Title
Adopt the Monterey County Mental Health Services Act Fiscal Year 2019-20 Annual Update Mid-Year Adjustment.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Adopt the Monterey County Mental Health Services Act Fiscal Year 2019-20 Annual Update Mid-Year Adjustment.
SUMMARY:
The Mental Health Services Act ("MHSA"), also known as Proposition 63, requires each county to develop a Three-Year Program and Expenditure Plan ("MHSA Plan"). The current MHSA FY18-20 Plan for Monterey County was adopted by the Board of Supervisors ("Board") on November 7, 2017. In the second and third fiscal years of the MHSA Plan period, counties are required to prepare Annual Updates to their adopted MHSA Plan. The purpose of these Annual Updates is to make necessary modifications to budget and/or program information as may be required. When any need for subsequent modifications to the previously approved Annual Update is identified, a similar document referred to as a Mid-Year Adjustment is required. After a 30-day public comment period, followed by a Public Hearing conducted by the Monterey County Behavioral Health Commission ("Commission"), these documents are finalized for adoption by the Board of Supervisors, and forwarded to the State Department of Health Care Services and the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission.
DISCUSSION:
This MHSA FY 2019-20 Annual Update Mid-Year Adjustment ("Mid-Year Adjustment") conforms to the state-required process to modify the MHSA FY 2019-20 Annual Update, adopted on June 11, 2019 by the Board. This Mid-Year Adjustment reflects the transfer of unspent MHSA revenues to address the following: County and provider mental health workforce training, employee recruitment/retention incentives such as loan forgiveness, funding for capital projects, as well as designates a portion of the funds to the local Prudent Reserve. Counties are required to maintain a portion of MHSA revenues in reserve to lessen...
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