{"id":165472,"date":"2025-08-22T03:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165472\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:39:14","slug":"2-county-supes-want-to-tap-reerve-to-offset-effects-of-one-big-beautiful-bill-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165472\/","title":{"rendered":"2 county supes want to tap re$erve$ to offset effects of one Big Beautiful Bill \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, two San Diego County Board of Supervisors proposed tapping into the county&#8217;s reserves to offset cuts coming from Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Chair Terra Lawson-Remer and Vice Chair Monica Montgomery Steppe say the proposal is to protect the county&#8217;s citizens from the Trump administration&#8217;s slashing health care and food assistance programs by using ample reserves. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is projected to cost the county more than $300 million each year in additional costs or lost revenue.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lawson-Remer and Montgomery Steppe, nearly 400,000 San Diegans risk losing health care and 100,000 could lose food assistance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t let San Diego be dragged into a fiscal storm by Washington,&#8221; Lawson-Remer said. &#8220;This reform is our bridge \u2014 protecting health care, food and public safety now while we work toward long-term solutions to keep San Diegans healthy, fed and safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, which will be brought before the board of supervisors on Tuesday, during its next scheduled meeting, has two updates to the county&#8217;s reserve policy:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Modifying the reserve target calculation to two months of operating expenses only, reducing said target from $973 million to $945 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Recognizing all locally controlled reserves, not just &#8220;unassigned&#8221; funds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both of these changes, which the supervisors say follow best practices, would open up around $380 million in &#8220;flexible, board-controlled reserves that could help stabilize services in the face of federal or state cuts, or during an economic recession over the next four fiscal years,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is about smart fiscal governance,&#8221; Montgomery Steppe said. &#8220;We&#8217;re not touching long-term savings for frivolous expenses; we&#8217;re making sure that when families need us most, we have the tools to respond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This follows a nearly identical proposal in April to unlock a significant portion of reserves, which failed, 2-1-1.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Lawson-Remer said the previous vote &#8220;wasn&#8217;t just a procedural setback \u2014 it was a choice to tie our hands while Washington walks away from its responsibilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We offered a common-sense solution to safeguard San Diego&#8217;s most vulnerable communities,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Instead, our Republican colleagues chose polemics and posturing over preparedness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the results of July&#8217;s special election to fill the seat vacated by Nora Vargas has changed the calculus. Newly elected Supervisor Paloma Aguirre is also a Democrat on the ostensibly nonpartisan board. The result next week could be very different.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Supervisor Jim Desmond was the sole no vote (Supervisor Joel Anderson abstained).<\/p>\n<p>Desmond described the outcome as &#8220;a win for taxpayers and fiscal responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m proud to have stood against the reckless attempt to raid our county&#8217;s emergency reserves, a move that would have put our families and communities at risk when disaster strikes,&#8221; Desmond said.<\/p>\n<p>The renewed proposal would set up guardrails for using the reserves, only allowing funds to be accessed in tough economic times and requiring an additional vote by the board.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson-Remer and Montgomery Steppe say no more than 25% of the newly available reserves would be available in a single fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, two San Diego County Board of Supervisors proposed tapping into the county&#8217;s reserves to offset cuts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,12051,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-165472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-county-board-of-supervisors","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115070341139026486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}