The 1980s
Also in 1983, the County stopped its funding of the Isla Vista
Community Council. The vote was 3-2 against the $10,000 allocation
that the County had supplied since 1978. While Wallace voted
for the request, he again was unable to secure the support of
the other "environmentalist" on the-board--this time
Toru Miyoshi from Santa Maria--for the third vote.
UCSB,
then under the leadership of Chancellor Robert Huttenback and
Vice-Chancellor Ed Birch, jumped on the bandwagon. Within a
week of the County's decision to defund the IVCC, UCSB announced
it was ending its $10,000 annual grant to the IVCC, and that
they were ending all of their funding of I.V. service programs--except
police. However, Huttenback shifted the payment of the University's
one-half of the Foot Patrol costs from administrative sources
to student fees. That meant that all UCSB undergraduates, even
those who lived in Goleta and Santa Barbara, were now paying
for I.V.'s Foot Patrol.
The County, however, continued funding I.V. social service programs,
but only at a level of about $60,000 per year.
By the mid-l980s, I.V.'s community-building movement had run
out of steam, and in 1987, the Isla Vista Community Council--once
the fountainhead of that force--went inactive.
While many of the institutions spawned during the early 1970s
have remained as viable organizations, the major goal of establishing
a city in Isla Vista eluded the grasp of its elected leadership.
It is to the subject of Isla Vista Cityhood that we turn next.
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