As was recently adopted by the Town of Truckee City Council, we request the City Council of South Lake Tahoe, Placerville City Council, and El Dorado County Board of Supervisors to develop and approve similar resolutions to send to our federal representatives expressing concern regarding local impacts that have and may continue to result from indiscriminate federal staffing and funding cuts. The following link contains the agenda for the Town of Truckee Council Meeting with full text for the adopted resolutions, held on March 11th, 2025, for the City Councils and County Board of Supervisors to consider.

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Suggested language for two resolutions are as follows:

The City of South Lake Tahoe Town Council/Placerville Town Council/El Dorado County Board of Supervisors are opposed to significant, catastrophic impacts to forest health and wildfire mitigation that may result from indiscriminate federal funding and staffing cuts to the United States Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Americorp, and Army Corps of Engineers. We implore our federal representatives to maintain an appropriate level of federal funding and staffing to these agencies.

The City of South Lake Tahoe Town Council/Placerville Town Council/El Dorado County Board of Supervisors are opposed to significant, catastrophic impacts to our community and local economy that may result from federal funding cuts to local programs. We implore our federal representatives to maintain federal funding that supports rural and urban communities within El Dorado County.

BACKGROUND

This petition was started because of the aggressive nature of DOGE efforts to implement reorganization and reduction of federal agencies, including federal land management agencies. There has been a deliberate lack of transparency and established procedures are not being followed. This has created disruptions in service, and a level of chaos, confusion, and fear among federal workers that is unprecedented. 

This is a rapidly evolving situation. There is little information regarding who is developing Agency Reorganization and Reduction in Force Plans for Federal Land Management Agencies, as directed by the White House in February, 2025. Phase I plans were submitted to the Office of Management Budget and Office of Personnel Management on March 13, 2025.  Phase II of these plans were directed to be submitted by April 14th, 2025, with implementation to be completed by September 30th of this year.  Agency leadership and staff have little input into the process, and announcements about drastic cuts to federal agencies appear in the media at about the same time agencies are notified. Please see the updates to this petition to see what has rolled out so far in terms of cuts to USDA, US Forest Service, Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, NOAA, and Americorp. 

The purpose of these resolutions is for local governments to formally request Congressional and Senate representatives to be actively engaged in this process, through communications with DOGE, Federal Land Managers, Agency and Community Partners, and the Public, to ensure unintended or intentional actions are not taken that will adversely impact the safety and economy of rural and urban communities closely connected to federal lands.