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Faced with a certain $27.3 million projected shortfall locally and possibly/probably at least $145 million in cuts and delayed payments from the state, the county decided to start the belt tightening early. About time, I say. It’s not like we can’t all see this train wreck coming. That’s why I found it aggravating last week when the Board of Supervisors decided it was best (for whom?) to make their sausage behind closed doors. County Administrative Officer Ron Errea hustled up a report detailing the budget gap and recommended a 10 percent mid-year cut. The board could have done a lot of things, including what they should have done, which was to start the discussion and publicly hammer out what to cut now and make a contingency plan for the likelihood of a greater hit from the state later. It would have been a long, messy meeting probably leading to a need for more meetings. But it would have given the public the opportunity to see how their money was being...
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