City of San Luis Obispo

Shall an ordinance to provide funding to protect City of San Luis Obispo’s financial stability; maintain fire/community safety, health emergency/disaster preparedness; protect creeks from pollution; address homelessness; keep public areas clean/safe; retain local businesses; maintain youth/senior services, streets, open space/natural areas, and other general services, by extending voter-approved funding at a 1.5¢ rate, providing approximately $21,600,000 annually until ended by voters; requiring audits/all funds used locally, be adopted?

Shall the measure to maintain and improve essential City services, including without limitation: police/fire services; senior, youth and park services; programs to retain/attract local jobs; addressing homelessness; and other general revenue purposes; by establishing a cannabis business tax up to 10% of gross receipts for retail and businesses and up to $10.00 per canopy square foot for cultivation, raising approximately $1,500,000 annually, until ended by voters, with all funds used locally, be adopted?

An ordinance of the City Council and the People of the City of San Lyis Obispo, California, amending Chaapter 3.15 of the Municipal Code to extend the existing "Essential Services Transactions (Sales) and Use Tax," for an additional eight years (March 31, 2023), to be administered by the State Board of Equalization, update the purpose statement, and provide for additional citizen oversight and accounting transparency.

Shall an ordinance be adopted that would 1) reduce the City of San Luis Obispo's current Utility Users Tax on telecommunication and video services from 5% to 4.8%; 2) clarify the scope and application of the tax to all taxable utilities; and 3) modernize the method of calculating and collecting the tax to reflect technological advances and changes in state and federal law so that all taxpayers are treated equally regardless of technology used?