To: Board of Supervisors
From: Marla Stuart, Employment and Human Services Director
Report Title: FY 25-26 EHSD Budget SNAP Emergency
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Approve Budget Amendment No. BDA-26-00632 authorizing an adjustment to Employment and Human Services Department (EHSD), Workforce Services Bureau (0504), the Department of Information Technology and the Sheriff’s Department expenditure budgets as part of the County’s response to the Supplemental Nutrition Food Assistance Program (SNAP) Emergency Response from November 2025, as recommended by the Employment and Human Services Director.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Employment and Human Services Department, in discussion with the County Administrator’s Office, has identified expenditures as part of SNAP Emergency Response that requires a FY 2025/26 budget increase. There is a budget increase to the expenditure budgets within the following departments; EHSD - Workforce Services Bureau (0504) at $526,951, Department of Information Technology at $18,041, and the Sheriff’s Department at $109,262 with a total addition to the expenditure budgets of $654,254. This is a change of $654,254 being added to the net county cost for FY 2025/26 for these departments.
BACKGROUND:
This action is to finalize the expenditures related to the Supplemental Nutrition Food Assistance Program (SNAP) Emergency Response. Several departments each recorded expenditures related to Resolution No. 2025-386 which proclaimed a local emergency caused by the potential disruption of CalFresh food assistance benefits. Those departments include the Employment and Human Services Department (EHSD), Workforce Services Bureau, the Department of Information Technology and the Sheriff’s Department. Through discussion with the County Administrator’s Office, the county departments would be made whole with a budget amendment to cover the expenditures incurred as a result of the response with additional general fund.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Appropriations will not be properly reflected in the FY 2025/26 budget.
CHILDREN’s IMPACT STATEMENT:
The Employment and Human Services Department supports all five of the community outcomes established in the Children's Report Card: (1) "Children Ready for and Succeeding in School"; (2) "Children and Youth Healthy and Preparing for Productive Adulthood";(3) "Families that are Economically Self-Sufficient"; (4) "Families that are Safe, Stable and Nurturing"; and (5) "Communities that are Safe and Provide a High Quality of Life for Children and Families,” by effectively managing the budgets for each bureau within EHSD.