County's proposed budget incl. $3+ million for SLR River Park

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors will approve the county’s fiscal year 2013-14 budget in June. On May 7, the supervisors heard the county chief administrative officer’s presentation of the 2013-14 budget while setting a June 10 date to begin public hearings on the budget.

The proposed $4.97 billion budget is an increase of 2.5 percent, or $122 million, from the 2012-13 budget while the operational plan’s 16,601 staff years for 2013-14 constitute an increase of 3.7 percent or 590 staff years.

“Today’s operational plan has been built on the policies of fiscal discipline,” said Helen Rob...