Riverside County officials presented a $10 billion budget at a community workshop in Palm Desert last week, warning of financial pressures from potential state and federal funding cuts.
County Executive Officer Jeff Van Wagenen said the county is facing rising costs and flattening revenues, making it difficult to predict the local economic future of a county with 2.5 million residents across 7,300 square miles.
“It’s hard to look ahead when we don’t know how this week is going to end or the next month is going to end,” Van Wagenen said…