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More than $4 million in federal funding headed to SLO County

December 28, 2022

Congressman Salud Carbajal

By JOSH FRIEDMAN

Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) announced that he secured more than $4 million in federal funding for projects that benefit residents of San Luis Obispo County.

Carbajal’s office said in a press release that the congressman had been advocating for the federal funds since April. Carbajal helped ensure they were included in the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that passed both houses of Congress last week.

“With these funds, we will be able to make critical upgrades to our roads and highways, bridges and piers to keep commerce and people moving smoothly throughout our region,” Carbajal said in a statement.

Carbajal secured $2.07 million to help fund the Prado Road bridge replacement project in the city of San Luis Obispo. The project includes improvements and modifications to the intersection of Prado Road and Higuera Street, in addition to the replacement of the bridge.

Other federal funding for SLO County includes $1.5 million toward upgrades to Morro Bay’s North T-Pier and $500,000 toward the rehabilitation and retrofit of the Swinging Bridge in Arroyo Grande.

In all, Carbajal managed to secure $22.5 million for a combined 14 projects in his district. One project outside of SLO County is a Highway 101 carpool lane extension between Santa Barbara and Ventura.


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This is an extreme case of looking at a situation through rose colored glasses. The article says SLO County got $4 million out of $1.7 trillion, and Carbajal seems proud of that. He should be ashamed of it.


Let’s say the population of the US is 350 million people. That means each person in the US should have received something like $4,800 worth of benefit from the omnibus spending bill. The population of SLO County is somewhere north of 250,000 people. That means that each person in SLO County got about $16 worth of benefit from the $4 million that Carbajal is so proud to bring us from the omnibus spending bill. That is 0.3% of what we should have equitably received. Put another way, Carbajal should have brought back $1.2 BILLION for an equitable distribution of the funds from the omnibus spending bill.


The only explanations I can think of is that he is not well liked and/or has no significant power in the House and/or put no effort into getting an equitable share for SLO County. Clearly, we need a new representative.


To add insult, the $ is to be used for only three projects, two of which only benefit a select few people in SLO County. This makes the situation even more offensive.


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I can hear the sound of a siphon already.


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How embarrassing to support so much debt, foreign aid for more gun in other countries while the same administration is trying to curtail sale of guns in our country, money to protect borders in European countries and wording to assure no money is spent to protect our own borders.


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So Congressman Carbajal voted for a 1.7 trillion spending bill to secure 4 million for SLO County!

May want to check out where the rest of your tax dollars in that spending bill are going! We do know that none are going to close the southern border. More drugs and sex trafficking are coming

our way. And who knows how many foreign terrorists are also coming out way?


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Quite a PALTRY showing, Representative Carbajal.

For someone who touts himself as lowering costs in SLO County, all this inflation is happening on your watch.


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Your tax money returned to you with a big portion reserved for the Washington gang- you only got a portion back the rest was wasted. NO ONE read the 4155 page bill, and if they would have there most likely would not be any agreement on the meaning of any specific section. This bill is an embarrassment in content, process, procedure.


Carbajal is patting himself on the back for spending a lot of your tax money, giving you a portion back on programs that may or may not be of interest to you.


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Most likely for the benefit of Carbajal.


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He is taking credit for legislation that he had no hand in writing, never having read the 4,155 page bill ( did his office even have a copy of it), and giving you a small portion of the taxes you paid for unknown projects. A bigger, better impact would have been to reduce the federal tax by 1.7 trillion


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Could we possibly- just possibly – use some of that money to make it easier to exit the Madonna Road post office?


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While I do like the 2nd driveway being used for the entrance (so many close calls, near contacts, fender benders, and blocking of Dalidio traffic at the 1st), and the 1st used to exit, the more aggravating thing is you are not allowed to left or U-turn at the next immediate intersection, and must drive Dalidio nearly all the way to the highway, round-a-bout, and come back to Madonna. How is this logical, gas saving, convenient, or in any way smart? There’s not even a gap, for the far entrance (now, only an exit) to the plaza. Is this a plan to force drivers past the new little “San Luis Ranch Market” being built right now, in the housing complex?


Fortunately, enough people do find this to be insanely stupid, and go ahead and make their left into the plaza, or U-turn back to Madonna, across the big yellow slash lines. And, before you say it, EVERY bicycle does it without hesitation.


I’m not even going to mention the idiotic lay-out of the Madonna/Dalidio intersection!


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Ahh, you must be talking about that ugly bulb out that blocks the right hand turn onto Maddonna, the same thing coming from Target or Dicks onto LOVR, that thing is an eyesore and dangerous, I called the city and talked to Luke about these ugly space taking objects and his answer was the city council was who put this together, I wasn’t even going to waste the time to go there cause I’m sure some aide will pass the buck to another department.


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Really wish paving the roads was a priority before any of the minority use( cycling, walking, etc ) “improvements” :/ Constantly taking from the majority to serve the minority. Sick of it.


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