§ 8.80.020. Allocation of tobacco settlement funds.

(a)

Moneys shall be annually allocated and appropriated from the San Luis Obispo County Tobacco Settlement Fund as follows:

(1)

Nineteen percent to provide health care services for seniors and persons with disabilities including, but not limited to, community based long term care, transportation services and in-home support services;

(2)

Twenty-three percent to fund emergency medical services provided by emergency room physicians and emergency room on-call physician specialists to pay for non-paying patients, so that emergency rooms and trauma centers are not closed;

(3)

Twelve percent to tobacco prevention and control, including cessation services, for youth and adults to reduce smoking and the consumption of tobacco, other addiction programs, and community mental health programs and facilities;

(4)

Twenty percent to non-profit community clinics, mobile health clinics, and hospital-affiliated clinics, so that children and families receive immunizations, primary, specialty and dental health care services;

(5)

Six percent to hospitals within San Luis Obispo County maintaining basic or comprehensive emergency services or trauma centers to cover the costs of providing charity care, proportionate to each hospital's charity care and bad debts as reported to the California office of statewide health planning and development;

(6)

Five percent to the sheriff's department for public safety programs and services, which may include expansion of existing facilities and programs that provide mental, alcohol, and drug abuse treatment programs under the direction or supervision of the sheriff; and

(7)

Fifteen percent to preventive health grants.

(b)

The county may retain an amount to administer any service or program funded by this chapter, not to exceed one percent of the amount allocated and appropriated for that service or program.

(c)

The county may finance capital construction projects in furtherance of any program or service identified in subdivision (a)(6) by dedicating or pledging all or a portion of future funds that could be allocated for that program or service for the repayment of debt incurred to finance such capital construction projects. (Measure A-02, 2002)