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Mendocino supervisors press departments to trim vacancies, weigh voluntary buyouts amid $2.6M shortfall
Summary
At an extended April 22 budget workshop the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors pressed departments to cut costs, consider voluntary separation incentives and remove long‑vacant positions from the allocation table as staff work to close a remaining $2.6 million general‑fund gap.
MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. — The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors directed staff April 22 to pursue immediate, structured reductions in vacant positions and to expand a voluntary separation incentive program as part of efforts to close a projected $2.6 million general‑fund shortfall for fiscal 2025‑26.
Deputy Chief Executive Tony Ricks and acting Assistant CEO Sarah Pierce presented a budget workshop that showed departments had submitted about $624,000 in additional reductions after an April 8 hearing, but staff said more cuts and structural changes will be necessary to balance the books. Pierce told the board that savings assumptions include a conservative 6 percent turnover estimate and a hiring freeze to realize roughly $8 million in potential…
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