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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Contra
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FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator CoSta
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DATE: April 9, 1992
SUBJECT: LEGISLATION: AB 2591 (Cortese)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt a position in SUPPORT of AB 2591 by Assemblyman Dominic
Cortese, which would extend to all counties the current
demonstration project which is effective in only three specified
counties, designed to allow counties to operate all alcohol and
drug programs as a single, coordinated program, to combine the
alcohol and drug advisory boards, to combine the alcohol and drug
budgets, plans, cost reports and to combine the overall
administration of alcohol and drug programs at the county level .
BACKGROUND:
Under current law, alcohol and drug programs are administered as
rather separate disciplines in most counties . Separate
administrators are required for each program. Until Contra Costa
County sponsored legislation in 1990 to allow combining the alcohol
and drug advisory boards, separate advisory boards wer required by
State law. Separate plans, budgets and cost report are still
required.
Increasing evidence suggests that the problems wh�ch cause
addiction of one type may well lead to other forms of add�ction and
that those who start out abusing alcohol often end up abusing other
drugs as well . This County' s Drug and Alcohol Action Plan suggests
that both sets of problems need to be addressed in a single,
coordinated, countywide manner.
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ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
County Administrator
CC: Health Services Director ATTESTED
Alcohol Program Administrator PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Drug Program Administrator SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Les Spahnn, SRJ. Jackson, Barish & Assoc�ates
BY DEPUTY
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Assemblyman Dominic Cortese has introduced AB 2591 to make it
easier to undertake such a coordinated approach to addressing all
substance abuse problems at the local level . Under current law,
three named counties are authorized as a pilot project to operate
all alcohol and drug programs as a single, coordinated program, to
combine the alcohol and drug advisory boards, to combine the
alcohol and drug budgets, plans, cost reports and to combine the
overall administration of alcohol and drug programs at the county
level . AB 2591 would extend this authority to all counties .
Staff believes that AB 2591 is consistent with the directions in
which the Board of Supervisors has been moving for the past several
years in regard to addressing substance abuse problems in the
County, regardless of the form of substance abuse. It is,
therefore, recommended that the Board of Supervisors indicate its
support for AB 2591 . The Health Services Director indicates that
he has no problems with the Board' s endorsing AB 2591 .