County Supervisors Approve Hiring of 39 Social Workers

Positions are needed for Santa Barbara County to meet state and federal mandates

By Lara Cooper, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @laraanncooper | Published on 09.18.2012 1:52 p.m.

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to approve 39 new positions for the Department of Social Services needed to help meet state and federal mandates.

The department will hire new staffers to help with programs that have expanded, such as CalFresh, formerly Food Stamps, and Medi-Cal, since the economic downturn.

Santa Barbara County must make the hires in order to remain in compliance with the state and federal mandates.

Almost all of the $1.5 million needed to fund the new positions for the next year will be provided by state and federal funds, and no new cost will be added to the county, according to Kathy Gallagher, DSS director.

Ongoing costs for the hires will also be provided by state and federal agencies.

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» Really? on 09.19.12 @ 01:01 PM

In the County of Santa Barbara Consent agenda and the Regular agenda SOCIAL SERVICES RELATED PROGRAMS ARE COSTING YOU THE TAXPAYER $17,707,461. That is in millions of your tax dollars.

$17.7 plus million dollars and this little ditty was $1,518,943.00.

How about that folks, one stroke of the pen and 1 and a half million of your dollars added to the tax rolls.

» skcyclist on 09.19.12 @ 02:42 PM

Life in La La Land: SB county gets free money from the state and feds who did nothing to earn it to hire people who do nothing but distribute more free money to people who also did nothing to earn it. Retirement, sick pay, health insurance all covered for free too.

» lou segal on 09.20.12 @ 12:17 PM

This kind of proves that Romney was right about the 47%. We are now mandated to hire new workers - with funds that neither the state nor fed govt have - to give away federal and state welfare to an increasingly dependent populace.

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