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MHSOAC committee reviews midyear budget, notes $5M contract termination and translation agreements

Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission Budget and Fiscal Advisory Committee · February 19, 2026
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Summary

The commission's Budget and Fiscal Advisory Committee heard a midyear budget update for FY 2025'26 showing a small overall projected positive variance and discussed operations reductions; the committee also announced termination of agreement MHSOAC022 with University of the Pacific and approved several small language-translation contracts.

Chair Al Rowlett convened the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission's Budget and Fiscal Advisory Committee and introduced a midyear budget update for fiscal year 2025'26.

Acting deputy director Lauren Quintero presented the state-operations and local-assistance figures, explaining that personnel moved from $9,507,000 at the start of the year to a midyear budget of $9,735,000 and that total state operations rose from $12,934,000 to a midyear amount of $13,162,000. Quintero reported a projected overall positive variance of $460,962, but she cautioned the committee that agencies typically reserve $175,000'225,000 for late-arriving control-agency charges and other retroactive bills, and that some salary savings have already been redirected to timely contracts and translation…

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