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From: Carter, Andrew SL® CITY CLERK
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 10:28 PM
To: Lichtig, Katie; Dietrick, Christine; Cano, Elaina
Subject: FW: Council Communications issue to be raised tomorrow night
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Elaina, please Red File.
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should be a formal presentation to Council of the Task Force's recommendations. Since Katie has
provided her arguments in advance for your consideration, I will provide my summary arguments
now and follow up with more detail tomorrow.
Katie is absolutely right that the Task Force was originally chartered to provide recommendations
to her. In reading the Task Force report, however, it's clear the Task Force has focused heavily
on policy issues which are the purview of the Council and on specific implementation strategies
which would require Council approval before proceeding. In addition, in two places, the report
specifically makes recommendations to Council by name. For these reasons, I felt the Task Force
should be provided the opportunity to make a presentation to us. Also, given the significant
investment of time made by citizen volunteers over seven months, I felt a presentation to Council
would provide us the opportunity to publicly thank those volunteers for their efforts.
Andrew Carter
Council Member
City of San Luis Obispo
From: Lichtig, Katie
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 3:43 PM
To: Richardson, April; Bradley, Mary; Malicoat, Debbie
Subject: Council Communications issue to be raised tomorrow night
Mayor and Council:
In the spirit of "no surprises" and to give you time to think about the issue I wanted to let you know
that Andrew has let me know that he intends to raise the issue of whether to ask the Fiscal
Sustainability Task Force to make a presentation directly to the Council on their work and
recommendations. I believe that Andrew was contemplating asking for the presentation at the
January I81h meeting (pre -goal setting).
I have indicated to Andrew that I did not intend to facilitate this without direction from the council
for two main reasons. First, the FSTF was charged with providing me (not the Council) with
suggestions to contemplate as we put forth a financial plan. They were focused on long term
sustainability and I was using the FSTF for educational purposes, not policy measures that
required immediate action. Second, since I have the obligation, as articulated in the Charter, to
present a balanced financial plan it seems most appropriate for the report to come to me to filter
through the recommendations and bring that plan to you in May. There are many steps between
now and then but I believe this obligation fall to the City Manager to begin with.
I'm letting you know in an attempt to give you time to think about this issue before it is raised
tomorrow night. Because this is NOT an item on the agenda issuing red files on this topic is not
appropriate. In other words please just use this time to think about the idea and not to be in touch
with your colleagues.
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Katie E. Lichtig
City Manager
City of San Luis Obispo, CA
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San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3249
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