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SLO City manager and attorney to get bonuses

Written on 2 May, 2016 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 49 comments

By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo City staff is recommending the council vote Tuesday to give City Manager Katie Lichtig and City Attorney Christine Dietrick $5,000 retention bonuses, Dietrick’s fifth bonus or raise in five years. Staff based the requests... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly gives TV deal to president’s friend

Written on 26 Apr, 2016 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 34 comments

By KAREN VELIE (Editor’s note: In the interest of transparency, readers should know that Cal Coast News editor Bill Loving is a tenured professor in the journalism department at Cal Poly. A recording of an interview with Cal Poly President... (Continue reading)

Cambria general manager to get a 38 percent pay increase

Written on 25 Apr, 2016 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 61 comments

By KAREN VELIE Less then two months after the implementation of a 116 percent water and sewer rate increase, the Cambria Community Services District is planning to approve a set of staggered pay hikes of 38 percent for its general... (Continue reading)

Should Los Osos dump Wallace and Seitz?

Written on 24 Jan, 2016 in Featured, Opinion | 29 comments

OPINION by TOM SALMON On Sept. 30, it was brought to the attention of the Los Osos Community Services District (LOCSD)  Board that General Manager Kathy Kivley had overpaid herself. This was less than a month after independent auditors would not... (Continue reading)

Who are the highest paid SLO County employees?

Written on 21 Jan, 2016 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 45 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo County employees averaged slightly more than $100,000 a year in total compensation for 2014, an examination of county employee pay shows. The county’s top earner was M. Daisy Ilano-Ramos, the medical director of County Mental Health.... (Continue reading)

Report on John Wallace presents a cautionary message

Written on 20 Jan, 2016 in Featured, Opinion | 46 comments

OPINION by ARROYO GRANDE MAYOR JIM HILL After six months of investigative work, the long awaited report on past management practices and operations of the South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District will be released and presented at the sanitation... (Continue reading)

California has a surplus, but retirement liabilities remain

Written on 19 Jan, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 28 comments

A few years after California faced a $26 billion deficit, lawmakers are debating how to spend a budget surplus. However, state officials have not tackled California’s unfunded pension liabilities problem, which is continuing to grow. [Contra Costa Times] The state... (Continue reading)

SLO and Paso Robles lead in employee compensation

Written on 12 Jan, 2016 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 107 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN The city of San Luis Obispo has a $239,000-a-year firefighter and a $215,000-a-year police officer. They are just two of the 32 SLO city employees who make more than the governor of California, recently released data shows.... (Continue reading)

Los Osos CSD parts ways with its general manager

Written on 8 Jan, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 35 comments

Embattled Los Osos Community Services District general manager Kathy Kivley will retire at the end of January, following a settlement she reached with the CSD board. The district board decided to part ways with, but not fire Kivley after an... (Continue reading)

Los Osos general manager put on administrative leave

Written on 8 Dec, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 16 comments

The Los Osos Community Services District Board of Directors has placed embattled General Manager Kathy Kivley on paid administrative leave. Kivley’s administrative leave took effect at 5 p.m. Friday. Los Osos board members reviewed Kivley’s performance in a closed session... (Continue reading)