Hood River County’s budget committee reached consensus to use $750,000 from the $2.4 million in timber interest reserves it has to help fill a $1.4 million dollar hole in the 2018-19 budget.  That will send County Administrator Jeff Hecksel back to the drawing board to provide another set of options to recommend for next year’s fiscal plan.  Committee members in attendance made the move with assumption a revenue measure would be put before voters in November, even though in what form that will be is unknown.  Even if such a measure was to pass, the County wouldn’t see any revenues from it until November of 2019.  In the original budget documents, Hecksel had outlined an option involving putting off $550,000 in capital needs, which would have left $850,000 to be dealt with from reserves or other sources.  But some budget committee members have been hesitant to put off those kind of items to balance the budget.