The agency. Were not saying not give them positions. The positions, existing positions and in this case in specific positions that they are being requested which are vacant, can be filled from existing positions rather than creating new positions. Let me just continue my presentation. Lets have you finish first. So weve identified, supervisors, on page, the bottom of page 10 of our report, the last paragraph there where it says that hsa has a total of 157. 2. The department provided us with updated information and we now would revise that number to 152. 2, or 5 positions less than the 157. 2, and these are across the relevant classifications that were talking to today. On page well, i can go now to our recommendations. First of all our first recommendation on page 12 is to reduce this requested supplemental appropriation by 1349. 58, as i understand the department concurs with our recommendation. Thats recommendation no. 1. On recommendation no. 2, were recommending with respect to all
The hsa position ordinance increasing that. Thats almost. So i have a mind. Sorry, theres another option to thin for a week to see if everyone can figure this out and ill throw that out theres a different option. We can do that too. Again, im sensitive to timing and implementing, im sorry mr. City attorney if i screwed up my explanation there of my thought process. Deputy City Attorney john gepner. I wanted to be sure i was understanding supervisor avalos comment. You can place funds on reserve. If you want to consider future aso amendments you can do that by continuing the item or as supervisor farrell says, approving the positions for this fiscal year, considering the position begin in next years aso which you will be considering. I just dont know how to land on the number of positions in the aso to move forward today, but we do have money that is from the state, we know its a certify night amount that would cover the services and the positions. So what i was thinking was approving s
Item no. 2 is an ordinance appropriating approximately 31. 5 million in order to support in home supportive services, cal works and other Program Expenditures in fiscal year 20132014. Madam clerk, why dont we move on to Public Comment . Anyone wish to comment on items 1 or 2 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor avalos, if you want to talk. I dont know what to say. I feel like were pretty far apart. I dont in any way want to hamstring the Human Services agency on Core Missions and clearly theres a need for ensuring that people can access the Many Services that are provided, cal fresh, medical, and income support as well as all the job training. But i feel like its pretty far apart between the recommendations from the budget analyst and the department. One idea im thinking is there a way to perhaps, you know, put money on reserve, on Budget Committee reserve, and get a report on actual hiring of new staff to implement these new programs and Service Integration and, you kno
Do an iterative process within the department. Its not as if the need isnt there and we are just spending it, the need is there and the reason i made the comment about state and federal because were fortunate, finally, we havent been the last 5 or 6 years, where we didnt get funding. Now they have the money to do it and they are providing it to counties. So if we dont spend it that means maybe contra costa gets more money. If we dont draw down the money from the state and we still have to meet a mandate. Thats right. Either we meet our mandates not as well or we dont meet our mandates or in the case of ihhs, which is a great example, we have a mandate to reassess every ihhs consumer once a year. We are reassessing 48 percent of our ihhs consumers every year because we dont have the case workers to do it. Theres a 31. 5 million allocation from the state, our recommendation is to reduce it by 134,000 for certain administrative costs. I believe the department agreed to that. The positions
Additional 27 million in revenue that comes back from the state. So you can see the table, we outlay 107 million for our services, 27 million to the state as our maintenance of effort payments, we continue to draw the share so its a wash. Its General Assembly cost accounting. This is an overview on what will supplemental is. Im sure we will discuss when mr. Resolution gives his report, but i do want to leave you with this. The way that county Human Service agencies work and are funded, everything we do, we are a political subdivision of the state, we are required in state code, every county has to have a Human Services agency, the state is who decides how much funding we get. They look at case loads, they look at new cal works mandates and they decide how much we should be funded. In this case they decided we need 8 million more in cal worbs, they decided we need 7 million more to manage our cal fresh case loads and the like, and they are providing that money to counties. If we dont us