Natasha Manoka presents FY27 DD budget: $11.5M expenses, $45,000 transportation reduction; current riders not impacted

Natasha Manoka, the new administrative officer for Aging and Disability Services (speaking as S12), delivered the committee’s DD program FY27 budget overview. She reported an expense budget for DD services of $11,500,000 with roughly $3.7 million in personnel investments and about $7.8 million in non-personnel expenses; revenue for the program was $2,500,000, including $1,500,000 from the state component, and the county’s local net tax support is about $8,900,000.

Manoka explained program-level distributions: vocational and habilitation expenses near $4,500,000; case management and administration about $3,600,000; residential services roughly $3,200,000; and transportation budgeted at $197,000. She said the DD program faced a small reduction of $45,000 in transportation tied to aligning the budget to a reimbursement-based transport model. “This budget…reduced our transportation budget down to $197,000, but current riders will not be impacted,” Manoka said, and she offered to research and follow up on specific lines and historical questions.

Committee members asked for more detailed breakouts—especially disaggregation between habilitation day programs and vocational services—and for an explanation of how revenue is generated for those lines. Manoka said revenue mainly reflects reimbursement for support coordination services and committed to provide a PDF of the presentation and to follow up with additional program-level detail.