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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Recommended Budget Hearings, as follows:
Acting concurrently as the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara; the Board of Directors, Santa Barbara County Fire Protection District; Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District; Laguna County Sanitation District; Santa Barbara County Water Agency; and other special districts under the supervision and control of the Board of Supervisors:
a) Receive, consider, and file the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Recommended Budget, which includes the County’s General Operating Budget as well as budgets of special districts governed by the Board of Supervisors;
b) Approve final budget adjustments to the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Recommended Budget;
c) Approve final budget adjustments allocating $250,000.00 of funding from the General County Programs sustainability initiatives set aside to the Community Services Department for work on oil and gas regulations;
d) Approve budget adjustments, if any, to the use of ongoing Cannabis Tax Revenue allocated to the Sheriff Cannabis Enforcement Program and the 18% Deferred Maintenance Program, as amended during Budget Hearings;
e) Adopt a Resolution of the Board of Supervisors entitled In the Matter of Adopting the Budget for Fiscal Year 2025-2026;
f) Delegate authority to the Chair to execute single-year renewals of grants and contracts previously approved by the Board and included in the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Recommended Budget, where contract amounts are within 10% of previously contracted amounts;
g) Receive the draft Salary Resolution, direct any specific changes made during the June 2025 budget hearings, and adopt that amended Salary Resolution to be effective June 23, 2025, which updates job classifications and department position allocations to include positions approved by the Board of Supervisors during the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Budget Hearings;
h) Adopt position changes previously approved by the County Executive Officer during Fiscal Year 2024-2025 under Board Resolution 99-486; and
i) Determine pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15378(b)[4] that the above fiscal activities are not a project subject to CEQA.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY