The County’s budget totals $388 million, with 45.8%—or $167 million—sourced from federal and state intergovernmental funds. This revenue supports 908 full-time equivalent positions delivering essential services, but recent federal actions threaten this pipeline, prompting urgent advocacy by the Board. Nevada County’s complete reliance on federal funding for these services amplifies the stakes. Discretionary revenues offer little buffer against cuts to the $167 million in federal and state aid while losing tax-exempt municipal bonds could cripple infrastructure funding tied to salaries.

No child is capable of understanding the consequences of gender mutilation, because they are children. And no parent, no matter how sympathetic to their children’s plight, is capable of understanding the full ramifications of the procedures. Once hormonal manipulation is begun there is no turning back.

Hundreds of thousands of these brave men and women never returned from their quest to help preserve the freedoms that we all enjoy. What a bitter pill it is to have their service and sacrifices denigrated by their leaders.