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Recent budget coverage from Yuba-Sutter, including local decisions, public meetings, and civic updates.
Staff say Water Works District No. 1’s current rates do not cover operating costs, and the board is set to return June 23 for final adoption.
The board signed off on a $300,000 Yuba County match and an MOU worth up to $850,000 tied to the Willow Glen Care Center expansion, along with a $550,000 behavioral health budget increase backed by restricted fund balance.
Supervisors are set to consider two Willow Glen Care Center funding items tied to the same 16-bed social rehabilitation facility project, including a local match agreement and a budget increase backed by restricted fund balances.
The July 15 agenda includes an agreement that would let Sutter County run Live Oak’s municipal election alongside the statewide general election, with staff estimating a $27,000 cost.
The multiyear agreement will support forecasting, electrification analysis, demand-flexibility tools and the commission’s Common Platform.
Staff is recommending that directors waive an automatic 2.5% increase for eight member units, saying reduced deliveries from the Colgate Penstock incident could make groundwater pumping more expensive than the hike.
The Assembly concurred in Senate amendments to AB 126 on a 56-1 vote after debate over charter-school language in the education finance package.
The urgency measure cleared the Assembly 54-13 and heads to the Senate, where it would give eligible local governments a path to ask voters for tax rates above the statutory cap.
The measure moved forward after lawmakers heard competing claims about county discretionary spending, misconduct findings and the board’s existing authority.
The July 7 agenda details a $550,000 Sutter County budget adjustment and a separate $300,000 funding agreement for Yuba County’s share of the Willow Glen behavioral health expansion.
The July 7 Health and Welfare Committee packet put forward an MOU, a budget adjustment and a Yuba County funding agreement to support a Linda facility expansion.
Floor remarks described AB 179 as structuring a $900 million homelessness investment while members again debated oversight and the scale of homelessness spending.
The bill would launch a light-duty zero-emission vehicle incentive program and move unused funds to the Demand Side Grid Support Program.
The labor trailer bill would let the Department of Industrial Relations accept electronic funds transfer payments and update disability-benefit and grant-reporting rules tied to the 2026 Budget Act.
Two FY2025-26 budget amendments would add $319,000 to Development Services, including engineering work at Sutter Pointe and Environmental Health costs tied to permit software migration.
The bill cleared the Assembly 62-1 and adds data-collection requirements for some developmental-services settings.
The June 29 budget hearing added a $141 million Next Gen 911 item to the 2026-27 package, along with reporting, audit and oversight requirements.
SB 1240 would set up an Office of Nonprofit Empowerment to help nonprofits navigate state procurement, grants and reimbursements after broad support in the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee.
The board backed emergency contracting for Colgate Penstock repairs, adopted a recovery addendum, passed the FY 2026-27 budget and left 10 vacant positions unfunded.
Directors adopted the FY 2026-27 budget, updated staffing chart and an incident addendum as Penstock recovery work continues to shape agency priorities.
Supporters said the measure would give some cities and counties another option to protect core services as budget pressure grows.
The board agenda bundles the county’s annual appropriations-limit action with the FY 2026-27 budget resolution, a drought plan, AB 481 compliance items and several land-use decisions.
The county board gave final approval to a five-year agreement tied to state preservation funding for capital improvements at the Yuba City facility.
The board paired its 2026-27 budget vote with a staffing chart that leaves 10 vacancies unfunded and a strategic-plan addendum guiding recovery work after the Colgate Penstock incident.
