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June 19, 2013
VIA FACSIMILE ONLY 916-322-0298
The Honorable Lois Wolk, Chair
Senate Governance and Finance Committee
State Capitol, Room 408
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: AB 562 (Williams) Economic Development Subsidies: Review
by Local Agencies
NOTICE OF OPPOSITION
Dear Senator Wolk:
On behalf of the City of San Luis Obispo, I write to inform you that we are opposed to
Assembly Bill 562.
AB 562 would impose many costly and burdensome mandates on local governments to
track and maintain comprehensive data on any expenditure or loss of revenue by the local agency
for economic development purposes valued more than $100,000. This bill also imposes
additional requirements for public hearings, biennial reports, and publication of information on
websites.
The local government decision -making process is already highly -transparent, with many
opportunities for public input. Local elected officials are very accountable to their communities
for their decisions.
The effect of this measure would bog down local economic development activities in
complex data keeping, reports and hearings. In short, by piling on many additional requirements,
the result of this bill would further discourage additional local economic development efforts.
For these reasons City of San Luis Obispo opposes AB 562.
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cc: Assembly Member Das Williams, fax 916-319-2137
Assembly Member Katcho Achadjian, fax 916-319-2135
Senator Bill Monning, fax 916-445-8081
City Council
Katie Lichtig, City Manager
David Mullinax, League of California Cities
Dan Carrigg, League of California Cities fax 916-658-8240