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County supervisors on Tuesday directed staff to come back in two days with a plan to cut $34 million from the county budget — nowhere near the shortfall they could face in a few months.
The supervisors also committed to taking a harder look at the rest of the budget problem on Thursday.
At stake are thousands of county jobs — more than 1,000 social workers, at least 400 sheriff’s deputies and a host of firefighters, probation officers and health care workers.
That human impact made Tuesday
