A piercing alert from the State of California warning of the rapid spread of COVID-19 punctuated the Board of Supervisors meeting at noon on Tuesday, a redundant reminder in a hearing that included a good hour and a half of commentary about state overreach in imposing the shutdown order.
The chair of the hearing, Supervisor Gregg Hart, asked repeatedly for the 45 speakers signed up to air their views on the shutdown to recognize that the board was going to vote on a letter to Governor Newsom requesting the removal of Santa Barbara County from the Southern California Region and instead place it with Ventura and San Luis Obispo in a new Central Coast Region.
“The sooner we can send the letter to the governor, the better,” Hart said to them.