Current Issues
2025


  1. SLO County budget precariously balanced at (proposed) $949,500,000.
  2. State of California upside down by a minimum of $12 billion
  3. Big cuts are coming
  4. New County Administrator
  5. Supervisor Gibson not running for re-election, Supervisor Paulding facing potentially formidable challenge.
  6. Paso Water Basin JPA – lots of explaining to do
  7. Housing crisis
  8. Homelessness
  9. Economic development
  10. Diablo Canyon
  11. Offshore wind/battery storage
  12. Tax proposals on the horizon – transportation and/or public safety
  13. Homeowner/fire insurance
  14. Plenty more bike paths
  15. Cannabis faltering
  16. Gas price impact on local economy
  17. Rental registry/vacancy tax
  18. CEQA reform?
  19. Coastal Commission vulnerable?
  20. COLAB – membership, outreach