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BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom Announces New Funding For Behavioral Health Treatment

Published | Video Starts at 56:33

They could provide what's their top priority, what do they want to address, where do they want to make the investments? And that's the pot of money. And it's unprecedented. Again, When I got here that wasn't, you know, we had a novel half a billion dollar investment. It was one time. It was the first time in state history there was a contribution to the cities and counties. And billions of dollars later, we continue to make that investment. We talking with the legislature right now in the may revise if they want to go further than what we did in the January budget. (56:33–56:44)

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Asserts that a half a billion dollar investment was the first state contribution to cities and counties.

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