Severe budget cuts to Sacramento County programs and controversial layoffs for 186 employees in the Child Protective Services unit are part of the 2009/2010 fiscal year budget that was approved by the Board of Supervisors Friday. The county, which had faced an immense budget gap of $76 million, laid off 300 workers last month. The total budget the supervisors approved is $4.2 billion. Around $1.9 billion of that total is the county’s general fund. More than 700 county employees have been laid... KathleenHaley Kathleen Haley 2009-10-04T02:16:34Z 2009-10-04T02:16:34Z

Thanks for pointing that out. I appreciate it.

Kathleen Haley 2009-10-04T02:16:34Z tuxedoturkey 2009-10-03T23:42:30Z 2009-10-03T23:42:30Z

There is a fourth candidate in the Assembly race: Laura Sheridan. www.laurasheridan.com

tuxedoturkey 2009-10-03T23:42:30Z Randi 2009-10-03T17:57:34Z 2009-10-03T17:57:34Z

What Edwards-Buckley doesn't tell you is that CPS contracts out a large portion of their caseload work to private child welfare groups. The state gives the county the funds, the county in turn pays other private child welfare groups to work their cases, and yes, this does include going out and seeing the children and doing the paperwork involved. CPS makes it sound as if the county child welfare workers do all the work themselves, and this is just not the case. I believe it's a good 50% of their caseload that is contracted out. And, where the State is fighting to NOT have their work contracted out, because they actually WANT to do the work, the county is voluntarily doing this so their workers don't have to do as much work, but they receive credit for such a "big" caseload.

Randi 2009-10-03T17:57:34Z