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Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 152-2026, which supersedes and replaces Resolution 017-2010, authorizing the HHSA Director or Chief Assistant Director to execute instruments of release for General Assistance liens.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
California Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC) Section 17000 requires every county to relieve and support all incompetent, poor, indigent persons, and those incapacitated by age, disease, or accident, lawfully resident therein, when such persons are not supported and relieved by their relatives or friends, by their own means, or by state hospitals or other state or private institutions. This support is known as the GA Program and is administered by HHSA. GA recipients are required to reimburse the County in full for any and all monies, food, clothing, and other relief, maintenance, care, property and services granted by the County. The County files a lien against the recipient upon granting GA and a Release of Lien must be processed once the recipient has fully reimbursed the County.
WIC Section 17408 requires the releases, reconveyances, and subordinations be authorized by a resolution of the board of supervisors, and the instruments of release, reconveyance, or subordination must be executed by an officer of the county, designated by the board of supervisors, in the name of the county and the State of California. Any release, reconveyance, or subordination authorized by the board of supervisors and executed by the designated county officer shall conclusively bind the county and the state in favor of any bona fide purchaser or encumbrancer for value.
On February 23, 2010, under Resolution 017-2010, the Board authorized the Director of the Department of Human Services as the County officer with the authority to execute instruments of release in accordance with WIC 17408 (Legistar file: 10-0088). On November 1, 2011, th...
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