Recently, Sonoma County prepared and submitted to the Department of the Treasury an 88-page Recovery Plan Performance Report on our use of American Rescue Plan Funds. In addition to describing how the Board of Supervisors utilized $40 million of its $96 million allocation for the Community Resilience Program, the Report details the County’s Results-Based Accountability Training and Workshops to better monitor the impact of funds spent.
“As a result of the County’s existing RBA work and the new capacity created in strategic partnership with Upstream Investments and the Office of Equity, Sonoma County was well poised to transition from RBA to Anti-Racist RBA (AR-RBA). AR-RBA deepens and expands RBA to focus efforts and resources on the communities facing the greatest compounding inequities: communities of color and historically and systematically marginalized communities. Based on Board input and the legislative intent of the ARPA, the County had an opportunity with the ARPA Community Resilience Program (ARPA CRP) to launch this thoughtful and strategic approach.
Through the development of the ARPA CRP, the County and its funded partners now have a roadmap for the implementation of AR-RBA across County Departments.” On August 14th, I urged the new Director of the County Department of Health Services to include AR-RBA requirements into the Department’s draft Behavioral Health FY 26-29 Integrated Plan, expected to be completed by June 30, 2026.
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