On the same day that an opinion in the SLO Tribune asked where Supervisor Lynn Compton was on funding for Nipomo parks, she was at a public workshop where an architect unveiled three design options for a Nipomo skate park. For more than a year, Lynn has battled supervisors Adam Hill and Bruce Gibson for monies to pay for the park’s design.
After discovering development fees from construction in Nipomo were used to build a skate park in Los Osos and a bike trail in Avila Beach, Lynn fought for South County children. This year, Lynn secured funding for the design. Next year, she plans to secure funding for construction.
To say that her opponent Jimmy Paulding gets things done because he has worked for a little more than a year as an analyst for a building contractor is a stretch as is his claim that he was the project manager for the company’s two largest projects, the women’s jail and the airport expansion.
While Lynn was at the workshop discussing the three skate park options, Jimmy was notably absent. Thank you, Lynn. Keep fighting for our children.
Tom Dawson
San Luis Obispo
This article appears in Feb 22 – Mar 4, 2018.
Keep it up,Lynn. Well written, Tom.
Gary Kirkland
THANKS FOR THE UPDATE AN FOR SUPPORTING A GREAT SUPERVISOR.THANK YOU LYNN COMPTON FOR ALL YOU DO FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
The writer doesn’t have their facts straight. Lynn was asleep at the wheel and suddenly “discovered” that the money had been spent other places under her watch only when she knew she was running for re-election. The truth is she is responsible for loosing the majority of the funds and then tried to save face and declare victory when only a small portion of them were actually allocated to Nipomo. Also there are photos on Facebook of Jimmy at the skate park meeting, and he has over 10 years of construction project management and consulting experience, not 1. The writer is misinformed. Lynn is simply too clueless to actually get that skate park built, we need someone with the knowhow to actually get things done.