Budget proposal includes $178.7 million for emergency drought response
Governor Brown released his proposed budget this morning.
His budget proposal is for a balanced state budget that eliminates a projected $2 billion deficit and bolsters the state’s Rainy Day Fund while continuing to invest in education, health care expansion and other core programs.
In a letter to the Legislature, the Governor explained that while this year’s budget “protects our most important achievements,” it is also “the most difficult that we have faced since 2012” and “uncertainty about the future makes acting responsibly now even more important.”
The Governor’s budget proposal includes $178.7 million for drought response, which includes $3.5 million to implement the Delta smelt resiliency strategy, $5 million in local assistance to small communities, and $91 million for enhanced fire protection.
Read the Governor’s budget summary by clicking here. My apologies, but I cannot pull sections from the pdf for you. You will find climate change addressed on pages 95-100, and natural resources on pages 101-112.
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