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KEEP YOUR HEALTH YOUR TOP PRIORITY

April 23 - April 30, 2020 VOLUME 34, NUMBER 40

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there is also less access to support.

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Staff Writer Kasey Bubnash talks to the county’s Behavioral

ADDICTION COUNSELING Local addiction support organizations are attempting to replace in-person group therapy with a virtual version—but it’s not the same.

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Health Agency and local addiction

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counseling organizations about what they are doing

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enet Health Central Coast furloughed some of its medical staff, but hospital officials PHOTO COURTESY OF JAYSON MELLOM say the furloughs will not impact coronavirus-related medical services.

In a statement to New Times, Tenet representatives said that with the shelter-in-place orders and cancellation or postponement of most elective procedures, some hospitals units— which are not related to the COVID-19 crisis or other critical patient care needs—have been closed or ramped down.

“We have taken steps to divert additional resources to COVID-19 care and other urgent medical procedures that cannot be deferred. This includes flexing down costs and implementing furloughs for certain jobs where we need, or are required to, limit activity due to the current environment,” the statement read.

STAFFED AND READY Amid furloughs Tenet Health Central Coast said it is appropriately staffed to provide Tenet declined to comment on how full support to treat patients. many employees were furloughed.

The health care corporation said that announced furloughs, layoffs, or pay reductions. other medical conditions,” the statement read. it’s providing all furloughed employees with “We remain appropriately staffed to provide our In an interview with New Times on April 2, Dr. their elected medical benefits at no cost to them. full support to treat patients in the Central Coast Brad Knox, an emergency physician at Tenet’s Although Tenet postponed the annual funding and prepare for a potential surge.”

Sierra Vista and Twin Cities hospitals, said from for its 401(k) match until later this year, According to an April 7 report by Becker’s an administrative standpoint there had been a furloughed employees are getting the match now Healthcare, a health care industry publication, huge drop in patients around the county. so they can have that resource in the near-term. many hospitals and health systems across the “Our numbers are down about 60 to 70 “Our expectation is that we can return U.S. have suspended non-emergent procedures percent, whereas we would have seen typically 80 impacted staff to service once we navigate to save capacity, supplies, and staff to treat patients on a busy day in a 24 hour period, we’re through this unprecedented time and our core COVID-19 patients. now seeing maybe 30 or 25,” Dr. Knox said. business gets back to normal. These actions As a result, several health care systems do not impact direct bedside nursing care for External communications manager for “have lost or expect to lose a large chunk of COVID-19 and do not impact emergency or Dignity Health Central Coast Division Sara their annual revenue, forcing them to make cost medically necessary care access for patients with reduction a top priority.”

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SLO County raises Los Osos sewer rates, but delays implementation

Despite the ongoing shelter-at-home order and substantial community opposition, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors voted on April 21 to raise Los Osos sewer rates, while agreeing to delay their implementation until after the COVID-19 emergency is over.

The county’s five-year rate schedule will raise the average single-family wastewater bill to $199 per month, a roughly 20 percent increase over today’s rates. Commercial properties will see a much higher increase, with their rates more than doubling under the schedule.

“Time and reality have a way of catching up with us,” said 2nd District Supervisor Bruce Gibson, who represents Los Osos. “Cost has always been an issue for the Los Osos sewer. ...

As we worked hard to get the costs down, we realized that a rate increase is necessary.”

County officials say the higher rates are needed to cover operations costs and build up sufficient reserve funds. But many Los Osos ratepayers opposed the increases, and especially took issue with the county adopting them in the midst of the COVID-19 mandatory shelter-athome order. Citizens argued they were denied a fair opportunity to mount a protest campaign against the rates under Proposition 218.

The Los Osos Community Services District (CSD) board of directors echoed their concerns in a formal letter to the county asking for a continuance of the April 21 hearing.

“We’d urge you to reconsider the timing of the public hearing ... and wait until [a] time that full participation by community members is possible,” the CSD’s letter read.

SLO County moved ahead with the hearing, and by April 21, nearly 1,000 ratepayers, or about 20 percent of the community, had NEWS continued page 6

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submitted protest ballots. The votes fell short of the majority required to successfully defeat the rates.

Several upset residents called in to the meeting and left recorded voicemails for the supervisors, including George Contento, a Los Osos commercial property owner.

“I’m kind of dumbfounded,” Contento said. “Most people think of commercial, and they think of big centers and big money. There are a lot of commercial buildings in Los Osos that are not very large at all, yet you’re going to be saddling them with this huge sewer bill. ... They’re really mom-and-pop businesses, momand-pop centers, where small business people hang out. You’re just stomping on them with both feet here.”

While all five supervisors agreed to move forward with the rate increases, Gibson and 5th District Supervisor Debbie Arnold butted heads on the timing of their implementation.

Gibson wanted to delay the imposition of the new rates until after SLO County lifted its COVID-19 emergency proclamation; that’s how the board handled a water rate increase in the North County community of Shandon in late March. Arnold, though, wanted the rates to take effect sooner, after the shelter-at-home order is lifted.

Arnold argued that countywide, taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for any costs related to the Los Osos sewer. She called comparing Shandon and Los Osos like comparing “apples and oranges.”

“It could take years,” Arnold said of lifting the emergency proclamation. “For us to saddle other communities with this, I can’t do that.”

Pointing to county administrators’ warnings that COVID-19’s budget impacts would be on par with the worst years of the 2008 recession, Arnold pressed her colleagues to look at the Los Osos rates differently.

When neither supervisor budged from their stances, the board voted 4-1, with Arnold dissenting, on Gibson’s motion to delay the sewer rates until 30 days after the county’s emergency proclamation is lifted.

—Peter Johnson

Changes coming to North Oak Boulevard but delayed on south side

Grover Beach is going ahead with a series of long-awaited bicycle and pedestrian safety improvements on portions of North Oak Park Boulevard, but similar changes proposed for the south side of the same roadway are being delayed for further review.

At a meeting on April 20, Grover Beach City Council reviewed several proposed changes to stretches of Oak Park Boulevard that city staff say would make the roadway safer for bikers, pedestrians, and drivers alike. While council members were able to agree that the projects proposed for the northern portion of the roadway are necessary, community concerns about lost parking left South Oak Park Boulevard up for debate.

“We get comments from people all the time: slow the traffic, slow the traffic,” Councilmember Mariam Shah said at the meeting. “Well the best way to slow the traffic is to narrow the travel lanes, and one of the best ways to narrow travel

lanes is to increase visibility by taking all the cars out of the way and putting in a bike lane.”

Initially that was the plan for the stretch of South Oak Park Boulevard between West Grand and Mentone avenues, where city staff planned to eliminate curbside parking on both sides of the road to make way for a buffered bike lane. The proposal also included changes to the lanes near Oak Park’s intersection with West Grand Avenue that staff say would reduce turning and merging conflicts.

But, despite recently installed parking spots on Longbranch Avenue, several residents who live or own property on South Oak Park Boulevard called into the April 20 meeting with concerns about the potential ramifications of lost street parking. Residents wondered how delivery drivers or contractors would access their homes, and said the loss of curbside parking could cause visitors and residents to illegally cross the busy street to get from the Longbranch parking spots to their homes and apartments.

Several community members said City Council should consider widening the road or removing the medians on Oak Park Boulevard to make room for the bike lanes.

Public Works Director Gregory Ray said at the meeting that while the median could be removed, it would be counterproductive to the city’s goal of improving street landscaping and reducing traffic speeds, which the median was installed to do.

“But also there’s the cost,” Ray said at the meeting. “I mean, eliminating those medians would come at a much higher cost than simply eliminating the parking and striping a bike lane.”

Still, City Council directed staff to scope out the possibility of removing or narrowing the median on South Oak Park in hopes of keeping curbside parking. City Council also directed staff to research the potential cost and timeline associated with conducting a traffic study on the roadway, which would be needed to determine whether a portion of South Oak Park Boulevard could be downsized from four lanes to two.

This recommendation was given despite staff warnings of a potential minimum three-month delay in the project and increased costs at an economically uncertain time. Proposed street repairs to South Oak Park were already estimated to cost about $1.4 million, according to a city staff report.

“As we enter this next budget year, we’re going to be entering some choppy waters when it comes to our financial projections and what’s feasible from a cost standpoint,” City Manager Matt Bronson said at the meeting. “So I want to just make sure the council is aware that to do this right means it’s delayed significantly and potentially there’s a cost that would make it a more difficult project to fund over this next year.”

In the meantime, the city plans to move forward with proposed changes to North Oak Park Boulevard. Highvisibility crosswalks will be installed at the intersection of North Oak Park and Saratoga Avenue, street parking will be eliminated near intersections and outside Oak Park Christian Church to improve visibility, and a streetlight will be added to each of four intersections north of Ramona Avenue. The city also plans to prohibit right turns on a red light at the

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intersection of North Oak Park and West Grand Avenue.

The changes at North Oak Park, which were initially delayed after an Arroyo Grande man was killed while attempting to cross the road on foot in January, are expected to cost the city an estimated $126,500.

—Kasey Bubnash

County allocates $4.2 million for Nacimiento pipeline fix

The Lake Nacimiento water pipeline, which delivers supplemental drinking water to several local communities including the city of San Luis Obispo, has been out of commission since September after leaks were discovered in a segment of the 45-mile pipe that traverses the Salinas River.

Now, SLO County is emptying the project’s reserve account to fix the problem.

On April 21, the SLO County Board of Supervisors approved a budget adjustment of $4.2 million to pay for the repairs, which will involve installing a “slip line,” or a new smaller pipe, on the inside of the existing pipe. The allocation brings the pipe’s designated reserve account to $0.

“It’s more than fixing a leak,” explained John Waddell, SLO County’s utilities division manager. “Because it’s tunneled under the river, you can’t go in and cut out a section. We have to put in a whole new pipeline from one side of the river to the other that’s several hundred feet long.”

Waddell said the county doesn’t know exactly how the 10-year-old pipeline broke, but during the upcoming construction, officials will further investigate the cause and consider pursuing reimbursement from the pipe’s original contractor, Teichert Construction.

“Once we have more information, we will be discussing our options and see if we can come to an amicable resolution for reimbursement,” SLO County Counsel Rita Neal told New Times.

Video inspection of the pipeline in October 2019 found two leaks that had caused “significant amounts of water” to flow to the surface around the river crossing, according to the county.

The Nacimiento pipeline, which took years to complete and cost $176 million, delivers drinking water to SLO, Paso Robles, Atascadero, Templeton, Santa Margarita, Cayucos, and Bella Vista Mobile Home Park. Those communities have gone without the reservoir water for more than six months.

“This is considered supplemental water, but it’s still important. They definitely want this water,” Waddell said.

After the project goes out to bid, construction is expected to start in late summer and last about two months.

—Peter Johnson

SLO County officials announce a phased reopening plan

At the April 20 SLO County Public Health COVID-19 briefing, county officials stated their intent to create a phased plan to reopen.

The initiative is due, according to County Public Health Officer Penny Borenstein, to the county’s low number of positive COVID-19 cases and a considerable amount of testing done

through the public and private sectors.

“Together we’ve accomplished what we originally set out to do with our shelterat-home program. That was to flatten the curve for COVID-19 cases and to establish and open the Cal Poly alternate care site to accommodate patients if local hospitals reached their capacity,” SLO County 4th District Supervisor Lynn Compton said at the briefing.

She said the local shelter-at-home order that went into effect March 19 was continued until May 16, giving county officials maximum local control, keeping more essential services open, and “some latitude to interpret” the governor’s order.

“As such, I’m pleased to announce that based on the current epidemiological situation that we have in our county, our team of medical experts in epidemiology and disease management believe they can relax some of our current county standards and restrictions in place and still stay under the umbrella of the governor’s order,” Compton said.

Over the course of the next week, county officials are collaborating with REACH, formerly known as the Hourglass Project, on a roadmap for a phased reopening. Insight from industries, community leaders, and a panel of medical experts will help provide more clarity on how the guidelines will be implemented. County supervisors and local mayors will oversee the entire project.

On the same day as the briefing, Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham (R-San Luis Obispo) sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom requesting he reopen SLO County’s economy “under a local order developed in concurrence with the county’s public health official.”

Newsom addressed the calls from local governments for reopening during his April 20 briefing by stating that the restrictions will remain in place.

However, the Newsom administration will announce its guidelines on a slow reopening.

“I know how impatient people are, but again, I just cannot express more gratitude for the incredible and heroic work all of you have done to soften the blow of this virus so far in the state of California. Again, let’s not dream of regretting and pulling the plug too early,” he said.

Ventura County recently modified its shelter-at-home order by opening some parks, slowly opening nonessential businesses, and allowing small gatherings. Newsom said his administration is concerned that one county’s decisions to relax restrictions could effect its neighboring county.

“The virus knows no jurisdiction, knows no boundaries,” Newsom said.

He said there is a cap in terms of loosening restrictions on the local level.

“But we, as I expressed more broadly, want to see that done in concert with the state of California, legally and otherwise, in the spirit of collaboration and cooperation,” he said.

The governor acknowledged the push to reopen but cautioned that other parts of the world that relaxed restrictions too soon, such as Singapore, were impacted by a second wave of the virus.

SLO County officials said the county is restoring elective surgeries and chronic disease management, animal welfare and grooming (both mobile and in-house grooming), and recreational fishing. Δ —Karen Garcia

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BY KASEY BUBNASH

Keeping connected The COVID-19 pandemic is changing addiction treatment on the Central Coast, but help is still available

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upport groups and group therapy play an important role in treating a number of mental and behavioral health issues, but nowhere are those strategies more prevalent than in addiction and substance-abuse treatment programs.

From SLO County’s court-ordered and voluntary addiction programs, to private in-patient rehab centers, to Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, the sharing of lived experiences among nonjudgmental peers—the people who’ve been there and done that—is a reoccurring theme.

“People like to know they’re not alone,” said Frank Warren, coordinator of the Mental Health Services Act for the SLO County Behavioral Health Department.

“And most people who have hit bottom or have had some sort of extremely negative impact because of their substance use

can be ostracized by their family or their social group or their work group, and they feel isolated. Group therapy allows people to feel connected.”

But with a statewide shelter-at-home order in place and social distancing measures being encouraged, connecting face to face has become a challenge for everyone. For now, the COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way addiction treatment is conducted on the Central Coast.

Group meetings and therapy sessions, court-mandated addiction programs, and DUI programs are by and large being held via Zoom, and SLO County Behavioral Health is leaning on telehealth and telepsychiatry for one-on-one counseling and appointments. Nearly 80 percent of the county’s behavioral health services are now being provided virtually, Warren said, and the transition, for the most part, was smooth.

But Warren still worries about accessibility at a time when it’s more important than ever to have support.

People worldwide have lost wages, work hours, or their jobs entirely, and longstanding routines have been broken.

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CHANGING TREATMENT With a statewide shelter-at-home order in place and social distancing measures being encouraged, connecting face-toface has become a challenge for everyone, and—at least for now—the COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way addiction treatment is conducted on the Central Coast.

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and close friends. It’s a time marked by uncertainties and loneliness, which Warren said could bring on some of the emotions—boredom, fear, anxiety, and depression—that often trigger people to use and abuse drugs and alcohol.

Warren is concerned that SLO County residents struggling with or recovering from substance abuse might assume local treatment programs and groups are on hold for the pandemic. There are some benefits to the pandemic though.

With bars and restaurants closed and gatherings prohibited, Warren said there’s less social pressure to drink.

“But it’s our concern, and we’re hearing from our staff that they are hearing, that people are struggling,” Warren told New Times. “We really want people to reach out.”

But not many are, and Warren said some of the county’s clients are stepping away from their ongoing addiction treatment.

Whether that’s because locals are simply stepping away from everything they normally do right now, or because they don’t know how or don’t have the means to access the online meetings, Warren said he isn’t completely sure. But he wants everyone to know that the SLO County Behavioral Health Department is still fully operational and is offering support services to residents struggling to pivot to the virtual treatment model.

Those without computers or internet access, however, can still attend in-person appointments and group meetings through the county. The group sessions, while smaller, less frequent, and brimming with COVID-19 safety measures, are essentially being conducted as they’ve always been.

“We’re helping people convert to telehealth, but obviously not everyone has the capacity,” Warren said. “We’ll meet clients where we need to meet them.”

