5717. (Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 455, Sec. 38.)

(a) Expenditures that may be funded from amounts allocated to the county by the State Department of Health Care Services from funds appropriated to the department shall include, salaries of personnel, approved facilities and services provided through contract, and operation, maintenance, and service costs, including insurance costs or departmental charges for participation in a county self-insurance program if the charges are not in excess of comparable available commercial insurance premiums and on the condition that any surplus reserves be used to reduce future year contributions; depreciation of county facilities as established in the state’s uniform accounting manual, disregarding depreciation on the facility to the extent it was financed by state funds under this part; lease of facilities where there is no intention to, nor option to, purchase; expenses incurred under this act by members of the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California for attendance at regular meetings of these conferences; expenses incurred by either the chairperson or elected representative of the local mental health advisory boards for attendance at regular meetings of the organization of mental health advisory boards; expenditures included in approved countywide cost allocation plans submitted in accordance with the Controller’s guidelines, including, but not limited to, adjustments of prior year estimated general county overhead to actual costs, but excluding allowable costs otherwise compensated by state funding; net costs of conservatorship investigation, approved by the Director of Health Care Services. Except for expenditures made pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 129225) of Chapter 1 of Part 6 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code, it shall not include expenditures for initial capital improvements; the purchaser or construction of buildings except for equipment items and remodeling expense as may be provided for in regulations of the State Department of Health Care Services; compensation to members of a local mental health advisory board, except actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties that may include travel, lodging, and meals while on official business; or expenditures for a purpose for which state reimbursement is claimed under any other provision of law.