Building upon the 1991-92 realignment, the 2011 Budget includes a major realignment of public safety programs from the state to local governments. The 2011 realignment moves program and fiscal responsibility to counties, providing a dedicated source of funding while eliminating duplication of effort, generating savings, and increasing flexibility.

Realigned programs include local public safety programs, mental health, substance abuse, foster care, child welfare services, and adult protective services. Many of these programs already are administered at the local level by counties. Therefore, it is appropriate for the programmatic and fiscal responsibility to reside with the counties with the state maintaining an oversight and technical assistance role where needed. These changes are made with the goal of providing services more efficiently and at less cost.

The funding sources for realignment are:

• The dedication of 1.0625 cents of a state special fund sales tax.
• The dedication of a portion of vehicle license fee revenues.

Although the revenues for 2011 Realignment are ongoing, the program allocations were for the 2011-12 fiscal year only. The Administration is now proposing a permanent funding structure to determine the base funding for programs in 2011 Realignment as well as the allocation of revenues above the base. The budget display and the 2011 Allocation Plan in this section do not yet reflect any proposed structure for 2012-13, which will be included in pending legislation. For display purposes only, it continues the 2011-12 funding structure into 2012-13.

Note the $2.9 billion in 2011-12 and $3.9 billion in 2012-13 shown below reflect the Health and Human Services public safety programs and the full estimated value of program cost growth. This display does not reflect the $2.7 billion in 2011-12 and $1.9 billion in 2012-13 for the non-Health and Human Services public safety programs, which are included in their respective programmatic agency expenditures.