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Recent budget coverage from The Sidekick network, including local decisions, public meetings, and civic updates.
Council is being asked to push the final-map recording deadline from Aug. 27 to Oct. 30, 2026, keeping eight subdivisions under the legacy road fee instead of the updated rate.
The proposal would double the exemption threshold for low-value personal property, reduce annual processing for about 730 accounts and take effect only if the full board adopts it.
The Aug. 18 Board of Supervisors agenda bundles a $4.9 million health-care transfer, at least $850,000 in ARPA child-care loans, a $2.254 million behavioral-health contract and new roads spending.
The county’s Health and Welfare Committee recommended a subrecipient agreement with Sierra Health Foundation to help administer Proposition 36 implementation work for Sutter-Yuba Behavioral Health, along with a related FY 2026-27 budget increase.
Council is set to consider revised appropriations-limit resolutions for two fiscal years after RAMS flagged an error in the original FY 2025-26 calculation.
Supervisors approved a personnel-rule change and a related agreement aimed at filling the county’s Chief of Psychiatry post, which staff said has been difficult to recruit.
Our Heroes Dreams told supervisors it served 30 veterans, logged 591 nights of lodging and 652 meals, and billed the county $249,852 under the settlement-funded agreement.
The committee backed an amendment that would shift the annual report on minimum essential coverage and the individual mandate from June 1 to April 1.
County officials told lawmakers some local indigent-care programs are dormant or too weak to meet current safety-net demand, while Finance projected Medi-Cal enrollment will fall and warned federal work-rule changes could tighten exemptions.
Witnesses urged lawmakers to shift from short-term grants to long-term, flexible support for regional workforce and economic mobility efforts.
A legislative oversight hearing highlighted long projected timelines, unspent repatriation funds and open audit recommendations as lawmakers pressed University of California leaders on CalNAGPRA compliance.
The Aug. 5 agenda includes a $1.5 million construction amendment and a separate $240,135 Carollo Engineers amendment tied to the city’s wastewater treatment facilities upgrade project.
At a joint legislative agriculture hearing, CDFA said it needs annual funding for detection, monitoring and eradication tied to the pest outbreak.
The county board packet recommends a contract for West Central Landfill Unit 5A and related budget changes tied to the project.
The board’s July 14 actions add county money and a separate agreement for the 16-bed social rehabilitation facility project, alongside a $550,000 behavioral health budget increase and $600,000 in state funds.
The FY26/27 grant would fund checkpoints, saturation patrols, training and outreach from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027.
The agreement will pay Glenn County to provide CWS/CMS training for Shasta HHSA staff through June 2029.
The agency authorized short-term cash flow for a pipe replacement project and directed staff to file the related CEQA notice as a responsible agency.
Council backed a wastewater equipment replacement after staff said the current setup was causing recurring liner damage.
A Health and Welfare Committee item would replace a failing immunization refrigerator with Medi-Cal Administrative Activities revenue funds and no General Fund impact.
Supervisors are being asked to hold a public hearing and adopt annual parcel-charge reports for the county’s Permanent Road Division zones.
The board placed delinquent County Service Area water and sewer charges on tax bills and cleared a smaller set of uncollectible accounts from the books during its July 28 meeting.
The July 28 agenda includes a resolution that would place a countywide retail transactions and use tax on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot.
A July 28 supervisors agenda shows County Administrator Steven M. Smith scheduled to seek a resolution placing a countywide retail transactions and use tax on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot.