Adopt a resolution which, effective February 1, 2017, implements Article 4.7 of Chapter 2 of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, California Welfare and Institutions Code section 5270.10 et seq. to allow the County to provide an additional 30-day period of intensive inpatient psychiatric treatment to stabilize mentally disabled individuals in involuntary inpatient care.

Welfare and Institutions Code section 5270.12 mandates that for the 30-day treatment allowed under Article 4.7 of Chapter 2 of the LPS Act (Article) to be implemented, the County’s Board of Supervisors must authorize its application. Approval and application requires that the Board, through resolution, make a finding that any additional costs incurred by the County in the application of this Article are funded either by new funding sufficient to cover the costs incurred by the County resulting from this Article, or funds redirected from cost savings resulting from this Article, or a combination thereof, so that no current service reductions will occur as a result of the enactment of this Article.

The Department does not anticipate that any additional costs will be incurred by the County from the implementation of this Article because new costs for longer hospitalization will be offset by fewer conservatees needing long term care in locked facilities. However, should there be any additional costs incurred by Shasta County in the implementation of this Article, they will be funded either by new funding sufficient to cover the costs incurred by the County resulting from the enactment of this Article, or funds redirected from cost savings resulting from the enactment of this Article, or a combination thereof, so that no current service reductions will occur as a result of the enactment of this Article. Any new funding would come from mental health realignment growth. There is no additional General Fund impact associated with the adoption of this resolution.