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Approve and authorize the Director of Health to sign the Second Amended and Restated Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement that governs operations of the California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA).
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Approve and authorize the Director of Health to sign the Second Amended and Restated Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement that governs operations of the California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA).
BACKGROUND:
On February 10, 2009, your Board approved and authorized Monterey County's participation in the California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA), a joint powers authority (JPA) comprised of California counties for the joint planning and implementation of statewide projects. On July 27, 2010, your Board approved and authorized the Director of Health to sign the revised CalMHSA Agreement.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The California Mental Health Directors Association (CMHDA) had for some time contemplated sponsoring formation of a joint powers authority to facilitate joint county mental health programs, but the event that ultimately triggered the 2009 formation of CalMHSA was the need for counties to act together to effectuate Statewide Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) projects funded under Prop 63, the Mental Health Services Act. Consequently, the original Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement for CalMHSA focused on those projects. Now that the Statewide PEI projects are in progress, CMHDA and the member Counties want CalMHSA to take on other roles as initially contemplated, and find the existing Agreement may be too narrowly drafted. In particular, counties have sought to negotiate and contract jointly through CalMHSA with the California Department of State Hospitals (CDSH) for civil commitment (LPS) beds, as provided for in WIC 4330 to 4335, but CDSH has questioned whether CalMHSA is authorized to do so under its existing agreement.
Accordingly, the...
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