Jun 30, 2025
Keeping Up - The Barbed Wire - July 3, 2025Announcements regarding key staffing changes of importance to California’s rural counties.
Jun 20, 2025
U.S. Senate Version of Budget Bill Proposes Federal Land Sales Across CaliforniaEarlier this week, maps began to surface that showed at least 2 million acres of potential USDA Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands that could be liquidated as part of the Senate version of the “Big, Beautiful Budget Bill.” It has been rumored since
Jun 20, 2025
Bill of the Week: Assembly Bill 28 (Schiavo) - Solid Waste Landfills: Subsurface TemperaturesAssembly Bill 28, authored by Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo (D-Santa Clarita), seeks to create a temperature monitoring and reporting regime for landfills. Specifically, AB 28 would require landfill operators to
Jun 20, 2025
U.S. Senate Reconciliation Proposal Caps Provider Taxes, Threatening Rural Hospital FinancesOn June 14, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee released the text and section-by-section summary of its reconciliation proposal. The proposal includes Medicaid cuts that are significantly deeper
Jun 20, 2025
RCRC Board Member Spotlight: Rex Bohn (Humboldt County) – Executive Committee MemberRCRC is pleased to introduce the subject of the June 2025 Board Member Spotlight, Humboldt County Supervisor and RCRC Executive Committee Member, Rex Bohn
Jun 20, 2025
Keeping Up - The Barbed Wire - June 20, 2025Announcements regarding key staffing changes of importance to California’s rural counties. Marta Barlow, of El Dorado Hills, has been appointed Chief Counsel at the Office of the Inspector General. Barlow has been an Attorney IV...
Jun 20, 2025
Weekly News Clips - The Barbed Wire - June 20, 2025RCRC press releases and related news clips about RCRC and our member counties. Please note that a subscription may be required to read some external publications.
Jun 13, 2025
Legislature Sends Budget to Governor's Desk Ahead of June 15th DeadlineOn Friday, June 13, both houses of the Legislature passed the Budget Act of 2025 (Senate Bill 101), on a largely party line vote, following approximately four hours of floor discussion. The Budget Act now proceeds to the Governor’s desk for action. RCRC has prepared some key highlights of the 2025-26 Budget Package, by topic area, that may be of interest to California’s rural counties. View the highlights here.
To view RCRC’s earlier highlights of the Governor’s May Revise, find the Rural Rundown here.
Jun 13, 2025
Bill of the Week: Assembly Bill 690 (Schultz) - Criminal Procedure: Indigent Defense CompensationRCRC, in coalition with our county partners, strongly opposes Assembly Bill 690, authored by Assemblymember Nick Schultz (D-Burbank). This measure would create additional mandates for the provision of indigent defense services, resulting in increased cost pressures to counties statewide estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars.
Jun 13, 2025
RCRC Comments on New Round of CalRecycle Packaging RegulationsOn May 16th, CalRecycle released revised draft regulations implementing Senate Bill 54 (Allen, 2022) related to single use packaging and food service ware. RCRC provided extensive comments on CalRecycle’s previous