Once again, the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation named Santa Clarita as one of the five most business friendly cities in all of Los Angeles County. Santa Clarita was selected because of our business-friendly practices, including no business license fee or tax, no utility users' fee, effective communication with the business community and a low unemployment rate. Santa Clarita was selected from among 88 Los Angeles cities. This year's additions of our new City/Sheriff Business Alliance program and our Enterprise Zone program were part of the reason why Santa Clarita once again received this prestigious designation. We will continue to work to strengthen business relationships and help support and promote our local businesses.

As part of the City's on-going emergency preparation exercises, on November 17 the City and College of the Canyons will sponsor a free Drive-thru flu shot clinic. The clinic is available to the public from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm in the College of the Canyon Parking lots 7 & 8. This drive-thru flu shot clinic is being done in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Students from the College's School of nursing will be administering the flu shots along with the Public Health nurses. The City's emergency volunteers and amateur radio volunteer will also be supporting this clinic which will also help train emergency responders for this type of emergency.

I am very proud to share with you our new Sheriff's website. This new site was designed by our City's Technology staff and Sheriff's deputies and provides up-to-date information regarding crime prevention, statistical information, vacation check requests, crime trends, events and so much more. I encourage you to bookmark this site and use it to learn about how the City and local law enforcement are helping to keep our community safe. The address is www.scvsheriff.com.

As we enter the busy holiday season, I want to encourage you to take extra care driving around town. It is important that we all keep our speed within the posted limits, and obey all traffic signs. As always, feel free to email me at: kpulskamp@santa-clarita.com

Best regards,
Ken Pulskamp