Steve Milne

The Sacramento City Council approved a new budget Tuesday evening. The $1.67 billion spending plan closes a $62 million funding gap, without any anticipated layoffs of city employees. Even so, a total of 80 vacant positions were eliminated, including nearly two dozen police positions. "We wanted to minimize people having to literally lose their job and we did,” said Mayor Kevin McCarty. “No one is actually losing their job - that's an individual with a family and bills and so forth.

Although Sacramento is enjoying a brief break from stormy weather today after two atmospheric river storms doused the region, a third system is expected to arrive tomorrow bringing with it more rain and cold temperatures.

The Sacramento region is in store for more rain this week after being inundated with rain over the weekend. The second of three atmospheric river storms begins moving through the area Monday, according to Eric Kurth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento. It starts this afternoon at 4 p.m. and ends Wednesday morning. "We do have a Flood Watch in effect across the area from this afternoon to late Tuesday night," Kurth said.