That isn’t the case for the region’s Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous chapters, although they’re doing the best they can to host regular group meetings and stay connected online and over the phone.

Under normal circumstances, the District 22 Central Coast Alcoholics Anonymous chapter hosts more than 300 group meetings each week throughout the region. Now the organization is

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conducting about 90 meetings every week via Zoom, according to Jeff L., Central Coast AA’s chair of communications. Jeff and others in the AA and NA programs requested that New Times not use their full names to maintain anonymity.

The online model has its downsides.

The social aspect of AA has been, to some degree, eliminated. Jeff said a lot of people will go out for coffee or food after the meetings, and that’s often how members make friends through the program. Jeff is also worried about accessibility for those who struggle with technology.

“If they don’t have the technology that’s another problem and that’s just something we can’t help because of the circumstances,” he said. “Most people, it seems, are doing really well with the Zoom meetings.”

But there are also some upsides. The Zoom meetings, which Jeff said have been masterfully scheduled by webmaster Bob R., really do feel like real, in-person meetings. They’re also easier to make it to for those with busy schedules or who are nervous about joining the program.

“So it might be a good way for newcomers to warm up to the program,” Jeff said, “because they can do it from the safety of their own home.”

Central Coast Narcotics Anonymous is facing the same coronavirus-related challenges. Meetings have shifted to Zoom, and the organization’s facilities are closed to the public, according to coordinator Mike R. There is concern over those potential members who might fall through the cracks during the COVID-19 shutdowns, but, for now, Mike said virtual meetings are the only option.

“By isolating, people have kind of isolated too much,” Mike told New Times.

“So we’re just doing the best we can, and we’re hoping we can keep people connected.” Δ Staff Writer Kasey Bubnash can be reached at kbubnash@newtimesslo.com.

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Safe spaces Transgender and nonbinary individuals navigate isolation and creating virtual support groups during the current pandemic

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ranz Central Coast Chair Jaime Woolf said the organization’s members, much like the rest of the San Luis Obispo County community, are feeling economically stressed and isolated due to the shelter-at-home order.

That isolation isn’t new to some individuals who identify as transgender or nonbinary, Woolf said, as many have families that aren’t supportive, or they don’t have a home environment where they’re comfortable being themselves.

“Now they’re just isolated at home and many of them are unable to express who their authentic self is,” she said.

The Trevor Project—a national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning young people under 25—says that COVID-19 has serious implications for the mental health of LGBTQ youth.

“Although it is too early to fully understand the impact of physical distancing due to COVID-19 on health and mental health, existing research has found that people who do not feel connected to others are more likely to suffer from respiratory illness, report depression and anxiety, and experience suicidality,” a Trevor Project report released on April 3 states.

Kris Roudebush, is a licensed marriage and family therapist in San Luis Obispo who now sees 90 percent of her clients through video sessions—she still sees a few patients in person. She’s also considered a gender-affirming provider.

Anecdotally, Roudebush said, unless transgender and nonbinary youth have already established an online community of transgender-affirming groups, then that social interaction is significantly lacking.

She said these individuals who are quarantined at home are now navigating how to express their identity in safe ways. She gave the example of living in a home that isn’t supportive and joining the virtual support group that Tranz Central Coast. That individual has to look for a safe space in their home to have a confidential video conference with the group.

“I try to always start a session if I know that’s the case, by checking and asking, ‘Are you in a place where you can speak openly?’ Sometimes it’s a matter of just nodding their head or shaking their head,” Roudebush said.

Being new to telehealth, Roudebush said she’s learned that her clients go to a separate room in the house, go outside, have their session in the car, or go on a walk.

Typically when Roudebush first meets with a client, she said she assesses what their goals for therapy are and what they are hoping to work on—a common thread that connects their time together.

“However, with what’s going on right now, I’m really taking every session to check in with clients to see how they’re doing day to day, how their life has been affected by COVID-19 related things, and then really encouraging, supporting, and

reviewing self-care practices,” she said.

“Even if we feel ‘fine’ or slightly more exhausted than usual, it’s important to practice preventative self-care. If you are not OK, you’re experiencing ongoing overwhelming feelings of sadness and excessive crying spells you can’t seem to stop, severe anxiety, or suicidal thoughts, please reach out.”

Individuals who need therapy can start during this isolation period.

Roudebush said many therapists are offering teletherapy. She also advises reaching out to local organizations like the Gala Pride and Diversity Center, Tranz Central Coast, and other nationwide organizations such as the Validation Station. The Validation Station is a newly established free text service created to share affirmation amid the current pandemic—by providing your name, phone number, and pronouns, an individual gets a daily text validating their identity and why they’re great.

Roudebush said she’s really trying to assist her patients in processing loss due to the virus—loss of physical social interaction, financial loss, employment loss, or even the temporary loss of scheduled gender-affirming surgery.

Dr. Denise Taylor practices family medicine and provides hormone therapy to adults and youth. Currently, Taylor said that her practice isn’t halting hormone therapy, as hormones can be prescribed and check-ins can be done via telemedicine.

She said she has heard a few patients say they were in the process of getting consults for gender-affirming surgery or were scheduling a gender-affirming surgery before the pandemic. Genderaffirming surgery falls under the elective surgery category, which has been temporarily on hold.

“It doesn’t sound like people are super distressed about that. I think they understand why and they’re sort of rolling with it. I think as long as there’s the possibility that it’s going to happen at some point soon, and there is a plan in place, [it] does help,” Taylor said.

Dr. Lauren Prewitt told New Times she doesn’t see the temporary halt of elective surgeries as a huge issue with her patients either. She conducts hysterectomy procedures for transsexualism or transgender indication.

She said that many of her patients live with a body that they can’t control or are trapped in a body they have no control over. These individuals, Prewitt said, have figured out how to be their authentic selves, and they probably have coping mechanisms and some encouraging words for the rest of the community now trapped in an uncontrollable situation.

“To be honest, I think you’re talking about a highly flexible, adaptable, resilient population who has a lot to say to the rest of us who maybe haven’t had to do something like this,” Prewitt said. Δ Staff Writer Karen Garcia can be reached at kgarcia@newtimesslo.com.

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t’s no secret many people and local business are struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. Boo Boo Records owner Mike White realizes that as he navigates the uncertain climate.

“Everyone’s hurting,” White told New Times. “I don’t expect anything from anybody, but it’s nice when we get it and it’s super gratifying. We’re thankful.”

As businesses in San Luis Obispo and across the state shut their doors for the foreseeable future as a result of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s shelter-at-home directive, creativity became the name of the game. Local establishments are coming up with ways to continue serving their customers while staying home.

At Boo Boo Records, this means turning to online sales to keep selling records for music heads. While the store has maintained an online selling presence for the last 15 years, White said he and his employees have put more energy toward the website as a result of the pandemic. They’ve also offered bonus credit on gift cards and discounts on store merchandise bought online as well.

“The doors are closed, but our online business has really been giving us a heartbeat,” White said, adding that online business is “giving us a lot of optimism as far as making it through however long it takes.”

In addition to its website, Boo Boo’s is uploading photos, videos, and stories to its Instagram account to keep community engagement up. Followers have been responding positively to the page’s content, White said.

The store is also listing many of its vinyl records for sale on its Discogs page. Discogs is a user-sourced music database that also functions as a digital marketplace for physical releases. More than 14.5 million items were sold on Discogs in 2019 alone, according to a March 9 press release.

The increased energy going into maintaining an online storefront, White said, is keeping some employees working to maintain it.

“Obviously it’s a much reduced staff, but I’m keeping people working four days a week—all day,” he said, “which is really gratifying. We’ve got some guys that can keep earning.”

But just like many other businesses in town, Boo Boo Records is still being hit financially because of the pandemic’s economic impact.

White said the store’s biggest challenge is trying to make do with less income pouring in to pay rent, utilities, taxes, and other bills, but he also added that another challenge for the store currently is keeping up with online orders.

The transaction speed in a personto-person interaction versus an online interaction is much different, White said.

He added that the difference results from communication with their customers taking place through phone, text, and emails.

But customers have chipped in their support for the record store beyond buying records, as White said several customers have bought gift certificates in the hundreds of dollars to support store.

And for that, he’s appreciative.

“Music is a real oasis,” White said.

“Obviously there’s many ways of getting your music delivered these days. They don’t need to buy a record from us to do that. I’m just thankful to the people that are and have been.”

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• ARTS Obispo, the county’s art council, has listed various resources for artists and art organizations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Resources include preparedness tips during the pandemic, along with financial support for musicians, visual artists, writers, and multidisciplinary artists. For an expanded list, visit artsobispo.org/coronavirus.

• The Yoga Standard and Tolosa Winery are partnering up to bring free online yoga classes for two more weeks.

“WOGA Wednesdays,” which combine both practicing yoga and drinking wine, continue April 29 at 4 p.m. You can join the class by visiting tolosawinery.com/ events/woga-wednesday.

• The Sock Drawer donated 200 pairs of novelty socks to health care workers at Dignity Health and Sierra Vista hospitals. The socks were given as a thank you gift for their efforts in caring for COVID-19 patients. “Our products are about bringing people joy, and if there’s anyone who deserves that right now, it’s all the nurses, doctors, and other essential medical workers out there,” Sock Drawer owner and founder Brooke English said in a press release. “We hope this puts a smile on their faces.” Δ Editorial intern Francisco Martinez wrote this week’s Strokes and Plugs. Send tidbits to strokes@newtimesslo.com.

Opinion We need to ban fracking now

The oil and gas industry fear the continued drop in the prices of their products worsened by the pandemic.

They want to ensure our dependency on fossil fuels by taking advantage of this life-threatening virus. While Gov. Gavin Newsom is heroically combating COVID-19, the federal government has been rolling back environmental protections and lifting restrictions to allow for more drilling. They are gambling with our lives, for their profits.

In California, 24 permits for new fracking wells in Kern County were approved on April 3, 2020. Our Department of Conservation may approve 282 more fracking permits any day.

More than 22,300 Californians are confirmed infected with COVID-19, and 687 have tragically died. Yet, more than 12,000 Californians die annually from oil and gas production and burning. Any form of fossil fuel drilling makes air pollution worse. Air particulates cause cancer, asthma, and put immune systems at risk, but we can’t see them. We can’t see COVID-19, either.

Toxic air pollution from oil and gas drilling makes COVID-19 even deadlier.

The authors of an April 5 Harvard study found that the slightest increase in air pollution would cause an “increase in the COVID-19 death toll and hospitalizations, further burdening our health care system”—and putting people who live next to oil and gas wells at higher risk.

Now more than ever, we need to protect the health and safety of all Californians.

We shouldn’t needlessly be putting more people at risk.

Local elected officials are the first line of defense to fight fracking. I’m proud

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to serve on the steering committee of Elected Officials to Protect California.

More than 300 of us have already signed a letter asking the governor to take action banning fracking. I believe Gov. Newsom does want to protect the health and wellbeing of all Californians. I understand that he’s focused on combating COVID-19.

He may only be tangentially aware that new fracking permits are being issued.

We are in an emergency, and COVID-19 is his priority.

But climate change is an emergency, too. The World Health Organization has stated that if temperatures continue to rise, there will be an increase in pandemics like COVID-19. They are a national security threat.

We need to let the governor know the serious threat that fracking represents, as it adds to temperatures rising and the possibility of more pandemics.

Together we are stronger. Unite your voice with ours. Please contact Gov. Newsom’s office and be heard.

Together we can convince him not to issue any new permits. But it’s time the state put our lives first, not the interests of the oil and gas industry.

We need to ban all fracking now.

Heidi Harmon San Luis Obispo

Dear Gov. Newsom

First, let me say “thank you” for your continuing work and advocacy for a clean, healthy environment in California. We depend on our elected representatives to inspire conservation, belief in climate science, and action to change harmful and dangerous ways of using and creating energy.

The citizens of San Luis Obispo have lived with the risk of a nuclear accident

at Diablo Canyon Power Plant for more than four decades now. There has always been the seismic concern, terrorist threat, and human error possibilities, and now the realization of highly radioactive waste (500 pounds a day generated) we will have in our county forever.

Additionally, we ratepayers are going to be paying above-market costs to support a bankrupt, criminally negligent PG&E that is now trying to market its oversupply of energy to community choice aggregators that are claiming to sell “clean” energy. Nuclear is not clean!

I urge you to close Diablo Canyon Power Plant immediately. Time is of the essence so we can invest in truly renewable energy sources, which need to be supported because of the climate crisis, our health, safety, and the environment.

Marty Brown Atascadero

Mother Earth’s health is at risk, too

April is the month we celebrate Earth Day. With the COVID-19 health crisis, we realize how critical a healthy and safe environment is for all communities.

Many Americans have pulled together to secure safety for themselves and others.

This is such a positive example of how our country can make sacrifices to benefit all citizens. Just as the world is suffering from this terrible virus, the earth is also suffering from toxins in the air and water.

As a society, we must take climate change seriously. Mother Earth has provided us with a perfect ecosystem, but right now her health is at great risk, too. This November, let your representatives know: climate matters. Mother Earth matters.

If her health fails, we all suffer. Help Mother Earth cleanse the air and water.

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Vote for Mother Earth.

Maggie Kraft San Luis Obispo

Keep plastic bags out of the recycling bin!

Recycling properly is most likely near the bottom of everyone’s priorities these days. Yet I’m compelled to share with my local neighbors one very easy and important step that everyone should know about: There should be no plastic bags in your recycling bin! Anything inside a plastic bag automatically gets thrown away. Integrated Waste Management Authority specifies that there should be no bags in the blue recycling bin.

On my daily walks, I’ve seen a great number of bins that contain the big plastic bags with recyclables inside— these items you good-naturedly meant to save from the landfill do go into the landfill when they are inside any plastic bag. So please help increase the amount of items recycled at our facilities by dumping out your recyclables directly into the blue bin. Thanks, folks! (To become more knowledgeable about county recycling, visit iwma.com/guide.)

Kalila Volkov Morro Bay

Let’s be greener now

In the spirit of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, let’s do what we can to address climate change.

The Earthcare Committee of St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church in Los Osos has identified a menu of actions that people across our county can take. A short list of actions includes no-cost and lowLETTERS continued page 12

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End it now!

A ll businesses are essential, if only to the owners who depends upon them for their livelihood. Why is a florist closed but a liquor store open, or an abortion clinic open but a dental office closed? Who makes these decisions?

Why do we have ordinances that grant unaccountable power to unelected officials upon declaration of an emergency without continuous review and approval of their decrees by our elected officials?

It’s time to end the economic shutdown and return America to work. The five weeks of economic shutdown are producing catastrophic economic results with questionable ability to limit the spread of coronavirus infections. Recent studies from University of Southern California are now indicating that the virus infection rate may be 28 to 55 times more infectious than realized, which makes its lethality much lower than projected. The USC study estimates that as many as 400,000 people in LA have already been infected, whereas the official rate is listed at only 8,000 with more than 600 deaths, as confirmed on April 20 during the LA public health director’s press conference. This is comparable to a Stanford University study in Santa Clara County showing similar results.

We were told to expect a pandemic apocalypse with 2 million deaths according to models from the Imperial Medical College of London. Our own CDC affirmed this after initially denying coronavirus posed any significant public health threat in January/February.

Those model projections were reduced to 200,000 and then to 60,000, and the models included social distancing in their calculations. Whatever reduction in deaths has occurred is not a result of social distancing but in the nature of the virus itself.

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upon crowded mass transit and elevators, and leaders who were late in responding.

Subways, which remain open, are a major cause of infection spread but are essential for inner-city transport. Upstate New York is not experiencing the travails of NYC nor are other rural communities.

Neither are many states; some are now opening (Texas, Georgia, and others). Nor is Sweden, which invoked no closure (20 deaths total), with Norway and Denmark reopening after only two dozen deaths.

So, too, is Germany.

According to Dr. Warren Frankel of Templeton, who has led charitable medical teams globally for decades, coronavirus is a self-limiting disease similar to swine flu which will diminish on its own. He faults the models’ “worstcasing” the disease, using inappropriate methodologies. He told me that modelers are using incident rates—the number of deaths over positive virus tests instead of mortality rates, which are an amount of deaths over the total population— resulting in a higher lethality rate than is actually occurring.

For instance, if we used the current coronavirus model standard, a person testing positive for coronavirus who was asymptomatic and considered possibly contagious, requires isolation. If we applied that standard to every infectious disease (like strep throat), we’d all be quarantined forever.

