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Suzanne Potter California News Service LOS ANGELES – Groups that advocate for children in California are pressing state lawmakers to fully fund Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget requests to expand access to early learning. Newsom is proposing to expand pre-kindergarten programs to all low-income 4-year-olds in the state within three years. Kim...
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County of Santa Clara Board of Supervisors Approves $7 Billion Balanced Budget SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIF. – Prudent spending for an uncertain world with ongoing and expanding client needs is the theme of the County’s Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Budget. The spending plan, recommended by County Executive Jeffrey V. Smith, M.D.,...
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Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR Many more San Jose residents need to understand their role as stakeholders (really shareholders’) by reviewing the 2018-19 Budget information presented in summary form at this link to the SJ budgets: http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?nid=6076. SJ residents, in the aggregate, support this civic services business whose annual budget...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown’s new $131.7 billion budget is earning praise from children’s advocates because of the investments it makes in supporting health and combating poverty. The budget includes $26.7 million for a voluntary pilot program to send community health workers to...
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Supervisor Dave Cortese Happy New Year! Although there were no countdowns, noisemakers or confetti, July 1st was the beginning of our new fiscal year, the date that our new spending plan goes into effect through June 30, 2018. The 2017-2018 Budget was approved by the Board on June 16...
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Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR Residents, especially citizens who registered to vote, who are concerned, who learn about the issues, and actually voted for their elected representative at local, state and federal levels of governance, must understand that they are stakeholders (similar to investors who purchase shares of a corporation)....
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Priorities include Affordable Housing and Homelessness, Custody Operations and Custody Health, Rebuilding County Infrastructure Santa Clara County / CALIFORNIA This week the County of Santa Clara Board of Supervisors approved a balanced Fiscal Year 2017 Budget, as required by County Charter. The $6.1 billion budget includes all services, operations, capital...