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By Giana Magnoli, Noozhawk Managing Editor | @magnoli March 11, 2021 | 3:33 p.m. The 11-member redistricting commission was created by a voter-approved ballot measure and is tasked with drawing new boundaries for the five county supervisor districts. Four firms initially submitted proposals to be the commission’s legal counsel, and members interviewed three of those firms in early February: Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni LLP; Scott Rafferty; and Strumwasser & Woocher LLP. Commission members voted to hire Strumwasser & Woocher, and the majority of the Board of Supervisors voted to approve the $200,000 contract after discussion. Attorney Mark Meuser representing The Coalition of Labor, Agriculture and Business sent a letter to the county threatening litigation if the Strumwasser & Woocher contract was approved. ....
Her plan for now is to resume running her technology consulting company Longtime Goleta school board member Susan Epstein, pauses to takes a selfie with the large crowd at the March for Science event in De La Guerra Plaza in Santa Barbara in April 2017. She was emcee for the event. (Brooke Holland / Noozhawk file photo) By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina December 19, 2020 | 9:35 p.m. Long before Susan Epstein was a Goleta Union School District board member, she was writing stories as a student journalist during her sophomore year of high school. She wrote an award-winning investigative piece, an expose, as she recalls it, on a sudden proposal to eliminate electives at her school. It was in accordance with state law, Epstein s principal told her at the time. Showing early signs of her analytical style, Epstein deep-dived into the story, discovered it was a choice, not a mandate, to eliminate electives. She broke the story. ....