Finally, Dr. Frankel noted that in coronavirus cases, the virus is listed as the cause of death when in all other cases, the “cause of death” would be cardiac arrest or another direct cause with the virus being listed as a “contributing factor.” Listing the virus as the cause of death obscures the role played by underlying ailments, such as cancer, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease being a terminal ailment aggravated by the virus. It skews the statistics to make the virus appear to be more lethal than it really is.

solar choice with PG&E to get carbon-free energy; purchase carbon offsets for air travel to support healthy forests; switch your investments away from fossil fuel stocks to fossil-free ones (e.g. SPYX fund); buy or lease an electric vehicle to reduce CO2 pollution; and install solar panels to save money and reduce emissions.

You’ll find additional actions and implementation steps at slogreenchallenge. com. There you can also form your own team and track your results.

Together we can boost our stewardship of the planet and celebrate our successes.

Don Maruska Los Osos

What about the small businesses?

I am writing to you today with a heavy heart. My family owns a small business, 34 years in our community.

Not a franchise, not a chain. We are a small business. More than 90 percent of our store is dedicated to local purveyors, wineries, farmers, and entrepreneurs.

Each day we support our community.

This pandemic is not unique. Check the CDC’s estimated influenza disease burden for the United States’ 2017-18 influenza season. Just two years ago, total hospitalizations were 808,129 and total deaths 61,099 (all age groups). The 1957-58 H2N2 influenza pandemic killed 116,000 Americans (220,000 in today’s population). Those are actual numbers, far exceeding the current outbreak, yet the media took little notice.

Financial analysts are reporting our national economy is systematically collapsing at a far more dangerous rate than anyone expected. More than 22 million Americans are now unemployed from an economy that a month ago was fully employed and expanding.

LA County is reporting a 45 percent unemployment rate. We are heading for a Great Depression that may exceed the collapse of 1929.

We are accumulating multigenerational national debt and crippling our ability to recover as small and medium businesses are strangled.

Locally, as much as 50 percent of local businesses may not reopen if this shutdown continues beyond April.

It’s already too late for some. Our communities are being gutted with favorite restaurants likely to close and many newspapers, the heartbeat of our communities, in dire straits. Some report already laying off 50 percent of their staff. Low-income workers are hardest hit as are working families. They depend upon schools opening as 85 percent of working families with school-age children depend upon schools as their primary child care, which for now is non-existent.

Our liberties are at stake as authoritarian governors reveal character flaws that only crisis reveals.

As a senior, grandfather, and father with health-care-worker children engaged in this fight, I hope we have something left to save. Δ Al Fonzi had a 35-year military career, serving in both the Vietnam and Irag wars. Respond in a letter to the editor emailed to letters@newtimesslo.com.

We support other businesses. We donate, we volunteer, we pride ourselves in community and in making a positive imprint each day.

I heard about the $20 million that was granted to Ruth’s Chris Steak House.

That’s wonderful, but what is left?

When we applied for our loan, we did it with no expectation of amount. Frankly, a tiny fraction of what they have received would have been appreciated.

Right now, we feel overlooked, frustrated, and forgotten.

We remain hopeful because that is what we do as small business owners and community members. We support each other in all times, good and bad.

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Opinion

The Shredder

Free-dumb!

D ear diary, it’s week five of the recommended quarantine, and I am desperate to leave my hovel, sit down and eat at a moderately priced restaurant, drink a drinky-drink, leave a tippy-tip, go get a haircut, enjoy a massage, and not wear a cloth face mask over my alluring visage, but alas, I have too much respect for my fellow citizens.

Am I truly alone, diary? On Monday, April 20, a group of citizens gathered in front of the SLO County Government Center to protest the ongoing “lockdown.”

Some on Facebook labeled them covidiots, noting that a gathering is called a covfefe. Their battle cry of, “Give us free-dumb or give us death,” seems to have used the wrong coordinating conjunction, as “and” seems more appropriate than “or.”

Even members of my own local government are now calling for SLO County to open things up sooner than state government wants. Yes, we’ve done a good job of flattening the curve, diary, but it’s only been five weeks. Just 30 minutes south of us, the city of Santa Maria has more than 100 cases alone, and the novel coronavirus doesn’t respect borders or boundaries.

As one astute social media mememaker noted, opening some areas and not others is like having a peeing section in a public pool.

On April 20, New Times reported that Paso Robles resident Dylan Neff called for another protest on Facebook, this

time for Sunday, April 26, from 8 a.m. until noon at the County Government Center.

This reportage of local news was met by consternation and vitriol.

“Why are you giving this clown free advertising?” asked Jason C. Holland.

“Disgusting to see this get politicized like everything else in this country,” said Ty Hudson. “Public safety isn’t a partisan matter.”

“Amazing that New Times took his bait,” scolded Laurie Bryant.

“Quit giving this publicity,” demanded Jeaneen Armstrong.

“Are you condoning this?” asked Rachel Raub.

Dear diary, why do people condemn reporters reporting local news? I am perplexed. If we report on government malfeasance, are we condoning said malfeasance? It reminds me of the time New Times reported on anti-vaxxers screening a film at Morro Bay Theatre, and pro-vaxxers went apoplectic, accusing us of endorsing anti-vaxxer views.

I know much of California considers us rural rubes, and it certainly doesn’t help when we make the LA Times, which on Tuesday, April 22, published a story called, “Some sections of California are pushing to lift-stay-at-home rules before others.”

Was the story referring to OpenCalifornia protesters like Neff?

No, diary, the story spoke of our elected government officials.

“Leaders in the central California county of San Luis Obispo are confident they have flattened the coronavirus curve,” the story begins. “The coastal county of 283,000 people recorded 134 cases and one death, and this week, there were only two confirmed infected people in hospital beds.”

As noted, all seven county mayors, two county supervisors, and a state assemblyman sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom asking for restrictions to be lifted in “a phased reopening of our local economy over the next three weeks.” The letter added the county is well supplied with tests and PPE and has the capacity to care for 900 ill patients.

“We have put in the work and made investments to prepare for any type of surge or second wave,” the letter claimed.

“Any type of surge,” dear diary?

California cases are still increasing, so while SLO County may look OK for now, we may be pulling down California’s curve that would look worse without us, and if we’re open for business and get infected by asymptomatic Californians from elsewhere who’ll come rushing in to vacation here, our good fortunes could quickly reverse.

“The problem with counties coming up piecemeal is about whether they create magnets,” UC San Francisco epidemiologist and infectious disease expert Dr. George Rutherford told the Times.

Even SLO County’s own top health

officer, Dr. Penny Borenstein, admitted she and other county officials “fully expect” to “see more disease” as restrictions are lifted. “What we’re going to be looking for are trends.”

Hmm. Sounds good … unless you’re part of a “trend” toward more illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths, right dear diary? Doesn’t it seem terribly unfair that those of us who respect the health recommendations and do our part will have our chances of contracting COVID-19 increased by people who recklessly disregard social distancing, masks, sheltering in place, and limiting interaction?

If only the disease could be limited to the covidiots and their gathering of covfefes—proving Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection correct.

Alas, diary, this virus is a sly and slippery thing, and even those taking the utmost precautions can fall victim, especially considering estimates that up to 25 percent of carriers may be wholly asymptomatic. What an insidious thing!

If only we had enough tests for each and every one of our 283,111 SLO County residents to be tested at least twice or maybe three times, and then we could close our borders and party like it’s 1919 after the Spanish influenza finally died down, but not until it had re-spiked, killing more people than its first wave and more people than World War I. Freedumb indeed. ∆ The Shredder isn’t interested in becoming a statistic. Send comments and suggestions to shredder@newtimesslo.com.

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Music

BY GLEN STARKEY

Effed up year

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Local pop act Fialta drops a new single after a two-year hiatus

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bout a year ago, when Fialta wrote “Made It This Far,” the first single from their upcoming third album, it was to process the loss of a friend, but the track, which was released on April 21, seems to be expressing what we’re all feeling right now.

“Time was going gray, you were out of tears/ Don’t know what to say, it’s been a fucked-up year/ No one bought CDs, Twitter stole your soul/ I ate far too much, but I was never full,” they sing on the wistfully beautiful track.

“We wrote ‘Made It This Far’ a year ago, when a personal friend and her family were grieving an unimaginable tragedy,” Sarah Shotwell explained. “The song is about the way that pain silences us—how words often fall short in the face of suffering. It’s about feeling helpless and dumb when others are hurting. When we don’t know what to say, how can we show our compassion? Should we still try, even when that attempt feels feeble and awkward and thin and incomplete?”

The song goes on to say, “You got drunk to clean, cracked another beer/ While you cursed the dust on all the chandeliers/ I can talk too much, but when I try to pray/ How come I can’t think of anything to say?”

“This track was recorded back in July, when we had no idea what was coming, how hard things would get in the world, or how relevant the song would become to us,” Shotwell continued. “This week, we lost our own dear friend and former bassist, James Trujillo, and are now grappling with how to mourn during a pandemic. Sometimes, it all feels like too much to take in. This song is our attempt to express our love to everyone during this time. We can’t promise that everything’s going to be OK, but we continue to be astounded by all the beauty and courage in this world. We have so much to grieve, and we have so much to hope for.”

The song’s chorus certainly expresses both hope and our collective need to lean on one another in these dark days.

“I’ve been searching for a long time, honey. Haven’t learned a thing/ I’ve been searching for a long time, honey. Haven’t learned a thing/ Even though the road is going nowhere/ Even though the night is cold and dark/ All I know is that I love you, darling/ You and I have made it this far/ All you really need is holy water/ All I really need is my guitar/ All I know is I love you, darling/ You and I have made it this far/ Ooh Ooh Will you let me in?/ Ooh Ooh Ooh Will you let me in?”

Even the cover art for the new single took on added significance as the reality of COVID-19 become clear.

“A week before our social distancing orders arrived, we, in our blissful

GOOD GRIEF Fialta—Michael Leibovich, Beth Leibovich, Sarah Shotwell, and David Provenzano—just released “Made It This Far,” a terrific new track about the difficulty of expressing grief.

ignorance, had a party and took some film photos with friends,” Shotwell explained.

“It was the last time we got to lounge on the floor and pile on the couch with all our people for a while. The single art for this release is a photo taken that night. We’ll be sharing more photos from that evening as we continue to release singles in the lead up to our album, due out sometime this year. For now, we’re rolling with the punches, wishing everyone peace, and looking forward to the time when we can be together and play live again.”

I’m not sure what the rest of the new album will sound like, but this new track departs from the synth-driven sounds of their second album, Shadow of a Drought. The band’s thoughtful musical arrangements remain, this time with acoustic guitars, live strings, hand percussion, and organic vocal harmonies.

It’s another amazing song from an endlessly creative band that’s received more than 2 million plays on Spotify, and has been featured on Nerdist, NPR, and Paste, as well as on the TV shows Parenthood, Atypical, Awkward, and Bojack Horseman.

You can find the single on YouTube, Spotify, and other digital platforms.

Livestreams!

Shell Beach singer-songwriter Kevin Graybill, known simply as Graybill, has been streaming live concerts every Thursday, and will continue this Thursday, April 23, from 7 to 8 p.m., on Instagram (@GraybillMusic) and Facebook (Kevin Graybill).

His weekly streams, titled “Thoughtful Thirsty Thursdays,” are an hour of music “accompanied by a thoughtful weekly quote and a drink of the week,” Graybill explained via email. “I may be sipping on an adult beverage, or an interesting cup of tea … who knows? But I hope you bring a new drink to share with me each week, too, as you hang out and listen. Cheers!”

Graybill has been compared to

MAN WITH A PLAN The quarantine may have shut down OperaSLO’s live performances, but Artistic Director Brian Alhadeff is still creating online content for its YouTube channel.

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‘THOUGHTFUL THIRSTY THURSDAYS’ Shell Beach singersongwriter Graybill presents weekly livestreaming shows every Thursday, including April 23 and 30, and beyond.

Jack Johnson, John Mayer, and Dave Matthews. This is some very thoughtful, comfortable folk—like slipping on your most well-worn pair of jeans. You’ll hear both covers and originals. Virtual tip jars include Venmo@Kevin-Graybill; PayPal: Kevin@FullCircleDialogue.com; and Cash App: $KevinGraybill.

“As a conductor, one of my favorite moments is the audience applause after a curtain rises,” OperaSLO Artistic and General Director Brian Asher Alhadeff wrote in a letter to OperaSLO supporters and fans. “That welcome interruption to an orchestra in the middle of a heated overture floods artists with delight and validation.”

Since that live validation is on hold until the quarantine is lifted, Alhadeff has turned his attention to “creating impactful pieces of online education for children, our Chime-In series, and a few other surprises around the corner.”

You can tune in by joining OperaSLO’s YouTube channel.

“I am very grateful for the technology of

‘livestreaming,’ as it does seem to be the best way for us to keep relevant and safely connected during this challenging time.

Be safe, happy, stay tuned, and enjoy.”

Don’t forget that on their Facebook page, the Basin Street Regulars will host a livestream with The Jump Jax this Sunday, April 26, at 2 p.m. If you miss it, the concert will be posted to YouTube afterward. The Jump Jax is a terrific jump blues, swing, soul, and rockabilly quartet that will mix danceable classics and originals. Mark your calendar for upcoming concerts, which will be streamed unless the quarantine is lifted and the shows return to the Pismo Vets Hall: Creole Syncopators (May 31); MarciJean & the Belmont Kings (June 28); Holy Crow Jazz Band (July 26).

Quarantine song I don’t know about you, but I’d sure like to jump in a hotrod and head out to hear live music and get a drink! Singersongwriter Jeffrey Fassino is on the same page with his song and video for “The Buckhorn Bar,” available on YouTube.

“Read your column about a shoutout for local sheltering-at-home entertainment content,” Fassino emailed.

“Here’s some written, recorded, shot, and lived on the back roads of SLO County.

Enjoy the ride and stay for the Easter eggs in the credits.”

Turns out the roadhouse rock track was produced by Creston Line frontman Jon Bartel at his Northwall Studios in Atascadero. The track will make you pine for the open road! And a drink with friends! Δ Keep up with New Times Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey via Twitter at twitter. com/glenstarkey, friend him at facebook. com/glenstarkey, or contact him at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.

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Arts

Film [17]

Virtual stage

BY GLEN STARKEY

Artifacts The show must go on

ARTS Obispo cancels Open Studios Art Tour amid COVID-19 concerns The 2020 Open Studios Art Tour, originally scheduled to take place on Oct. 10, 11, 17, and 18, has been officially cancelled due to the global coronavirus crisis, according to an email from the SLO County Arts Council.

“With an unknown timeline of how long the COVID-19 pandemic will last, we felt it was the most responsible decision to cancel the event this year,” the email stated.

The annual event is part of ARTS Obispo, the SLO County partner of the California Arts Council, which strives to promote public access to visual, literary, and performing arts in the county through various programs. For updates on next year’s Open Studios Art Tour and other resources from ARTS Obispo, visit artsobispo.org.

Wildling Museum seeks photography of regional wildlife

Registration to enter the 11th biannual Wildling Nature Photography Competition, hosted by the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, is now open. The theme of this competition’s latest recurrence is Critters of the TriCounty Region, as applicants are encouraged to submit photos of all forms of wildlife—land and sea mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects—so long as they are found within the counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, or Ventura.

The competition is divided into two categories: adult (ages 18 and over) and youth (ages 17 and younger). Prizes range from $250 to $50 in the adult category and $100 to $50 in the youth category.

Applicants may only submit five or fewer photos. The entry fee is $10 per photograph. The deadline for submissions is July 6. Semifinalists will be notified on July 26.

Although concrete scheduling will be contingent upon California’s COVID-19 reopening guidelines, the Wildling Museum hopes to display competition finalists on-site starting Sept. 12.

For entry forms or more info, visit wildlingmuseum.org.

Paso Robles Youth Arts Center opens enrollment for online classes

The Paso Robles Youth Arts Center’s new Virtual Studio classes begin April 27, and enrollment is open online at pryaf. org. Created as an alternative to the center’s regular on-site classes before COVID-19 closures, the Virtual Studio program includes a total of 30 free, youth-oriented visual and performing arts classes.

The program is currently scheduled to run through May 29.

