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Clerk, Intern
From:Clerk, Intern
Sent:Friday, March 13, 2020 3:52 PM
To:Clerk, Intern
Subject:FW: Allocation of undesignated funds
-----Original Message-----
From: David Gross <
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 2:47 PM
To: E-mail Council Website <emailcouncil@slocity.org>
Subject: Allocation of undesignated funds
I understand that there are hundreds of thousands of dollars in undesignated funds that are left over from previous
years' city budgets because they were not spent as anticipated, and that the council is meeting to decide how to use this
money.
I've also heard that the council is considering putting a measure on the ballot that would increase the sales tax rate in
San Luis Obispo. Such an increase would make an already precariously expensive city even more expensive, and would
do so in part on the backs of our most vulnerable community members.
Especially if you have hundreds of thousands of dollars of "discretionary" funds that you can consider spending on non-
essential projects, you have no business taking money away from families that are scraping to get by in these perilous
times.
Please consider that the money you consider to be discretionary and extra is money that came from the earnings of
people who may have had to make real sacrifices to give it up, and treat that money with the respect appropriate to
this.
-- David Gross
San Luis Obispo
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