ARTICLE 9. County Matching Fund Requirements [17608.05. - 17608.10.]

Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC 9.

in effect

Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 17608.05. Section 17608.05.

(a) As a condition of deposit of funds from the Sales Tax Account of the Local Revenue Fund into a county’s local health and welfare trust fund mental health account, the county or city shall deposit each month local matching funds in accordance with a schedule developed by the State Department of Mental Health based on county or city standard matching obligations for the 1990–91 fiscal year for mental health programs. (b) A county, city, or city and county may limit its deposit of matching funds to the amount necessary to meet minimum federal maintenance of effort requirements, as calculated by the State Department of Health Care Services, subject to the approval of the Department of Finance. However, the amount of the reduction permitted by the limitation provided for by this subdivision shall not exceed twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) per fiscal year on a statewide basis. (c) Any county, city, or city and county that elects not to apply maintenance of effort funds for community mental health programs shall not use the loss of these expenditures from local mental health programs for realignment purposes.

Cal. Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 17608.10. Section 17608.10.

As a condition of deposit of funds from the Sales Tax Account of the Local Revenue Fund into a county’s or city’s local health and welfare trust fund account, a county or city shall deposit county or city general purpose revenues into the health account each month equal to one-twelfth of the amounts set forth in the following schedule: Jurisdiction Amount Alameda $ 20,545,579 Alpine 21,465 Amador 278,460 Butte 724,304 Calaveras 0 Colusa 237,754 Contra Costa 10,114,331 Del Norte 44,324 El Dorado 704,192 Fresno 10,404,113 Glenn 58,501 Humboldt 589,711 Imperial 772,088 Inyo 561,262 Kern 7,623,407 Kings 466,273 Lake 118,222 Lassen 119,938 Los Angeles 159,324,707 Madera 81,788 Marin 1,196,515 Mariposa 0 Mendocino 347,945 Merced 858,484 Modoc 70,462 Mono 409,928 Monterey 3,367,970 Napa 546,957 Nevada 96,375 Orange 15,727,317 Placer 368,490 Plumas 66,295 Riverside 7,365,244 Sacramento 7,128,508 San Benito 0 San Bernardino 4,316,679 San Diego 4,403,290 San Francisco 39,363,076 San Joaquin 2,469,934 San Luis Obispo 1,359,837 San Mateo 6,786,043 Santa Barbara 3,794,166 Santa Clara 13,203,375 Santa Cruz 2,053,729 Shasta 184,049 Sierra 7,330 Siskiyou 287,627 Solano 115,800 Sonoma 438,234 Stanislaus 3,510,803 Sutter 674,240 Tehama 446,992 Trinity 292,662 Tulare 1,547,481 Tuolumne 305,830 Ventura 4,185,070 Yolo 1,081,388 Yuba 187,701 Berkeley 1,953,018 Long Beach 0 Pasadena 0

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