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MAKE IT STOP: The acoustics up in the County Board of Supervisors’ chambers are totally impossible. The kindest descriptions are muddy, muffled, and murky. Without the subtitles scrolling across the bottom of the TV screens on the wall, I would have been lost. But then, who really wanted to hear? The day’s special session — the first of three scheduled for this week—can only be described as a dress rehearsal for the coming bloodbath.
Thanks to Donald Trump and his Big Bad Beautiful Budget Bill coupled with cuts Governor Gavin Newsom and the California State Legislature have seen fit to pass our way, the county supes will spend the next few weeks figuring out how to hack 447 full-time positions off the county payroll. In dollars and cents, that translates to 71 million fewer dollars to spend.
To mangle a line from the late, great Senator Everett Dirksen, “A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” In this case, real pain, too…