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Commissioners identify specific cuts — travel, overtime, convenience-site contract — and set near-term reconvening
Summary
To close most of the shortfall, commissioners identified specific reductions including limiting travel, trimming overtime ($30,000), delaying a $54,000 website contract and pausing a $40,000 convenience-site contract; staff will prepare a revised budget for a reconvened meeting.
As the board searched for nonrecurring savings to cover an $83,419 gap, commissioners proposed and tentatively agreed on several specific reductions: reducing governing-body travel ($8,169), trimming overtime by about $30,000, cutting some capital-equipment outlays and postponing a $54,000 website contract for a year. One commissioner said, "If you can postpone it for 1 more year, you'll have $54,000," when proposing delay of the website contract.
Commissioners also discussed pausing or scaling back a convenience-site contracted service at Rosemead (roughly $40,000) and reallocating special appropriations where feasible. Staff cautioned that some funds previously assigned (including ARPA-setasides) support grant matches and project phases — notably a 9-1-1 communication center project — and recommended confirming grant-match timing with project consultants before reassigning committed dollars. The board directed staff to assemble cut lists and meet again within days to approve a revised budget ordinance.
