Yolo supervisors direct staff to add behavioral‑health case managers and Medi‑Cal billing coordinator as part of BHSA draft plan

The Yolo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously March 3 to direct staff to develop a Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA) draft plan that includes a Medi‑Cal billing coordinator and additional full‑time case managers to stabilize three county‑supported permanent supportive housing projects.

The board’s action adopted staff’s recommended scenario—labeled option 3 in staff materials—which seeks to shift $1.4 million from the BHSA housing interventions component to behavioral‑health services and to use roughly $1.8 million of BHSA fund balance to offset other short‑term pressures. Under the scenario staff recommended adding a Medi‑Cal billing coordinator (to increase federal drawdowns) and three behavioral‑health case managers to support permanent supportive housing sites; staff also described suboptions for adding more case managers if the board chooses to deepen the investment.

Why it matters: BHSA is a newly restructured statewide funding framework that requires counties to set aside 30% of their allocation for housing interventions and 35% for full‑service partnership (FSP) services. Staff told the board the county faces a roughly…