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Lichtig, Katie
Tuesday, February 05, 2013 5:14 PM
Grimes, Maeve
Department Heads; Corey, Tyler
FW: Statement from Biz Steinberg
Katie E. Lichtig
City Manager
City of San Luis Obispo, CA
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 -3249
805 - 781 -7114
www.slocity.org
From: Elizabeth 'Biz" Steinberg [mailto :esteinbergC&cap_slo.org]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 4:59 PM
To: Marx, Jan; Smith, Kathy; Carter, Andrew; Carpenter, Dan; Ashbaugh, John
Cc: Lichtig, Katie
Subject: Statement from Biz Steinberg
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COUNCIL MEETING: ,. 2
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February 5, 2013
City of San Luis Obispo
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo CA 93401
Dear Mayor Marx and City of San Luis Obispo Council Members,
1030 Southwood Drive
San Luis Obispo
California 93401
(805) 544 -4355
FAX (805) 549 -8388
wvwu,capsio.org
I apologize as I am out of County on Agency business and unable to attend tonight's meeting. I do want
to make a statement to the Council.
We at Community Action Partnership are very proud of our record and the stellar results of our activities
for over 45 years. Our agency takes each and every complaint very seriously and follows up with
appropriate actions in every case. CAPSLO is independently audited twice a year. and those audits are
publically available. in addition, CAPSi_O undergoes numerous monitoring reviews each year by public
and private funding sources. Once again our track record speaks for itself, and the agency has enjoyed a
long and successful collaboration with countless other agencies in our community as well. We
categorically deny the misleading statements made about CAPSLO's homeless operations and challenge
anyone to provide any factual infonnation to the contrary. These disparaging attacks on Ms. Torres and
CAPSLO are not new and we believe they are perpetrated with the sole intent of trying to focus funding
support away from CAPSLO to other less qualified and un- monitored groups. We are ready and willing to
review any information about our operations with the City and or County representatives at any time. We
believe it is shameful that people are attempting to use homeless individuals to further their own agenda.
Thank you for your continued support. CAPSI.O appreciates the partnership we have had with the City
of San Luis Obispo since 1987 working on homelessness. We stand ready to continue to do all we can to
help end homelessness in our community.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth "Biz" Steinberg
Cc: Katie Lichtig
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