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Residents push board to pull labor items as supervisors approve consent calendar 5-0
Summary
Public commenters pressed the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors on April 1 to pull two consent calendar labor items and discuss them publicly, citing a projected $20 million general‑fund shortfall and what speakers described as an expanded use of a charter pay provision; the board approved the agenda and consent calendar, including the disputed items, on a 5‑0 vote.
The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors on April 1 approved the agenda and the consent calendar, including two negotiated labor items that several members of the public had asked be removed for separate discussion.
Public comment focused on items 7 and 8 (management memoranda of understanding and related pay changes). Lee Tanenbaum, president of the El Dorado County Taxpayers Association, urged supervisors to pull the items from consent and open them for discussion, saying the county faces a “$20,000,000 deficit” and that a county charter provision known as Section 504 was being applied broadly to non‑sworn staff. “This current action simply pushes that expansion even further,” Tanenbaum said, citing increases “as high as 35% with some…
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