California State Association of Counties’ (CSAC) Executive Director Matt Cate issued the following statement in response to Governor Brown’s May Budget Revision today:

California’s counties understand and respect the Governor’s fiscal prudence in putting much of the available surplus into paying down debt and establishing a robust rainy day reserve fund.

We are grateful that the Governor saw the value and benefit in allocating $73 million dollars of the debt reduction to previously unfunded county mandates.

We also remain steadfast in our commitment to providing the programs and services to criminal offenders now under county jurisdiction as a result of AB 109, Public Safety Realignment. The scope of these new responsibilities is significant, and we are seeing a growing intersection between criminal justice and mental health. 

CSAC’s Budget Action Bulletin