SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The California State Parks Department has grant funding available and it is doing outreach with communities in more than 40 areas to receive community suggestions on how it should be spent.
A meeting was held in Santa Barbara Tuesday morning at MacKenzie Park and, later in the day, a similar gathering was held in Paso Robles.
Assistant Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Director Jazmin LeBlanc said, “we keep an active eye out for every grant opportunity available and try to strike when the iron is hot, when we’ve got a project and there is a grant match, we try to pursue that.”…