Julie Tacker
Julie Tacker is a 3 decade resident of Los Osos and a former member of the Los Osos Community Services District.
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Playing the racist card
OPINION By JULIE TACKER Are two members of the Oceano Community Services District Board trying to stop the South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District from performing a managerial audit by attempting to connect citizen volunteers to dozens of racist emails? On February 18, the South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District embarked on the […]... (Continue Reading)
Oceano board to blame for deficit
OPINION By JULIE TACKER Tonight’s Oceano Community Services District Board meeting will try to answer questions that have been posed to the district since the 3.5 percent rate increase notice went out on March. The rate increase, as noticed by the district, is tied to the loss in revenue due to water conservation associated with […]... (Continue Reading)
One Los Osos well is in danger, not the entire basin
OPINION By JULIE TACKER Henny Penny (aka Chicken Little) once said, “The sky is falling; the sky is falling.” The phrase has become a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. The front page special report on the Los Osos groundwater situation in the weekend edition of the local paper […]... (Continue Reading)
Sanitation staff fails to follow board direction
OPINION By JULIE TACKER Tonight the South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District (SSLOCSD) will be considering the audit that has been asked for repeatedly since December, when Arroyo Grande Mayor Jim Hill suggested that it be agendized. Once agendized, fellow board members, Grover Beach Mayor John Shoals and Oceano CSD Director Matt Guerrero, agreed […]... (Continue Reading)
Oceano board members use Brown Act as toilet paper
OPINION By JULIE TACKER As he has for the last several years, Oceano Community Services District (OCSD) Past President Matthew Guerrero serves as the OCSD representative to the South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District (SSLOCSD) in violation of code. It was reported in an interview on the Dave Congalton Show with former Grover Beach […]... (Continue Reading)
Open letter to Supervisor Frank Mecham
OPINION BY JULIE TACKER, I first want to say thank you for amending tomorrow’s meeting agenda to add public comment for the items that were on the Jan. 5 special meeting agenda. I also want to point out that this was in no way your fault. As chair, Supervisor Bruce Gibson failed to take public […]... (Continue Reading)
A new county board and a new attitude
OPINION By JULIE TACKER Out with the old; in with the new, it’s a new year. Jan. 5 brought a new attitude to San Luis Obispo County government as the District 4 supervisor’s switched places. Caren Ray left the office she was appointed to after the untimely death of Paul Teixeira and newly elected Supervisor […]... (Continue Reading)
Wallace purged sanitation district documents
OPINION By JULIE TACKER To audit or not to audit? That is the question at the South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District (SSLOCSD). An audit may find accounting inaccuracies and/or other wrongdoing. At this point, with so many questions left unanswered since the Feb. 2013 resignation of District Administrator — of 27 years — […]... (Continue Reading)
Arroyo Grande needs to dump its city attorney
OPINION By JULIE TACKER The question posed at last week’s Arroyo Grande City Council meeting by newly elected Mayor Jim Hill revealed a $32,000 expenditure for just one month’s work by legal counsel. This is a billing trend that began with the now infamous July 3, 2014 incident. A search of the Carmel & Naccasha, […]... (Continue Reading)
Five Cities Fire Authority should reconsider hiring Lieberman
OPINION By JULIE TACKER In light of the change in political winds in the South County it would be prudent for the Five Cities Fire Authority (FCFA) to suspend its hiring process for a new fire chief. In spite of the recent press release and local press coverage announcing a Chief has been chosen, a […]... (Continue Reading)
