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Santa Barbara County looking at $1.4 billion budget for new fiscal year

Santa Barbara County's proposed new $1.4 billion budget would maintain services and program at current levels, as well as keeping a $40 million reserve fund.
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Santa Barbara County's proposed new $1.4 billion budget would maintain services and program at current levels, as well as keeping a $40 million reserve fund.

For fourth year in row, budget would keep programs and services at current levels, without cuts.

Santa Barbara County leaders are considering a proposed $1.4 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which will allow the county to maintain programs and services at current levels.

It’s the fourth year in a row that the county is looking at a budget which wouldn’t require cuts.

There has been minor growth in property, sales, and hotel tax revenue.

Cannabis tax revenue dipped slightly in the last year, to $16 million, because of a drop in market prices. The budget proposal includes a full funded reserve fund of more than $40 million.

Santa Barbara County Supervisors will begin their final budget hearings Tuesday morning, and continue into Wednesday if needed.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.