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FW: City Budget Meeting, Tuesday, June 9
JUN 0 8 2015
From: Kathy apRoberts [mail to:kaproierts @mom]
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 11:59 AM
To: Marx, Jan; Ashbaugh, John; Carpenter, Dan; Christianson, Carlyn; Rivoire, Dan
Cc: Hill, Robert
Subject: City Budget Meeting, Tuesday, June 9 COUNCIL MEETING:Qk_DJ- JGr 07"t=
ITEM NO.-_
Dear City Council Members,
I attended all four of the recent City meetings regarding the Bishop Peak Natural Reserve Conservation Plan
Update, and I urge you to consider the following:
The City's Planning Commission and the City's Park & Recreation Commission "strongly recommended" adding
additional City Ranger Staff which is necessary to enforce the City's Open Space Ordinance. It was a totally
unanimous recommendation of both Commissions! Both Commissions reached the same conclusion... City Staff's
preliminary recommendation in April that there be only a single addition to the Ranger staff was clearly inadequate
for meaningful enforcement of the City's Open Space Ordinance.
"Open Space Preservation " was the first funding priority listed on the Measure G Ballot when residents voted to tax
themselves. Among your three Major City Goals, you have identified "Protect and Maintain Open Space" as
the goal with the highest priority.
Major City goals "represent the most important, highest priority goals for the City to accomplish over the next two
years, and as such, resources to accomplish them should be included in the 2015 -2017 Financial Plan ". (Council
Minutes, January 24, 2015 )
Adding one additional ranger to the City's Ranger Staff is not sufficient to enforce the City's Open Space Ordinance,
Sincerely,
Kathy apRoberts
San Luis Obispo