The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - U nder the control section, the assumed General Fund savings would be achieved through “operational efficiencies and other cost reduction measures including, but not limited to, reorganizations, eliminations of boards and commissions, rate changes, contract reductions, elimination of excess positions, and the cancellation or postponement of information technology projects. ” The
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Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - According to the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ’s 2022 point-in-time count, 23  percent (39,700) of the 171,500 people experiencing homelessness in California suffered from severe mental illness and 21  percent (36,000) suffered from a chronic SUD.
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