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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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Joint Proposal Deposit Contempt Fines Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund and Order (2:90-cv-00520 

KJM-SCR (PC)) 

RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., 

Defendants. 

1 ROB BONTA, State Bar No. 202668 

Attorney General of California 

2 MONICA N. ANDERSON, State Bar No. 182970 

Senior Assistant Attorney General 

3 DAMON MCCLAIN, State Bar No. 209508 

Supervising Deputy Attorney General 

4 ELISE OWENS THORN, State Bar No. 145931 

NAMRATA KOTWANI, State Bar No. 308741 

5 Deputy Attorneys General 

455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000 

6 San Francisco, CA 94102-7004 

Telephone: (415) 510-4431 

7 Fax: (415) 703-5843 

E-mail: Namrata.Kotwani@doj.ca.gov 

8 Attorneys for Defendants 

9 

HANSON BRIDGETT LLP 

PAUL B. MELLO, State Bar No. 179755 

SAMANTHA D. WOLFF, State Bar No. 240280 

KAYLEN KADOTANI, SBN 294114 

DAVID C. CASARRUBIAS, SBN 321994 

1676 N. California Boulevard, Suite 620 

Walnut Creek, CA 94596 

Telephone: (925) 746-8460 

Fax: (925) 746-8490 

E-mail: PMello@hansonbridgett.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

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FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

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SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

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14 2:90-cv-00520 KJM-SCR (PC) 

15 JOINT PROPOSAL FOR DEPOSIT OF 

CONTEMPT FINES IN MENTAL 

16 HEALTH STAFFING SPECIAL 

DEPOSIT FUND AND 

17 ORDER 

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21 JOINT PROPOSAL FOR DEPOSIT OF FINES 

22 The Court ordered that by “September 6, 2024 at 12 noon, defendants shall deposit into the 

23 Court’s Registry all fines that have accumulated since April 1, 2023 as the court previously has 

24 ordered, see June 25, 2024 Order, ECF No. 8291, unless before September 6, 2024 at 12 noon the 

25 parties propose and the court approves specific orders putting in place an alternative method of 

26 administering the Plan with the full amount of the allocated funding that does not require first 

27 depositing the funds with the Court.” (ECF No. 8381 at 8.) The parties now jointly propose such 

28 an alternative plan for administering the funds that would require that the contempt fines be 

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1 deposited into a Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund that has been established within the 

2 State Treasury. 

3 The parties believe it will be onerous and time consuming for the Special Master to directly 

4 implement the expenditure plan ordered by the Court on August 29, 2024 because doing so would 

5 require duplication of systems already in place at the California Department of Corrections and 

6 Rehabilitation (CDCR) and elsewhere in state government. Consequently, the parties believe the 

7 best course would be for CDCR to directly expend the fines as ordered by the Court under the 

8 Special Master’s oversight. 

9 In order for CDCR to implement the court-approved plan under the Special Master’s 

10 oversight, CDCR will need direct and ready access to the funds so that it will be able to timely 

11 expend them through existing state budgetary systems as required by the Court’s orders. (Decl. 

12 Krogseng ¶ 3.) Because the state will ultimately need to possess the funds in order to spend them, 

13 it would be inefficient and time consuming for CDCR to deposit checks into the Court’s Registry 

14 and then receive checks or electronic transfers back from the Registry in a piecemeal manner to 

15 make the ordered expenditures. (Id.) In addition to the time it would take for the Court to 

16 transfer funds from the Registry to the state, upon receiving the funds from the Registry, CDCR 

17 would be required to deposit the funds into the State Treasury, and then the funds would need to 

18 be approved for transfer and transferred by the State Controller’s Office to an appropriate account 

19 before they could be used by CDCR. (Id.) The Department of Finance estimates that this entire 

20 process could take roughly ten business days, which would be on top of the time needed for 

21 CDCR to implement various parts of the plan to expend fines. (Id.) Going forward, this process 

22 would need to be performed repeatedly, and possibly many times, as various parts of the 

23 expenditure plan were implemented. (Id.) 

