Agenda Item   

AGENDA STAFF REPORT

 

                                                                                                                        ASR Control  25-000350

 

MEETING DATE:

06/10/25

legal entity taking action:

Board of Supervisors

board of supervisors district(s):

All Districts

SUBMITTING Agency/Department:

County Executive Office   (Approved)

Department contact person(s):

Liza Le (714) 834-4104 

 

 

Oana Cosma (714) 834-7410

 

 

Subject:  FY 2025-26 Public Budget Hearings and Salary Ordinance for Board of Supervisors

 

      ceo CONCUR

County Counsel Review

Clerk of the Board

          Concur

No Legal Objection

Public Hearing

 

 

3 Votes Board Majority

 

 

 

    Budgeted: N/A

Current Year Cost:   See Financial Impact Section

Annual Cost: See Financial Impact Section

 

 

 

    Staffing Impact:

See Staffing Impact Section

# of Positions:            

Sole Source:   N/A

    Current Fiscal Year Revenue: N/A

   Funding Source:     N/A

County Audit in last 3 years: No

   Levine Act Review Completed: N/A

 

    Prior Board Action:         1/28/2025 #29. 5/25/2005 #42, 12/12/2000 #23

 

RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):

 

 

1.

Open the Fiscal Year 2025-26 Public Budget Hearings (Government Code Section 29080).

 

2.

Consider the Recommended Fiscal Year 2025-26 Budget and County Executive Office recommendations on Budget Augmentation Requests.

 

3.

Upon receipt of all changes/modifications to the Fiscal Year 2025-26 Recommended Budget by the Board of Supervisors, close the Fiscal Year 2025-26 Public Budget Hearings and set June 24, 2025, 9:30 a.m. for final budget adoption.

 

4.

Read the title of ordinance.

 

5.

Order further reading of the ordinance be waived.

 

6.

Consider the matter.

 

7.

Direct ordinance be placed on agenda of the next regularly scheduled Board meeting for adoption.

 

 

8.

At the next regularly scheduled meeting, consider the matter, and adopt the ordinance.

 

 

 

 

SUMMARY:

 

The County Executive Office requests that the Board of Supervisors conduct the Fiscal Year 2025-26 Public Budget Hearings in accordance with California Government Code 29080 (b) whereby, "On the date stated in the notice, not fewer than 10 days after the recommended budget documents are available, and at a time and place also stated in the notice, the board will conduct a public hearing on the recommended budget."

 

An Ordinance of the County of Orange, California, amending Section 1-2-7 of the Codified Ordinances of the County of Orange, to calculate the salary of members of the Board of Supervisors at a rate equal to 100% of Superior Court Judges and maintain that correlation as judge’s salaries are adjusted.

 

 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

 

Public Budget Hearing

On January 28, 2025, the Board of Supervisors (Board) approved the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-26 budget adoption schedule pursuant to Government Code section 29064, subdivision (c), and pursuant to this schedule:  (a) the FY 2025-26 Recommended Budget was made available to the public on or before May 21, 2025; and (b) a notice stating that the FY 2025-26 Recommended Budget is available to members of the public and the time and place of the public hearing on the budget was published on or before May 21, 2025.

 

The following FY 2025-26 budget documents are available on the County Executive Office (CEO) Internet web page at https://cfo.ocgov.com/budget/fiscal-year-2025-2026

 

FY 2025-26 Recommended Budget

FY 2025-26 Budget Augmentation Requests

 

Salary Ordinance

On December 12, 2000, the Board adopted an ordinance prescribing the compensation of the Members of the Board to set the base salary at a rate equal to 80% of Superior Court Judges salary effective February 10, 2001, and maintain that relationship as Judge’s salaries are adjusted (Section 1-2-7 of the Codified Ordinances of the County of Orange).  On May 24, 2005, the Board adopted an ordinance amending Section 1-2-7 of the Codified Ordinances of the County of Orange to calculate the salary of the Board as a biweekly rate of pay.

 

The ordinance to amend Section 1-2-7 of the Codified Ordinances of the County of Orange Prescribing the Compensation of the Members of the Board of Supervisors would set the compensation of the Members of the Board of Supervisors base salary at a rate equal to 100% of Superior Court Judges and maintain that correlation as judge’s salaries are adjusted. 

 

 

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

 

The County of Orange FY 2025-26 Recommended Budget includes total appropriations of $10,768,884,611, which represents an 8.9 percent increase when compared to the FY 2024-25 Modified Budget. Total appropriations are comprised of $5,407,858,624 General Fund and $5,361,025,987 Non-General Fund appropriations.

 

The FY 2025-26 Recommended Budget includes total revenues, excluding General Purpose Revenues (GPR), of $9,557,649,226, which represents a 9.5 percent increase when compared to the FY 2024-25 Modified Budget. Total revenues consist of $4,196,623,239 General Fund revenues, excluding GPR, and $5,361,025,987 associated with the Non-General Funds.

 

Total Net County Cost (NCC) contained in the FY 2025-26 Recommended Budget is $1,211,235,385, which is a 6.9 percent increase over FY 2024-25 Modified Budget.

 

If the Board were to approve all of the CEO's recommended Restore and Expand Augmentation requests, Countywide appropriations would increase to $10,800,247,030, Countywide revenues, excluding GPR, would increase to $9,574,745,712 and NCC would increase to $1,225,501,318.

 

 

 

STAFFING IMPACT:

 

The FY 2024-25 Mid-Year Budget Report approved by the Board on January 28, 2025, reported an authorized position count of 18,811, as of January 28, 2025. As of February 28, 2025, the authorized position count was 18,783. The FY 2025-26 Recommended Budget includes a net decrease of 163 positions related to Technical and Reduce Augmentations, as detailed in Attachment A.  The CEO is recommending a net addition of 199 positions associated with Restore and Expand Augmentation requests, which are pending Board approval.  Should the Board approve all of the CEO's recommendations, the FY 2025-26 position count would be 18,819 (see table below).

 

Program Name

Authorized Positions as of 2/28/2025

Technical/
Reduce Augmentations

 

Recommended Budget

CEO Recommended Augmentations

TOTAL POSITIONS

Public Protection

6,359

(129)

6,230

125

6,355

Community Services

9,172

(199)

8,973

39

9,012

Infrastructure & Environmental

1,353

(34)

1,319

-

1,319

General Government Services

1,540

208

1,748

35

1,783

Insurance, Reserves & Miscellaneous

359

(9)

350

-

350

Totals

18,783

(163)

18,620

199

18,819

 

 

 

ATTACHMENT(S):

 

Attachment A - FY 2025-26 Budget Augmentation Requests
Attachment B - Government Code Sections 29064 & 29080-29083
Attachment C - Ordinance to Amend Section 1-2-7 of the Codified Ordinances