Food trucks and events serving food will pay more after Santa Barbara County’s Environmental Health Services announced changes to the costs of its annual health permits.
The county Board of Supervisors approved the new rate structure for health permits on Tuesday, allowing EHS to fully recoup the cost of providing services funded by the fees.
Mouhanad Hammami, the director of county Public Health, told the board that the changes would not affect its programs or services. The adjustments would allow the department to recover costs as the cost of its services has changed…