For details beyond those available on the center’s website, call (805) 238-5825, Ext. 15. Δ —Caleb Wiseblood

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SLO Rep’s online series offers laughs for all and activities for the kids

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LO Repertory Theatre’s stage at 888 Morro St. may be dark, but the repertory company’s mission statement of “producing professional theater, nurturing artists, and providing theater education for children and adults” carries on. SLO Rep raised the curtain on its new online series, The Intermission Show, which is now available on YouTube with new episodes starting at 3 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday until the theater reopens.

The brisk 8- to 10-minute show is set up like a socially distanced talk show with SLO Rep’s Managing Artistic Director Kevin Harris at the helm, clad in a tacky suit and tie with a faux alcoholic drink nearby. By the time you read this, they will be eight episodes into the series.

“My comedic idol was Garry Shandling, so, there’s certainly a bit of Larry Sanders fueling the whole thing,” Harris explained.

“What was great about that character is that he was always on the brink of a complete nervous breakdown, and that neurosis led to the comedy leaning toward self-deprecation and a constant acknowledgement of the artifice of the medium. The approach seemed correct, given that The Intermission Show wouldn’t exist without the completely unprecedented COVID-19 crisis that we’re all trying our best to navigate on a day-to-day basis.

“We’re all struggling emotionally and professionally, so it was vital that we acknowledge that struggle in the show,” Harris continued. “This situation really sucks, and it’s therapeutic—for us, at least—to admit that somehow during each show.”

Clever editing sells Harris’ trepidation as he introduces segments such as “Sheltering at Home,” where SLO Rep-associated actors broadcast from their homes. My two favorites from the six episodes I saw were Alicia Veium, who was stuck at home with her two kids, from whom she was hiding as she clandestinely recorded her bit; and Cameron Parker, who appears with his little dog and brags about his gift for improvisation while floundering to prove his claim true. It’s all very funny.

There’s also a segment called ACT (Academy of Creative Theatre) Spotlight, which on Mondays challenges the show’s youthful audience members—and yes, it’s absolutely kidfriendly even with Harris’ faux drink—to doing something creative, record it, and send it in by Thursday at 3 p.m. to appear on the coming Friday’s show. I watched five terrific monologue performances by local kids London Raftery, Logan Raftery, Addisyn Tejado, Caleb Temple, and Charlie Beck. The next challenge asked kids to make their own costumes.

“At the beginning of the crisis, we were forced to cancel our entire spring session of classes and spring break camps,” Harris noted. “Now, it looks as if the summer session is also going to be canceled. Our ACT program is one of the

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WORRIED MIND Kevin Harris plays an anxious talk show host on SLO REP’s new online series The Intermission Show, available on YouTube.

pillars of the organization, and we knew that we wanted to provide educational opportunities for our students (and all young artists) throughout this shelter-at-home period. So far, the response has been overwhelming. I’m right in the middle of editing our new submissions for the costume design assignment. It’s great to retain some sort of connection with our students during this time, and we look forward to finding new ways to collaborate with them every week while we’re shuttered.”

The whole series feels very timely. Many of the “Sheltering at Home” reports are hilarious and really seem to try to capture the frustrations many of us are feeling.

“Before we created the first episode, we sent out a list of questions to over 300 artists around the country; each artist can pick and choose what questions they would like to answer, or they can submit something completely unsolicited,” Harris explained.

“What was important to us from the very beginning was that we were not going to try to replicate the experience of live theater. It’s extremely difficult for live theater to translate to video, and we knew that we had to go in a different direction and try—for better or for worse—to create something completely new and original from SLO Rep. The artists who have submitted instinctually understood that, and I believe that that’s what’s fueling the tone of their submissions. It gives them the opportunity to create something personal about their own COVID-19 experience.”

In the more recent episodes, Harris started including “What’s Happening on the Internet” bits that are hilarious.

“My kids are 16 and 15, so I’ve spent the last decade in the YouTube wormhole myself,” Harris admitted. “The segments began as a way to demonstrate, in the simplest way, that regardless of what’s happening with the crisis, the online world is continuing to do what it does best: creating memes that are collectively determined to be worthwhile by the masses.

For me, the segments are a nice little breather from the difficult reality of the real world.

However, after each of those segments, we use another popular meme—‘Sounds of Silence’ played during a close-up of a worried face—to acknowledge the respite they provide is fleeting in the face of our current reality.”

The show’s terrific—fun and heartfelt, and it feels like a true attempt to create community at a time when face-to-face interaction is restricted.

“Theater is all about bringing people together, in one room, breathing the same air, experiencing a story that, hopefully, will help illuminate our shared humanity,” Harris said. “Right now, we’re unable to do this in the traditional way. Our hope is that The Intermission Show can be a place for our patrons, students, colleagues, and friends to meet up a few times a week to check in on each other so that when our doors are finally reopened, we can celebrate exactly what it means to be community.

“We miss our friends and SLO Rep family,” he continued, “and this is our way of continuing to create art, if only to check in and say hello.” Δ Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey’s show must go on. Throw roses to him at gstarkey@ newtimesslo.com.

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Split Screen

Prescience

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his timely and informative docuseries introduces viewers to the men and women on the front line of the war against global pandemics. (six 50-min. episodes) Glen This docuseries, which was filmed before the COVID-19 outbreak, predicted the pandemic we’re currently experiencing.

Its timing feels uncanny. Set up like a global thriller, the episodes cut between various scientists and health care workers in locations around the world as they attempt to trace the origins of viruses, invent a universal influenza vaccine, and treat those who contract coronaviruses.

If someone told me a month ago that I’d develop a deep interest in epidemiological sciences in the coming days, I would have said, “Epidemiolwhat?” The series brings to life this largely unknown work by people looking for virus sources in a crowded Vietnamese market; or pointing out how woefully understaffed and unprepared rural hospitals are, like one in Oklahoma. Some of these folks are real characters, like Jacob Glanville, who’s trying to develop the universal flu vaccine.

He sports a leather jacket and rides an electric skateboard around San Francisco.

There’s also Susan Flis, a retired nurse who’s dedicated herself to offering free flu vaccines at the Mexican border in Arizona.

It’s fascinating stuff, and its characters all seemed to know what our own government didn’t—that a new pandemic would come, and we’re not ready for it.

Anna It’s certainly clear that these people knew the next pandemic wasn’t an “if” but a “when,” and watching them predict what has now turned our world upside down is fascinating. It takes the shine off of being a doctor, especially when you see the long hours and seemingly thankless work they put into both combatting and researching these scary viruses. World Health Organization Ebola specialist Michel Yao in South Africa only sees his family through video chats—missing birthdays, graduations, and everything else to fight the good fight. Yet misinformation and fear spread just as fast as the disease he’s fighting, and when locals start to believe that the outside health workers in fact brought Ebola, they attack one command center and try to set fire to another. It’s heartbreaking to see what fear can lead to. This series lets us follow the same

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people through many different PANDEMIC: HOW TO avenues and facets of what it takes PREVENT AN OUTBREAK to combat something so global. It’s What’s it rated? TV-14 fascinating to say the least.

Where’s it showing? Amazon Prime Glen We also meet Oregon mother of five Caylan Wagar, an anti-vaccine activist and fierce opponent of Oregon’s vaccination laws, which forbid her from UNPREPARED sending her kids to public schools without Netflix’s new docuseries, Pandemic: vaccination records. Despite a measles How to Prevent an outbreak, Wagar will not budge on her Outbreak, predicted stance that forced vaccines are wrong and the COVID-19 outbreak harmful. She reminds me of the pockets and drives home how of people today who refuse to wear masks woefully unprepared in public, demand businesses be open, we are to cope with it. and protest against government health directives. Yes, I “get” that you think your freedoms are being infringed upon, but PHOTO COURTESY OF FILM LAB don’t other children deserve to be “free” of preventable disease? Don’t elderly or immune-compromised people deserve to avoid COVID-19 outbreaks? We also see outbreak preparation drills in NYC and learn of the importance of personal protective equipment—if you can’t protect yourself, you can’t help anyone else. What this docuseries really drives home is how apathetic we’ve become to disease, and how as we continue to encroach into wild places and disrupt ecosystems, we can expect to see more of this animal-tohuman transmission of deadly diseases.

MEAN OLD MAN Peter Huffman’s ongoing screaming match with his Maybe we’ll be ready for the next one. roommate becomes fodder for Maybe not. serendipitous recordings that become Anna Wagar is such a frustrating piece of cult favorites, in the documentary Shut this story. There’s no doubt she loves her Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, children, but it was definitely one of the available on Amazon Prime. most infuriating sections of the series for me. We watch small-town Oklahoma doctor THE WILD AND WONDERFUL Holly Gorake work through a 72-hour shift as the only doctor at her hospital and the WHITES OF WEST VIRGINIA other side of her life—evangelical Christian What’s it rated? TV-MA worship with her husband. It goes a long When? 2009 way in showing both sides of the coin; she’s Where’s it showing? Amazon Prime nothing if not devoted to both her work and her faith. From researchers designing aybe you’ve seen the cult classic documentary Dancing Outlaw (1991), about Jesco White, a mountain tap dancer. and developing drugs and vaccines, to It followed his amazing dancing skills, the grinding doctors inoculating livestock, to health poverty he suffered, his alcoholism, and drug addiction. care providers on the front lines, this is a This documentary explores the rest of the White clan, a pack of thieves, gas-huffers, drug dealers, and worse. sweeping look at what it takes to fight these The documentary has now been rereleased for its 10th viruses. It’s a very sobering series, but one anniversary, and as an accompaniment to Shut Up Little Man!, that puts the people doing the actual work it offers another look at humanity’s underbelly.

The Whites are really something else. Drug use is a way of at the forefront. Check this one out. Δ

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life, and the various members talk candidly about their drugs of choice, the crimes they commit, and their multigenerational life of misdeeds. Yes, it’s easy to look at this family and feel sorry for them or see them as degenerates and losers, but you’d be hard-pressed to find people living lives more free of convention, expectation, and the law. It’s a wacky world

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Deep thoughts At home in A-Town—with my man and our kids—an online somm appears like a mirage in the desert eliciting veritas from vino

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side from getting a little natural Vitamin D and fresh air here and there, I was hunkering down like the rest of us. I had every intention of staying fit and sober for health’s sake.

Then, out of thin air, a wine fairy dropped off some marvelously boutique bottles of vino on my front path and flitted away.

Moments after the wine fairy’s visit, I receive instructions in the mail for my SIP with a Somm seminar. Oh right, this was supposed to be the Somm’s Kitchen and SIP Certified wine pairing that was initially planned to feature local viticulturists and winemakers sitting in proximity at the Somm’s Kitchen counter in downtown Paso Robles.

Turns out the SIP with a Somm crew was among the first wine programs to adapt to the new shelter-at-home orders. Before you could say “quarantine,” the event had already been reformatted to be virtual.

Chef Ian Adamo gave me and the other 19 guests and six panelists a list of three categories to prepare food pairings from home with each of the SIP-certified wines.

Understanding his guests, who likely have differing home situations, he divided his food suggestions into: 1) feed the kids, grab a bite, drink a lot; 2) midday snacks; and 3) and overachieving, nonparents, who aren’t broke.

I’ve been looking forward to my 3 o’clock appointment today. It’s also deadline day, since the SIP with a Somm seminar was postponed to this week, so tasting seven bottles of wine between my husband, Greg, and myself (a lightweight) means I may be writing this column a little bit happy.

In other words, mixed in with the following descriptions of these wines and their pairings are some deep, red wine thoughts, a la the vintage SNL skit, “Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey.”

Chef Adamo starts us out with the Riverbench Vineyard and Winery 2017 brut rosé, which Greg pairs with Adamo’s suggestion: smoked salmon with the wine as a Bellini (featuring a puree of raspberries and local Rock Front Ranch honey). The Santa Maria Valley wine— French oak and pinot noir grapes—is pink, fun, and flirtatious with flavors of rose petals, strawberries, and orange blossoms … and a finish straight out of the Easter basket: a hint of Jolly Rancher and white gummy bear. This wine has me thinking about holidays: Shouldn’t we celebrate two Independence Days this year—one on the Fourth of July, and the other on the day the shelter-at-home mandate is lifted?

Next we venture to the well-balanced Cambria Estate Winery 2018 Katherine’s Vineyard chardonnay, which we pair with strawberry yogurt and waffles. The nose on

this wine is spring in a bottle: fresh citrus blossom, flowers, and fruit, complemented by apple and wet stone in the body, with oak influence mid-palate. Sitting with my waffles, yogurt, and chardonnay, I start thinking about Hearst Castle and the ridiculously well-to-do: If each millionaire financially adopted each of the restaurants they regularly eat at (just for the shelter-at-home duration), everyone’s favorite places wouldn’t have to close down after the quarantine.

Moving on to the Old World style estate grown Talley Vineyards 2017 Arroyo Grande Valley chardonnay. We go the “overachievers” route and pair the wine with a poached egg with a medley of mushrooms sautéed in a white wine reduction with garlic and shallots. The chardonnay’s nose is of lemon tart and jasmine, with Meyer lemon and nectarine on the palate. I am a big fan of our Talley Farms box of weekly veggies, which always comes with tips and recipes, so my mind goes to this: The internet brought to us any recipe from any blog on Earth, yet for some reason during this quarantine, some of my well-intentioned family members find it perfectly acceptable to resurrect the annoying chain letter, aka the recipe exchange. None of us need that kind of pressure. Delete.

Next, we take Adamo’s suggestion to pair the bold, spicy Wrath Wines San Saba Vineyard 2017 pinot noir with an English muffin pizza. The wine, made solely from grapes from their Santa Lucia Highlands estate, tastes deep and dense, with a spice box of aromas, opening to dark fruit and layers of pleasing earthiness. After a nice, long finish, and the buzz turning my usual self-loathing into an unnatural burst of self-confidence, I took to heart the words of Bill Murray: Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.

On to the Presqu’ile Winery 2016 Santa Maria Valley pinot noir. Paired with a tuna sandwich and dill, it makes perfect sense: The wine is all about sandalwood spice, bright fruit, and a silky mouthfeel. It’s elegant, like tuna, but balanced and low-key, like a tuna sandwich. It got me thinking about pairing different kinds of food with wine, but there still are some you will never see at a wine pairing—namely energy bars, Lunchables, and iceberg lettuce salad.

I’m already a devoted fan of the Niner Wine Estates 2017 cabernet sauvignon, but OK, chef Adamo, I’ll do my best to try it with a grass-fed, grass-finished Templeton beef hamburger with tomatoes and cheddar. I may be seriously buzzed at this point, but I can still appreciate the beauty of this wine— mostly cab (92 percent) with cab franc (4 percent), and petit verdot (4 percent). This classic vintage of hand-harvested estate cab brings on the dark chocolate and cherry

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THE SIP-CERTIFIED LINEUP Somm’s Kitchen teamed up with SIP-certified wines for this virtual pairing … meaning this tasting was a grand slam. Every wine was amazing.

(Virtual) food and wine pairings

Somm’s Kitchen usually offers a food and wine pairing experience at its 14-seat counter in Paso Robles, hosted by world-renowned chef and sommelier Ian Adamo, who has worked with some of the finest sommeliers and chefs from Michelin star restaurants across the globe.

Check out his to-go options and new themes at sommskitchen.com.

SIP Certified has been promoting sustainable wine growing since 2008, with values that include social responsibility, water management, safe pest management, energy efficiency, and habitat. Find out more from sipcertified.org.

BELLINI WITH SALMON The virtual wine tastings

flavors, powdery tannins, are an adaptation of Somm’s Kitchen’s usual tastings (at and juicy acidity. As the its downtown Paso location). Chef Ian Adamo gave us a list of food-pairing options for each of the seven chosen wine gets darker, so do wines, and we matched them with our personal culinary my thoughts: “The crows aspirations. First stop on this virtual wine adventure: the seem to be calling his name, Riverbench Vineyard & Winery 2017 brut rosé with smoked thought Caw.” —Jack salmon (as prepared in-house, by my husband, Greg).

Handey.

