Press Releases

Today, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Final Budget. The approved $1.9 billion budget includes a $60.5 million increase from the previous year and provides necessary funding for countywide programs and services including special districts. The 2020-2021 Final Budget supports the Board’s strategic priorities including good governance, fiscal responsibility, law and justice, economic development, and water. It also reflects the Board’s directive that all departments establish homelessness as an operational priority, as well as the profound fiscal impacts of COVID-19 to the State of California and San Joaquin County.

In response to yesterday’s action by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to initiate an Environmental Impact Report for a Delta tunnel project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, San Joaquin County officials issued the following comments: “The latest action by the State does absolutely nothing to address any of the goals it seeks to accomplish,” said San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors Chair, Kathy Miller.

On December 16, The United State Supreme Court declined to review City of Boise v. Martin, Case No. 19-247 – a decision in which the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that enforcing local laws prohibiting camping and sleeping on public property “when no sleeping space is practically available in any shelter” within the jurisdiction violates the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

As a result of Board directing County staff, at the November 19, 2019 Board meeting, an additional $227,062 will be received by the Stockton Shelter for the Homeless and the Gospel Center Rescue Mission to address the temporary expansion of emergency shelter operations during the period of December 1, 2019 through March 31, 2020.

Today, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors approved a new thirty-six month contract with the Deputy Sheriff’s Association (DSA). DSA represents approximately 285 peace officers in San Joaquin County.