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For almost 100 years, Santa Barbara City College has provided excellent and affordable higher education to students preparing to go on to four-year colleges, offered job skills and training for high demand careers, trained thousands of professionals, including computer programmers, restaurateurs, hotel managers, criminologists, graphic artists, automobile technicians, environmental horticulturalists, nurses, nursing aids, Emergency Medical Technicians, radiographers and others in the health care fields, and provided lifelong learning opportunities to local residents.

Measure V will allow SBCC to make essential improvements addressing critical health, safety and access issues, and install energy efficient and water conservation systems.

  • One half of local high school graduates continue their studies at SBCC.
  • Almost 19,000 students attend classes each semester, most working toward a certificate, degree or transfer credit.
  • Annually 50,000 local residents participate in skill building, vocational and lifelong learning programs through Adult Education at over 87 facilities from Goleta to Carpinteria. 

Measure V will improve SBCC by: 

  • Improving and modifying existing facilities to accommodate new programs to help students prepare for jobs and/or transfer to 4-year universities.
  • Upgrading aging classrooms and labs with new technology, equipment, wiring and computers.
  • Updating classrooms and technology for nursing, radiography and other healthcare career programs.
  • Making all buildings, classrooms and community facilities accessible to people with disabilities.
  • Improving facilities for programs that help students develop essential literacy and English skills.
  • Implementing green building guidelines to create healthy work and learning environments with natural light and air flow.
  • Implementing new federal and State emergency/disaster response requirements. 

Measure V protects taxpayers by requiring: 

  • All funds be used locally to improve SBCC; no funds can go to the State or for teacher or administrator salaries.
  • Annual public audits.
  • Independent citizen oversight of all spending. 

Measure V is a wise investment, and will qualify SBCC for over $92 million in State matching funds, making our local tax dollars go twice as far. 

SBCC is a major contributor to the long-term economic health of the South Coast. 

Please join us in investing in our local community college.