24 Instead of requiring the intermediary step of depositing the fines into the Court’s Registry 

25 before the money is transferred back to CDCR, the parties propose an alternative method of 

26 administering the expenditure plan in which the fines will be transferred to a newly created 

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1 Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund within the State Treasury.1

 (Id. ¶ 4.) CDCR would 

2 then be able to implement the expenditure plan out of this Special Deposit Fund. (Id.) 

3 The expenditure of funds on staff bonuses presents a good example for why this proposal 

4 makes sense. (Id. ¶ 5.) The expenditure plan requires that bonuses be paid to existing CDCR 

5 staff. (Id.) The state already has a payroll system and personal contact information for CDCR’s 

6 employees, and the state is already authorized to process direct deposits of compensation into 

7 these employees’ personal bank accounts. (Id.) Additionally, the state already has processes in 

8 place to account for any taxes or other deductions that may be necessary for this form of 

9 employee compensation. (Id.) Defendants’ proposal would allow CDCR to effectuate bonus 

10 payments with funds from the Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund. (Id.) Consequently, 

11 it would be far more efficient for the state to administer these payments directly, under the 

12 Special Master’s oversight, than for the Special Master to administer the bonuses himself. (Id.) 

13 The Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund would allow CDCR to do this and to efficiently 

14 make other expenditures required by the Court’s orders without the burdensome process of 

15 multiple time-consuming transfers to and from the Court’s Registry. (Id.) 

16 Special Deposit Funds are regularly used in state budgeting to segregate funds that must be 

17 used for a specified purpose (see, e.g., Government Code sections 16370, 16372), and are often 

18 used for the expenditure of funds received by the state for court judgments or settlements 

19 pursuant to the terms of those judgments or settlements. (Id. ¶ 6.) Moneys in these special 

20 deposit funds may only be used for the purposes for which the fund was created and may be 

21 created in statute or may be created by the Department of Finance and the State Controller’s 

22 Office. (Id.) 

23 To reduce the risk of delays if the Court approves this Special Deposit Fund proposal, the 

24 Department of Finance and the State Controller’s Office created the Mental Health Staffing 

25 Special Deposit Fund on September 4, 2024, to receive staffing contempt fines for the purpose of 

26 administering the “expenditure of staffing contempt fines to address mental health staffing 

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 By joining in this proposal, Defendants do not waive their right to appeal the Court’s 

28 order requiring the implementation of the plan for expenditure of fines. 

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1 vacancies pursuant to court orders in Coleman vs. Newsom, U.S. District Court, Eastern District 

2 of California, Case No. 2:90-CV-00520-KJM-SCR.” (Id. ¶ 7, Ex. A) The use of the funds would 

3 accordingly be limited to the stated uses for which the Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit 

4 Fund was created. (Id. ¶ 7.) If the Court approves this alternative proposal, the Department of 

5 Finance estimates the completion of the initial transfer to the Special Deposit Fund could take 

6 roughly three to five business days from the date of the Court’s order. (Id.) The initial transfer 

7 of funds to the Special Deposit Fund will be the full amount of the fines that have accrued and 

8 been reported since April 1, 2023, through the staffing report filed on August 30, 2024, consistent 

9 with the Court’s August 29, 2024 order. (See ECF No. 8381 at 8.) And consistent with the 

10 Court’s previous order concerning the timing of deposits of future fines, the parties propose that 

11 Defendants have ten days from the filing of each monthly staffing report to deposit any accrued 

12 fines set forth in the report into the Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund. (See ECF No. 

13 8299 at 2.) 

14 The Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund would segregate the fines from the rest of 

15 CDCR’s budget and could be readily tracked. (Id. ¶ 8.) CDCR would be able to run reports 

16 regarding activity in the fund to demonstrate to the Special Master and the Court the amounts that 

17 have been transferred to the fund, and the amounts that have been transferred from the fund to 

18 make the Court-ordered expenditures. (Id.) No payments would be made from the fund without 

19 advance notice to Plaintiffs and approval by the Special Master of the amounts and purposes of 

20 the expenditures. CDCR also would provide Plaintiffs and the Special Master with a monthly 

21 accounting of all monies transferred into and out of the fund. The parties and the Special Master 

22 will jointly develop an appropriate report that accounts for all deposits to and expenditures from 

23 the Special Deposit Fund on a monthly basis within ten days of the end of each month, as well as 

24 a form and procedure to give advance notice and obtain Special Master approval of each 

25 expenditure from the Fund. 

