HomeMy WebLinkAbout7/21/2020 Item 7, Johnson / Hermann / BetzCity of San Luis Obispo, Council Memorandum
Council Agenda Correspondence
Date: July 21, 2020
TO: Mayor and Council
FROM: Greg Hermann, Deputy City Manager
Ryan Betz, Assistant to the City Manager
VIA: Derek Johnson, City Manager DJ
SUBJECT: Item 7 – Consider placing a General Sales Tax Measure on the November 3, 2020
Ballot:
1) Updated Online Community Survey Results
2) Proposed changes to the draft ordinance (Attachment B).
1) Public engagement and outreach efforts with the community regarding the types of
services, maintenance, and infrastructure that support San Luis Obispo’s unique character
and quality of life is the foundation of the SLO Forward effort. Those efforts continued
last week with presentations to community groups and inviting community members to
complete an online community survey. The results of the online survey, as of July 14, were
included in Council Agenda Report (Item #7), on packet page 49.
2) The survey is now closed and a comparison of the final results to the results that were
published on July 14th are provided below. The order of the highest priorities identified
by respondents did change and are underlined. The total number of participants in the
survey was 1,036 or the equivalent of 52 hours of public comment.
Final Online Survey Results
(June 1, 2020 – July 21, 2020)
1. Preserve open space and natural areas
2. Keep public areas safe and clean
3. Protecting long-term fiscal stability
4. Programs that support economic recovery
5. Maintain public safety, fire and emergency
response
6. Address homelessness
7. Support community organizations and non-
profits that serve the community's most
vulnerable
8. Prepare for wildfires and other natural
disasters
9. Protect creeks from pollution
10. Requiring all funds used locally to benefit the
community
11. Repair streets and potholes
Published Online Survey Results
(June 1, 2020 – July 14, 2020)
1. Keep public areas safe and clean
2. Protecting long-term fiscal stability
3. Preserve open space and natural areas
4. Programs that support economic recovery
5. Maintain public safety, fire and emergency
response
6. Address homelessness
7. Support community organizations and non-
profits that serve the community's most
vulnerable
8. Prepare for wildfires and other natural
disasters
9. Requiring all funds used locally to benefit
the community
10. Protect creeks from pollution
11. Repair streets and potholes
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12. Help ensure children have safe places to play 12. Help ensure children have safe places to play
2) The following changes are recommended to the Draft Ordinance (Attachment B, Agenda Packet
63) to align with guidelines from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration with
the changes shown as underlined:
1) Update the title of the draft Ordinance (Packet Page 63) with the following:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE PEOPLE OF THE
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING EXISTING
CHAPTER 3.15 (ESSENTIAL SERVICES TRANSACTIONS (SALES) AND
USE TAX OF THE SAN LUIS OBISPO MUNICIPAL CODE AND
REENACTING IN FULL AMENDED CHAPTER 3.15 (COMMUNITY
SERVICES AND INVESTMENT) IMPOSING A GENERAL TRANSACTIONS
(SALES) AND USE TAX TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE CALIFORNIA
DEPARTMENT OF TAX AND FEE ADMINISTRATION
2) Update the following subparagraph to section 3.15.020 Purpose (A) (Packet Page 65)
with the following:
… majority vote of the electors voting on the measure vote to approve the
extension and enhancement of this general purpose revenue source at an election
called for that purpose.
3) Update 3.15.070 Operative date (Packet Page 67) with the following:
“Operative date” for purposes of the one percent and one half percent (1.5%)
Transaction (Sales) and Use Tax (TUT) rate means the first day of the first
calendar quarter commencing more than one hundred ten days after the adoption
of the ordinance codified in this chapter. Until the Operative Date, the TUT shall
continue to be levied and collected at a rate of one-half (.5%), as previously
approved by San Luis Obispo voters.
4) Add the following subparagraph to section 3.15.110 Limitations on adoption of state law
and collection of use taxes (B) (Packet Page 68).
1. A retailer engaged in business in the District” shall also include any retailer
that, in the preceding calendar year or the current calendar year, has total
combined sales of tangible personal property in this state or for delivery in the
state by the retailer and all persons related to the retailer that exceeds five hundred
thousand dollars ($500,000). For purposes of this section, a person is related to
another person if both persons are related to each other pursuant to Section 267(b)
of Title 26 of the United States Code and the regulations thereunder.