{"id":6604,"date":"2017-09-27T19:31:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T02:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:33:20","slug":"corrected-approved-county-budget-for-fiscal-year-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2017\/09\/27\/corrected-approved-county-budget-for-fiscal-year-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrected &#8211; APPROVED COUNTY BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Carla Hass]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(PLACERVILLE, CA) \u2013 The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors yesterday formally adopted the $569 million operating budget for fiscal year 2017\/18 which they conceptually approved September 19th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State of California requires Counties to adopt their final budget prior to October 2nd of each year, and by doing so yesterday, the Board of Supervisors cemented its commitment to responsibly plan for the future, augment its reserve funds, attend to critical road repair and building maintenance, and maintain services to its residents,\u201d said Chief Administrative Officer, Don Ashton.<\/p>\n<p><em>The adopted budget includes the following:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">&#8211; $5.4 million to fully fund the General Fund contingency<br \/>\n&#8211; $8.5 million to fully fund the County\u2019s General Reserve<br \/>\n&#8211; $5 million to fully fund the Capital Reserves fund<br \/>\n&#8211; $3.5 million in emergency road repairs<br \/>\n&#8211; $3 million in local funding for road maintenance<br \/>\n&#8211; $1 million to improve the County\u2019s information technology infrastructure<br \/>\n&#8211; $7.1 million to fund future CalPERS and OPEB costs<br \/>\n&#8211; $250,000 for Community Planning<\/p>\n<p>Noting that while the Board was able to fully fund contingency and reserve accounts and achieve goals embodied in the June Recommended Budget, Ashton indicated that the County must continue to look for efficiencies in the coming years in order to meet State mandates out of the Board\u2019s control and be responsive to residents\u2019 needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this budget reflects the good work we have done this past year, we now begin the work of the next fiscal year\u2019s budget, trying to balance the realities of an older population that is growing exponentially and will require maintained or increased levels of service, while still preserving a rural lifestyle,\u201d Ashton said.<\/p>\n<p>Full Budget Detail: Complete Doc 17-18 [422 pages]<\/p>\n<p><a>https:\/\/www.edcgov.us\/Government\/CAO\/Documents\/2017-2018%20Budget%20Documents\/Complete%20Doc%2017-18.pdf\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carla Hass] (PLACERVILLE, CA) \u2013 The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors yesterday formally adopted the $569 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6605,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions\/6605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}