26 The Special Master and members of his team have discussed the joint proposal with the 

27 parties during the meet-and-confer process and the Special Master has no objections to the 

28 proposal. 

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1 Respectfully submitted, 

2 DATED: September 5, 2024 ROB BONTA

Attorney General of California 3 Monica Anderson

4 Senior Assistant Attorney General

5 

By: /s/ Damon McClain 

6 Damon McClain

7 Supervising Deputy Attorney General

8 DATED: September 5, 2024 HANSON BRIDGETT LLP

9 

By: /s/ Paul B. Mello 

10 Paul B. Mello 

11 Lawrence M. Cirelli 

Samantha D. Wolff 

12 

13 Attorneys for Defendants

14 DATED: September 5, 2024 ROSEN BIEN GALVAN & GRUNFELD LLP

15 By: /s/ Michael W. Bien

16 Michael W. Bien

17 Attorneys for Plaintiffs

18 

19 

20 ORDER

21 The parties’ alternative proposal for the administration of the plan for expenditure of

22 staffing contempt fines is approved, as modified below.

23 1. Defendants are ordered to deposit all fines that have accumulated since April 1,

24 2023, through the staffing vacancy report filed on August 30, 2024, into the Mental Health

25 Staffing Special Deposit Fund within five business days of the date of this order. Defendants

26 shall file a notice with the Court confirming the deposit of the funds by September 16, 2024.

27 2. Consistent with the Court’s previous order (ECF No. 8299 at 2) Defendants shall

28 have ten days from the filing of each monthly staffing report, which must be filed on the last court

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1 day of each month, to deposit any newly accrued fines set forth in that report into the Mental 

2 Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund. 

3 3. The parties shall meet with the Special Master to develop agreed-upon monthly 

4 reporting of the balance and activity in the Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund to be 

5 filed with the court and provided to Plaintiffs and the Special Master within ten days after the end 

6 of each month, and shall provide the proposed form of reporting to the Court for approval by 

7 October 8, 2024. 

8 4. Defendants shall provide advance notice to Plaintiffs and the Special Master of 

9 payments from the Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund and obtain approval from the 

10 Special Master before making payments from the Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund. 

11 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

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DATED: 9/6/2024 

13 Honorable Kimberly J. Mueller 

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RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., 

Defendants. 

1 ROB BONTA, State Bar No. 202668 

Attorney General of California 

2 MONICA N. ANDERSON, State Bar No. 182970 

Senior Assistant Attorney General 

3 DAMON MCCLAIN, State Bar No. 209508 

Supervising Deputy Attorney General 

4 ELISE OWENS THORN, State Bar No. 145931 

NAMRATA KOTWANI, State Bar No. 308741 

5 Deputy Attorneys General 

455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000 

6 San Francisco, CA 94102-7004 

Telephone: (415) 510-4431 

7 Fax: (415) 703-5843 

E-mail: Namrata.Kotwani@doj.ca.gov 

8 Attorneys for Defendants 

9 

HANSON BRIDGETT LLP 

PAUL B. MELLO, State Bar No. 179755 

SAMANTHA D. WOLFF, State Bar No. 240280 

KAYLEN KADOTANI, SBN 294114 

DAVID C. CASARRUBIAS, SBN 321994 

1676 N. California Boulevard, Suite 620 

Walnut Creek, CA 94596 

Telephone: (925) 746-8460 

Fax: (925) 746-8490 

E-mail: PMello@hansonbridgett.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

10 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

11 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

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14 2:90-cv-00520 KJM-SCR (PC) 

15 DECLARATION OF KARI KROGSENG 

IN SUPPORT OF JOINT PROPOSAL 

16 FOR DEPOSIT OF CONTEMPT FINES 

IN MENTAL HEALTH STAFFING 

17 SPECIAL DEPOSIT FUND 

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1 DECLARATION OF KARI KROGSENG 

2 I, Kari Krogseng, declare:

3 1. I am the Chief Counsel for the California Department of Finance and have served

4 in this position for ten years.

