File #: 22-00302    Version: 1
Type: Departmental Agenda Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 3/31/2022 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 4/14/2022 Final action: 4/14/2022
Title: HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Preliminary Budget and Budget Development Workshops, as follows: a) Receive and file information about the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 preliminary budget; b) Provide direction, if any, regarding items to be addressed or included in the County Executive Officer's (CEO's) Recommended Budget, scheduled for release in May and Board adoption scheduled for June 14 and 15, 2022; c) Approve a new budget development policy to maintain a minimum reserve of $3 million in the Disaster Recovery fund balance (Account 9846) in General County Programs to fund the repair of County infrastructure damaged during disasters when no other State or Federal reimbursement or other available funding can be identified; d) Provide direction, if any, regarding Special Issues or other items; and e) Determine pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 15378(b)(4) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA revi...
Sponsors: COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Hyperlink to Budget Workshop Material, 3. Public Comment - District Attorney, 4. Public Comment - Community Services, 5. Public Comment Group 1 - Community Services, 6. Public Comment - Community Services - Joni Kelly, 7. Public Comment - Public Safety Group 1, 8. Public Comment Group 2 - Community Services, 9. Public Comment - The Junior League of Santa Barbara, 10. Public Comment - Gros, 11. Public Comment - Community Resources & Public Facilities - Heal the Ocean, 12. Public Comment - Community Resources & Public Facilities - Group 3, 13. Public Comment - Public Safety - Group 2, 14. Public Comment Community Resources & Public Safety - Santa Barbara County Food Bank, 15. Public Comment - Community Resources & Public Facilities - Group 4, 16. Public Comment - Community Resources & Public Facilities - Honikman, 17. Minute Order

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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Preliminary Budget and Budget Development Workshops, as follows:

 

a) Receive and file information about the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 preliminary budget;

 

b) Provide direction, if any, regarding items to be addressed or included in the County Executive Officer’s (CEO’s) Recommended Budget, scheduled for release in May and Board adoption scheduled for June 14 and 15, 2022;

 

c) Approve a new budget development policy to maintain a minimum reserve of $3 million in the Disaster Recovery fund balance (Account 9846) in General County Programs to fund the repair of County infrastructure damaged during disasters when no other State or Federal reimbursement or other available funding can be identified;

 

d) Provide direction, if any, regarding Special Issues or other items; and

 

e) Determine pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 15378(b)(4) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review, because it is a government fiscal activity that does not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment.

 

COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY