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San Luis Obispo County plans to appoint new county counsel

February 23, 2025

Jon Ansolabehere

By KAREN VELIE

The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors is slated to appoint Jon Ansolabehere as county council on Tuesday, according to the agenda.

If appointed, if appointed, Ansolabehere will receive $397,783 annually in salary and benefits. His four year contact will begin on March 16.

Ansolabehere joined the SLO County Counsel’s Office in 2019 after working as assistant city attorney for the City of San Luis Obispo.

County Counsel Rita Neal announced in January she plans to retire on March 15. The SLO County Board of Supervisors appointed Neal to lead the office in Sept. 2012 at $258,541.  Since then, her salary and benefits grew to nearly $500,000 a year.

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I believe this choice will be good for the rural county we currently have. His understanding of property ownership may spice our staff with a dash of reasonable.


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Be careful who you support for County Supervisors positions. County Supes are the locus of why salaries at the county level are so whacky.


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Making more money than an ER doctor without saving any lives. What a racket.


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Exactly,


My child, early 30,s is an ER Doc at a busy southern Ca Trauma center. Spent 12 years of education to get there and $350k in student loans. Has to crack open a chest a do cardiac massage and put broken bodies back together, etc. all for 1/3 the salary. We need pay cuts now for County employees, especially at the upper echelons.


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derasmus, your son is a hero. Give him a huge thank you for helping humanity!


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