5 2. The Legislature has provided the Department of Finance and the State Controller’s

6 Office authority to pay fines ordered by this court related to staffing vacancies in the 2024 Budget

7 Act (Stats. 2024, Ch. 22, Sec. 201, Item 5225-002-001, Provision 13 (Senate Bill No. 108)).

8 Defendants are prepared to make such payments pursuant to that legislative appropriation

9 authority by depositing the required amounts into the Court’s Registry. But for the reasons

10 discussed below, it would be more efficient to implement the plan for the expenditure of fines by

11 depositing the fines into a special fund within the State Treasury to which the California

12 Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) would have access.

13 3. I am aware that the Court has ordered the Special Master to oversee Court14 approved expenditures under the plan adopted by the Court. In order for CDCR to implement the

15 expenditure plan under the Special Master’s oversight, CDCR will need direct and ready access to

16 the funds so that it will be able to expend them through existing state budgetary systems as

17 required by the Court’s orders. Because the state will ultimately need to possess the funds in

18 order to spend them, it would be inefficient and time consuming for CDCR to deposit checks into

19 the Court’s Registry and then receive checks or electronic transfers back from the Registry to

20 make the ordered expenditures. In addition to the time it would take for the Court to transfer

21 funds from the Registry to the state, upon receiving the funds from the Registry, CDCR would be

22 required to deposit the funds into the State Treasury, and then the funds would need to be

23 approved for transfer and transferred by the State Controller’s Office to an appropriate account

24 before they could be used by CDCR. The Department of Finance estimates that this entire

25 process could take roughly ten business days, which would be on top of the time needed for

26 CDCR to implement various parts of the plan to expend fines. Going forward, this process would

27 need to be performed repeatedly, and possibly many times, as various parts of the expenditure

28 plan were implemented.

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1 4. Instead of requiring the intermediary step of depositing the fines into the Court’s 

2 Registry before the money is transferred back to CDCR, Defendants propose an alternative 

3 method of administering the expenditure plan in which the fines will be transferred to a newly4 created Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund within the State Treasury. CDCR would 

5 then be able to implement the expenditure plan out of this Special Deposit Fund. 

6 5. The expenditure of funds on staff bonuses presents a good example for why this 

7 proposal makes sense. The expenditure plan requires that bonuses be paid to existing CDCR 

8 staff. The state already has a payroll system and personal contact information for CDCR’s 

9 employees, and the state is already authorized to process direct deposits of compensation into 

10 these employees’ personal bank accounts. Additionally, the state already has processes in place 

11 to account for any taxes or other deductions that may be necessary for this form of employee 

12 compensation. Defendants’ proposal would allow CDCR to effectuate bonus payments with 

13 funds from the Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund. Consequently, it would be far more 

14 efficient for the state to administer these payments directly under the Special Master’s oversight, 

15 than for the Special Master to administer the bonuses himself. The Mental Health Staffing 

16 Special Deposit Fund would allow CDCR to do this and to efficiently make other expenditures 

17 required by the Court’s orders without the burdensome process of multiple time-consuming 

18 transfers from the Court’s Registry. 

19 6. Special Deposit Funds are regularly used in state budgeting to segregate funds that 

20 must be used for a specified purpose (see, e.g., Government Code sections 16370, 16372), and are 

21 often used for the expenditure of funds received by the state for court judgments or settlements 

22 pursuant to the terms of those judgments or settlements. Moneys in these special deposit funds 

23 may only be used for the purposes for which the fund was created and may be created in statute or 

24 may be created by the Department of Finance and the State Controller’s Office. 

