How can the City of San Luis Obispo best achieve the community’s priorities? The City invites community members to collaborate on community priorities and ideas for achieving those priorities over the next two years.
Join neighbors, friends, and family at the 2023 Community Forum at the Ludwick Community Center on January 26 from 6 to 9 p.m. A free bike valet will be available for anyone who chooses to ride their bike to the Community Forum and parents are encouraged to bring their children, as some childcare options will be available.
“We’re excited to offer this opportunity for community collaboration at our upcoming Community Forum. If you have ideas for how to best meet community needs and budget priorities, we want to hear from you,” said City Manager Derek Johnson. “Join us at the Community Forum for your chance to influence and create City goals, planned work, and budget for the next two years.”
The 2023 Community Forum promises to be an in-person, interactive experience where community members can discuss community priorities and share ideas for how to achieve those priorities. The event will have several information stations each with subject matter experts who will share planned and ongoing work associated with meeting community-identified priorities.
Following the opportunity to speak with subject matter experts, Community Forum attendees will have the opportunity to rank what tasks they think are most important to achieving potential goals for the coming two years. They’ll be able to see all rankings and votes from others in real time.
Attendees are encouraged to review the 2023-25 Community Priorities Survey results prior to attending. To prepare for this event, City staff members are compiling recommendations from the survey, Council Advisory Bodies, and community groups to develop suggested goals and identify potential work and tasks that will help achieve those goals. Can’t attend? Email your ideas to [email protected].
The Council will then continue the process in February with a goal-setting workshop. This will be followed by public hearings before City Council adoption of a balanced budget in June 2023.
For more details and the current fiscal year’s budget information, visit www.slocity.org/budget.