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Resolution on GAIN Funding
Whereas, California's GAIN Program has been evaluated as the mast successful
welfare-to-work program ever studied; and the Butte County program has continued to
demonstrate it's cost effectiveness and
Whereas, we, the Butte County Board of Supervisors confirm our belief in the GAIN
program's effectiveness in transitioning Welfare recipients from welfare to work, and
Whereas, passage of AB 1371 (Weggeland} in 1995 further strengthened the GAIN
program by making it mare employment focused; and
Whereas, a fully funded GAIN program is absolutely critical to the success of welfare
reform, and
Whereas, current funding levels for GAIN allow only one-quarter of all mandatory
participants statewide to take advantage of GAIN services; and
Whereas, we believe the GAIN program could serve more recipients and save more
government funds, and
Whereas, the Assembly Budget Committee reduce GAIN funding by $40 million below
the amount proposed in the Governor's Budget and approved by the Senate Budget
Committee, and
Whereas, a cut of this magnitude, representing roughly 15 percent of all GAIN funds,
would be devastating to counties' ability to transition recipients from welfare to self-
sufficiency, now therefore be it
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved, that the Board of Supervisors of Butte County
urges the Legislature and the Governor to fully fund the GAIN Program. At the very least, the
Legislature and the Governor must fund the GAIN Program at the level proposed by the
Governor and approved by the Senate.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Butte County Board of Supervisors this 11th day of
June 1996, by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Meyer, Dolan, Houx, Thomas and Chair McLaughlin
NOES: None
ABSENT: None ;
NOT VOTING: None c ~ ,~ '
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Ed McLaughlin, Ch it of the
Board of Superviso s
ATTEST:
John Blacklock, Chief administrative Officer
and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
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