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Orange County presents program budgeting pilot, ties spending to services
Summary
Interim county administrator Lehi DePaul presented a new program-budgeting framework piloted in FY25 and integrated into FY26 departmental budgets to show what the county buys and why, while warning the approach is an enhancement—not a full cost-accounting system.
Lehi DePaul, interim county administrator, told the Orange County Board of Supervisors on July 22 that the county piloted a program-budgeting project in FY25 and has incorporated it into FY26 departmental budgets to make spending and outcomes easier to compare.
"First of all, is a strategy for building trust, to show us not just how much is spent, but what is spent on and the value that spending provides," DePaul said, explaining that the effort is intended to connect the board's priorities to department performance measures.
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