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Board told BHSA reallocates existing dollars and reduces county share
Summary
Staff warned that the Behavioral Health Services Act is a system redesign rather than a funding increase: the state will keep an extra 5% (raising its share to 10%), leaving counties with 90% of the prior allocation and tighter resources.
Oliver Gonzalez told the board the BHSA changes how money is distributed: "So that means that the state's gonna be taking a cut an additional 5% to run their own internal grama And that's something I'll be emphasizing throughout the presentation as well since that ultimately means less funding for all 58 counties." He said the change reduces counties' local allocations and will require counties to re-map existing programs into the BHSA'defined buckets rather than spend newly available money.
Board members responded that Humboldt County already directs a large share of dollars to housing and that the statewide critique that counties are not spending on housing does not match Humboldt's experience. Staff and fiscal analysts noted the transition imposes new reporting and program requirements, and that counties may request exemptions for some evidence-based practice requirements, but workforce and housing capacity remain constraints.
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