San Luis Obispo City staff is recommending that city officials agree to raise property taxes, promote marijuana businesses, reduce services and increase employee benefit contributions in an attempt to address a $8.9 million budget deficit.
Amid declining interest rates, SLO’s unfunded pension liabilities hit $148 million in June 2016. As pension costs have shot up, so has the city’s budget expenditures. Read More …
OPINION by MIKE BROWN Last year when Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced that it wished to close the Diablo Nuclear Power Plant by 2025, the San Luis Obispo County sought Read More …
Following the lead of Grover Beach, the city of Morro Bay adopted an ordinance that allows brick and mortar medical marijuana dispensaries to open. On Tuesday, the Morro Bay City Council Read More …
Home buyers who purchase properties at the planned Avila Ranch development near the San Luis Obispo airport will get assessed with a special tax of $2,000-$3,000 a year on top of Read More …
OPINION by STEWART JENKINS Public private partnerships are in vogue. The notion is that private companies contribute something to provide what a government should provide, with the company profiting and the Read More …
An administrative law judge for the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a proposed ruling against the settlement agreement between PG&E and local government agencies over the expected closure of Diablo Canyon. The agreement that is now at risk of being overturned calls for PG&E to dole out $85 million as compensation for lost tax revenue because of the closure of the power plant. Read More …
The popular online home rental platform Airbnb erred while implementing a tax agreement it struck with San Luis Obispo County and taxed guests who stayed at properties within city limits. Airbnb Read More …
By KAREN VELIE Amid allegations of threats and backroom deals, Grover Beach has whittled down the list of 12 candidates for two medical marijuana dispensary slots to seven. And at the top of the list of seven are applicants who are political donors.
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OPINION by JULIE TACKER As the cost of the investigation into Arroyo Grande Mayor Hill continues to climb, it occurs to me that the outcomes should have been analyzed in the Read More …
OPINION by T. KEITH GURNEE On Aug. 15, all five members of the San Luis Obispo City Council essentially said the hell with Broad Street and Chorro Street residents by ramming Read More …