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HEARING - Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) recommending the Board:
1) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 028-2024 thereby finding that, in accordance with Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC) 17600.20(d), the transfer of realignment revenues to be the most cost-effective use of available revenues to maximize client outcomes; and
2) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign a Budget Transfer Request specific to the Public Health Division for Fiscal Year 2023-24, to allow for the statutory ten percent (10%) 1991 Realignment transfer provision, in the amount of $683,356 from the Health Sub-Account to the Social Services Sub-Account (4/5 vote required).
FUNDING: 100% 1991 Realignment.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
In Fiscal Year 1991-92, the State Legislature enacted Assembly Bill (AB) 1491, known as the 1991 Realignment, to provide counties with a funding source for their public health and mental health programs.
The WIC Section 17600 established the Local Revenue Fund, through which each county receives realignment funds. According to WIC Section 17600.20(a), every county is required to establish a Local Health and Welfare Trust fund comprising three distinct sub-accounts: the Mental Health Sub-Account, the Social Services Sub-Account, and the Health Sub-Account.
WIC Section 17600.20(a) allows counties or cities, or city and county, to reallocate funds among the accounts within the local health and welfare trust fund not to exceed ten percent (10%) of the amount deposited in the account from which the funds are reallocated for that fiscal year. Additionally, a county may reallocate up to an additional 10 percent (10%) of the money from the health account to the social services account in the 1992-93 fiscal year and fiscal years thereafter, for caseload increases for mandated social services programs listed in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 17605 in excess of revenue growth in the social services account.
HHSA exercised ...
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