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BOARD QF SUPERVISORS
COUNTY OF BUTTE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
REsolufion No. ~~~-iz3
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE FILING OF A REAPPLICATION
FOR GENERAL ASSISTANCE IYIANDATE RELIEF PURSUANT
TO WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 1'7000.6
WHEREAS, the State Legislature enacted Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17000.6
allowing counties to apply to the Commission on State Mandates to seek relief from the mandated
minimum general assistance grant level of Section 1000.5; and
WHEREAS, Section 17000.6 requires that such relief from the general assistance mandate
be based on a showing by the county that maintaining the grant level of Section 1'7000.5 would
result in "significant financial distress" to the county; and
WHEREAS, "significant financial distress" is defined as the inability to maintain basic
county services (ones considered fundamental ar essential) adequately or effectively; and
WHEREAS, Butte County has suffered current unmet service needs totaling $44.2 million
plus $6.5 million of additional projected unmet needs for a total of $50.7 million. These unmet
needs have caused most of the County's basic services, such as public safety and those services to
our vulnerable populations of infants, children and adults unable to care adequately for themselves,
to fall well below adequate or effective levels_ and
WHEREAS, the circumstances causing financial distress and declining basic services
levels are largely beyond the power of the County to control, such as State property tax shims that
have greatly reduced local discretionary revenue to counties over the past several years, as well
as: unstable revenue sources; minimal ability to raise revenue lacaily; minimal control over State
mandated programs; growing numbers of clients caught in the poverty and crime cycles; minimal
ability to change organizational structure in service delivery systems in cost-effective ways; and
WHEREAS, in response to budget shortfalls and constraints over the past several years.
the County and this Board have implemented major efficiency measures aimed at enhancing
revenues and controlling expenditures, including continued aggressive legislative strategies,
utilization of multi-year financial planning for key decisions, utilization of a strategic planning
process, reorganization and consolidation of service delivery systems. and many other efforts that
are more fully described within the County's application; and
WHEREAS, while the above efforts have helped greatly, they have not been able to keep
the available funds for the County's basic services from declining below adequate or effective
levels.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Supervisors of the County
of Butte as follows:
1. This Board does hereby declare that compliance with the general assistance standard
of aid mandated by Welfare and Institutions Cade Section 17000.5 will result irl significant
financial distress to the County.
2. This Board does hereby authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to execute on
behalf of this Board an application for relief tram such mandate pursuant to Welfare and
Institutions Code Sect.i«n 17000.6 and directs that such application be tiled with the Commission
on State Mandates.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Butte this 24th
day of August, 1999, by the f`ollotiving vote:
AYES: Supervisors Beeler, Houx, .Iosiassen, Davis and Chair Dolan
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
JANE DOLAN. Chair
Butte County Board of Supervisors
ATTEST:
JOHN S. BLACKL~OCK, Chief Administrative Officer
and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
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