HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 05032011 - C.37RECOMMENDATION(S):
SUPPORT Senate Bill 662 (DeSaulnier): Public Services, a bill that authorizes the
Department of Finance and any county to enter into a contract to authorize the county to
integrate specified public services, as recommended by the Legislation Committee.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Unknown fiscal impact of the bill. It is intended to provide flexibility with regard to state
mandates, which may reduce costs of providing public services.
BACKGROUND:
SB 662, as amended, DeSaulnier. Public services.
Existing law requires counties to administer various public safety programs, including,
among others, mental health services for children, substance abuse recovery services, jail
services, and fire protection and support services.
This bill would authorize the Department of Finance and any county to enter into a contract
that would authorize the county to integrate public services, as specified. The bill would
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 05/03/2011 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYE:John Gioia, District I
Supervisor
Gayle B. Uilkema, District II
Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III
Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV
Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V
Supervisor
Contact: L. DeLaney,
925-335-1097
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board
of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: May 3, 2011
David J. Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: Carrie Del Bonta, Deputy
cc:
C. 37
To:Board of Supervisors
From:Legislation Committee
Date:May 3, 2011
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:SUPPORT SB 662 (DeSaulnier): Public Services
require the Legislative Analyst's Office to provide an analysis of any contract entered into
pursuant to these provisions, and would require the Legislature to ratify the contract by a
enactment of a bill vote. This bill would also require the applicable county board of
supervisors to ratify the contract. The bill would provide that a contract would last 10 years,
and would require the county to report to the Department of Finance and the Legislature on
the progress towards meeting the goals of the contract during the 5th year.
The amendments change the bill from a bill that only affects Contra Costa County to a
statewide bill that is related to the Governor’s realignment plan.
Specifically the amended bill (4/14/11):
- Authorizes counties to enter a contract with the Department of Finance to integrate public
services (see definition below)
- Any contract shall include:
1.) a list of statues and regulations that in order to achieve the goals of the contract 2.) A
plan to integrate public services that is cost neutral to the state and county. 3.) Benchmarks
and outcomes that the county shall achieve over the life of the contract. 4.) A list of any
regional or intergovernmental agency agreements that the county has entered to achieve the
goals of the contract. 5.) The county’s plan to comply with federal guidelines and law in
administering the defined services.
- Contracts are good for 10 years. The county shall submit a progress report in year 5 to
Department of Finance and the Legislature.
- For the contract to be operative, the Legislature must vote on a bill to implement changes
in law and regulation defined by the contract AND the county must vote to ratify as well.
- The services to be affected are the services in the Governor’s realignment plan,
specifically:
(A) Employing and training public safety officials, including law enforcement personnel,
attorneys assigned to criminal proceedings, and court security staff.
(B) Managing local jails and providing housing, treatment, and services for, and supervision
of, juvenile and adult offenders.
(C) Providing fire protection and support services.
(D) Preventing child abuse, neglect, or exploitation; providing services to children who are
abused, neglected, or exploited, or who are at risk of abuse, neglect, or exploitation, and the
families of those children; providing adoption services, providing transitional housing and
other services to emancipated youth, and providing adult protective services.
(E) Providing mental health services to children and adults to reduce failure in school, harm
to self or others, homelessness, and preventable incarceration or institutionalization .
(F) Preventing, treating, and providing recovery services for substance abuse.
Senator DeSaulnier anticipates lots of discussion on the bill with the Counties, social service
and public safety advocates and others. The rationale for the bill is as follows:
- First, it gets the counties something that many say they need: Flexibility from state
mandates (if they can negotiate it with the state and demonstrate how that flexibility will
result in better outcomes). Also it recognizes that the needs of every county differ.
- Second, it mirrors the current state-federal government waiver process where states can
apply for waivers … they just need to outline what they can achieve by getting the waivers.
The Legislation Committee considered SB 662 at its April 28, 2011 meeting and
recommended that the Board of Supervisors support the bill.
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
STATUS:
02/18/2011 INTRODUCED.
03/03/2011 To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
04/14/2011 From SENATE Committee on HEALTH with author's amendments.
04/14/2011 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on
HEALTH.
04/25/2011 Withdrawn from SENATE Committee on HEALTH.
04/25/2011 Re-referred to SENATE Committee on RULES.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
The Board of Supervisors will not be on record with an official position on the bill and
cannot advocate for its enactment.
ATTACHMENTS
SB 662 (DeSaulnier) Bill Text