Finance Board Leg Council Opposes Bypassed Für Foot Patrol Funding By RAY BORST Assistant Campus Editor Election Funds In response to Chancellor Robert Huttenback’s plan to use student registration fees to fund the Isla Vista Foot Patrol, the Associated By BILL DIEPENBROCK Students Legislative Council passed a bill opposing the action at Nexus Reporter Wednesday’s meeting. The Associated Students The bill “ strongly urges” Huttenback to find an alternative source of Legislative Council bypassed its funding for the Isla Vista Foot Patrol and requests a public hearing on Finance Board for the fourth time the matter by the end of this Fall quarter. this year by allocating $191 to the Funding for the I.V. Foot Patrol will no longer come from the Isla Vista Community Council for Regent’s Opportunity Fund, Vice Chancellor for Student and Com­ advertisement of the upcoming munity Affairs Edward Birch said. “ We are trying to recover state I V. elections at its meeting funds for them (Foot Patrol) or tap into education fee reserves that Wednesday night, Finance Board would not normally come back to this university,” he added. Chair Laurie Geha said. “ We are going on the chancellor’s declaration that there is only a slim Geha cited three other times chance that state monies or ed fees earmarked for Fdot Patrol will be when Leg Council, which has the obtained,” A.S. President Mark Schwartz said. legal power to decide on financial If these sources cannot be secured, “ the only recourse that we see at matters in emergencies, has this time is to use reg fees,” Birch said. bypassed Finance Board at times Assistant Chancellor for Budget and Administrative Operations when the circumstances seemed to Roger Horton said a decision on alternative funding from University of her not of enough importance to California President David Gardner should be determined within one merit this special treatment. week. Workload demands for all U.C. campuses are being evaluated, he “It’s upsetting because it said. bypasses our power. It makes us Schwartz labeled the Foot Patrol funding “ the most important issue feel insignificant. We are we have addressed this year.” He added, “ University police depart­ ultimately reponsible for the ments are not student services. ’ ’ finances. People come to us with “ This (reg fee funding for the Foot Patrol) shows that the chancellor complaints,” Geha explained. can impose a fee on a non-student services and can go over the heads of “ They (Leg Council) can bypass the students to do it,” the bill’s author, Off-Campus Representative Tom Finance Board in emergency Thurlow said. situations, but these were not such Thurlow cited a letter from Registration Fee Advisory Committee emergencies in my opinion. Leg ___________ ___________ Chair Steven Jeffries stating that the committee was not properly Council should take into con­ A new approach to environmental studies. DANA PEPPER/N«xu* consulted regarding the funding. “ The committee is supposed to have a sideration our more carefully real say in what goes on,” he added. weighed decisions, ” she said. Huttenback has said he will use reg fees if other monies are not A.S. President Mark Schwartz available, Birch said. Consulting the Registration Fee Advisory saw the situation differently. Candidates Vie For Committee, “ could be done and should be done” when it becomes clear “ Although it is within Leg Coun­ that the monies will not come from other sources, he said. cil’s authority to make decisions on In other matters, Leg Council approved the resignations of Off- financial matters, and we do have Open Council Seats Campus representative Raymond Okamoto, Rep-At-Large Greg to take responsibility for Finance Wadsworth, and On-Campus Rep Rowland Hill. The representatives Board decisions, whenever By DEBBIE NESTOR works at the Isla Vista Credit announced their resignations Monday in order to bring attention to possible they should be dealt with Nexus Reporter Union, said. abuses in the current A.S. goverment, they said. by Finance Board. Occasionally, Isla Vista residents will elect Conn graduated from U.C. Irvine In a letter read by A.S. proxy Marianne Zappella, the resigning however, we’ll have extenuating new Community Council members with a degree in Social Ecology. representatives charged, “ ASUCSB has not fulfilled its obligations to circumstances which do not permit on Nov. 8 in an attempt to fill the “ That gives me background in how the students of UCSB.” Specifically, the letter charged a lack of attempt Finance Board to address financial nine available seats. to develop a local community into to reform the electoral process, a failure in pushing for incorporation of decisions, so we must bypass IVCC Chair Marc Borgman said a city,” she said. A.S., failure to address the housing problem and the lack of student Finance Board,” Schwartz said. six