SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA (MPG) - The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Sept. 3 to revise the approved budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

The $9.2 billion Revised Recommended Budget included an increase of $239 million in total appropriations from the $8.9 billion Recommended Budget that the board approved in June.

The increases included a $16-million increase in General Fund appropriations and a $223-million increase in appropriations in other funds, resulting primarily from re-budgeting of capital projects and other contractual expenditures and including $529,000 in non-General Fund growth.

Additional growth in the revised recommended budget includes total appropriations of $4 million in Net County Cost and 16 full-time equivalent positions.

Re the Sheriff’s Department’s Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) Expansion, $0.5 million Net County Cost is recommended to fund one full-time equivalent Sheriff Sergeant and four full-time equivalent Deputy Sheriff positions needed for the expansion of the IOP program to comply with the Mays consent decree.

Re the Correctional Health Services – IOP Expansion, $1.8 million Net County Cost is recommended to increase the UC Davis mental health services contract for five months of expanded IOP operations during Fiscal Year 2025-26 and to provide funding required Fiscal Year 2025-26 Revised Recommended Budget for one-time capital improvements needed at the Rio Consumnes Correctional Center.

Re Health Services - Behavioral Health Services Act, $1.4 million of state funding will add nine full-time equivalent positions to provide administrative support for Behavioral Health Services Act mandates.

Re Public Defender - State Prison Unit, $0.5 million of state funding will add two limited term full-time equivalent positions in the department's state prison unit.

During the hearings, the Board of Supervisors approved a one-time General Fund contribution of $10 million to the Roads Fund from Service Stability Reserves and a one-time General Fund contribution of $17,980 to Regional Parks from Service Stability Reserves and $7,020 from Parks Revenues for a Zodiac Boat.

For more details, go to the county’s Office of Budget and Debt Management website at bdm.saccounty.gov or view budget documents on the Office of Budget and Debt Management website at bdm.saccounty.gov/FY2025-26BudgetInformation/Pages/default.aspx.