Salud Carbajal
officially new supes chair
Third
District Supervisor Brooks Firestone gave a farewell speech and 1st District
Supervisor Salud Carbajal
took his seat as the new chair of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors
Dec. 8.
“Financial
considerations are going to be our driving force for the next year and some
things are going to be very difficult,” Firestone said. “I think we’re prepared
for that; our actions this year have defined the issue, and as well as we
possibly could be, we are going into the New Year prepared to address these
issues very positively. I would like to thank this board for all the good days
I had here in 2007.”
Carbajal will serve as the chair of the board
through 2008. The board chair is revolving and changing every year.
Fifth
District Supervisor Joseph Centeno is scheduled to be
the 2009 board chair.
Firestone has been exemplary in how we should conduct
ourselves as chair and has been a great role model for this board, Carbajal said.