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Board approves $5 million to clear funding hold-up for Bob Jones Pathway reroute
Summary
The Board of Supervisors authorized a $5 million budget transfer and issued a resolution backing a scope change and phased construction plan that shifts part of the Bob Jones Pathway onto Caltrans right-of-way. The county will ask the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to approve the scope change at its January hearing.
The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 21 approved a $5 million budget adjustment and a resolution supporting a scope-and-phasing change for the long‑planned Bob Jones Pathway, clearing a key precondition for the California Transportation Commission to release remaining project funding. Chairperson Ortiz Lehi made the motion; the board approved it by roll call vote.
The funding move shifts $5,000,000 from the county’s capital projects facility-planning designation into the pathway’s construction account to cover a shortfall identified by Public Works. The department requested the transfer to meet a CTC condition that the project be fully funded before the commission will approve a scope change and move the project to construction. John D’Addario, the county’s director of public works, told the board the CTC had indicated support for the revised alignment and staff would submit the…
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