Budget, budget, budget. That’s the story in Sacramento County as the Board of Supervisors continues the slow, steady unwinding of government.
Check out some of the latest:
First there’s possible cuts to public health.
Then there’s the battle with unions over a controversial, back-door furlough.
Then things got even worse with new sales tax revenue projections.
A union hired homeless people to protest county outsourcing. (Yes, the union outsourced its protesting.)
And don’t expect the pain to stop after this budget. Bad times are still ahead.
So one supervisor asked staff to fudge the numbers to make things appear better on paper.
The county ended up cutting $76 million more.
Scared at the prospect of losing more benefits, the county’s managers might try to unionize.
Several unions agree to concessions.
Those concessions, however, aren’t enough to stop more layoffs.
Ugh. More to come.
