Other Community Organizations
The
new Council began to create other options. For example, IVCC's
Planning Commission developed and implemented the beginnings
of a bikeway system and other auto-reduction programs. The Planning
Commission also negotiated the student bus pass system with
the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit Authority in which UCSB
students pay a low fixed-cost per quarter through student fees
and ride the bus free; the system still operates today. The
Planning Commission also designed and oversaw the construction
of Anisq'Oyo Park, which was funded primarily by the federal
government but granted to the Isla Vista Recreation and Park
District (IVRPD).
The IVRPD itself was also initiated by IVCC's Planning Commission.
Established by a citizen-vote in late 1972, the Park District
remains today the only official local government unit with taxing
authority completely controlled by I.V. residents; its five-member
board of directors is elected by the registered voters of I.V.
(excluding campus and Francisco Torres residents) to staggered
four-year terms in Novembers of odd-numbered years. A request
to include F.T. and the campus in the District's boundaries
was later rejected by County officials.
These organizations eventually took on a life of their own:
Isla Vista voters in 1975 passed a $1,115,000 bond measure
(ironically, the same amount of money that Tom Storke was paid
when he sold his land to the UC Regents for what is now Storke
Campus) and the IVRPD is now the biggest landowner in town.
Other organizations sprang up in that period, most resulting
from a special committee of the IVCC:
The IVCC in 1976 obtained a grant that allowed the Medical
Clinic to purchase the Isla Vista Service Center building at
970 Embarcadero del Mar, a building that is currently undergoing
an expansion that will double its size. See Chapter 10.
The Youth Project and Children's Center are now one organization.
The Human Relations Center has moved to Goleta, but an offshoot,
the Community Counseling Center, remains
The Food Co-op is still going strong, while the Credit Union
still converts the savings of some residents into loans to others.
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