community seats and three at- “I’m definitely for I.V. in­ input in faculty tenure. One incident Geha protested large seats are open. Currently, corporation. We should pursue that The letter cited political infighting, ineffectual leadership, and involved the council’s recent there are six candidates running, to the the utmost of our abilities,” reactionist policies as problems A.S. must solve. allocation of $600 to the Central he said. “ Write-ins are a definite she added. “ We are resigning at this time to draw students’ attention to this American Awareness Group to possibility.” Besides incorporation, Conn crisis in student government at UCSB. We feel that the systematic help pay for film rentals. This Diane Conn, Greg Aller, Glen thinks the major issues in I.V. are suppression of dissenting opinions has made us unwilling accomplices allocation was made in addition to Lazof, Mitch Stockton, Michael underground utilities problems to this charade of student representation,” the letter stated. the Finance Board’s previous Boyd, and Malcolm Gault- and organizing for the upcoming “ It shows a great lack of understanding of the policies, procedures approval of $475 toward the same Williams are the candidates on the Olympics. “ We need to start and minor workings of A.S.,” Schwartz responded. “ It’s just not true. project. The board had decided ballot. planning for the hordes of people We have addressed and will continue to work on all the issues according that until certain actions were “ I ’ve been a resident of I. V. for a that will come to Santa Barbara to the prioritized list set up at the A.S. retreat.” taken to organize the event, it number of years and have been for the Olympics,” she explained. Rep-At-Large Nancy Freire said they have valid points but should would hold off from allocating involved with several institutions. Glen Lazof, the incumbent from have stayed on A.S. “ We shouldn’t feel threatened by this. They are further funds, Geha said. I am interested in seeing I.V. in­ the fourth district who graduated entitled to their view,” she said. However, as time ran out, the corporated,” Conn, the candidate from UCSB in 1978 with a degree in money was needed, and the group for the first district, who currently (Please turn to pg.9, col.l) went directly to Leg Council. “ The things I ’m upset about have been happening for a long time,” Geha stated. “ I ’ve been Oil Lease Proposal Creates Controversy frustrated because I ’ve tried to deal with these problems by taking them to people with the power to Commissions Debate Decision Lease Proposal Rejected change them. Yet they continue. I By JON KAPLAN By DEBBIE NESTOR think that there are a lot of people Nexus Reporter Nexus Reporter who are justifiably upset that a few A debate is being waged between the State Lands, Commission and In an 8-4 vote, the California Coastal Commission last week turned execs and Leg Council members the California Coastal Commission over the Coastal Commission’s down the federal government’s proposal to lease 2 million acres of wield a lot of power. I think that recent denial of oil lease permits California’s outer continental shelf for oil and gas development. they take advantage of the The debate centers around eight parcels of land between Pt. Con­ The proposed sale, lease sale 73, included coastal waters stretching situation,” she said. ception and P t. Arguello, and concerns which agency has the from Pt. Conception to Pt. Arguello. Finance Board member Jack jurisdiction to approve or deny oil leasing permits in the area. The “ Lease sale 73 is an enormous lease sale,” Carla Frisk, a Meyers agreed. “ It seems as if Leg Coastal Commission maintains that it must issue a permit for the spokesperson for Assemblymember Jack O’Connell (D-Santa Bar­ Council is defeating their own project, but the Lands Commission denies that it needs the Coastal bara), said. system. What they are doing Commission’s permission to go ahead with the sale. “ The proposed lease sale, in conjunction with the proposed state through their bypassing of Finance “ The elected officials have ultimate jurisdiction on the matter,” lease sale and lease sale 80, has the potential to double oil and gas Board is introducing a margin of State Lands Commission Executive Officer Claire Dedrick said. production off Santa Barbara’s coastline,” Dianne Guzman, director error. This margin stems from Manager of the Coastal Commission Energy Division Tom Tobin of the Santa Barbara County Resource Management Department said decisions made without total insists, however, that his department was granted jurisdiction on the in testimony prepared for the Coastal Commission hearing. research and investigation of the matter by a judge. “ The Lands Commission can’t go ahead with the “ It is basically the Watt-type of thing, develop everything now and proposed expenditure,” he said.