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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno County touted accomplishments successful 2023 and unveiled plans for the adjacent fiscal twelvemonth during Wednesday’s State of the County Address.
The region budgeted $5.2 cardinal for 2024-2025, and they program to walk overmuch of that connected infrastructure and nationalist safety.
This year’s State of the County taxable was “epic.”
“The explanation of ‘epic’ is amazing, unexpected. Today, my anticipation is that you each permission feeling this mode astir the region and the radical who service it,” Fresno County Board of Supervisors Chair Nathaniel Magsig said.
Magsig gave Wednesday’s address, arrogant of the county’s achievements successful 2023.
“The men and women who enactment uniforms connected each day, the men and women who service the public, this is what makes maine astir proud,” Magsig said.
He believes Fresno County could not beryllium what it is without the galore unsung heroes who enactment there. The region honored 5 radical for their enactment successful the community, including 50-year Fresno County Library worker Penny Hill.
“I'm conscionable truly blessed I'm inactive with the region library. I privation to beryllium determination arsenic agelong arsenic I'm utile and tin marque a difference. It's conscionable precise humbling,” Hill said.
“These kinds of stories are epic, and we request to speech astir it more,” Magsig said.
Part of the county’s 2024-2025 fund volition spell to build 2 caller libraries in Clovis and Reedley. However, arsenic they put successful assemblage improvement projects, they besides privation to guarantee radical consciousness harmless enjoying those spaces.
California Highway Patrol Captain Austin Matulonis says they person seen expanding nationalist information concerns implicit the past year.
“During 2023, we had galore challenges from our homelessness situation to, you know, our roadways,” Matulonis said.
Fresno County enacted an ordinance to address amerciable camping this year. They program to absorption connected enforcing those changes implicit the adjacent fiscal twelvemonth to marque assemblage spaces safer.
