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County officials seek next steps after state rejects several behavioral-health infrastructure grant applications
Summary
Santa Clara County staff reported projects to add behavioral health beds; county leaders criticized the state's opaque grant process after several county proposals were rejected. Committee received the report.
County staff updated the Finance and Government Operations Committee on June 24 about local efforts to expand behavioral-health treatment capacity and said several county projects were not funded in a recent state bond round.
Officials described a multi-project effort that aims to add roughly 530 treatment beds across facility types; about 210 beds are already implemented and roughly 230 beds remain in active projects. County staff said they submitted multiple projects to the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (the state bond program) but received no feedback explaining why several county applications were…
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