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Board adopts 2025–26 budget priorities and federal/state legislative platform after focus-group briefings
Summary
The board unanimously approved a budget-priority framework for FY 2025–26 emphasizing mandated services, optimization of existing resources and new or enhanced programs focused on homelessness, behavioral health and road maintenance in unincorporated areas. Staff also presented the county's 2025–26 federal and state legislative priorities.
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 7 approved a set of budget priorities for fiscal year 2025–26 and adopted a federal and state legislative platform that will guide the county’s advocacy over the next two years.
County staff presented findings from November 2024 focus groups conducted by FM3 Research and a summary of 2023–24 state and federal legislative activity. David Metz of FM3 reported results from four in-person focus groups that reinforced survey findings: homelessness, substance use and related impacts, and the cost of living were among residents’ top concerns; roads were the primary…
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