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Votes at a glance: Trinity County Board approves tiny‑home and encampment ordinances, preliminary budget and support letter
Summary
At its June 17 meeting the Trinity County Board of Supervisors recorded unanimous votes on several ordinances and fiscal items, including two local code adoptions and a preliminary FY 2025–26 budget resolution.
The Board took recorded action on multiple items at its June 17 meeting. Vote results and formal actions are summarized below.
1) Trinity County Code §15.27 (movable tiny homes) - Motion: Waive reading and enact ordinance establishing County Code §15.27. - Mover/Seconder: motion moved and seconded during the meeting (motion text on record). - Vote: Supervisor Cox — Aye; Supervisor Lutweiler — Aye; Supervisor Carpenter Harris — Aye. - Outcome: Approved (ordinance enacted).
2) Trinity County Code §8.41 (encampments on public property) - Motion: Waive second reading and enact ordinance establishing County Code §8.41. - Mover/Seconder: motion moved and seconded on the record. - Vote: Supervisor Cox — Aye; Supervisor Lutweiler — Aye; Supervisor Carpenter Harris — Aye. - Outcome: Approved (ordinance enacted).
3) Preliminary FY 2025–26 Budget Resolution - Motion: Adopt resolution authorizing a preliminary budget and limited operational authority pending final budget hearings. - Vote: Supervisor Carpenter Harris — Aye; Supervisor Cox — Aye; Supervisor Lutweiler — Aye. - Outcome: Approved (resolution adopted). Staff reported an approximate $3,000,000 gap between department requests and projected revenues; the board authorized staff to continue planning and said the proposed budget release will occur in early September with final adoption by October 2, 2025.
4) Letter supporting Wildfire County Coordinators program (consent item d7) - Motion: Authorize chairman to sign a letter supporting the wildfire county coordinators program and amend CC to include Assemblymember Rogers and Governor Newsom. - Vote: Supervisor Lutweiler — Aye; Supervisor Cox — Aye; Supervisor Carpenter Harris — Aye. - Outcome: Approved; letter to be sent to named legislators with amended CC recipients.
Notes: All recorded roll calls in the transcript show unanimous ayes by the three supervisors present. The meeting did not record any roll call no/abstain votes on these items.
Provenance (transcript excerpts): - Tiny homes ordinance enacted (block_id:4586.49 excerpt: "I'll second. Any discussion by the board? Seeing none, we'll move to the vote. Supervisor Cox? Aye.") - Encampments ordinance enacted (block_id:4652.20 excerpt: "With move to with the reading of this ordinance and in act, TriNet County code section 8.41.") - Preliminary budget adopted (block_id:5990.99 excerpt: "The proposal in front of you is to adopt, or to provide authority to staff to continue operations, you know, up to, 40% of what we anticipate the overall final budget to be ... there is an approximate, $3,000,000 gap ...") - Letter supporting wildfire county coordinators (block_id:4214.21 excerpt: "so I would move that we, send this letter to the the 2 individuals, stated and then just amend the CC to include assembly member Rogers and governor Newsom.")
