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John Shoals and Lindsey Miller laid off from PG&E

Written on 27 Oct, 2017 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 7 comments

In what appears to be another round of layoffs, PG&E terminated Grover Beach Mayor John Shoals and Lindsey Miller from its support services department for San Luis Obispo County and Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. Both Miller and Shoals worked... (Continue reading)

Is Adam Hill crying wolf over budget deficit?

Written on 26 Oct, 2017 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 13 comments

The discovery of a San Luis Obispo County accounting error has led staff to revise a projected budget surplus of $3 million to $5 million into a $4.8 million shortfall. An error Supervisor Adam Hill is blaming on his political... (Continue reading)

Speaker accuses SLO County of conflicts of interest in cannabis rules

Written on 22 Oct, 2017 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 9 comments

San Luis Obispo County supervisors continued sparing over marijuana regulations on Friday. After a full day of contentious debate and allegations of conflicts of interest, the supervisors voted to limit the number of pot grows and reaffirmed plans to ban... (Continue reading)

SLO County board tussles over marijuana regulations

Written on 20 Oct, 2017 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 3 comments

Civil discourse dissolved into angry attacks as San Luis Obispo County Supervisors argued over marijuana regulations on Tuesday, a discussion set to continue Friday morning. [Cal Coast Times] For almost a year, the board has attempted to direct staff to... (Continue reading)

Convicted rapist and felon selected to run Grover Beach pot dispensaries

Written on 18 Oct, 2017 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 14 comments

The Grover Beach City Council voted Monday to award four marijuana dispensary licenses to a group of people who include felons, a man on the sex offender registry list and people affiliated with the League of California Cities. [Cal Coast... (Continue reading)

Arroyo Grande Council members violate the government code

Written on 16 Oct, 2017 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 8 comments

Three members of the Arroyo Grande City Council demanded Mayor Jim Hill take one-on-one ethics training classes, two of whom are out of compliance with their legal obligation to take ethics classes every two years. [Cal Coast Times] The California... (Continue reading)

Racism allegations lead to $150,000 settlement

Written on 15 Oct, 2017 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 4 comments

A black South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District plant operator won a $150,000 settlement after complaining that district officials were discriminating and retaliating against him. The district announced Friday that it had reached a settlement agreement with plant superintendent... (Continue reading)

SLO County repeatedly failed to correct jail deficiencies

Written on 12 Oct, 2017 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 6 comments

More than a month before two men died and a third man seriously injured himself while in county custody, a San Luis Obispo County official said the county had corrected inadequacies regarding the treatment of mentally ill inmates. Following a... (Continue reading)

SLO’s more than $148 million in unfunded liabilities

Written on 6 Oct, 2017 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 18 comments

Over the past 15 years, the city of San Luis Obispo’s unfunded pension liabilities have gone from $0 to nearly $150 million and rising. And with SLO’s annual payment to the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) set to more... (Continue reading)

SLO County’s marijuana decision raises ethics questions

Written on 3 Oct, 2017 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 6 comments

As the SLO County Board of Supervisors takes up the Planning Commission’s recommendations to approve a county’s marijuana ordinance, questions are being raised about claims of backroom deals and influence peddling for marijuana operations that will be worth millions of... (Continue reading)