HomeMy WebLinkAbout6/16/2020 Item 12, Dietrick/JohnsonCity of San Luis Obispo, Council Memorandum
Council Agenda Correspondence
Date: June 12, 2020
TO: Mayor and Council
FROM: Christine Dietrick, City Attorney
Mark Amberg, Temporary Assistant City Attorney
VIA: Derek Johnson, City Manager DJ
SUBJECT: Item 12 - Review of a Protest for Payment of Encroachment Permit Fees
William Walter, 679 Monterey St.
For Item 12 on your June 16, 2020 agenda, please see the attached additional correspondence
delivered to Mr. Walter.
Attachments:
1. June 10, 2020 letter to William Walter – Notice of Potential Civil Rights
2. June 11, 2020 letter to William Walter - Protest Hearing
City of San Luis Obispo, City Attorney’s Office, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93401-3249, 805.781.7140, slocity.org
June 10, 2020
William Walter
The Bello House
679 Monterey Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Via Email (wwalter@tcsn.net)
Re: 679 Monterey
Notice of Potential Civil Rights Violations
Dear Mr. Walter,
This is sent in brief response to your letter of June 8, 2020 to City Manager Derek Johnson.
Your letter contains baseless and inflammatory accusations against City Construction Engineering
Manager, Manny Guzman. Mr. Guzman’s June 4, 2020 letter to you and your contractor, Mr. Williams,
was a professional letter that addresses specific issues and questions you raised in your emails of May
26, 2020 and May 27, 2020 and attempts to address and clarify specific non-compliant items for your
project that do not meet adopted City Standards. The references in Mr. Guzman’s letter to your
contractor and his brother, Mark Williams, who is a City inspector, were simply factual references to
contacts with these individuals in response to specific questions and issues raised by you in your emails
and, with regard to Mark Williams, to clarify that Ben Marquart is the City inspector responsible for
inspection of the work done in the public right of way in connection with your project.
City staff have attempted, and will continue to attempt, to work with you and your contactor to identify
issues on the project that need to be addressed to assist you in moving the project to completion in
conformance with the conditions of approval and applicable City Standards. That has been, and
remains to be, the only goal of City staff in their interactions with you regarding your project. City
staff remains committed to helping you and your contractor understand the conditions of approval and
the applicable City Standards, to identify and work with you to correct any areas of non-compliance
and to address any other issues or questions that come up.
As noted by Mr. Guzman in his letter, he is available to address any questions you have regarding the
issues of non-compliance. Mr. Marquart is available as well. You and your contractor are encouraged
to work with City staff to address and correct the identified issues of non-compliance with adopted
City standard so your project can move forward towards final approval. The City would like to see
your project completed and will continue to make sure that all standards applicable to any project in
the City are applied to your project as well.
Sincerely,
Mark Amberg
Assistant City Attorney
C: Derek Johnson, City Manager