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Health facilities authority seeks extended deadline for jail-diversion infrastructure grants

2800414 · March 27, 2025
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The California Health Facilities Financing Authority asked the Senate subcommittee to reappropriate remaining funds and extend the deadline for the Community Services Infrastructure grant program to 2028, citing construction delays and permitting challenges that threaten four unfinished projects.

The California Health Facilities Financing Authority (CHFA) told the Senate subcommittee it needs more time to finish a set of competitive grants intended to build community-based alternatives to incarceration. CHFA requested reappropriation of remaining Community Services Infrastructure (CSI) program funds and an extension of the project deadline to June 30, 2028.

CHFA said the CSI program was funded once in 2017 with $67.5 million from the General Fund to support county projects that expand mental health and substance-use infrastructure for justice-involved individuals. The authority has awarded…

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