Welcome to the Coalition of Labor Agriculture & Business of San Luis Obispo County.

COLAB’s mission is to promote the common business interests of its members by providing information and education on issues which have or may have an impact on its membership.

To achieve its mission, COLAB will engage in policy analysis and recommendations which promote those common business interests and in doing so foster a positive image for agriculture, business and labor in the community.

COLAB shall represent its members before the San Luis Obispo Board of Supervisors and any other local or national governing body and if necessary take legal or administrative action for the mutual benefit of the members.

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COLAB San Luis Obispo

This Weeks SLO County Weekly Update
June 15th - June 22nd, 2026

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This Week

We should state at the onset of this edition of the COLAB Weekly Update that we are a bit prickly over the majority of the Board of Supervisors’ shabby treatment of District Attorney Dan Dow at the June 6 Budget Hearing.

We are even more testy about how the highly detailed presentation making a solid case regarding the need for extra DA personnel was ignored. These are key public safety positions. How can the Board expect the community to believe that public safety is a propriety when they act so cavalier in rejecting Dow’s entire request – especially when CEO Pontes indicated Opioid Settlement funds could be used to fund at least part of the request?

Budget Moves Forward– Priority Ignored

Good Money for Poor Performance

More Priority Nonsense

New Leadership at Department of Health

Not so Free Needle Exchange

More Not Public Safety Money

Election Results
Sheesh, it’s only been a couple weeks – six weeks since balloting began. What do you expect – some kind of modern-day efficiency? Maybe next week, maybe the week after… Isn’t this system that we have adopted great? Such an improvement over that ancient one-day in person voting silliness!

Last Week

More Bad Drugs to Steal Kids’ Lives

Social Services Sees Suggestions

One Point Two Billion Reasons to Pay Attention
The one billion, two-hundred-million-dollar 2026/27 San Luis Obispo County budget will be addressed in special budget hearings June 8 – 10, from 9:00 AM through the afternoon of each day.

Spending will be big, and requests for additional funds will be big. Acknowledgement that it’s all Other People’s Money will be tiny.

Will the Water Wars ever End?


PRAGA opponents have created artwork to tell their story.

Election Results

Hidden Problems with Election Day

Bye Bye Business

EMERGENT TRENDS
SEE PAGE 36

CA’s County Taxpayer Groups Are an Endangered Species – The Free Market Movement Should Save Them

The Homeless Money Machine Just Lost Its Plug

COLAB IN DEPTH
SEE PAGE 44

Newsom’s Bill to Ban Trump Admin from Seizing
Election Ballots is Buffoonery

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