Last on our virtual Chef Adamo went from one seating a night wine tasting journey: The Pisoni Family in his small place of only a few employees Vineyards 2017 Lucia, Soberanes (who he is working now to pay their salaries Vineyard syrah, paired with a BLT, is a to keep them on). He was doing darn well, match made in isolation heaven. Named filling each seating … so much so, the native California’s best single vineyard, by New Yorker has been booked two, three Steve Heimoff of Wine Enthusiast, this months in advance. Now the loyal public is my first taste of a Pisoni wine, which is still helping by ordering food to go from has a huge cult following. The limited his lineup of wineries and dishes that are production Santa Lucia Highlands syrah mouthwateringly intriguing. is a true treat: inky purple complexity, “I’m always learning every, every night, with notes of black peppercorn, bacon, and and I’m super thankful for it,” Adamo said. Δ cedar leading into soft, elegant tannins and dark berries. Fun fact: According to Flavor writer Beth Giuffre is thankful for all the wine industry folks who are foodreference.com, the BLT is the second learning every day. Send shelter-at-home most popular sandwich in the U.S., just treats to bgiuffre@newtimesslo.com. after the simple ham sammy.

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COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF TENTATIVE ACTION / PUBLIC HEARING

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS – STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING DESIGN SERVICES SPEC. NO. 5009.2020.SE

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Department Hearing

NOTICE OF PROPOSED ORDINANCE NO. 632 OF THE CITY OF MORRO BAY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, at the regular meeting of the City Council held on April 14, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. held via teleconference in accordance pursuant to Section 3 of Executive Order N-29-20, issued by Governor Newsom on March 17, 2020, the City Council of the City of Morro Bay, introduced Ordinance No. 632, adding Chapter 5.54 (Tobacco, Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping) to Title 5 (Business Tax Certificates and Regulations), and Amending Chapter 9.24 (Secondhand Smoking Regulations) of Title 9 (Public Peace, Morals and Welfare), of the Morro Bay Municipal Code, to regulate the sale of tobacco and vaping products and update and expand the City’s secondhand smoking regulations.

A certified copy of the full text of the proposed ordinance is available for public review on the City’s website at www.morrobayca. gov, and upon request by contacting the City Clerk’s office at (805) 772-6205.

The City Council will consider adoption of Ordinance No. 632 at their next regularly scheduled meeting April 28, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. held via teleconference. /s/ Heather Goodwin Deputy City Clerk Dated: Publish:

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WHEN: Friday, May 15, 2020 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

The following item was previously noticed for an earlier date and rescheduled due to COVID-19.

WHAT: A request by Dirk Winter for a Minor Use Permit / Coastal Development Permit to allow for the construction of a new two -story 6,560-squarefoot commercial retail store. The project will result in the disturbance of approximately 5,409-square-feet on a 1.04-acre parcel. The proposed project is within the Commercial Retail land use category and is located at the east side of West Street, approximately 500 feet southwest of the intersection between Burton Drive and Center Street. The site is in the community of Cambria, within the North Coast Planning Area.

Also to be considered is the determination that this project is categorically exempt from environmental review under CEQA. County File Number: DRC2019-00108 Supervisorial District: District 2 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 013-262-018 Date Accepted: 02/13/2020 WHERE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE based on the threat of COVID-19 as reflected in the Proclamations of Emergency issued by both the Governor of the State of California and the San Luis Obispo County Emergency Services Director as well as the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 issued on March 17, 2020, relating to the convening of public meetings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, until further notice all public meetings for the Department of Planning and Building for the County of San Luis Obispo will be closed to members of the public and non-essential County staff. The Department’s Notice of Temporary Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at www. slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building/Boards-and-Commissions. aspx. Additionally, hearing body members and officers may attend the meeting via teleconference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Kathryn Nall, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

TO REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING This matter is tentatively scheduled to appear on the consent agenda, which means that it and any other items on the consent agenda can be acted upon by the hearing officer with a single motion. An applicant or interested party may request a public hearing on this matter. To do so, send a letter to this office at the address below or send an email to pdh@co.slo.ca.us by Friday, March 27, 2020 at 4:30 PM. The letter or email must include the language “I would like to request a hearing on DRC2019-00108.”

Notice is given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the County Clerk, 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-120, San Luis Obispo, California 93408 before 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 21, 2020 (“Bid Deadline”), for the following public works project: SAN SIMEON CREEK ROAD MP 4.4, TORO CREEK ROAD MP 1.9, UPPER LOS BERROS ROAD MP 0.7 AND SUEY CREEK ROAD MP 1.75 SLOPE REPAIR CONTRACT NOS. 245R12B434 SLCOC13/LOP-5, 245R12B440 SLCOC51/LOP-9, 245R12B441 SLCOC53/LOP-10, AND 245R12B435 SLCOC15/LOP-7 Bids will be opened and declared by the County Clerk at 3:15 p.m. on the bid opening date at a public meeting at 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-120, San Luis Obispo, California 93408.

Any bid received at the Office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo at or after 3:00 p.m. on the date specified above will not be accepted, and will be returned to the bidder unopened.

Daniela Chavez, Secretary

All bidders are required to acknowledge and confirm receipt of every addendum in their bid proposal.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

WHEN:Tuesday, May 5, 2020, at 9:00 a.m. All items are advertised for 9:00 a.m. To find out placement of this item on the Board of Supervisors Agenda, go to the County’s website at www. slocounty.ca.gov on the Wednesday before the scheduled hearing date.

WHEN:

Tuesday, May 5, 2020, at 9:00 a.m. All items are advertised for 9:00 a.m. To find out placement of this item on the Board of Supervisors Agenda, go to the County’s website at www. slocounty.ca.gov on the Wednesday before the scheduled hearing date.

WHAT:

The Bid package (also referred to herein as the “Contract Documents”) are posted on the County’s Purchasing website: http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/GS/Purchasing/Current_Formal_Bids_and_Proposals.htm

All bidder Requests for Information must be submitted no later than 3:00 p.m., 5 business days prior to the bid opening date. Requests submitted after said date may not be considered. All questions pertaining to the content of this invitation to Bid must be made in writing through the Purchasing website. Questions and responses will be posted on the Purchasing website and can be viewed by accessing the Invitation to Bid located at the Purchasing website. The identity of the entity submitting the question will not be posted. The County reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of comments / questions that will be posted on the website.

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Bidders are notified that financing for this project is provided in part by a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance Grant Program and that compliance with applicable federal laws, regulations, executive orders, and FEMA policies, procedures, and directives is required.

The bidder must have either a Class A license or a combination of class C licenses that make up a majority of the work at the time the Contract is awarded (Public Contract Code § 3300). When the bidder holds a combination of Class C licenses, all work to be performed outside of the bidder’s license specialties, except work that is incidental or supplemental to the licenses of the bidder, shall be performed by licensed Subcontractors in compliance with the Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code) Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 1771.1: •

A Contractor or Subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in the Bid Proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of this public works project, unless currently registered with the Department of Industrial Relations and qualified to perform work pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

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This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

Hearing to consider a request by the County of San Luis Obispo to adopt a resolution to:

2020–2024 Consolidated Plan; 2) a resolution approving the 2020 Action Plan allocating federal block grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to eligible projects and programs; 3) tentative approval of 2020 General Fund support for homelessness programs and services; 4) a resolution approving the Title 29 Annual Report and funding recommendations; and 5) the unmet housing needs to be addressed with the use of Permanent Local Housing Allocation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: You may contact Matt Leal, Project Manager, in the San Luis Obispo County Department of Planning and Building, 976 Osos Street, Room 200, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, (805) 781-5600. The staff report will be available for review the Wednesday before the scheduled hearing date on the County’s website at www.slocounty.ca.gov.

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Any changes, additions, or deletions to these Contract Documents will be in the form of written addenda issued by the County. Any addenda will be posted on the website. Prospective bidders must check the website for addenda or other relevant new information at up to 5:00 p.m. the day before the prescribed date/time for submittal of bids. The County is not responsible for the failure of any prospective bidder to receive such addenda. All addenda so issued shall become a part of this Bid.

WHO:

WHERE:The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey St., Room #D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the hearing all interested persons may express their views for or against, or to change the proposal.

April 23, 2020

FILE NO. 2020-0701 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/19/2015) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ARROYO GRANDE PHYSICAL THERAPY, 117 S. Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo County.

AGPT Inc. (117 S. Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ FICTITIOUS BUSINESS AGPT Inc., Ross Dover, CEO/President.

NAME STATEMENT This statement was filed with the County FILE NO. 2020-0716 Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-19-20. I TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE hereby certify that this copy is a correct (02/11/2020) New Filing copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk E. The following person is doing business as, 3SIX5CLEANING, 1299 S. 16th St. Brookhart, Deputy. Exp. 03-19-25.

Unit 2, Grover Beach, CA 93433. San April 9, 16, 23, & 30, 2020 Luis Obispo County. Michelle DePugh (1299 S. 16th St. Unit 2, Grover Beach, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS CA 93433). This business is conducted NAME STATEMENT

by An Individual /s/ Michelle DePugh.

FILE NO. 2020-0710 This statement was filed with the County TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-25-20. I (03/16/2020) New Filing hereby certify that this copy is a correct The following person is doing busi- copy of the statement on file in my ofness as, CENTRAL COAST FINANCIAL fice. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk COACHING, 282 Canyon Way, Arroyo G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 03-25-25.

Grande, CA 93420. San Luis Obispo April 2, 9, 16, & 23, 2020

COASTAL APPEALABLE If the County approves this project, that action may be eligible for appeal to the California Coastal Commission. Appeals must be filed in writing as provided by Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section 23.01.043.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

The County Department of Planning and Building acted as the lead agency in preparing the Action Plan, and collaborated with the cities of Arroyo Grande, Atascadero, Morro Bay, Pismo Beach, Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo to conduct community workshops and prepare the plan. The Action Plan describes activities proposed for funding through the Urban County’s 2020 CDBG, HOME, and ESG programs.

Download FREE at the City’s website: www.SloCity.org – Doing Business / Bids & Proposals. Specification packages may be obtained at the Public Works Department for a non-refundable fee of $45.00 if mailed. City Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards may be obtained for a non-refundable fee of $25.00 if mailed. Questions may be addressed to Aaron Glauch, Project Manager, at 805-781-7055 or aglauch@slocity.org.

LEGAL NOTICES County. Amelie Heather Riendl (282 Canyon Way, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Amelie Heather Riendl.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-23-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk S. King, Deputy. Exp. 03-23-25.

April 2, 9, 16, & 23, 2020

Bids are required for the entire work described in the Contract Documents.

WHO: San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors

CDBG funds can be used for housing, public services, public facilities, and economic development projects that benefit low-income populations. HOME funds are used for affordable housing projects for low-income households. Emergency Solution Grant (ESG) funds are used for homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing programs.

Submittals received after said time will not be considered.

Submittals shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked with the RFQ title, specification number, consultant name, and the time and date of the submittal opening.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

WHAT:Hearing to consider: 1) a resolution approving the

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the City of San Luis Obispo will receive qualification submittals for the “QUALIFICATIONS FOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING DESIGN SERVICES, Spec.

No. 5009.2020.SE” at the Public Works Administration Office located at 919 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 until, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2020, at 2:00 P.M.

LEGAL NOTICES

1) Maintain the maximum annual growth rate for new dwelling units in the County as 2.3% Countywide (excluding the Nipomo Mesa, Cambria, and the Los Osos Prohibition Zone), 1.8% for the Nipomo Mesa, and 0% for Cambria and the Los Osos Prohibition Zone for FY 2020-21; and 2) Allow 132 new dwelling units in the Nipomo Mesa and 1,013 new dwelling units countywide for FY 2020-21.

County File No: LRP2020-00001 Supervisorial Districts: All

Date Authorized: May 15, 2007 Assessor Parcel Numbers: Various

WHERE: The hearing will be held in the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1055 Monterey St., Room #D170, County Government Center, San Luis Obispo, CA. The Board of Supervisors Chambers are located on the corner of Santa Rosa and Monterey Streets. At the hearing all interested persons may express their views for or against, or to change the proposal.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: You may contact Kylie Hensley, Project Manager, in the San Luis Obispo County Department of Planning and Building, 976 Osos Street, Room 200, San Luis Obispo, California 93408, (805) 781-5600. The staff report will be available for review the Wednesday before the scheduled hearing date on the County’s website at www.slocounty.ca.gov ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION: Also to be considered is the environmental determination that the project is exempt under CEQA, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), General Rule Exemption. The Environmental Coordinator has determined that it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the proposed project may have a significant adverse effect on the environment. A Notice of Exemption has been prepared pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15062. **If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing**

Bids must be submitted under sealed cover plainly marked as a bid and identified with the project number, the date and time for receipt of sealed bids, and the name of the bidder.

Bids must be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashier’s check, or a bidder’s bond in favor of the County in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the submitted total Bid. Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by County to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the County to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.

The successful bidder will be required to furnish the County with payment and performance bonds, with each issued by a California admitted surety insurer equal to 100% of the Contract Price.

Bidders must take all necessary affirmative steps to assure that minority businesses, women’s business enterprises, and labor surplus area firms are used when possible (2 CFR 200.321).

Federal funds are being used on this project, and therefore, the Davis-bacon Act (40USC 276a to 276a-7) as supplemented in the Department of Labor regulations (29 CFR Part 5) applies (in addition to California State Prevailing Wage laws). Pursuant to section 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code, the Contractor and all Subcontractors shall pay not less than the prevailing wage rate of per diem wages as determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations and comply with all applicable Labor Code provisions, which include, but are not limited to the employment of apprentices, the hours of labor, and the debarment of Contractors and Subcontractors. The Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations determines the general prevailing wage rates. Copies are available at the DIR website, http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. Bidders are advised that any contractor who is awarded a public works project and intends to use a craft or classification not shown on the general prevailing wage determination may be required to pay the wage rate of that craft or classification most closely related to it as shown in the general determinations effective at the time of the call for bids.

Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action 1.The bidder’s attention is directed to the Equal Opportunity clause in the Agreement and the Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications in section 7-1.11B of the General Conditions set forth herein.

2.The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the Contractor’s aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows: A. Goals for minority participation for each trade: 24.6% B. Goals for female participation in each trade: 6.9% These goals are applicable to all the Contractor’s construction work (whether or not it is Federal or federally assisted) performed in the covered area. If the contractor performs construction work in a geographical area located outside of the covered area, it shall apply the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the contractor also is subject to the goals for both its federally involved and non-federally involved construction.

The Contractor’s compliance with the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR part 60-4 shall be based on its implementation of the Equal Opportunity clause, specific affirmative action obligations required by the specifications set forth in 41 CFR 60-4.3(a), and its efforts to meet the goals. The hours of minority and female employment and training must be substantially uniform throughout the length of the contract, and in each trade, and the contractor shall make a good faith effort to employ minorities and women evenly on each of its projects. The transfer of minority or female employees or trainees from Contractor to Contractor or from project to project for the sole purpose of meeting the Contractor’s goals shall be a violation of the contract, the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR part 60-4. Compliance with the goals will be measured against the total work hours performed.

WADE HORTON, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

DATED: April 20, 2020 WADE HORTON, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

By: /s/ T’Ana Christiansen Deputy Clerk

3.The Contractor shall provide written notification to the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within 10 working days of award of any construction subcontract in excess of $10,000 at any tier for construction work under the contract resulting from this solicitation.

The notification shall list the name, address and telephone number of the Subcontractor; employer identification number of the Subcontractor; estimated dollar amount of the Subcontract; estimated starting and completion dates of the Subcontract; and the geographical area in which the Subcontract is to be performed.

By: T’Ana Christiansen Deputy Clerk

4.As used in this Notice, and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the “covered area” is San Luis Obispo County, California.

April 23, 2020

April 23, 2020

April 23, 2020

DATED: April 21, 2020

20 • New Times • April 23 - April 30, 2020 • www.newtimesslo.com

By order of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo in their action on the 21st day of April, 2020.

» LEGAL NOTICES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 20

LEGAL NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0718 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/23/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, PHOTO AD, EASY AD, 1010 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. SLO New Times, Inc. (1010 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ SLO New Times, Inc., Bob Rucker, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 0325-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 03-25-25.

April 2, 9, 16, & 23, 2020

PUBLIC NOTICE:

Building Located at 1629 Garden Street possibly available to be moved prior to demolition this fall. Interested parties please e-mail info to dreidstudio@aol.com.

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0721 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (03/12/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business as, GLA AGRICULTURAL ELECTRONICS, INC., 3563 Sueldo St., Suite D, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County.

GLA Agricultural Electronics, Inc. (3563 Sueldo St., Suite D, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ GLA Agricultural Electronics, Inc., Chief Financial Officer-John K. Thomas. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 03-26-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office.

(Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 03-26-25.

April 2, 9, 16, & 23, 2020

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, the Board of Supervisors (the “Board”) of the County of San Luis Obispo (the “County”) adopted a resolution of intention to renew the San Luis Obispo County Tourism Business Improvement District (the “CBID”) and to continue to levy an assessment on the lodging businesses within the CBID as set forth in said resolution of intention. The resolution is attached hereto and hereby incorporated into the notice.

NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that at 9 a.m. or shortly thereafter on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, in the County of San Luis Obispo Board Chambers, 1055 Monterey Street, California, a public hearing shall be held to allow public testimony regarding the renewal of the CBID and to continue the levy of assessments therein as set forth in the enclosed resolution of intention and pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.6 and Streets and Highway Codes Section 36500 et seq.

Assessment: An assessment is proposed to continue to be levied on all lodging businesses, which include hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, and vacation homes, within the CBID boundaries based upon 2% of the rent charged by the operator per occupied room per night for all transient occupancies. The amount of the assessment shall continue to be two (2) percent of your annual gross room rental revenue.

Federal government employees on government business will be exempt from the levy of assessment. Extended stays, defined as more than 30 consecutive calendar days, shall be exempt from the levy of assessment.

Estimate:

Purpose:

Collection:

Protest:

The estimated amount of revenue to be raised by the assessment is estimated to be approximately in the $1 million - $1.2 million range.

The CBID proposes to administer tourism promotions and marketing programs to promote San Luis Obispo County as a tourism destination and projects, programs, and activities that benefit lodging businesses located and operating within the boundaries of the district.

The proposed improvements and activities shall be targeted at increasing transient stays.

The assessment is proposed to be levied on an annual basis and shall be collected monthly from lodging businesses within the CBID. Oral and written protests may be made at the public hearing. Upon receipt by the Clerk of the Board of written protests from the owners of lodging businesses in the area who pay 50 percent or more of the annual assessments levied, the assessment shall not be imposed for a period of one year. Written protests must be received by the Clerk of the Board prior to the start of the public hearing on May 19, 2020.

Your written protest must contain the following information: business name, property address and owner’s signature. There is no formal protest form; however, for your convenience a protest form is available on the Administrative Office website at https://www.slocounty. ca.gov/Departments/Administrative-Office/ Clerk-of-the-Board/Forms-Documents.aspx.

Should you desire to mail a protest against this assessment, the address is: Clerk of the Board of Supervisors County of San Luis Obispo 1055 Monterey Street, Suite D430 San Luis Obispo, CA 93408

Information: Should you desire additional information about this assessment, contact: Tessa Cornejo, Administrative Services Officer County of San Luis Obispo 1055 Monterey Street, Suite D430 San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 Phone: (805) 781-4691 or Email: tcornejo@co.slo.ca.us DATED: April 21, 2020 WADE HORTON, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board By: /s/ T’Ana Christiansen, Deputy Clerk

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

poration /s/ Ankur Balaji, Inc., Rekha K. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Shukla, Secretary. This statement was NAME STATEMENT filed with the County Clerk of San Luis FILE NO. 2020-0725 FILE NO. 2020-0766 Obispo on 03-30-20. I hereby certify that TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE this copy is a correct copy of the state(03/24/2020) New Filing (02/05/2020) New Filing ment on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy The following person is doing business Gong, County Clerk A. Bautista, Deputy. The following person is doing business as, TAQUERIA EL GUERO, 351 S. Front- Exp. 03-30-25. as, NEW FARMS, 15 Elm Street, San age Rd., Nipomo, CA 93444. San Luis April 23, 30, May 7, & 14, 2020 Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo Obispo County. Oscar L. Macias (351 S. County. New Farms, Inc. (15 Elm Street, Frontage Rd., Nipomo, CA 93444). This San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This busiFICTITIOUS BUSINESS ness is conducted by A CA Corporation business is conducted by An Individual NAME STATEMENT /s/ New Farms, Inc., Kassandra Cisne/s/ Oscar L. Macias. This statement was FILE NO. 2020-0730 ros, Secretary. This statement was filed filed with the County Clerk of San Luis TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo Obispo on 03-27-20. I hereby certify that (01/01/2010) New Filing on 04-10-20. I hereby certify that this this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy The following person is doing business copy is a correct copy of the statement Gong, County Clerk A. Bautista, Deputy. as, MAL HUN PARTNERSHIP, 120 N. on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, Halcyon Rd., Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. County Clerk A. Bautista, Deputy. Exp. Exp. 03-27-25.

San Luis Obispo County. Kevin Hunstad 04-10-25.

April 16, 23, 30, & May 7, 2020 Incorporated (120 N. Halcyon Rd., Ar- April 23, 30, May 7, & 14, 2020 royo Grande, CA 93420), John A. Mallory FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Investment Co., Inc. (252 Mercedes Ln., FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This busiNAME STATEMENT ness is conducted by A General PartnerFILE NO. 2020-0726 NAME STATEMENT ship /s/ Kevin L Hunstad, Partner. This FILE NO. 2020-0773 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE statement was filed with the County Clerk TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing (03/23/2020) New Filing The following person is doing business of San Luis Obispo on 03-30-20. I hereby as, AMERICAN INN, 135 S. 5th Street, certify that this copy is a correct copy of The following person is doing business Grover Beach, CA 93433. San Luis the statement on file in my office. (Seal) as, AMAZINGLY AWESOME LLC, 230 Obispo County. Ankur Balaji, Inc. (135 Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Loma Bonita Dr., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. AmazS. 5th Street, Grover Beach, CA 93433). Deputy. Exp. 03-30-25. ingly Awesome LLC (230 Loma Bonita This business is conducted by A CA Cor- April 9, 16, 23, & 30, 2020

NOTICE OF PROPOSED ASSESSMENT For the San Luis Obispo County Tourism Business Improvement District

LEGAL NOTICES

Dr., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Amazingly Awesome LLC, John Pryor, Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-13-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 04-13-25.

April 23, 30, May 7, & 14, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0775 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, ALAMO SELF STORAGE, 645 Tank Farm Road, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. San Luis Obispo County. Self Storage At Lake Elsinore, LLC (3600 Wilshire Blvd., #720, Los Angeles, CA 90010). This business is conducted by A CA Limited Liability Company /s/ Self Storage At Lake Elsinore, LLC, Managing Member, James C. Kim. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-13-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk G. Ugalde, Deputy. Exp. 04-13-25.

April 23, 30, May 7, & 14, 2020

IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA Tuesday April 21, 2020 PRESENT:

Supervisors John Peschong, Bruce S. Gibson, Adam Hill, Debbie Arnold and Chairperson Lynn Compton

ABSENT:

None RESOLUTION NO. 2020-095

A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DECLARING ITS INTENTION OF RENEWING THE SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY TOURISM BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT (CBID) ORDINANCE, DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO CONTINUE TO LEVY AN ASSESSMENT ON LODGING BUSINESSES WITHIN SUCH DISTRICT BEGINNING FISCAL YEAR 2020-21, AND FIXING THE TIME AND PLACE OF A PUBLIC HEARING THEREON AND GIVING NOTICE THEREOF The following is now offered and read: WHEREAS, on May 12, 2009, the Board of Supervisors adopted Ordinance 3177 establishing the San Luis Obispo County Tourism Business Improvement District (CBID) and levied an assessment on lodging businesses within such district; and WHEREAS, the Parking and Business Improvement Area Law of 1989, California Streets and Highways Code Section 36500 et seq., requires counties to annually renew business improvement areas for the purpose of promoting tourism; and WHEREAS, the CBID Advisory Board supports the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo (the “Board of Supervisors”) renewal of the ordinance continuing the San Luis Obispo County Tourism Business Improvement District (“CBID”) and the continued levying of an annual assessment on lodging businesses, which include hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, and vacation homes within the proposed CBID. NOW THEREFORE, the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo does hereby resolve, determine and find as follows: Section 1. The recitals set forth herein are true and correct.

Section 2. The Board of Supervisors declares its intention to renew the San Luis Obispo Tourism Business Improvement District (“CBID”) and to continue to levy and collect annual assessments against lodging businesses within the CBID boundaries pursuant to the Parking and Business Improvement Area Law of 1989, Streets and Highways Code Section 36500 et seq. (the “Law”), in the fiscal year 2020-21 following the approval of renewing the CBID. Section 3. The boundaries of the CBID shall be all properties in the unincorporated boundaries of the County of San Luis Obispo located within the North Coast, Estero, San Luis Bay Coastal, and South County Coastal planning areas set forth in the Land Use Element – Circulation Element of the San Luis Obispo County General Plan and within the San Luis Bay Inland, South County Inland, Los Padres, Huasna-Lopez and San Luis Obispo planning areas as set forth in Title 22, Chapters 22.106, 22.112, 22.100, 22.96, and 22.108 respectively.

Section 4. The name of the business improvement area shall be the “San Luis Obispo County Tourism Business Improvement District.”

Section 5. The Board of Supervisors hereby declares that the types of improvements and activities to be funded by the levy of assessments against lodging businesses within the CBID are tourism promotions and marketing programs to promote the unincorporated San Luis Obispo County, per Section 3 above, as a tourism destination and projects, programs, and activities that benefit lodging businesses located and operating within the boundaries of the district. The proposed improvements and activities shall be targeted at increasing transient stays.

Section 6. Except where funds are otherwise available, an assessment will be levied annually against lodging businesses to pay for the improvements and activities within the CBID beginning July 1, 2020. Assessments will be collected in monthly installments or such other installments as determined by the Board of Supervisors. The proposed assessment is to be levied on all lodging businesses, which include hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, and vacation homes, within the CBID boundaries based upon two (2%) percent of the rent charged by the operator per occupied room per night for all transient occupancies. Federal government employees on government business will be exempt from the levy of assessment. Extended stays, defined as more than 30 consecutive calendar days, shall be exempt from the levy of assessment. New lodging businesses within the boundaries of the CBID shall not be exempt from the levy of assessment. Assessments levied pursuant to the CBID shall not be included in gross room rental revenue for the purpose of determining the amount of the transient occupancy tax.

Section 7. The Board of Supervisors hereby sets May 19, 2020 as the date for a public hearing on the renewal of the CBID and the levy of assessments. The public hearing will be held at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as practicable, in the County of San Luis Obispo Board Chambers, 1055 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, California.

Section 8. At the public hearing the testimony of all interested persons for or against the renewal of the CBID, the extent of the CBID, or the furnishing of specified types of improvements or activities will be heard. A protest may be made orally or in writing by any interested person. To count in the determination of a majority protest against the CBID, a protest must be in writing.

Any protest pertaining to the regularity or sufficiency of the proceedings shall be in writing and clearly state the irregularity or defect to which objection is made.

Written protests must be received by the Clerk of the Board, County of San Luis Obispo prior to the start of the public hearing scheduled herein and may be delivered or mailed to the Clerk of the Board, County of San Luis Obispo, 1055 Monterey Street, Suite D430, San Luis Obispo, California.

A written protest may be withdrawn in writing at any time before the conclusion of the public hearing.

Each written protest shall contain a written description of the business in which the person signing the protest is interested sufficient to identify the business. If the person signing the protest is not shown on the official records of the County of San Luis Obispo as the owner of the business, then the protest shall contain or be accompanied by written evidence that the person is the owner of the business.

A written protest which does not comply with this section shall not be counted in determining a majority protest.

Section 9. If, at the conclusion of the public hearing, written protests are received from the owners of businesses in the CBID which will pay fifty percent (50%) or more of the assessments levied and protests are not withdrawn so as to reduce the protest to less than fifty (50%) percent (i.e., there is a majority protest), no further proceedings to renewal the CBID, as contained in this resolution of intention, shall be taken for a period of one year from the date of the finding of a majority protest by the Board of Supervisors. If the majority protest is only against the furnishing of a specified type or types of improvement or activity within the CBID, those types of improvements or activities shall be eliminated.

Section 10. Further information regarding the renewal CBID may be obtained from the Clerk of the Board, County of San Luis Obispo, 1055 Monterey Street, Suite D430, San Luis Obispo, California.

Section 11. The Clerk of the Board is instructed to provide notice of the public hearing in accordance with Streets and Highway Code Section 36523.

Section 12. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by the Board of Supervisors, and the Clerk of the Board shall certify to the vote adopting this resolution.

PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular hearing of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo, State of California, held on this 21st day of April, 2020 by the following vote: Upon motion of Supervisor Arnold, seconded by Supervisor Gibson, and on the following roll call, to wit: AYES:

Supervisors Arnold, Gibson, Peschong, Hill and Chairperson Compton

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTAINING: None

the foregoing resolution is hereby adopted.

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO BY: Lynn Compton Chairperson, Board of Supervisors

ATTEST WADE HORTON Clerk of the Board of Supervisors By: T’Ana Christiansen Deputy Clerk

April 23, 2020

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Commission WHEN: Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

The following item was previously noticed for an earlier date and rescheduled due to COVID-19.

WHAT: Hearing to consider a request by Gary Bagnall for a Conditional Use Permit/ Coastal Development Permit to allow construction of approximately 140,000 square feet of industrial floor area in two buildings on a 9.1-acre parcel. The project will result in the disturbance of approximately 7.8 acres and removal of approximately 5.9 acres of eucalyptus trees in two phases, beginning on the northern half of the site with construction of a 46,500 square-foot industrial building in Phase I. Phase II would continue on the southern portion of the site with construction of the remaining 93,300 square feet of industrial building floor area. Improvements include the installation of an on-site water and wastewater system and two 70,000-gallon fire suppression storage tanks. The parcel is outside of the Coastal Zone, but the property southern boundary abuts the Coastal Zone boundary at the Willow Road right-of-way; therefore, required offsite improvements on Willow Road require a Coastal Development Permit. The proposed project site is within the Industrial land use category and is located at 654 Winterhaven Way, at the northwest corner of Willow Road and Winterhaven Way in the Callender-Garrett Village Reserve in Nipomo. The site is in the South County Inland Sub Area of the South County Planning Area, with offsite improvements extending into the South County Coastal Planning Area.

Also to be considered at the hearing will be adoption of the Environmental Document prepared for the item. The Environmental Coordinator, after completion of the initial study, finds that there is no substantial evidence that the project may have a significant effect on the environment, and the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report is not necessary. Therefore, a Mitigated Negative Declaration (pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21000 et seq., and CA Code of Regulations Section 15000 et seq.) has been issued on February 14, 2020 for this project. Mitigation measures are proposed to address Air Quality, Biological Resources, and Transportation and are included as conditions of approval.

The Environmental Document is available for public review at the Department of Planning and Building, at the below address. A copy of the Environmental Document is also available on the Planning and Building Department website at www.sloplanning. org. Anyone interested in commenting on the proposed Environmental Document should submit a written statement and/or speak at the public hearing. Comments will be accepted up until completion of the public hearing(s).

County File Number: DRC2017-00057 Supervisorial District: District 4 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 091-402-006 Date Accepted: 12/31/2019 WHERE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE based on the threat of COVID-19 as reflected in the Proclamations of Emergency issued by both the Governor of the State of California and the San Luis Obispo County Emergency Services Director as well as the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 issued on March 17, 2020, relating to the convening of public meetings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, until further notice all public meetings for the Department of Planning and Building for the County of San Luis Obispo will be closed to members of the public and non-essential County staff. The Department’s Notice of Temporary Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at www. slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building/Boards-and-Commissions. aspx. Additionally, hearing body members and officers may attend the meeting via teleconference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Cindy Chambers, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

Ramona Hedges, Secretary Planning Commission April 23, 2020

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Commission WHEN: Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

The following item was previously noticed for an earlier date and rescheduled due to COVID-19.

WHAT: Hearing to consider a request by Alyson Rodges for a Development Plan/Coastal Development Permit (DRC2019-00163) for a commercial dog kennel and training facility. The project proposes to convert existing storage structures for this facility. The project is also requesting modification of development standards of Specialized Animal Facilities (CZLUO 23.08.052.g.[4].[ii]) to allow access from a privately maintained road. No site disturbance is proposed. The proposed project is within the Industrial land use category and is located at 776 Calle Bendita Road in the village of Callender-Garrett. The site is in the South County (Coastal) Planning Area.

