The Santa Barbara City Council voted Tuesday to give $500,000 to organizations that will help immigrants whose families have been separated by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement efforts.

The council agreed to give $130,000 to the Immigrant Legal Defense Center and $370,000 to The Fund for Santa Barbara, which will work with nonprofit organizations to help the immigrant community.

The vote was 5-1, with Mayor Randy Rowse voting in opposition. Councilwoman Wendy Santamaria, who had abstained from the vote three weeks ago, voted in support. Councilman Mike Jordan was absent.

“We haven’t even begun to see the heartache that is going to start when school starts,” Councilwoman Kristen Sneddon said. “We are not prepared as a community for all that is to come.”

Sneddon said she is not done and plans to continue the effort to help immigrants, adding that the financial commitment should be an effort that remains for as long as necessary.

Rowse opposed the vote, citing his conservative fiscal tendencies.

“We’re overcommitting many of our resources,” Rowse said. “Where they are going to fall are on cuts that people in low-income neighborhoods tend to depend on.”

He said after-school programs and library hours could be hurt.

“We’re going to have to make this up from somewhere,” Rowse said.

Councilwoman Meagan Harmon said her role as a City Council member is to ensure community safety.

“This action, this allocation today, is really fundamentally about ensuring community safety — for our whole community,” Harmon said.

The city will take the money from its Housing and Homelessness Flexible Funding allocation, and then meet later in the year to backfill the money.