County supervisors don't budge on daytime budget hearings

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors did not heed the calls of residents who sounded off against its plan to hold this year’s budget hearings during the day, rather than at night as has been the case in recent years.

Deriding the board as out of touch and lacking transparency, the half-dozen residents who addressed the supervisors said the plan was a blow against open government because far fewer people can attend meetings during the day to offer feedback on the county’s $5.7 billion budget blueprint.

The board in December voted to set its 2018 calendar. Rather than schedule budget hearin...