Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Budget, marijuana ordinance committee before Butte County supervisors

OROVILLE -- Butte County's Board of Supervisors can be expected to have a long and possibly difficult day Tuesday, as they conduct a public hearing on the proposed budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.

The proposed budget, including all categorically earmarked funds, comes to more than $425 million.

The General Fund — that portion of the budget that pays for "discretionary" programs, such as firefighting and law enforcement — makes up only $128.5 million of the total.

During the public hearing on the budget, county department heads usually come forward in an attempt to persuade the supervisors to increase their allocation.

The agenda also calls for the board to transfer 10 percent of the Public Health Realignment Trust Fund and 5 percent of the Mental Health Realignment Trust Fund to the county's Welfare Fund. There is also a scheduled discussion on the size of the contingency fund.

Also on the board's agenda for its regular session is a request to endorse a grant application that would create an "agricultural easement" on 145 acres of land adjacent to Hegan Lane in Chico, half a mile west of the "green line" — the demarcation point between urban and agricultural uses.

The Northern California Regional Land Trust will apply for the grant from the state Department of Conservation's Farmland Conservancy Program. The documents going to the supervisors don't specify the precise amount of the grant request other than to say it will cover the market value of the property.

The land is currently in agricultural production and the proposed easement is meant to guarantee it will remain that way.

In other issues, the supervisors are being asked to establish a marijuana ordinance committee to work with the sheriff, district attorney, county counsel, Department of Development Services and the county administration in helping to craft proposals on how to regulate the growing of medical marijuana. The committee would also look at other medical marijuana issues including how, where and if to allow cannabis dispensaries in county jurisdiction.

Public Meeting

Butte County Board of Supervisors

Budget hearing at 1:30 p.m., regular session begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday

In the Administration Building on County Center Drive in Oroville

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