Policy

Click here to access the website and all attachments To: Board of Supervisors Department or Agency Name(s): County Administrator’s Office Staff Name and Phone Number: Peter Bruland, 565-2431 Vote Requirement: Majority Supervisorial District(s): Countywide Title: American Rescue Plan Act: County Departments-Agencies’ Preliminary Proposals Recommended Action: Select County Departments-Agencies’ Preliminary Proposals seeking funding through the American Rescue Plan Act for further development...

During FY 2021-22 Budget Hearings, the Board of Supervisors approved a process for the distribution of ARPA funds. T his plan calls for funding to be distributed in three primary areas: Funding for COVID-19 pandemic response Funding for strategic investments in County departmental services Funding for direct community support At Budget Hearings, the Board of Supervisors allocated approximately $20 million to fund COVID-19 response costs that are not otherwise reimbursable through Federal...

Melinda Coates experienced a tumultuous pregnancy. “I was really mentally upset literally from day one (of the pregnancy),” she says. (Melinda Coates is a pseudonym. To protect her and her children’s privacy and safety, we are not using her real name.) Coates had hoped to get counseling last October, when she was seven months pregnant. That’s when she enrolled in the state’s Medi-Cal program, shortly after she and her abusive husband moved to California, “but nobody was able to get me in...