[Updated: Wed., June 17, 2026, 3:27pm]
There was no shortage of bittersweet in the air at this Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Faced with cutting $28 million and 300 positions from the county’s $1.6 billion budget, the supervisors had been preparing over the last seven months for this moment. So, too, did County Executive Officer Mona Miyasato. They took advantage of the time to buffer the blows inflicted by the combined onslaught of Donald Trump’s massive federal budget cuts, not-insubstantial state budget cuts, and chronic overspending by the Department of Public Health and the Department of Social Services — the two county departments most essential to those with little or no money.
By the time Miyasato and the county’s leadership team had rearranged the deck chairs on their Titanic, the 300 positions had been whittled down to only 60 living, breathing human beings who would actually lose their jobs. The remaining 240 positions were already vacant and would not be filled.
