Napa will be joining dozens of California counties asking for legal direction on how to provide mental health services that saw their support slashed by the governor’s line-item veto last October. Beginning in 1984, California state law required counties to provide mental health services to special-needs children who qualify for such backing.
In October, Gov. Schwarzenegger declared the authorization for such mental health services was suspended after using his line-item-veto authority to cut the $133 million used to fund the programs from the state’s budget. In Napa County, slightly more than 100 children receive services under the now-uncertain law. Such services were expected to cost the county $450,000 for the 2010-11 fiscal year, and county officials say the state currently owes Napa County about $4 million for previous reimbursements that were never established.
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