Which statement best describes you? Click all that apply.
I live in the City of San Luis Obispo.
Should the current Major City Goals & Other Important Objective continue, or should the City Council consider other priorities during the next two years? (Please choose 5 priorities)
Current Major City Goal: Housing (Facilitate increased production of all housing types designed to be economically accessible to the area workforce and low and very low-income residents)
Current Major City Goal: Multi-Modal Transportation (Prioritize implementation of the Bicycle Master Plan, pedestrian safety, and the Short-Range Transit Plan)
Traffic Reduction
Addressing Homelessness
Other - Reduce the size, expense, and intrusiveness of city government
Given the current fiscal constraints, new projects or services will require prioritization and potential trade-offs unless they can generate offsetting revenue. How might the City adjust current projects or services to accomplish any new priorities?
The city makes housing more expensive for people through property taxes and fees, and makes the cost of living more expensive through a sales tax and local utilities tax.
For every project in the budget, I encourage you to ask whether it's so crucial that it's worth asking the poorest members of our community -- those who may have to decide between food and medicine or school clothes and gas in the car -- to pay for it in this way. Would you look them in the eye and say "cut down on your insulin a bit so we can afford X?" If not, cut X out of the budget or find another way to fund it than taxes. Continue this process until you've got your budget down to the real essentials.
Stop forcing the poor to pay for improving the property values of the rich.
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Which statement best describes you? Click all that apply.
Should the current Major City Goals & Other Important Objective continue, or should the City Council consider other priorities during the next two years? (Please choose 5 priorities)
Given the current fiscal constraints, new projects or services will require prioritization and potential trade-offs unless they can generate offsetting revenue. How might the City adjust current projects or services to accomplish any new priorities?
The city makes housing more expensive for people through property taxes and fees, and makes the cost of living more expensive through a sales tax and local utilities tax.
For every project in the budget, I encourage you to ask whether it's so crucial that it's worth asking the poorest members of our community -- those who may have to decide between food and medicine or school clothes and gas in the car -- to pay for it in this way. Would you look them in the eye and say "cut down on your insulin a bit so we can afford X?" If not, cut X out of the budget or find another way to fund it than taxes. Continue this process until you've got your budget down to the real essentials.
Stop forcing the poor to pay for improving the property values of the rich.