Volume 9
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Issue 47
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March 24 - April 6, 2016
YOUR COMMUNITY IN YOUR HANDS Locals turned out for the “Inspired 5K Fun Run,” an event at the Health Expo at the Madonna Expo Center on March 19. Photo by Marisa DeArmas.
SLO Looks At Campaign Finance
Long Awaited LOVR Project Nearly Done
By Camas Frank
By Camas Frank
W
ith a slim majority of City Council support, San Luis Obispo will be taking a deeper look at the legal and operational issues that might come of a “democracy voucher system.” With Mayor Jan Marx and Councilwoman Carlyn Christianson dissenting, the Council voted 3-2 on March 15 to have the City Attorney’s office keep working on the details of what the proposed public financing option for
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municipal elections would mean in the 2018 election. Assistant City Attorney Jon Ansolabehere narrated a presentation on the bare framework of an ordinance that was brought to the Council in August 2015 by District 24 Congressional candidate William Ostrander and his nonprofit democracy advocacy group Citizens Congress. See Finance, page 9
SLO Film Fest Highlight Page 16
Historic Concepts Page 38
L
ocals who have gotten used to avoiding the Los Osos Valley Road intersection at South Higuera Street can breathe a sigh of relief this week. Traffic over the Los Osos Valley Road (LOVR) interchange had already state to ease as workers finished on the newly minted four-lane bridge in early March, but a ribbon cutting ceremony slated for March 29 should wrap things up. Well almost, said the City’s
project manager Kyle Rowland, some shiny new decorative rails will be installed after everything else is done. At $24.5 million, the project is the largest “capital improvement” in City’s history, he said, adding that it is 100 times larger than it’s runners up for the honor.
See LOVR, page 12