Prop. 1 still too close to call, both sides weigh in

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's been much than a week since California's Primary predetermination and immoderate races are inactive excessively adjacent to call, including the lone statewide March ballot measure, Proposition 1.

Prop. 1 would displacement power of intelligence wellness backing from counties to the authorities level.

It would usage much than $6 cardinal successful enslaved backing to make supportive lodging and make 65,000 intelligence wellness jobs.

"I'm not amazed that it's close. Mental wellness is, and has been a immense issue," said Dr. Amy Parks, enforcement manager of the National Alliance connected Mental Health (NAMI) - Fresno.

NAMI California was 1 of Governor Newsom's partners successful drafting and advocating for Prop. 1.

The enactment taxes radical with incomes implicit $1 cardinal per twelvemonth to contented astir $6.4 cardinal successful caller bonds to physique implicit 11,000 caller attraction beds and supportive housing. It would besides make 26,700 outpatient attraction slots and acceptable speech $1 cardinal for seasoned housing.

"Prop. 1 is looking to grow those services to those who are the astir severely impacted by intelligence unwellness by creating much attraction facilities for acute care," said Parks.

But immoderate intelligence wellness advocates accidental the proposition unravels the 20-year-old Mental Health Services Act. They pass it's excessively expensive, could summation the magnitude of involuntary attraction and diverts wealth from section organizations.

"It's going to interaction the radical we serve. We're trying to assistance those radical we've been helping implicit the years from being enactment into a traumatic, negative, damaging experience," said Paul Simmons, an organizer of Californians Against Prop. 1.

Statewide, the ballot measurement is winning.

Locally, each Central Valley counties voted nary connected the proposition, immoderate overwhelmingly:

• Fresno No 57% | Yes 43%
• Kings No 66% | Yes 34%
• Madera No 63% | Yes 36%
• Mariposa No 63% | Yes 36%
• Merced No 56% | Yes 44%
• Tulare No 64% | Yes 36%

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