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The Lucia Mar school board has agreed to begin negotiations with the city of Pismo Beach
over money the district says it’s owed by the city.
The negotiations come after the school board threatened to sue the city over the possible dissolution of the Pismo Beach Redevelopment Agency—a move the district says would cost it hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax-sharing payments from a contract agreed upon 20 years ago.
In that contract, Lucia Mar agreed to not take its share of property-tax revenue until the agency began making payments to the district in 2009.
However, city officials have asked to renegotiate that agreement, saying the terms would cause the city to go into debt.
The City Council is expected to contact the district to begin negotiations after it meets Tuesday in closed session.
City Attorney David Fleishman expects the organizations will resolve the matter amicably.
“I would be surprised if we’d need a mediator,” he said. “We’ll discuss it in closed session and appoint a negotiator who will contact (school board President) Erik Howell.”
—Dawn White
San Luis Obispo
The public will have a chance to comment on the county budget during hearings set for Monday through Wednesday.
Supervisors will make decisions on County Administrator David Edge’s proposed 2008-09 budget, which would spend $18.8 million less than this year’s plan.
The $474.6 million proposal is a 3.8 percent decrease from this year’s operating budget of $493.4 million.
The effect will be felt most
by those who are receiving mental health and other health services. They will face longer wait times, according to principal administrative analyst Dan Buckshi.
In addition, the county is cutting back on capital projects.
The hearings begin at 8:30 a. m. each day.
Board Chairman Jim Patterson will talk about the effects of state budget cuts on the county, possibly at the outset, according to Edge.
The timing is uncertain, depending on how long presentations take, how many people comment and how long supervisors deliberate. Supervisors could finish the budget in one day or take all three.
—Bob Cuddy
San Luis Obispo
Top managers in the Police Department have voted to refuse compensation for putting on and taking off safety gear, despite a settlement that was worked out between the rank-and-file officers and the city for such compensation.
The San Luis Obispo Police Staff Officers Association informed Chief Deborah Linden and City Administrative Officer Ken Hampian of its decision in a memo, stressing that its members “philosophically disagreed” with being paid for donning and doffing safety gear.
The San Luis Obispo Police Officers Association, which represents more officers at the patrol and detective level, recently reached agreement with the city on getting paid for 10 minutes per shift to don and doff safety gear— five minutes of overtime pay and five minutes of regular pay per shift. That agreement was reached after the union took the city to federal court.
—Sally Connell
Paso Robles
Singer Paula Cole and
the band Blood, Sweat & Tears are set to perform this summer at the California Mid-State Fair.
Cole is scheduled to per-form July 26 for free shows at 6:30 and 8:30 p. m., fair officials announced Saturday.
Blood, Sweat & Tears, on its 40th anniversary tour, is set to offer free shows Aug. 1 at 6:30 and 8:30 p. m, according to fair officials.
The Mid-State Fair at the Paso Robles Event Center runs from July 23 to Aug. 3.
—Tribune staff report
SLO County
The San Luis Obispo chapter of Health Care for All, an advocacy group for universal medical insurance, has scheduled a bus tour Thursday to the Convention of the American Health Insurance Plans in San Francisco.
The public is invited to participate. The bus will depart from the San Luis Obispo Veterans Memorial Building at 801 Grand Ave. at 6:45 a. m. It is expected to return about 7:30 p. m.
Representatives from the California Nurses Association, San Francisco Labor Council, Nurses for Single Payer and other groups will address the crowd outside the convention.
The bus tour is $35 and checks should be payable to Walter Heath, c/o HCA, P. O. Box 549, Atascadero CA 93423. For more information, call 772-4685 or e-mail hca.slo@gmail.com. —Stephen Curran
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Highway 101 will be closed one direction at a time overnight at the Highway 41 interchange starting Monday.
The closures will take place from 9 p. m. Monday to 5 a. m. Friday for about two weeks.
The closures at Highways 101 and 41 are because of bridge work.
Motorists will be detoured around the closures.
—Tribune staff report
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