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Sent:Tuesday, June
To:CityClerk; Wilbanks, Megan; Christian, Kevin
Subject:San Luis Obispo Public Records Request for 2023 Employee Compensation Report
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June 4th, 2024
We
are requesting a copy of San
Luis Obispo's
Employee Compensation Report for the 2023
calendar year under the provisions of California Gov. Code §
7920,
the California Public Records Act.
The
purpose of this request is to obtain records which provide a complete and comprehensive account of
San Luis Obispo's
total costs associated with employee full names and compensation.
Specifically,
this request seeks an accounting, by full name and job title, of total gross wages paid to each employee and
the total cost incurred separately by the employer for providing retirement and health benefits.
Note
that the State Controller’s “Government Compensation in California” report does not contain the names of
employees and therefore does not satisfy this request.
If your response is to send us a copy of that report, that will simply delay the process and take more of your
time as we will reject it as insufficient to satisfy this request in full.
As
a reminder, per Gov. Code §
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7922.585(a)
“Nothing
in this section is intended to affect the public record status of information merely because it is stored in a
computer. Public records stored in a computer shall be disclosed as required by this chapter.”
Please
provide the requested materials or, per Gov. Code
§ 7922.535,
a timeline along which they will be made available by, no later than ten days from the date of this request.
In
an effort to standardize how this information is reported, please include the following categories in your
response:
Employee Name (full
name, including first and last)
Position/Job Title
(“City Manager”, “Police Officer”, etc.)
Annual Salary Minimum
& Maximum
Total Regular Pay
Overtime Pay
Other Pay (any additional
forms of pay that are not reported in Regular Pay)
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Retirement Contribution
Costs - All forms of employer-paid retirement contributions, deferred compensation, etc., including
Unaccrued Actuarial Liability if applicable. Please split out per the standard State Controller’s Office
categories.
Healthcare Contribution
Costs - All forms of employer-paid health and welfare benefits, such as health, dental and vision
insurance benefits.
In
the event San
Luis Obispo is
not in possession of a record of this nature, we request copies of any other record or records that contain
information, even if only in part, that is responsive to the purpose of this request — employee name in
conjunction with their compensation data for
the period requested.
Per
Gov. Code §
7922.570(a),
we ask that you provide the records in an Excel
spreadsheet format. You
may provide this data to us by replying to this email and attaching your data file.
There
is no need to password-protect your responsive data, that data will be posted to a publicly-available website
when we’ve completed our review process.
Note
that saving your original spreadsheet in the form of a PDF and sending that to us is not sufficient.
Doing this
will simply result in a need for you to take more time to respond, given that a PDF copy is not the original
data, which is what we are requesting.
As
a reminder, Gov. Code §
7922.600(a)
instructs public agencies to "assist
requester in finding records and information that are responsive to the request or to the purpose of the
request."
It
is not necessary to prepare a boilerplate PDF response document sent to us as an attachment to email in
order to respond with your ETA. We are well aware of the legal provisions of the CPRA, do not need them
reiterated, and are happy to accept a simple response
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giving us the estimated date you will be able to provide the data requested.
Please
feel free to contact us with any questions that you might have.
Thank
you.
Municipalities
Researcher
Transparent
California
muni@transparentcalifornia.com
Rev
9/12/23
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