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Recent budget coverage from Shasta County, including local decisions, public meetings, and civic updates.
The proposed amendment would use restricted fund balance to cover pending Partnership Health Plan invoices tied to DMC-ODS services.
A June 30 budget amendment would raise spending and revenue by the same amount for the 1265 Redwood Blvd. structure in the county’s Ag Remodel & Building Addition project.
Supervisors advanced a charter amendment that would require an election or, in some cases, a supermajority appointment to fill vacancies in elected department head offices.
Supervisors are being asked to approve a six-month medical-management agreement for a severely injured county employee, with costs capped and no added General Fund impact expected.
The June 11 meeting set up the district’s 2026 election cycle, confirmed a finance manager transition and advanced a large offseason capital plan for further refinement.
Public Works is asking supervisors to add $100,000 to the ACC Environmental Consultants agreement and push its term to Dec. 31, 2027.
The multiyear agreement will support forecasting, electrification analysis, demand-flexibility tools and the commission’s Common Platform.
The July 9 agenda puts a large offseason construction package before Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District directors, with work planned across multiple canal and lateral segments.
County staff are asking supervisors to approve 36 year-end FY 2025-26 budget amendments, including major shifts in roads, public defender and general revenue accounts.
The Assembly concurred in Senate amendments to AB 126 on a 56-1 vote after debate over charter-school language in the education finance package.
The urgency measure cleared the Assembly 54-13 and heads to the Senate, where it would give eligible local governments a path to ask voters for tax rates above the statutory cap.
A June 16 budget amendment would add spending authority to the Elections Department and reduce General Fund use by $732,544 if approved.
The measure moved forward after lawmakers heard competing claims about county discretionary spending, misconduct findings and the board’s existing authority.
Floor remarks described AB 179 as structuring a $900 million homelessness investment while members again debated oversight and the scale of homelessness spending.
The bill would launch a light-duty zero-emission vehicle incentive program and move unused funds to the Demand Side Grid Support Program.
The labor trailer bill would let the Department of Industrial Relations accept electronic funds transfer payments and update disability-benefit and grant-reporting rules tied to the 2026 Budget Act.
The bill cleared the Assembly 62-1 and adds data-collection requirements for some developmental-services settings.
The June 29 budget hearing added a $141 million Next Gen 911 item to the 2026-27 package, along with reporting, audit and oversight requirements.
Chief Sean O’Hare told Shasta County supervisors the department’s current fire model is being propped up by contract savings and settlement-funded equipment, but a larger gap looms in 2030-31. He also said county fire dispatch is part of the CAL FIRE cooperative agreement and would need a replacement system if the county ever left the contract.
At the June 9 hearing, county officials put a $658 million recommended budget, reserves below policy target and a projected $46 million pension contribution on the record ahead of June 23 adoption.
County staff said general reserves would fall to 14.8% of general fund expenditures as supervisors weighed a recommended budget shaped by retirement costs and other long-term obligations.
A county memo says Facilities Management exceeded one object-level budget category by $555,951 and used $797,125 more in retained earnings than approved, triggering a request for a written response and possible board action.
Tracy Neal told Shasta County supervisors the department is trimming payroll while preparing for a delayed CALAIM launch and drawing down restricted CCP and SB 823 balances.
SB 1240 would set up an Office of Nonprofit Empowerment to help nonprofits navigate state procurement, grants and reimbursements after broad support in the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee.
