“It’s basic math that if we take those federal dollars, and we use those federal dollars to create full-time positions at high numbers, that within a couple of years, when those federal dollars are gone, we will not have the funds to pay for those positions,” Board President Miguel del Valle said before issuing a warning: “The cliff is going to be there. And so as a board, it’s our obligation to make sure, as I said, that we mitigate it, that we try to lessen the blow that’s inevitable.”
