File #: 25-00785    Version: 1
Type: Administrative Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 8/29/2025 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 9/9/2025 Final action: 9/9/2025
Title: Consider recommendations regarding the implementation of Supportive Holistic Intervention for Early Legal Diversion (SHIELD) Program with Department of State Hospitals (DSH) Growth Cap Penalty Funds, as follows: a) Approve a Budget Revision Request (BJE) No. 0010787 to establish appropriations of $103,500.00 in the Public Defender's Office Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-2026 Budget, funded by the return of FY 2022-2023 DSH Growth Cap penalty payment, to implement the SHIELD Program for FY 2025-2026 through FY 2027-2028; b) Adopt an Amendment to the Salary Resolution to allocate one additional full-time (1.0 FTE) position to the Public Defender's Office, effective September 15, 2025; and c) Determine that the above actions are government fiscal activities or funding mechanisms which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment and are therefore not a project under the California Environmental Quality Ac...
Sponsors: PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - BJE No. 0010787, 3. Attachment B - Salary Resolution, 4. Attachment C - Santa Barbara County FY 2022-23 Growth Cap Expenditure Plan, 5. Attachment D - DSH Approval Letter for FY 2022-23 Growth Cap Expenditure Plan

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Consider recommendations regarding the implementation of Supportive Holistic Intervention for Early Legal Diversion (SHIELD) Program with Department of State Hospitals (DSH) Growth Cap Penalty Funds, as follows:

 

a) Approve a Budget Revision Request (BJE) No. 0010787 to establish appropriations of $103,500.00 in the Public Defender’s Office Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-2026 Budget, funded by the return of FY 2022-2023 DSH Growth Cap penalty payment, to implement the SHIELD Program for FY 2025-2026 through FY 2027-2028;

 

b) Adopt an Amendment to the Salary Resolution to allocate one additional full-time (1.0 FTE) position to the Public Defender’s Office, effective September 15, 2025; and

 

c) Determine that the above actions are government fiscal activities or funding mechanisms which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment and are therefore not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA guidelines.