HomeMy WebLinkAbout3/5/2024 Item 7a, Horn - Staff Agenda CorrespondenceCity of San Luis Obispo, Council Memorandum
City of San Luis Obispo
Council Agenda Correspondence
DATE: March 5, 2024
TO: Mayor and Council
FROM: Matt Horn, Public Works Director
VIA: Derek Johnson, City Manager
SUBJECT: ITEM 7A – SLOCOG PRESENTATION ON COUNTYWIDE SELF-HELP
MEASURE
The purpose of this staff agenda correspondence is to provide and clarify additional
details regarding next steps and future opportunities for the City Council to provide input
on the San Luis Obispo Council of Governments (SLOCOG) Countywide Self-Help
Measure and related Draft Transportation Investment Plan.
The staff report accurately indicates that, following the March 5, 2024 presentation and if
the SLOCOG Board of Directors provides direction to proceed with the measure at their
meeting on May 1, 2024, SLOCOG staff will return to the San Luis Obispo City Council
later in May to provide another opportunity for questions and feedback on the proposal to
place a transportation sales tax on the November ballot. Subsequently, it was
communicated to all Cities that that there would not be an additional opportunity for the
Council to make/request changes to the Draft Transportation Investment Plan in the
future, as this document would be finalized by the SLOCOG Board at their May 1, 2024
meeting.
If the Council or community members wish to provide comments specific to the Draft
Transportation Investment Plan, the March 5, 2024 hearing is the opportunity to provide
detailed comments. As such, staff has prepared the following revised language to the
“Alternatives” section of the Item 7A Council Agenda Report:
ALTERNATIVES
The Council may choose not to provide feedback regarding a potential sales tax
measure or the Draft Countywide Transportation Investment Program at this
time. SLOCOG staff will be returning to the SLOCOG Board in early May on May 1,
2024, to share feedback received through stakeholder outreach and to receive direction
on next steps, which could include refinements to the proposed measure and Investment
Plan and direction on whether or not to continue advancing this proposal to the November
ballot. If this measure continues forward, the City Council would have another opportunity
for questions and feedback later this spring; however, if the Council chooses not to
provide feedback at this March 5th session, there would be less time for SLOCOG staff
Item 7a. SLOCOG Presentation on Countywide Self-Help Measure Page 2
and Board to consider the City’s feedback and less opportunity to ensure that the City’s
interests and priorities are properly reflected in the final ballot measure and
Transportation Investment Plan details If this measure continues forward, there will not
be another opportunity for changes to the draft investment plan after the May 1, 2024
SLOCOG Board meeting; the San Luis Obispo City Council’s March 5, 2024, meeting
provides the best opportunity to provide feedback to ensure that the City’s interests and
priorities are properly reflected in the final Transportation Investment Plan.
If the City of San Luis Obispo and/or other jurisdictions do not support the proposed sales
tax measure or Transportation Investment Plan, this could result in the SLOCOG Board
or County Board of Supervisors deciding not to place the self-help transportation sales
tax measure on the November 2024 ballot. The current Regional Transportation Plan is
underfunded by $2.3 billion based on current revenues; thus, many planned local and
regional transportation maintenance and improvement projects will not be feasible without
some form of augmented funding capacity.