Also to be considered is the determination that this project is categorically exempt from environmental review under CEQA. County File Number: DRC2019-00163 Supervisorial District: District 4 Assessor Parcel Number(s): 091-351-054 Date Accepted: 10/22/2019 WHERE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE based on the threat of COVID-19 as reflected in the Proclamations of Emergency issued by both the Governor of the State of California and the San Luis Obispo County Emergency Services Director as well as the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 issued on March 17, 2020, relating to the convening of public meetings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, until further notice all public meetings for the Department of Planning and Building for the County of San Luis Obispo will be closed to members of the public and non-essential County staff. The Department’s Notice of Temporary Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building/Boards-andCommissions.aspx. Additionally, hearing body members and officers may attend the meeting via teleconference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Young Choi, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 781-5600.

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing.

COASTAL APPEALABLE If the County approves this project, that action may be eligible for appeal to the California Coastal Commission. Appeals must be filed in writing as provided by Coastal Zone Land Use Ordinance Section 23.01.043.

Ramona Hedges, Secretary Planning Commission April 23, 2020

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COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & BUILDING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

LEGAL NOTICES

WHO: County of San Luis Obispo Planning Commission WHEN: Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 09:00 AM. All items are advertised for 09:00 AM. To verify agenda placement, please call the Department of Planning & Building at (805) 781-5600.

The following item was previously noticed for an earlier date and rescheduled due to COVID-19.

WHAT: Hearing to consider a request by Dennis Doty and Eugene M. Doty Family, LLC and T-Mobile West, LLC for a Conditional Use Permit (DRC2019-00041) to allow for the construction and operation of a wireless communications facility disguised as an 80foot tall faux mono-eucalyptus. The faux mono-eucalyptus consists of eight (8) panel antennas, four (4) remote radio units, (1) microwave dish, and associated equipment and hardware, all to be located within a 20-foot by 20-foot lease area, surrounded by a 6-feet 6-inch tall wood picket fence. The enclosed lease area also includes a diesel standby emergency generator and equipment cabinets. The proposed project will result in the disturbance of approximately 1,500 square feet (including utility trenching) on an approximately 50-acre parcel. The proposed project is within the Agricultural land use category and is located at 526 North Oakglen Avenue, approximately 1.5 miles west from the community of Nipomo. The site is in the South County Inland Sub Area of the South County Planning Area.

Also to be considered is the environmental determination and approval of the Environmental Document prepared for the item. The Environmental Coordinator found that the previously adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration is adequate for the purposes of compliance with CEQA. Per State CEQA Guidelines (Sec. 15164(a), Sec. 15162) an Addendum to the adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration was prepared as the following conditions apply: 1) only minor technical changes or additions are necessary; 2) no substantial changes have been made or occurred that would require major revisions to the Mitigated Negative Declaration due to either new significant effects or substantial increases in the severity of previously identified significant effects; 3) substantial changes have not occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken; and 4) no new information of substantial importance which was not known or could not have been known at the time of the adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration has been identified. No new mitigation measures have been proposed.

LEGAL NOTICES

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

LEGAL NOTICES

filed with the County Clerk of San Luis

FILE NO. 2020-0776 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/01/1994) New Filing The following person is doing business as, JH SMITH CONSULTING, 775 Arabian Circle, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420.

San Luis Obispo County. Judith H. Smith (775 Arabian Circle, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Judith H. Smith. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-13-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk A. Bautista, Deputy. Exp. 04-13-25.

April 23, 30, May 7, & 14, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0779 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (04/01/2015) New Filing The following person is doing business as, AUGUSTA STREET PROPERTIES, 1697 Sydney Street, San Luis Obispo, CA93401. San Luis Obispo County. Stephen B. Barasch (1697 Sydney Street, San Luis Obispo, CA93401). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Stephen B. Barasch. This statement was

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

Obispo on 04-14-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the FILE NO. 2020-0801 statement on file in my office. (Seal) TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE Tommy Gong, County Clerk A. Bau(10/06/2006) New Filing The following person is doing business tista, Deputy. Exp. 04-14-25. as, POPOLO CATERING, 1605 Calle JoaApril 23, 30, May 7, & 14, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FILE NO. 2020-0799 TRANSACTION BUSINESS DATE (N/A) New Filing The following person is doing business as, RABBIT HOLE HEALTH COACHING, 9120 Ciruela Way, Atascadero, CA 93422. San Luis Obispo County.

Kenneth Kehs (9120 Ciruela Way, Atascadero, CA 93422). This business is conducted by An Individual /s/ Kenneth Kehs. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 0421-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 04-21-25.

April 23, 30, May 7, & 14, 2020

quin, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405. San Luis Obispo County. LKC Corporation, Inc. (1605 Calle Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405). This business is conducted by A CA Corporation /s/ LKC Corporation, Inc., Kathleen Castillo, Secretary. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Luis Obispo on 04-21-20. I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the statement on file in my office. (Seal) Tommy Gong, County Clerk N. Balseiro, Deputy. Exp. 04-21-25.

April 23, 30, May 7, & 14, 2020

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: EDWINA JOANNE ERREA CASE NUMBER: 20PR - 0100

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: EDWINA JOANNE ERREA A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed

by DUSTY JOHNSON in the Superior Court

LEGAL NOTICES of California, County of San Luis Obispo.

The Petition for Probate requests that DUSTY JOHNSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: May 12, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept: 9, in Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, located at 1035 Palm Street, Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before

COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION

County File Number: DRC2019-00041 Supervisorial District: District 4

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Assessor Parcel Number(s): 090-151-009

Notice is given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the County Clerk, 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-120, San Luis Obispo, California 93408 before 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 21, 2020 (“Bid Deadline”), for the following public works project:

Date Accepted: 10/24/2019 WHERE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE based on the threat of COVID-19 as reflected in the Proclamations of Emergency issued by both the Governor of the State of California and the San Luis Obispo County Emergency Services Director as well as the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 issued on March 17, 2020, relating to the convening of public meetings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, until further notice all public meetings for the Department of Planning and Building for the County of San Luis Obispo will be closed to members of the public and non-essential County staff. The Department’s Notice of Temporary Procedures, which includes Instructions on how to view the meeting remotely and how to provide public comment are posted on the Department’s webpage at www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building/Boards-and-Commissions. aspx. Additionally, hearing body members and officers may attend the meeting via teleconference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A copy of the staff report will be made available on the Planning Department website at www.sloplanning.org. You may also contact Holly Phipps, Project Manager, in the Department of Planning and Building at the address below or by telephone at (805) 7815600.

If you challenge this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this public notice or in written correspondence delivered to the appropriate authority at or before the public hearing

CAYUCOS CREEK ROAD MILEPOST 1.2 AND 2.8 SLOPE REPAIR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, CA CONTRACT NOS. 245R12B447 SLCOC88/LOP-2 AND 245R12B424 SLCOC12/LOP-4 Bids will be opened and declared by the County Clerk at 3:15 p.m. on the bid opening date at a public meeting at 1055 Monterey Street, Room D-120, San Luis Obispo, California 93408.

Any bid received at the office of the County Clerk of the County of San Luis Obispo at or after 3:00 p.m. on the date specified above will not be accepted, and will be returned to the bidder unopened.

Bids are required for the entire work described in the Contract Documents.

The Bid package (also referred to herein as the “Contract Documents”) are posted on the County’s Purchasing website: http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/GS/Purchasing/Current_Formal_Bids_and_Proposals.htm Any changes, additions, or deletions to these Contract Documents will be in the form of written addenda issued by the County. Any addenda will be posted on the website. Prospective bidders must check the website for addenda or other relevant new information at up to 5:00 p.m. the day before the prescribed date/time for submittal of bids. The County is not responsible for the failure of any prospective bidder to receive such addenda. All addenda so issued shall become a part of this Bid. All bidders are required to acknowledge and confirm receipt of every addendum in their bid proposal.

All bidder Requests for Information must be submitted no later than 3:00 p.m., 5 business days prior to the bid opening date. Requests submitted after said date may not be considered. All questions pertaining to the content of this invitation to Bid must be made in writing through the Purchasing website. Questions and responses will be posted on the Purchasing website and can be viewed by accessing the Invitation to Bid located at the Purchasing website. The identity of the entity submitting the question will not be posted. The County reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of comments / questions that will be posted on the website.

Ramona Hedges, Secretary Planning Commission April 23, 2020

Bidders are notified that financing for this project is provided in part by a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance Grant Program and that compliance with applicable federal laws, regulations, executive orders, and FEMA policies, procedures, and directives is required.

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING

The bidder must have either a Class A license or a combination of class C licenses that make up a majority of the work at the time the Contract is awarded (Public Contract Code § 3300). When the bidder holds a combination of Class C licenses, all work to be performed outside of the bidder’s license specialties, except work that is incidental or supplemental to the licenses of the bidder, shall be performed by licensed Subcontractors in compliance with the Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code) Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 1771.1:

The San Luis Obispo Architectural Review Commission will hold a Regular Meeting, Monday, May 4, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. on the items listed below. While the City encourages public participation, growing concern about the COVID-19 pandemic has required that public meetings be held via teleconference. Meetings can be viewed on Government

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A Contractor or Subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in the Bid Proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of this public works project, unless currently registered with the Department of Industrial Relations and qualified to perform work pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

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This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

submitted in writing via U.S Mail to the City Clerk’s Office at 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 or by email to advisorybodies@slocity.org.

Bids must be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashier’s check, or a bidder’s bond in favor of the County in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the submitted total Bid.

PUBLIC HEARING ITEM:

The successful bidder will be required to furnish the County with payment and performance bonds, with each issued by a California admitted surety insurer equal to 100% of the Contract Price.

Access Channel 20 or streamed live from the City’s website at www.slocity.org. Public comment may be

1. Continued development review of a new, two-story, 13,084-square foot office building as part of an existing Planned Development (PD 0274). The project includes an amendment to the adopted Precise Plan approved through Resolution No. 2249 (1971 Series) to address the new office development as it relates to the Planned Development. The project also includes exceptions for parking and trash enclosures within the street yard setback (0 feet where a 20-foot setback and 10-foot setback, respectively, are normally required), exceptions to sign regulations, and a 40% parking reduction and offsite parking. The project is categorically exempt from environmental review (CEQA); Project Address: 487 Leff

Street; Case #: ARCH-0506-2019 & PDEV-0507-2019; Zone: R-2-PD; Housing Authority of San Luis Obispo (HASLO), applicant.

Bids must be submitted under sealed cover plainly marked as a bid and identified with the project number, the date and time for receipt of sealed bids, and the name of the bidder.

Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by County to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the County to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.

Bidders must take all necessary affirmative steps to assure that minority businesses, women’s business enterprises, and labor surplus area firms are used when possible (2 CFR 200.321).

Federal funds are being used on this project, and therefore, the Davis-bacon Act (40USC 276a to 276a-7) as supplemented in the Department of Labor regulations (29 CFR Part 5) applies (in addition to California State Prevailing Wage laws). Pursuant to section 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code, the Contractor and all Subcontractors shall pay not less than the prevailing wage rate of per diem wages as determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations and comply with all applicable Labor Code provisions, which include, but are not limited to the employment of apprentices, the hours of labor, and the debarment of Contractors and Subcontractors. The Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations determines the general prevailing wage rates. Copies are available at the DIR website, http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. Bidders are advised that any contractor who is awarded a public works project and intends to use a craft or classification not shown on the general prevailing wage determination may be required to pay the wage rate of that craft or classification most closely related to it as shown in the general determinations effective at the time of the call for bids.

Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action 1. The bidder’s attention is directed to the Equal Opportunity clause in the Agreement and the Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications in section 7-1.11B of the General Conditions set forth herein.

2. The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the Contractor’s aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows:

Contact Information: Kyle Bell – (805) 781-7524 – kbell@slocity.org The Architectural Review Commission may also discuss other hearing or business items before or after the item(s) listed above. If you challenge the proposed action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence distributed to the Architectural Review Commission at, or prior to, the public hearing.

The report will be available for review online 72 hours in advance of the meeting at https://www.slocity.org/ government/advisory-bodies/agendas-and-minutes/ architectural-review-commission. Please call (805) 781-7170 for more information, or to request an agenda report.

A. Goals for minority participation for each trade: 24.6% B. Goals for female participation in each trade: 6.9% These goals are applicable to all the Contractor’s construction work (whether or not it is Federal or federally assisted) performed in the covered area.

If the contractor performs construction work in a geographical area located outside of the covered area, it shall apply the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the contractor also is subject to the goals for both its federally involved and non-federally involved construction.

The Contractor’s compliance with the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR part 60-4 shall be based on its implementation of the Equal Opportunity clause, specific affirmative action obligations required by the specifications set forth in 41 CFR 60-4.3(a), and its efforts to meet the goals.

The hours of minority and female employment and training must be substantially uniform throughout the length of the contract, and in each trade, and the contractor shall make a good faith effort to employ minorities and women evenly on each of its projects. The transfer of minority or female employees or trainees from Contractor to Contractor or from project to project for the sole purpose of meeting the Contractor’s goals shall be a violation of the contract, the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR part 60-4. Compliance with the goals will be measured against the total work hours performed.

3. The Contractor shall provide written notification to the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within 10 working days of award of any construction subcontract in excess of $10,000 at any tier for construction work under the contract resulting from this solicitation. The notification shall list the name, address and telephone number of the Subcontractor; employer identification number of the Subcontractor; estimated dollar amount of the Subcontract; estimated starting and completion dates of the Subcontract; and the geographical area in which the Subcontract is to be performed.

4. As used in this Notice, and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the “covered area” is San Luis Obispo County, California.

April 23, 2020

By order of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo in their action on the 21st day of April, 2020.

April 23, 2020

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LEGAL NOTICES the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: John B. Merzon PO Box 1330 Templeton, CA 93465 April 16, 23, & 30, 2020

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LAWRENCE R. COTE CASE NUMBER: 20PR - 0103

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: LAWRENCE R. COTE A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed

by KAREN S. REINER in the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo.

The Petition for Probate requests that KAREN S. REINER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: May 12, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept: 9, in Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, located at 1035 Palm Street, Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Patricia M. Scoles 1104 Vine Street, Suite B Paso Robles, CA 93446 April 9, 16, & 23, 2020

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MILDRED L. COTE CASE NUMBER: 20PR - 0104

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MILDRED L. COTE A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed

by KAREN S. REINER in the Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo.

The Petition for Probate requests that KAREN S. REINER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: May 12, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept: 9, in Superior Court of California, County of San

LEGAL NOTICES Luis Obispo, located at 1035 Palm Street, Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Patricia M. Scoles 1104 Vine Street, Suite B Paso Robles, CA 93446 April 9, 16, & 23, 2020

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: FREDERICK B. MALMBORG CASE NUMBER: 20PR-0105

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Frederick B. Malmborg A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Joliene D. Konkol in the Superior Court of California, County of: San Luis Obispo.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Joliene D. Konkol be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: May 19, 2020 Time: 9:00 A.M. in Dept.: 9 Address of Court: Superior Court of California, County of San Luis Obispo, 1035 Palm Street, Room 385, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of Letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Edward E. Attala 1502 Higuera St San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Phone: 805-543-1212 April 16, 23, 30, 2020

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TRUSTEE SALE NO. 1309071 LOAN NO. 0163155101;0163740-101;0164380101;3634531-101 TITLE ORDER NO. 95312571 APN 091-281-081 TRA NO.

YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 06/02/1999. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. FARM CREDIT WEST, FLCA as the duly appointed Trustee WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state) all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust described as follows: Trustor(s): MAHMOOD JAFROODI, TRUSTEE OF THE 1980 JAFROODI FAMILY TRUST U/D/T DATED NOVEMBER 13, 1980, AS AMENDED, ALSO KNOWN AS AND WHO ACQUIRED TITLE AS MAHMOOD JAFROODI, TRUSTEE OF THE JAFROODI FAMILY TRUST DATED NOVEM-

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BER 13, 1980 Deed of Trust: recorded on 06/22/1999 as Document No. 1999044614; Notice of Advance Under Deed of Trust recorded on 12/30/1999 as Document No. 1999-090018; Notice of Advance Under Deed of Trust recorded on 07/28/2000 as Document No. 2000042491; Notice of Advance Under Deed of Trust recorded on 05/08/2001 as Document no. 2001-031679 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of San Luis Obispo County, California, Date of Trustee’s Sale: 04/30/2020 at 11:00 AM Trustee’s Sale Location: In the breezeway adjacent to the County General Services Building, 1087 Santa Rosa Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 The property situated in said County, California describing the land therein: LOT 7 OF THE SUBDIVISION OF LOT 15, ACCORDING TO MAP OF THE LOS BERROS TRACT, SHOWING SUBDIVISIONS OF LOT 15, 19 AND 20 OF THE NIPOMO RANCHO, IN THE COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ACCORDING TO MAP FILED NOVEMBER 24, 1888 IN BOOK A, PAGE 108 OF MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY.EXCEPT THEREFROM ALL OIL, AND GAS IN OR UNDER THE SURFACE OF SAID LAND BELOW A DEPTH OF 200 FEET WITHOUT THE RIGHT OF SURFACE ENTRY, RESERVED BY THE FLINTKOTE COMPANY, RECORDED SEPTEMBER 1, 1977 IN BOOK 2007, PAGE 79 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS.BY REASON OF RESUBDIVISION AND PARTIAL RECOVEYANCE SAID PROPERTY NOW KNOWN AS:PARCEL 2 OF PARCEL MAP CO 06-0174, AS SHOWN ON A MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 70, PAGES 48 THROUGH 51 INCLUSIVE OF PARCEL MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA. The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 906 EUCALUPTUS ROAD, NIPOMO, CA 93444. BENEFICIARY HEREBY ELECTS TO CONDUCT A UNIFIED FORECLOSURE SALE PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF CALIFORNIA COMMERCIAL CODE SECTION 9604(a)(1)(B) AND TO INCLUDE IN THE NON-JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF THE ESTATE DESCRIBED IN THIS NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE ALL OF THE PERSONAL PROPERTY AND FIXTURES, TOGETHER WITH REPLACEMENTS AND PROCEEDS, IF APPLICABLE, DESCRIBED IN THE SECURITY AGREEMENT DATED 06/02/1999 AND IN A UCC-1 FINANCING STATEMENT FILED WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA ON 07/07/1999 AS DOCUMENT NO. 9919860319 , AND BETWEEN THE ORIGINAL TRUSTOR AND THE ORIGINAL BENEFICIARY, AS IT MAY HAVE BEEN AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, AND PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER INSTRUMENTS BETWEEN THE TRUSTOR AND BENEFICIARY REFERENCING A SECURITY INTEREST IN PERSONAL PROPERTY. BENEFICIARY RESERVES ITS RIGHT TO REVOKE ITS ELECTION AS TO SOME OR ALL OF SAID PERSONAL PROPERTY AND/OR FIXTURES, OR TO ADD ADDITIONAL PERSONAL PROPERTY AND/OR FIXTURES TO THE ELECTION HEREIN EXPRESSED, AT BENEFICIARY’S SOLE ELECTION, FROM TIME TO TIME AND AT ANY TIME UNTIL THE CONSUMATION OF THE TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THE DEED OF TRUST AND THIS NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. A DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSONAL PROPERTY, WHICH WAS GIVEN AS SECURITY FOR TRUSTOR’S OBLIGATION IS: ALL FIXTURES, FARM PRODUCTS, EQUIPMENT, MACHINERY, PARTS, ATTACHMENTS, ACCESSIONS, REPLACEMENTS, AND GREENHOUSE EQUIPMENT, TOGETHER WITH ALL INSURANCE PROCEEDS, WITHOUT LIMITATION, RECEIVED AS PAYMENT FOR THE LOSS AND/OR DAMAGE TO SAID COLLATERAL, NOW OWNED OR HERAFTER ACQUIRED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ALL BOILERS, HOT WATER BOILERS, INCLUDING ANY ECONOMIZER UNITS ASSOCIATED WITH ANY BOILERS; ALL COOLING UNITS, INCLUDING ANY AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLED RACHIN-PINION ROOF VENTS, SIDE WALL VENTS, AND ALL OTHER VENTS AND FANS; ALL BLACK CLOTH SYSTEMS, INCLUDING ANY AUTOMATED SHADE AND BLACK CLOTH SYSTEMS AND CONTROLS; ALL IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, INCLUDING DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, CHAPIN LEADHEAD DRIP EMITTERS, AND ROBERTS POLY TUBE IRRIGATION SPOT EMITTER SYSTEMS, AND ALL OVERHEAD MISTING SYSTEMS; ALL BENCHES, INCLUDING ANY AND ALL METAL ROLLING BENCHES; ALL FERTILIZER SYSTEMS; ALL STATIONARY SPRAYERS; AND ALL COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INCLUDING COMPUTER SYSTEMS USED FOR CLIMATE CONTROL AND MONITORING, FERTILIZER SYSTEMS, AND STATIONARY SPRAYERS. NO WARRANTY IS MADE THAT ANY OR ALL OF THE PERSONAL PROPERTY STILL EXISTS OR IS AVAILABLE FOR THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDER AND NO WARRANTY IS MADE AS TO THE CONDITION OF ANY OF THE PERSONAL PROPERTY, WHICH SHALL BE SOLD “AS-IS, WHEREIS”. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $3,068,844.89 (Estimated). Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. The Beneficiary may elect to bid less that the full credit bid. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is

located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 916-939-0772 or visit this Internet Web site www.nationwideposting. com, using the file number assigned to this case 130907-1. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: March 24, 2020 MORTGAGE LENDER SERVICES, INC., as Agent for FARM CREDIT WEST, FLCA, as Trustee 11707 Fair Oaks Blvd., Ste 202 Fair Oaks, CA 95628 (916) 9623453 Sale Information Line: 916-9390772 or www.nationwideposting.com Marsha Townsend, Chief Financial Officer MORTGAGE LENDER SERVICES, INC. MAY BE A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. NPP0369753 To: NEW TIMES 04/09/2020, 04/16/2020, 04/23/2020

on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call or visit this Internet Web site www.ndscorp.com/ sales, using the file number assigned to this case 19-01970-SM-CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: 03/23/2020 National Default Servicing Corporation c/o Tiffany & Bosco, P.A., its agent, 1455 Frazee Road, Suite 820 San Diego, CA 92108 Toll Free Phone: 888-264-4010 Sales Line 855-2198501; Sales Website: www.ndscorp. com By: Rachael Hamilton, Trustee Sales Representative 04/09/2020, 04/16/2020, 04/23/2020

de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil.

Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, 901 Park Street, Paso Robles, CA 93446 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, APLC, Mark Marquez, Esq. (Bar #326029), 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010; 760/8425850 (File No. 555320) DATE (Fecha): 7/29/2019 8:21 AM Clerk (Secretario), by Michael Powell, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1. as an individual defendant.

4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7/20 CNS-3358752# NEW TIMES

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. T.S. NO. 19-01970-SM-CA TITLE NO. 02-19106928 A.P.N. 091-063-043

YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 02/21/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, (cashier’s check(s) must be made payable to National Default Servicing Corporation), drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state; will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made in an “as is” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor: David D Blanco a married man, as his sole & separate property. Duly Appointed Trustee: National Default Servicing Corporation Recorded 02/28/2007 as Instrument No. 2007013229 (or Book, Page) of the Official Records of San Luis Obispo County, CA. Date of Sale: 06/09/2020 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: Breezeway facing Santa Rosa Street of the County of San Luis Obispo General Services Building, 1087 Santa Rosa St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93408 Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $734,502.03 Street Address or other common designation of real property: 1724 Chesapeake Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 A.P.N.: 091-063043 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

The requirements of California Civil Code Section 2923.5(b)/2923.55(c) were fulfilled when the Notice of Default was recorded. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL)

CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): 19LCP-0560 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): LEONARDO VILLASENOR YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program.

You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.

Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta.

Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www. sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO

John F. Sachs A Professional Law Corporation

By John F. Sachs #85379 1510 Higuera Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Attorney For: EUGENE GUADALUPE SENDEJAS, EXECUTOR NOTICE OF EXECUTOR’S INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE. (PROBATE CODE SECTIONS 10300, 10304) DATE: JULY 7, 2020 TIME: 9:00 A.M. DEPT: 9 In Re: ESTATE OF BEATRICE ELIZABETH SCHWERIN, Decedent.

Case No. 19PR-0224 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, subject to confirmation by this Court on July 7, 2020 at 9:00 A.M. in Department 9, or thereafter within the time allowed by law, the undersigned, EUGENE GUADALUPE SENDEJAS, Executor of the Estate of Beatrice Elizabeth Schwerin, will sell at private sale to the highest and best bidder on the terms and conditions hereinafter mentioned all right, title, and interest of the Decedent at the time of death, and all right, title, and interest that the Estate as acquired in addition to that of the Decedent at the time of death, in the real property located in County of San Luis Obispo, California.

This property is commonly referred to as 4860 Estrella Road, Paso Robles, California, Assessor’s Parcel No. 019241-007, and is more fully described as follows: Lot 18 of H.J. Whitley Land Co. Tract No. 1, in the County of San Luis Obispo, State of California, according to the map recorded July 11, 1927, in Book 3, Page 94 of Maps, in the office of the County Recorder of said County.

Assessor’s Parcel No. 019-241-007 1.

The sale is subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, rights, rights of way, and easements of record, with any encumbrances of record to be satisfied from the purchase price/the purchaser to assume any encumbrances of record.

2.

When representative warrants title, the property is to be sold on an “as is” basis, except for title.

3.

The personal representative has given an exclusive listing to Tom Mees, Century 21 Hometown Realty, 599 Higuera Street, Suite “A”, San Luis Obispo, California.

4.

Bids or offers are invited for this property and must be in writing and can be mailed to the office of John F. Sachs, attorney for the Executor, at JOHN F. SACHS, A PROFESSIONAL LAW CORPORATION, 1510 HIGUERA STREET, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA 93401, or delivered personal to John F. Sachs at JOHN F. SACHS, A PROFESSIONAL LAW CORPORATION, 1510 HIGUERA STREET, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFONRIA 93401, at any time after first publication of this Notice and before any sale is made.

5.

Bids must be sealed and will be opened in Department 9 at the San Luis Obispo County Superior Court on the date and time as specified above.

6.

The property will be sold on the following terms: (a) All cash (current bid accepted at $399,000.00); and all terms and conditions are subject to confirmation of sale by the Court. (b) Taxes, rents, assessments, property taxes, operating and maintenance expenses, premiums on insurance, and other expenses and costs acceptable to the purchaser shall be prorated as of the date of confirmation of sale as determined by the Court. (c) Examination of title, recording of conveyance, transfer taxes, and any title insurance policy shall be at the expense of the purchaser or purchasers. (d) Seller to remove all personal belongings and debris from property prior to vacating property. (e) Buyer agrees to purchase the property “as is”.

The undersigned reserves the right to refuse to accept any bids.

Date: March 19, 2020 /s/ Eugene Guadalupe Sendejas Executor April 9, 16, & 23, 2020

for the week of April 23

Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology Homework: Go to realastrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s audio horoscopes and text message horoscopes.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the future, when the coronavirus crisis has a diminished power to disrupt our lives, I would love for you to have more of the money you need to finance interesting new experiences that help you learn and thrive.

Now is a good time to brainstorm about how you might arrange for that to happen. For best results, begin your meditations with vivid fantasies in which you envision yourself doing those interesting new experiences that will help you learn and thrive

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Renowned Taurus composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) completed his first symphony when he was 43 years old—even though he’d started work on it at age 22. Why did it take him so long? One factor was his reverence for Ludwig van Beethoven, the composer who had such a huge impact on the development of classical music.

In light of Beethoven’s mastery, Brahms felt unworthy. How could any composer add new musical ideas that Beethoven hadn’t already created? But after more than two decades, Brahms finally managed to overcome his inhibition. He eventually produced four symphonies and scores of other pieces, and left a major mark on musical history. For you, Taurus, I see the coming months as a phase comparable to the time when Brahms finally built the strength necessary to emerge from the shadow that had inhibited him.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A Gemini friend sent me and three of her other allies a poignant email. “This note is a tender apology to those of you whom I’ve hurt in the process of hurting myself,” she began. “I want you to know that I have been working hard and with great success to eliminate my unconscious tendency to hurt myself. And I am confident this means I will also treat you very well in the future.” I received her message with joy and appreciation. Her action was brave and wise. I invite you to consider making a comparable adjustment in the weeks ahead.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Ojibwe are indigenous people of North America. Professor of Ojibwe studies Anton Treuer writes that in their traditional culture, there have been men who act and dress like women and women who act and dress like men. The former are called ikwekaazo and the latter ikwekaazowag. Both have been “always honored” and “considered to be strong spiritually.” Many other Native American groups have had similar arrangements.

Transcending traditional gender behavior is not unique to modern Western civilization. With that as inspiration, and in accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to explore any inclinations you might have to be your own unique gender. The time is ripe for experimenting with and deepening your relationship with the constructs of “masculine” and “feminine.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes,” wrote Nobel Prize-winning poet Czesław Miłosz.

Wow! If a highly respected genius like him has spawned so much nonsense and ignorance, what about the rest of us? Here’s what I have to say about the subject: Each of us should strive to be at peace with the fact that we are a blend of wisdom and folly. We should be tenderly compassionate toward our failures and weaknesses, and not allow them to overshadow our brilliance and beauty. Now would be a good time for you Leos to cultivate this acceptance and perform this blessing for yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Helen Traubel (1899-1972) was best known for her opera career, although she also sang in concerts, nightclubs, and musical theater. But in her autobiography, she confessed, “Opera bored me.” She reminds me of Georgia O’Keeffe, famous painter of flowers.

“I hate flowers,” O’Keeffe said. “I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.” Now of course most of us have to do some things that we don’t enjoy; that seems to be a routine part of being human. And since the

coronavirus arrived in our midst, you may have been saddled with even more of this burden. But I’m happy to inform you that the coming weeks will be a favorable time to brainstorm about how you could do more of what you love to do once the crisis has abated.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What’s the current state of the relationship between your ego and your soul? Is there an uneasy truce between the ambitious part of you that craves success and recognition and the lyrical part of you that yearns for rich experiences and deep meaning? Or do those two aspects of you get along pretty well—maybe even love and respect each other? Now is a favorable time to honor your ego and soul equally, Libra—to delight in the activities of both, to give them plenty of room to play and improvise, and to encourage them to collaborate in ways that will further your well-rounded happiness and health.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Voltaire (1694-1778) was a crusader for freedom of thought and civil liberties, as well as a key player in the Enlightenment. He was very prolific. In addition to producing 2,000 books and pamphlets, his carried on such voluminous written correspondences with so many interesting people that his collected letters fill 98 volumes.

Would you consider getting inspired by Voltaire’s approach to cross-pollination? According to my calculations, the next phase of the coronavirus crisis will be a favorable time for you to intensify your communication via the written word.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I like musician David Byrne’s views on what constitutes meaningful work. It’s not just the tasks you do to earn money. “Sex is a job,” he says. “Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job.” In other words, all the activities he names, to be done well, require a commitment to excellence and an attention to detail. They are worthy of your diligent efforts, strenuous exertion, and creative struggle.

I encourage you to meditate on these thoughts during the coming weeks. Identify what jobs you want to get better at and are willing to work hard on and would like to enjoy even more than you already do.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): At its best and brightest, Capricornian love isn’t frivolous or flighty. It’s not shallow or sloppy or slapdash.

When Capricornian love is at its highest potency, it’s rigorous, thoughtful, and full-bodied. It benefits anyone who’s involved with it. I bring this up because I expect the coming weeks to be a Golden Age of Capricornian Love—a time when you will have the inspiration and intelligence necessary to lift your own experience of love to a higher octave.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope you’re not one of those Aquarians who regards stability and security as boring. I hope you don’t have an unconscious predilection for keeping yourself in a permanent state of nervous uncertainty. If you do suffer from those bad habits, you’ll be hard-pressed to stick to them in the coming weeks. That’s because the cosmic energies will be working to settle you down into a steady groove. If you cooperate, you will naturally enhance your ability to be wellanchored, calmly steadfast, and at home in your life. Please don’t resist this opportunity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I foresee the likelihood that you’ll be having brilliant and evocative conversations with yourself in the coming weeks. Your heart and your head may become almost blissful as they discuss how best to create a dynamic new kind of harmony. Your left side and right side will declare a truce, no longer wrestling each other for supremacy, and they may even join forces to conjure up unprecedented collaborations. The little voices in your head that speak for the past will find common ground with the little voices in your head that speak for the future—and as a result you may be inspired to formulate a fresh master plan that appeals both. ∆

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