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reduction plans. and while revenue provided most of the general fund savings, we could not meet the targeted reductions without formulating from efficiencies to reduce spending without cutting services and an additional nine million and through the mayor and the budget approximately 6 million of the budget cuts were not accepted and all residential treatment cuts restored the outpatient cuts. and the revised budget includes $3.1 million of remaining services reductions and the total general service savings. it was originally $69 million and ended up with $67.5 million in meeting the target but the majority of that was actually revenue increases and was revenues. revenues from the medi-cal waiver program and efficiencies and laguna honda. another way is $67.5 million and $3.1 of that is service cuts. exactly. just to go over the reductions again t nonresidential outpatient were 3.1 and some efficiency and program closures and savings along with relocation efficiency
and ended up with $67.5 million in meeting the target but the majority of that was actually revenue increases and was revenues. revenues from the medi-cal waiver program and efficiencies and laguna honda. another way is $67.5 million and $3.1 of that is service cuts. exactly. just to go over the reductions again t nonresidential outpatient were 3.1 and some efficiency and program closures and savings along with relocation efficiency that moves clients accessible to permit housing and from about 200 new housing units coming online and we could move some of the individuals in stabilization beds to that housing and save about $300,000 and the prop j contract hospital security that you will hear about soon and that brought us to $3.6 million. that is the end of my presentation. i m sorry. with regards to the budget analyst recommendation? we do have some concerns with the recommendations and our staff was meeting with mr. rose s staff today and i am sure we will get t
program initiatives and planning for the budget. and for prior to budget being committed, we work with the community-based organizations to identify areas for potential reduction. many of the providers wanted us not to kwet areas where we would also be cutting revenue. what we did is an extensive review of where the nonmatched general fund was. from that process we then allocated across the board cuts to the programs to meet some of the targets. from there we worked with the mayor s office and working with the community-based organizations through a process of identifying and then once the mayor decided on his budget, we went back with a million dollars particularly in the outpatient area and basically looked at smaller organizations under $1 million of contracts and tried to spread the $1 million so we did not have any organization closures. we knew we were going to have program closureses and trying to look at smaller organizations we wanted to make sure they were first pro