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Recent budget coverage from The Sidekick network, including local decisions, public meetings, and civic updates.
The measure heads to the Nov. 3 ballot after hotel operators and lodging representatives argued it could hurt tourism and business competitiveness.
The multiyear agreement will support forecasting, electrification analysis, demand-flexibility tools and the commission’s Common Platform.
The July 7 council agenda includes a proposed transient occupancy tax ballot measure, a $2,875,355 Balay Ko Foundation donation and a $370,000 downtown property acquisition tied to affordable or interim housing.
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.
Staff is recommending that directors waive an automatic 2.5% increase for eight member units, saying reduced deliveries from the Colgate Penstock incident could make groundwater pumping more expensive than the hike.
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.
The July 7 agenda also includes a county budget vote and a supplemental road maintenance request.
The July 7 agenda details a $550,000 Sutter County budget adjustment and a separate $300,000 funding agreement for Yuba County’s share of the Willow Glen behavioral health expansion.
The July 7 Health and Welfare Committee packet put forward an MOU, a budget adjustment and a Yuba County funding agreement to support a Linda facility expansion.
The July 9 agenda says maintenance dredging remains important for navigation and mooring, but the district has no new work planned and is still seeking FEMA assistance.
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.
Two FY2025-26 budget amendments would add $319,000 to Development Services, including engineering work at Sutter Pointe and Environmental Health costs tied to permit software migration.
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.
The board advanced plans to buy 4325 Broadway Street in Eureka for future county office and permitting space, but one supervisor voted no after concerns about the site’s location, access and upkeep.
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.