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To:CityClerk; mwilbanks@slocity.org; kchristi@slocity.org; Colunga-Lopez, Andrea
Subject:San Luis Obispo Public Records Request for 2024 Employee Compensation Report
July 28th, 2025
We are requesting a copy of San Luis Obispo's Employee Compensation Report for the 2024 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 § 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.”
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)
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.
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Please provide the requested materials or, per Gov. Code § 7922.535(a), a timeline along which they will
be made available by, no later than ten days from the date of this request.
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 giving us the estimated date
you will be able to provide the data requested.
If your response is to ask us to submit this request using a portal/request system, please note while we
appreciate your use of such a system, pursuant to Gov. Code § 7922.535(a), public agencies are required
to respond to any request for public records within 10 days of receipt. There is no statutory basis for
requiring requesters submit a request in the agency's preferred format or medium, such as in person, on
paper, or via an online portal.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions that you might have.
Thank you.
Municipalities Researcher
Transparent California
Rev 7/26/2024
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