Memorandum
Date: September 16, 2020 and September 17, 2020 (as needed)
To: The Honorable Moke Simon, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Carol J. Huchingson, County Administrative Officer
Subject: 9:00 A.M. - PUBLIC HEARING - Consideration of the Final Recommended Budget for Fiscal Year 2020-21 for the County of Lake and Special Districts Governed by the Board of Supervisors
Executive Summary: (include fiscal and staffing impact narrative):
Presented today for the consideration of your Board is the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020-21 Final Recommended Budget. This memorandum is intended to serve as an update to our June 9, 2020 memorandum introducing the FY 2020-21 Recommended Budget.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this recent cycle of budget preparation has been quite unusual. In late March, your Board approved staff's recommendation to make changes to scheduled budget hearings for this cycle and to flip the extended budget hearing process, in which you receive detailed presentations from your Department Heads, from Recommended Budget to Final Recommended Budget.
In early May, and again in June at the time of Recommended Budget, staff reported to you on potential financial impacts resulting from the COVID crisis. Since then, we are fortunate to have begun receiving federal CARES Act funding and state Realignment Backfill, alleviating some of the concerns we reported to your Board. Your Board ratified staff's certification which was required by the state, to begin receiving both these funding sources. Realignment Backfill will enable critical law enforcement and social services programs to remain in place. CARES Act funding will help with County disaster response costs, with funds also set aside for grants to local businesses weathering the impacts of the disaster.
At the time of Recommended Budget, your Board contemplated 10% cuts to County departments, in anticipation of negative financial impacts resulting from the pandemic. Absen...
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