Countywide : New Budget, Effects Focus of Discussion
In what is expected to be a wide-ranging discussion of local government needs, members of the Orange County legislative delegation are to meet today with the Board of Supervisors.
The new state budget and its possible implications for the county and local cities are expected to dominate the talks, beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the county’s Data Center.
Local officials expect the state to once again look to counties and cities to fill the estimated $5.6-billion state budget shortfall.
Rumors of possible scenarios in which the state would seek aid from local governments to plug its shortfall abound and include yet another shift of local property tax revenue.
“Let the games begin,” Ronald S. Rubino, county budget director, said Thursday. “County government has taken the biggest hit in the past two years. I don’t know how much more the state can take from county government.”
In the past two years, shifts of local property tax revenue to the state have cost the county about $200 million in local service reductions.
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