in january the governor proposed about 160 million statewide to increase our work focus in our calworks program. which translates to increased funding for our community partners to deliver employment training services as well as increased employment services staff to help our families move from welfare towards self-sufficiency. some of that will also take the form of increasing our subsidized employment program which is shown really tremendous success in moving families into self-sufficiency. >> chair farrell: mr. rohr, i want to make clear, and thank you, we've spoke in my office before this hearing. you know, in the context, so people understand the context of budget cuts and so forth, and reduction for the mayor's budget reductions, i think the bottom line is you're able to achieve those cuts but also the overall budget increase for your budget is basically coming from the state and feds almost on a dollar-for-dollar basis so we're in a fortunate situation with your agency. >> that's right. i'll talk about some of that expansion in a couple of slides. one piece i forgot to point out

cal fresh -- not calworks, cal fresh, has no asset limit.and this means that people will be able to apply, regardless of whether they have excess money in the bank or not. medi-cal will still, unless the state changes it, have an asset limit of $2,000 for one person, and $3,000 for a couple. and that's going to make it harder to ever get everything going easily back and forth. but one of the things that we found, anne hinton held a hearing in hunters point and one of the things we found was that people were so concerned about having to pay a share of costs for their medi-cal, and for the in-home supportive services, ihss. a lot of people have shared costs of $500. and they ask that we do something about restoring share of cost program. the county used to have one that would let people pay -- county would pay a portion. so if they had high represent or high medical -- rent or high medical expenses then they didn't have to pay the 900. the county doesn't break down the budget that way. so we wanted to restore that. and we still do. and i'm wor

in january the governor proposed about 160 million statewide to increase our work focus in our calworksrogram. which translates to increased funding for our community partners to deliver employment training services as well as increased employment services staff to help our families move from welfare towards self-sufficiency. some of that will also take the form of increasing our subsidized employment program

i mentioned governor brown's refocus on employment for our calworks program, and our share of his increase as proposed in january is about $3 million. that flows right into jobs now which is our local subsidized employment program. the governor was very impressed with the state -- not only our county but other county's ability to deliver subsidized employment programs under president obama's stimulus act and outcomes for families with regards to that program. he talks a lot about investing in counties and our systems to subsidize employment. we're particularly well positioned because we have our existing jobs now program and it represents an expansion of that which of course is great news. family and children's services and realignment this is under realignment phase two which was part of the governor's revenue initiative that passed, what realignment basically does is takes funding for child welfare out of the state general fund and dedicates a tax revenue stream to it. in this case its sales tax, vehicle license fee. because those revenue streams are growing and because our share, being