Officials Seek End to Unfunded Programs
Seeking to put a halt to unfunded state programs, a group of Ventura County officials plans to travel to Sacramento next month to rally support for legislation that would curb such programs.
Supervisors Judy Mikels and John Flynn, Dist. Atty. Michael D. Bradbury, Sheriff Larry Carpenter and Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Penny Bohannon will be part of “the team” making the trip, Flynn said.
The group plans to lobby legislators to support a series of bills that would restrict unfunded state programs in the future, Flynn said. He said the lobbying effort was started because the state has taken $2.5 billion in property tax revenues from counties during the past two years while increasing the number of unfunded state programs.
“This is a major lobbying effort to stop these mandates that cost our local government,” he said.
Others who will join county officials on the trip to Sacramento include Mike Saliba, director of the Ventura County Taxpayers Assn., and Carolyn Leavens, president of the Ventura County Economic Development Assn.
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