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Infrastructure Bond Implementation Continues
By Steve Keil, Interim Executive Director
skeil@counties.org
The State Legislature continues to grapple with the implementation of the $43 billion infrastructure bond package passed by the voters last November. It is estimated that nearly 100 bills have been introduced that either directly or indirectly affect the various bond programs.
Many of the accounts contained in the bonds, including all in the transportation bond (Proposition 1B), require the Legislature to appropriate funding in order for projects to get underway. Thus, the Legislature and interested parties anxiously await the May 14 release of the May Revision of the Budget in order to take action on which accounts will receive appropriations and at what levels.
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Budget Subcommittees Hear About State's Failure to Fund County Social Services
Both Senate and Assembly Budget Subcommittees on Health and Human Services discussed the state’s failure to fund cost increases for county social services this week. Supervisor Roger Dickinson, Sacramento County, testified on behalf of CSAC and the Urban Counties Caucus on this issue.
While counties are legislatively mandated to administer numerous human services programs including Foster Care, Child Welfare Services, CalWORKs, Adoptions, and Adult Protective Services, funding for these services is frozen at 2001 cost levels. Failing to fund actual county cost increases for six years has led to a growing funding gap – currently $793 million annually. This situation puts counties in the untenable position of backfilling the gap with their own limited resources or cutting services that the state expects us to deliver.
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