The board, which includes Mayor Jim Dahl from San Clemente, considered the budget in May, but declined to approve it because staffers recommended various fee increases. The budget is about $258 million.
OCFA is grappling with how to cover cost-of-living salary increases mandated by employee contracts approved years ago. A committee was supposed to come back with recommendations to make the $5 million in cuts without fee increases previously proposed, but the work didn’t get finished, and the budget was passed with the caveat the cuts come back.
The budget will be brought back to the board within the next 120 days.
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