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Retired Employees of Santa Barbara County
RESBC is a voluntary non-profit retiree organization. Membership is available exclusively to retired employees of Santa Barbara County and their spouses. Membership dues are deducted from the retired member’s monthly County pension allowance. For more information, click on the Organization tab.
2025 Q2 Newsletter Available
If you look in the Newsletter area (link to the left of most pages) you should find the 2025 Quarter #2 (ie: April, May, June) Newsletter is available for viewing.
(5/18/2025)
Melodrama Event (11/2/2024) Pictures Added
Pictures from this event have been added to the Gallery. Use the link on the left side of most pages to view the Gallery, and then click on the appropriate link there.
(03/18/2025)
2025 Q1 Newsletter Available
If you look in the Newsletter area (link to the left of most pages) you should find the 2025 Quarter #1 (ie: January, February, March) Newsletter is available for viewing.
(2/24/2025)
CALENDAR UPCOMING EVENTS
6/9/25 Luncheon at Santa Barbara Hyatt Resort by the beach
7/27/25 Pantages Theater: Neil Diamond "A Beautiful Noise"
9/9/25 Luncheon at Zaca Mesa Winery
9/21/25 Baseball: Dodgers vs Giants
10/19/25 Pantages Theater: Les Miserables
12/4/25 Luncheon: Christmas celebration at Buellton Marriott
We are very happy to announce we have a new Board member, Claude Rateau. He is a retired IT specialist who is making time to serve on our board to find out what we're all about. Claude is the expert who has been helping us load newsletters and photos onto the website for you to enjoy and catch up with event. Welcome aboard, Claude. Thank you for offering your time and talents for the benefit our our retirees, As of April 1st, RESBC has 2,416 retiree members!
Event Pictures
Pictures will be posted in the Gallery usually within a few weeks after the event. They can be seen by using the link on the left side of the page to view them. I, and the RESBC Board of Directors, greatly appreciate the assistance from Claude R. for helping to upload information into our website.
LUNCHEONS
Our next luncheon will be at the Mar-Monte-Hyatt Hotel in Santa Barbara. It is a beautiful location, and it should be a very enjoyable event. We will have a buffet lunch to expedite all members will have their meal as soon as possible. Due to the extremely high cost for the lunch, we have to charge $25 per member. As of today, 5/18/25, we have 90 reservations and only 10 seats left as we are limited to 100 people. See your newsletter for the QR code.
For those of you who have difficulty with the QR code for registering, call me, Tony Manuel, right away if you are interested in attending a function. We decided on the on-line registration process to make it more fair for events with limited seating. We have received some mail registrations within a few days, others have taken a week to arrive. The QR code registers you with date and time, so it's first come first registered.
SOCIAL EVENTS
We are doing something new! Finally! We found the American Bus Company in San Luis Obispo has the same coaches as Santa Barbara Bus company but is able to start pick up locations in Santa Maria and Buellton! Now our North County and SLO county members do not have to drive all the way to Santa Barbara to enjoy our social events! See the additional bus pickup location information in the flyers in our newsletter. Let us know you appreciate the additional locations (and costs) by signing up for those southern California events!
We've sold out on our Reagan Library Event. We only had 50 tickets available, which is one full bus, and so we delayed the registration opening for several days after everyone should have received our February newsletter to give everyone an equal chance to purchase a ticket, and your responses were overwhelmingly fast! We sold out in 6 days! Wow! The trip was long, but the venue was worth every minute on the bus. It seems our new bus company's additional stops in North County were very well received by our members.
I hope you all understand the Board takes chances when we decide on events, that if we buy too many tickets and they do not all get sold, that we could have a (large) loss due to unsold tickets. Thus far, we have made good choices that everyone enjoyed.
In the past, we've had really enthusiastic trips to the Dodgers ballgame, but the trip last year was skipped because we were unable to get seats in a shaded part of the stadium. The Board figured we could not stand the hot summer sun behind 3rd base! This year, we will have tickets to the Dodgers vs Giants game on September 21st! Mark your calendars. All seats will go on sale soon, watch for the flyer in your next newsletter! NOTE: As of 5/18/25, we only have 2 seats left!
We will also have another social event at the Pantages on July 27th. We will go to the Pantages theater to see Neil Diamond! This should be a very popular event, so don't wait when you get your newsletter, register right away. We were able to snag 93 seats in a couple of good locations. We do expect all the seats to be sold out quickly, so have your phones ready to view that QR code! NOTE: as of 5/18/25 we have sold 83 seats! Register soon if you would like to go. See your newsletter for the correct QR code.
We added another event at the Pantages: Les Miserables. We will have lots of seats available, but don't wait too long after you receive our newslette in August. We expect all seats to be sold out quickly, so mark your calenders.
If you have any questions regarding RESBC events, or any suggestions for future events and outings, please use the "Contact" link in the menu on the left. We ask for ideas from you, our members, on what kind of events you would like RESBC to plan. We would love YOU, our members, to join our Event Planning Team for fresh event ideas as well as help in planning or executing future social events. Contact President Tony or Secretary Mark if you are interested in joining the Team. Job duties would be light, and occasional.
THANK YOU
Thank you for all your responses to our surveys. We had a wonderful response to our survey at the Christmas luncheon. We were so excited that many of you volunteered to help in various ways. Our newest Board Member, Teressa, compiled all the information for the board to review, and as a result, Teressa has contacted the respondent volunteers for more information. The survey results will be posted in our next newsletter.
Please make sure we have your correct email address in case we want to contact you about exciting local events or happenings. If you are not receiving our newsletters, contact SBCERS to ensure they have your correct contact information.
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