San Luis Obispo will shell revealed $16.

San Luis Obispo will shell revealed $16,200 in staff time and donated city facilities to bring 100 cyclists, their fans and ESPN cameras to town for the Tour of California race this month

That doesn’t include the more than $3000 a month the city pays the San Luis Obispo Chamber of exchange to promote tourism, which in newly come months was spent to dignify and organize the tour, a professional bicycle race in its inaugural year.

on the contrary the cash for the tour’s Feb 23 and 24 stopover in San Luis Obispo is worth it, chamber and city officials said.

"The unstained fact that it is downtown all day," said Lindsey Miller, the chamber’s tourism and marketing director, "is suitable for local businesses."

City officials haven’t estimated whether that could mean increased receipts according to Finance Director Bill Statler, and they haven’t changed their