See attached FY 2022-2023 Recommended Budget document, which includes the Budget Message and Overview. The document can also be found at this link:
http://www.cccounty.us/770/Budget-Documents
Explanation of the reasons behind the County Administrator’s recommendations is presented in the attached FY 2022-23 Recommended Budget and summarized in the attached PowerPoint Presentation. Material from departments invited to make presentations is also attached: Public Works, Employment and Human Services, Animal Services, District Attorney, Public Defender, Sheriff-Coroner, Probation, and Health Services.
MEET AND CONFER/LAY-OFF RESOLUTIONS
For the last several years at this point in the budget cycle, County Departments, in cooperation with Labor Relations, have begun the meet and confer process with employee representatives regarding the impact of program reductions on the terms and conditions of employment for affected employees. Pending Final Budget adoption on May 10, Position Addition and Elimination lists may be presented to the Board for adoption on that day.
Adoption of the County budget may be delayed.
Speakers: Roxanne Carillo-Garza; Veronica Benjamin; Wendy Johnson, East Bay Leadership Council; Sean, Local 21; Melvin Willis, ACCE, Racial Justice Coalition; Desiree, Antioch; Gabriel Lemus, Local 1021; Susanne Thompson; Edith Pastrano, ACCE; Stacey Hinton, AFSCME 2700; Curtis Branson, Public Works Building Trades; Kathy, Walnut Creek; Jacki Lowry, ACCE Antioch; Mike Davies; Robin; Kim Costerz, Martinez; Kim Anderson, Local 512; Claudia Reynolds; Patricia Aguilar, ACCE Bay Point; Deborah Bayer; Gigi Crowder, NAMI CC; Elsa Stevens, ACCE Richmond; Alfonzo Edwards, Antioch; Phil Arnold; Wanda Johnson; Peretz Wolf Prusan, Jewish Family and Community Services of the East Bay; Lynn Jackson, Antioch; Laura Powell; Michelle Querolo, La Raza; Mariana Moore, Ensuring Opportunity Campaign; Irma Rupert, Pinole; Mark Whitlock; Reverend Millie Phillips; Shelly Ji, NAMI; Baylee Weschler; Kristi Laughlin; Tiffany Wang; Max Perrey, RCHC; Aaron William Sr., Safe Return Contra Costa; Dan Geiger, Budget Justice Coalition; Michelle Wright, Local 1021; Leo Li; Joan Kararounian; Lauren McCabe Herpich; Michele O’Keefe; Dolores Doma; Rachel; John Sergeant; DeeDee Anna; Deborah; James; Antoine Watt; Raul Vasquez; Sarah Lind; Josh Anijar, Contra Costa Labor Council; Jorge Rivera; Deborah Small, Imagine Safety Task Force; Francisco Torres, ACCE; Yen Do, SEIU 1021.
Written commentary provided by: Jane Courant, Richmond; David Espinoza, Lift Up Contra Costa; Millie Phillips, Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy (FAME); Juan Damian, 1436 Marclair Drive Tenants Union; Gary & Linda Thuman; Courtney Coon, PhD, Pleasant Hill; Mike Nisen, BMAC; Rick Kendrick, Byron; Steven and Karen Beck, Conscious Contra Costa; Daniel Espinoza, Lift Up Contra Costa; Jeff Allendorf, Discovery Bay; Jan Warren, Walnut Creek; Paula Wherity, President Byron Chamber of Commerce; Elsa Chinea Stevens, ACCE Richmond; Chris Kelley, Hercules City Council; Alex Werth, East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO); Alex Werth (2), EBHO; Sophia DeWitt, East Bay Housing Organizations; Mark MacMahon; Ashley Ciullo, NAMI Contra Costa.