- Elizabeth Larson
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Supervisors to hold budget hearings Wednesday
The hearings will begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 9, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
The meeting can be watched live on Channel 8, online at https://countyoflake.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx and on the county’s Facebook page. Accompanying board documents, the agenda and archived board meeting videos also are available at that link.
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On Wednesday the board will hold a public hearing on the recommended 2021-22 fiscal year budget, along with position allocations and the consideration of authorization for department heads to proceed with purchasing selected capital assets before the adoption of the final recommended budget later this year.
County Administrative Officer Carol Huchingson’s written report to the board notes that the fiscal year 2020-21 adopted budget was $322,362,410; the recommended budget for the new fiscal year is down by more than $15.3 million, for a total of $306,971,923.
Huchingson attributed the decrease to appropriation reductions in capital project funds.
Over the next two years, it’s expected Lake County will receive more than $12 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, Huchingson said.
Also on Wednesday, the supervisors — sitting as the Lake County Air Quality Management District Board of Directors — will consider the district’s 2021-22 final draft budget. That hearing is set to follow the main hearing.
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