County Budget Controversy

* Re “Chief Administrator, Sheriff Square Off Over Budget,” May 21.

I don’t feel that Sheriff Bob Brooks should have to bear the $6.5-million cut from his budget due to what happened with the botched up mental health merger and this whole scandal the Board of Supervisors caused us.

I ask interim Chief Administrative Officer Harry Hufford not to touch the sheriff’s budget. We voters signed a petition for Proposition 172 to go for law enforcement, and that is its intended purpose.

MARY HARRIS

Thousand Oaks