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Cambria CSD adopts strategic plan update, maintains affordable housing allocation, and hires consultant to update fees
Summary
On March 12 the Cambria Community Services District Board adopted its Strategic Plan update, voted to keep the affordable housing allocation at 56 units, and approved a consultant agreement with Revenue & Cost Specialists and Resolution 11-2026 to update fee schedules and amend the FY 2025-2026 budget; all motions passed unanimously.
The Cambria Community Services District Board of Directors took several unanimous actions at its March 12, 2026, meeting, adopting the District Strategic Plan update, maintaining the District’s affordable housing unit allocation at 56 units, and approving a Consultant Services Agreement with Revenue & Cost Specialists to update the District’s fee schedule and capacity fees alongside adoption of Resolution 11-2026 to amend the fiscal year 2025–2026 budget.
General Manager Matthew McElhenie introduced the Strategic Plan update. Director Michael Thomas moved to adopt the updated Objectives Status Report with minor modifications; Director Debra Scott seconded. The motion passed 5-0.
On affordable housing, after a public comment submission from Lauren Younger, Director Tom Gray moved to maintain the allocation at 56 units; Vice President Karen Dean seconded. The motion passed 5-0.
For fee and capacity updates, Gregory Brown and Administrative Technician IV Eric Johnson summarized the consultant proposal from Revenue & Cost Specialists. Director Michael Thomas moved to approve the Consultant Services Agreement and adopt Resolution 11-2026 amending the FY 2025–2026 budget; Director Tom Gray seconded. District Counsel Timothy Carmel requested a correction to Exhibit A to replace the term “General Fund” with “Enterprise Fund”; Directors Thomas and Gray accepted the amendment, and the motion passed unanimously. The Board recorded that the consultant agreement and budget amendment were approved with that amendment.
Other business: the consent agenda, including the February 2026 expenditure report, the February 12 meeting minutes (with two corrections requested by Directors Gray and Thomas), and an agreement with San Luis Obispo County to accept PEG funds for audio-visual improvements to the Board Chambers, was approved 5-0. The minutes record that Christine Heinrichs and others submitted public comments on multiple items. The Board also administered the oath of office to three newly sworn SAFER firefighters: Henry Wright, Ethan Klemowicz and Cole Berkeland.
What happens next: Resolution 11-2026 and the consultant agreement give staff authority to proceed with the fee review and capacity-fee updates; the minutes note that Exhibit A will use the Enterprise Fund designation as corrected. The Board did not record specific dollar amounts for the fee study in the minutes.
