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HEARING - Consider recommendations of the Tobacco Settlement Advisory Committee regarding funding allocations for Fiscal Year 2002-03, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR.)
a) Approve allocating 20% of FY 2002-03 tobacco settlement revenues, as reduced by the projected private attorney fee payments, to the TSAC endowment. (Total TSAC revenues for FY 2002-03 are estimated to be $4,727,000. The payment of private attorney fees is projected to be $554,875, leaving $4,172,125 available. The 20% distribution to the TSAC endowment would be $834,425);
b) Allocate the balance of FY 2002-03 tobacco settlement revenues (estimated at $3,337,700) plus interest projected to be earned in FY 2001-02 (estimated at $178,553 for a total of $3,516,253), as follows:
1. $806,000 for tobacco prevention, treatment and education
2. $500,000 for the MISC (Multi-agency Integrated System of Care)
Program
3. $500,000 for hospital and emergency room care
4. $500,000 for specialty medical care
5. $259,000 for Project Clean Water
6. $150,000 for the County's drug court program
7. $150,000 for specialty care testing
8. $100,000 for dental care
9. $100,000 for emergency room physicians
10. $85,000 for the Air Pollution Control District
11. $76,000 for ADMHS infrastructure
12. $50,000 for the Adult and Aging Network
13. $50,000 for SB Neighborhood Clinics Hepatitis C program
14. $50,000 for SB Neighborhood Clinics outreach program
15. $140,000 to cover administrative overhead and evaluation costs;
c) Allocate FY 2003-2004 revenues to tobacco prevention, treatment, and education in the amount of $806,000, and to infrastructure in the amount of $555,000 ($300,000 for Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services, and $255,000 for the Public Health Department);
d) In the event that the funding received for the FY 2002-03 tobacco settlement is less than $3,516,000, decrease the funding recommended in items B1-B15 above proporti...
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