County Tries to Make Up for Federal Cuts
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors tentatively agreed Monday to allocate about $3 million to county health and social service programs that are expected to lose financing in federal cutbacks.
Under the plan, agencies providing health services would receive $1.15 million and agencies providing social services would share $1.6 million. The Area Agency on Aging would receive $257,720.
The money would help make up for the loss of about $12.4 million from the federal revenue sharing program, which the Reagan Administration wants to abolish. In the past, the federal money has gone to services ranging from shelters for the homeless to counseling for delinquents.
Clifford Graves, the county’s chief administrative officer, proposed criteria by which the county might decide which programs to continue financing. For the others, he suggested that the county begin phasing out contracts later this summer.
Graves also supplied a list of other possible sources of money to make up for the loss of federal money. But he added, “Most of those funds are fixed and they’re already committed to other projects.”
The Board of Supervisors expects a final vote on the entire budget later this week.
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