The food sales requirement was removed with voter approval in 1992.
He was a leader of the movement to win voter approval.
He said the board has nothing to fear by submitting the budget for voter approval.
Rates were set under the 1932 ordinance, and required voter approval to change.
The proposal would then go on the ballot for voter approval.
It would need voter approval and could be on the ballot in November.
Since 1961, its board has had the right to sell bonds without voter approval.
Any county project under $10 million does not need voter approval.
The measure was believed to be the first of its kind in the country to receive voter approval.
Over the last 30 years, only three annual budgets have won voter approval.