AnonymousSource: Santa Barbara County
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department is pleased to announce that Lars Seifert has been hired as the Environmental Health Services Director for the County of Santa Barbara. Seifert comes with extensive experience working in governmental environmental health programs in Imperial County and more recently, San Diego County.
Seifert served as the Chief of the Land & Water Quality Division for the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health. Seifert was responsible for the fiscal, personnel, and operational management, and planning oversight of 14 distinct environmental protection programs. He directed and implemented strategic initiatives and operational objectives for County and Cal/EPA-delegated environmental enforcement and monitoring programs. Seifert managed land development review, water quality protection programs, acquisitions, community plans, and proposed public infrastructure projects.
“We welcome Mr. Seifert to Santa Barbara County and appreciate the value that his 20 years of leadership experience will add to the Public Health Department’s Environmental Health Services Division. His commitment to customer service, community engagement, staff mentoring, and project management will be key to ensuring the high quality of services we aim to provide our community,” said Paige Batson, Deputy Director for Community Health.
In addition, Seifert coordinated messaging and operational responses to community health risks associated with wildfires, beach water quality impairments, safety of drinking water supplies, substandard housing conditions, as well as sewage and chemical spills.
“I look forward to supporting the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department in the delivery of quality environmental services and to be provided an opportunity to engage local communities in the protection of public health and to ensure a sustainable environment for the future,” shared Seifert.
Seifert will join the Santa Barbara County Environmental Health Services team on Monday, October 26, 2020.
When evaluating claims like this, you should consider the source, which is neither transparent, nor California.
“Transparent California” is just one of the many names used by the tax-exempt “free-market think tank” Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI). NPRI refuses to divulge its own funding sources, stating, “NPRI respects the privacy of our donors, which includes the amount of a donor’s gift”.
NPRI’s primary funding source, as determined by The Conservative Transparency Project, is Donors Capital Fund, a dark-money source of funding for conservative groups. Its donors also include The Cato Institute, co-founded by the Koch brothers, and organizations affiliated with the climate change denial movement.
NPRI spends 75% of its revenue on six-figure salaries and benefits. Its goal is to undermine support for employee unions nationwide, thereby decreasing salaries and increasing corporate profits.
If their goal is to undermine support for unions then I am 100% behind them! Unions Made sense 75 years ago but are now a public nuisance. They act contrary to the public good and aid and abet bad teachers a bad police officers from ever being fired/disciplined.
6:19 pm: Who needs a middle class, anyway?
Unions aren’t giving us a middle class, they are giving us a special class that is immune to oversight or correction. Our teachers union holds us hostage as they continually bargain against our kids and the police union protects bad cops any and every way. UCSB is obligated to hire union contractors so they go out of LA and the project costs twice as much and locals lose out. Unions were important… but things change in 100 years And now they work directly against the common good of the low, middle and upper class.
You’re misguided, but that’s normal.
When the Deputy Director Batson costs taxpayers $169,114 a year, what exactly will this new Director hire cost county taxpayers? Paige A Batson
Program/Business Leader-General (2016)
Regular pay:$102,592.00
Overtime pay:$0.00
Other pay:$6,809.00
Total pay:$109,401.00
Benefits:$59,713.00
Total pay & benefits:$169,114.00
People cost money. Do you have a point?
Taxpayers provide this money. What are we getting in return and why should this be kept hidden when announcing new hires put on the taxpayers account? Took a private organization like Transparent California to finally let taxpayers know our armies “civil servants” were in fact not “underpaid” as they always claim. Make it a practice – let taxpayers know what their employees are costing them. And who in fact is writing their paychecks – our elected officials — who are compromised by insider endorsements and re-election support.