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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding Fiscal Year (FY) 2023-2024 Recommended Budget Hearings, as follows:
Acting concurrently as the Board of Supervisors; Board of Directors, Fire Protection District; Board of Directors, Flood Control and Water Conservation District; Board of Directors, Laguna County Sanitation District; Board of Directors, Water Agency; and other Special Districts under the supervision and control of the Board of Supervisors:
a) Receive, consider, and file the FY 2023-2024 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 County Executive Officer’s recommended expansions and final budget adjustments to the FY 2023-2024 Recommended Budget;
c) Adopt the Resolution entitled In the Matter of Adopting the Budget for FY 2023-2024;
d) Approve budget adjustments as amended during Budget Hearings, to the FY 2023-2024 Recommended Budget;
e) Delegate authority to the Chair to execute single-year renewals of grants and contracts previously approved by the Board and included in the FY 2023-2024 Recommended Budget, where contract amounts are within 10% of previously contracted amounts;
f) Receive the draft Salary Resolution, direct any specific changes made during the June 2023 budget hearings, and adopt that amended Salary Resolution to be effective June 26, 2023, which updates job classifications and department position allocations to include positions approved by the Board during the FY 2023-2024 Budget Hearings;
g) Adopt position changes previously approved by the County Executive Officer during FY 2022-2023 under Board Resolution 99-486; and
h) Determine pursuant to 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