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County executive warns of major federal funding risk, proposes reserves and position deletions in recommended budget
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Santa Clara CountyChief Executive James Williams presented a structurally balanced FY2025-26 recommended budget that relies on general-fund backfill, new reserves and position deletions to absorb federal and state uncertainty, notably potential Medicaid changes being debated in Congress.
Santa Clara County Chief Executive James Williams on Monday presented a recommended FY2025-26 budget that he called "structurally balanced" while warning of "multiple layers of uncertainty" from federal and state actions that could sharply reduce county revenue.
Williams told the Board of Supervisors the county faces three principal federal-revenue risks: Medicaid ("the swimming pool"), social-services funding ("the bathtub") and other federal grants ("the bucket"). He said the county has assumed no current changes to Medicaid revenue in the recommended budget but stressed the board should be prepared to revisit the plan if Congress or the state moves to impose work…
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