City Council to inform key decisions in the plan.

Stakeholder Group Participating Organizations

	STAKEHOLDER SEGMENT	ORGANIZATIONS
4%	Agricultural Water Users	Santa Barbara County Farm Bureau (Inactive, asked to stay informed)
11%	Citizen Groups and Community Leaders	Allied Neighborhoods Association Bonnie Donovan
		Mission Canyon Neighborhood Association Jason Saltoun-Ebin
		Neighborhood Advisory Council Ann Pena
14%	Economic Development and Tourism	Greater Santa Barbara Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Miguel Avila
		Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce Stephanie Armstrong
		Santa Barbara Rental Property Association Danyelle Mason (Inactive, asked to stay informed)
		Visit Santa Barbara Kathy Janega-Dykes (Inactive, asked to stay informed)
11%	Environmental and Conservation Groups	Community Environmental Council April Price
		Heal the Ocean Hillary Hauser
		Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Molly Troup
18%	Human Rights to Water	Black Lives Matter Santa Barbara / Healing Justice / Sea No Enemy Chris Ragland
		Food and Water Watch Danyelle Mason
		La Casa de la Raza Ana Rosa Rizo-Centino
		Santa Barbara Rescue Mission Tim Molloy
		UCSB Pan Asian Network Rachel Ng
14%	Land Use	Citizens Planning Association of Santa Barbara County Betsy Cramer
		City of Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Commission Nicol Parmelee
		City of Santa Barbara Parks Planning Commission Gabriel (Gabe) Escobedo
		Santa Barbara Association of Realtors Krista Pleiser
14%	Large Water Users	Cottage Health (Inactive, asked to stay informed)
		Santa Barbara City College Luz Reyes-Martin
		Santa Barbara Unified School District Meg Jetté (Inactive, asked to stay informed)
		Santa Barbara Zoo Chris Briggs (Inactive, asked to stay informed)
11%	Perspective on Issues/Challenges	American Institute of Architects (AIA) Santa Barbara Paul Zink (Inactive, asked to stay informed)
		American Society of Landscape Architects (SLA) SoCal Susan Van Atta
		Santa Barbara Contractors Association (Inactive, asked to stay informed)
4%	Tribes	Barbareno Band of Chumash Indians (Inactive, asked to stay informed)

Last Updated: Dec 9, 2020