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As we are now at war, uh, with Iran, uh, there has been a lot of other concerns in terms of safety. Uh, obviously, we have seen many of the missiles launched in other Middle Eastern countries. Uh, but at the same time, there's also word of chatter, uh, of some type of potential sleeper cells, whatnot, within, uh, our country here, and especially in California.
So I was asking, is, uh, James, if you could work with the office of sheriff to see if it might make sense to, uh, uh, potentially give us a closed session, uh, discussion, uh, to see how we are working on, um, doing that work, uh, preventing any potential soft targets like schools, churches, or synagogues to make sure that we have additional security, uh, for to protect our residents.
We'd be happy to confer with the sheriff's office, uh, and confer with county council about what's appropriate to share and in what forum.
Yeah. Other issue I, I did want to, uh, ask you. Earlier, you mentioned about the, the Trump RX program, which sounded like a good program from the public's point of view, saying, hey, this is a reduced cost to our prescription drugs, but it turns out for our county, there is a $20 million hit. Um, and so these type of hits are actually outside the HR1 bill. Am I correct?
That's correct.
Okay. Since there are so many other budget impacts we are getting besides HR1, we all knew that HR1 is approximately a billion dollar a year. Uh, is it possible for you to come up with, um, a few of these to share with the public so that we really truly understand the, the, the significant impact that we are suffering as a county?
Yeah. The recommended budget will include, kind of, an overview of the county's fiscal situation and will outline some of the many factors, uh, that put us where we are. Of course, that includes local revenues and tepid growth in, in local property taxes. That includes impacts to other federal funding streams above and beyond HR1, but also significant state-related impacts. As we spent significant time with the board the other day outlining, for instance, the radical shift in state-related funding streams associated with behavioral health, but, uh, it's true for a number of other programs and services as well. So we'll outline, uh, some of those. It's, of course, not reasonably possible to catalog all of those in a way that would be digestible. Uh, but we'll highlight the significant ones and the impact that they have on our overall fiscal.