News (Media Awareness Project) - US CA: County Gets Started On Treatment Program |
| Title: | US CA: County Gets Started On Treatment Program |
| Published On: | 2001-04-01 |
| Source: | Redding Record Searchlight (CA) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-26 19:45:03 |
COUNTY GETS STARTED ON TREATMENT PROGRAM
Shasta County will consider hiring nine new employees and finding a
location to implement Proposition 36, the drug and alcohol treatment
initiative approved by California voters in November.
The Board of Supervisors will decide Tuesday how to spend $337,846 in state
funds earmarked for Shasta County under the initiative, which requires that
certain adult offenders be sentenced to substance-abuse treatment rather
than jail.
The money may be used to hire three social workers, two deputy probation
officers, two office clerks, a staff services analyst and a legal clerk,
and to find and equip a building in Redding for the program.
"As the actual implementation date for the changes created by Proposition
36 is July 1, 2001, the planning committee identified the hiring and
training (of) the staff . . . as one of the first objectives needed to be
accomplished," three county officials wrote to the Board of Supervisors in
a report. The officials were alcohol and drug program Director David
Reiten, Mental Health Director James Broderick and Chief Probation Officer
Renny Noll.
California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36, which provides $60
million this year and $120 million a year thereafter until 2006 to counties
to pay for treatment costs. Shasta County voters rejected the initiative by
a 55 percent to 45 percent margin.
The county will receive $675,696 for each fiscal year starting with
2001-02, which begins in July.
A 14-member panel of county officials formed to implement Proposition 36
recommends spending $50,000 on salaries between now and the end of June and
$149,000 on a new facility.
Other start-up costs will include purchasing a $30,000 vehicle specially
equipped for the program, and spending $30,000 on outside "professional
services" to begin the program, the officials said.
In other business, the Board of Supervisors will hold an afternoon workshop
Tuesday to discuss the county's capital improvement plan, which could
include a new county administrative office and other buildings.
Shasta County will consider hiring nine new employees and finding a
location to implement Proposition 36, the drug and alcohol treatment
initiative approved by California voters in November.
The Board of Supervisors will decide Tuesday how to spend $337,846 in state
funds earmarked for Shasta County under the initiative, which requires that
certain adult offenders be sentenced to substance-abuse treatment rather
than jail.
The money may be used to hire three social workers, two deputy probation
officers, two office clerks, a staff services analyst and a legal clerk,
and to find and equip a building in Redding for the program.
"As the actual implementation date for the changes created by Proposition
36 is July 1, 2001, the planning committee identified the hiring and
training (of) the staff . . . as one of the first objectives needed to be
accomplished," three county officials wrote to the Board of Supervisors in
a report. The officials were alcohol and drug program Director David
Reiten, Mental Health Director James Broderick and Chief Probation Officer
Renny Noll.
California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36, which provides $60
million this year and $120 million a year thereafter until 2006 to counties
to pay for treatment costs. Shasta County voters rejected the initiative by
a 55 percent to 45 percent margin.
The county will receive $675,696 for each fiscal year starting with
2001-02, which begins in July.
A 14-member panel of county officials formed to implement Proposition 36
recommends spending $50,000 on salaries between now and the end of June and
$149,000 on a new facility.
Other start-up costs will include purchasing a $30,000 vehicle specially
equipped for the program, and spending $30,000 on outside "professional
services" to begin the program, the officials said.
In other business, the Board of Supervisors will hold an afternoon workshop
Tuesday to discuss the county's capital improvement plan, which could
include a new county administrative office and other buildings.
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