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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A section lawmaker is trying to assistance Fresno County residents larn much astir the budgeting process.
Through January, Fresno County Supervisor Luis Chavez volition beryllium passing retired surveys to find retired what improvements request to beryllium made while besides giving residents a look astatine however region taxation dollars are allocated.
"I'm listening to what the needs are successful our community," helium said. "And past I'm utilizing that accusation to trade our fund astatine the county."
Anyone surviving successful District 3 who wants to enactment tin message successful the forms oregon scan the codification to participate.
Many of the responses Chavez has collected truthful acold are astir nationalist safety.
"The cognition of the jail, our judicial system, but past besides the stateless challenge, we spot them similar everyplace successful the neighborhoods down alleyways and parks and canal banks. People privation to cognize what we are going to bash to code that," helium said.
Janina Schulz lives successful Supervisor Chavez' territory and believes the forms are a bully mode to gauge what folks are astir acrophobic about.
She explained, "I deliberation that's important conscionable to person people's opinions and things that they're acrophobic astir and proceeding from the antithetic residents, due to the fact that I'm definite determination are antithetic opinions up and down the street."
Schulz is besides acrophobic with the information of the streets successful her neighborhood.
"There's nary velocity bumps and there's lone 1 halt sign, which is benignant of astatine the midway point. So, we person a batch of cars speeding done the neighborhood, and oftentimes they'll bash donuts successful the halfway of each of the intersections," she noted.
Along with gathering the forms, Chavez besides plans to pass the assemblage astir shifts to region services owed to the Trump Administration's One Big Beautiful Bill.
"With Medicare and Medicaid, we cognize that determination are going to beryllium radical getting kicked disconnected of that arsenic a effect of the national legislation. So, we're trying to acceptable up information nett programs," helium said. "People that are not going to suffice for those services, present they're going to either person to spell to our exigency country oregon to a federally qualified wellness center. So, I'm trying to link those folks and supply proscription fi they request it truthful they tin get to those services."
Chavez held a municipality hallway to assistance assemblage members amended recognize the process with Councilmember Annalisa Perea, Congressman Jim Costa and different lawmakers.
He plans to big different successful precocious October oregon aboriginal November.
