Los Osos sewer critics no longer have special time at SLO County supervisors' meetings

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• Los osos sewer project may get a little cheaper

  Los osos sewer project may get a little cheaper

  State water officials will meet in Sacramento on Monday to consider lowering the interest rate on a loan for the Los Osos sewer project, a move that could shave millions of dollars off the price of the project, reducing the cost to residents.

  The State Water Resources Control Board will consider a staff recommendation to lower the rate on a $69.7 million loan from 2.6 percent to 2 percent. The county and Los Osos Community Services District are sending letters to the water board urging that the interest rate be reduced to zero in an effort to make the massive infrastructure project as affordable as possible.

  “The district board is wholly supportive of a reduction in the current interest rate of 2.6 percent to 0 percent, and we believe we speak for the overwhelming majority of the 12,500 residents affected by the project,” community services district board President Marshall Ochylski stated in a letter to the board.

• Bill aims to ease Los Osos sewer costs

  Bill aims to ease Los Osos sewer costs

  The county and Los Osos Community Services District will develop a plan in upcoming months to implement a state law that would lift financial pressure from low-income homeowners when they receive bills for the new Los Osos sewer.

  John Waddell of the county Public Works Department told the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that officials will map out a program, including public outreach, to implement AB 1125, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law last week.

  Waddell did not give a specific timetable, but the law takes effect Jan. 1, 2012.

• Report set on Public Works head

  Report set on Public Works head

  The county’s top administrator says he will release his investigative report on Public Works Director Paavo Ogren on Tuesday “unless something unexpected comes up.”

• Templeton and redistricting again an issue with supervisors

  Templeton and redistricting again an issue with supervisors

  Two San Luis Obispo County supervisors withdrew their support from a redistricting plan they approved last week, but their three colleagues, who proclaimed themselves “disappointed” by the about-face, went ahead with the proposal.

  The plan, which will set supervisor boundaries for the next decade, will go to a final vote next Tuesday. It must be adopted by Nov. 1.

  Frank Mecham and Paul Teixeira changed their positions at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors’ meeting. Adam Hill, Bruce Gibson and Jim Patterson stuck with the boundaries the five approved last week.

• Supervisors to keep Templeton in North County district

  Supervisors to keep Templeton in North County district

  Yielding to pleas from two dozen Templeton residents, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday tentatively redrew its proposed new supervisory district boundaries in a way that would keep residents of the unincorporated community’s southwest area from being shifted to a coastal district.

  The move would allow the North County community to “remain whole,” as many speakers described it, in District 1. However, it would increase population inequality among districts, giving District 1 in the North County roughly 2,000 more residents than District 2 along the North Coast.

  Under the plan tentatively adopted Tuesday, the North Coast would have 51,398 and the North County 53,287. The variance is 4.31 percent, a number the board can live with legally. It had sought, however, to keep the disparity at less than 3 percent.