25 7. To help reduce the risk of delays if the Court approves this Special Deposit Fund 

26 proposal, the Department of Finance and the State Controller’s Office created the Mental Health 

27 Staffing Special Deposit Fund on September 4, 2024, to receive staffing contempt fines for the 

28 purpose of administering the “expenditure of staffing contempt fines to address mental health 

3 

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1 staffing vacancies pursuant to court orders in Coleman vs. Newsom, U.S. District Court, Eastern 

2 District of California, Case No. 2:90-CV-00520-KJM-SCR.” (See Exhibit A.) The use of the 

3 funds would accordingly be limited to the stated uses for which the Mental Health Staffing 

4 Special Deposit Fund was created. If the Court approves this alternative proposal, the 

5 Department of Finance estimates the completion of the initial transfer to the Special Deposit Fund 

6 could take roughly three to five business days from the date of the Court’s order. 

7 8. The Mental Health Staffing Special Deposit Fund would segregate the fines from 

8 the rest of CDCR’s budget and could be readily tracked. CDCR would be able to run reports 

9 regarding activity in the fund to demonstrate to the Special Master and the Court the amounts that 

10 have been transferred to the fund, and the amounts that have been transferred from the fund to 

11 make the Court-ordered expenditures. 

12 9. The Department of Finance has consulted with the State Controller’s Office and it 

13 is my understanding and belief that the proposed order that accompanies this declaration, in 

14 conjunction with the 2024 Budget Act and the Court’s prior orders, will be sufficient authority for 

15 the Department of Finance, State Controller’s Office, and CDCR to transfer and expend the funds 

16 as required by the Court’s orders. 

17 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the 

18 foregoing is true and correct. 

19 Executed on September 5, 2024, at Sacramento, California. 

20 

21 /s/ Kari Krogseng 

22 Kari Krogseng 

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Exhibit A 

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State of California Malia M. Cohen, California State Controller 

M e m o r a n d u m 

To: Sharon Love-Cole 

Associate Director, Fiscal Operations Branch 

CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 

1515 S Street, Room 510-S 

Sacramento, CA 95811-7243 

September 4, 2024 

From: State Controller’s Office 

Prince Greene, Manager for Prince Greene

Bureau of Fiscal Systems and Transactions 

State Accounting and Reporting Division 

Subject: ESTABLISH SPECIAL DEPOSIT FUND 

The following Special Deposit Fund (SDF) has been established in the State Controller's 

Office Accounting and Reporting Management System. Enclosed is the copy of the 

approved AUD 10 form. 

Account Title: Mental Health Staffing 

Account Number: 0942407-5225-1945-501 

Period of Availability: August 30, 2024 to August 31, 2029 

If you have any questions, please contact Oksana Seremet at (916) 898-5925 or by 

email oseremet@sco.ca.gov. 

PG: os 

Enclosure (1) 

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Docusign Envelope ID: 1CF4677B-EF41-4A8F-B8A3-FEE647BC1E85 

REQUEST TO STATE CONTROLLER TO ESTABLISH OR AMEND SPECIAL DEPOSIT FUND ACCOUNT FORM 

SUBMIT ORIGINAL TO DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. UPON APPROVAL, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE WILL FORWARD ORIGINAL TO STATE 

CONTROLLER'S OFFICE FOR PROCESSING. WHEN ACCOUNT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED, AN ACKNOWLEDGED COPY WILL BE RETURNED 

TO THE AGENCY, AFTER WHICH CLAIMS MAY BE SUBMITTED. 

UNLESS EXCEPTED BY LAW, OBLIGATIONS FROM THIS ACCOUNT ARE SUBJECT TO GENERAL STATE LAWS GOVERNING THE 

OBLIGATION OF STATE FUNDS (SEE 1 OPS, CAL. ATTY. GEN. 90). THIS INCLUDES CONTRACT, PURCHASE AND CIVIL SERVICE 

REQUIREMENTS, BOARD OF CONTROL RULES, APPROVALS BY DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES AND ATTORNEY GENERAL, ETC. 

CLAIM SCHEDULE WILL SHOW APPROPRIATION AS GOVERNMENT CODE (GC) SECTION 16370 AND THE ACCOUNT TITLE. 

UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF GC SECTION 16370 AND STATE ADMINISTRATIVE MANUAL SECTION 18420 PLEASE 

ESTABLISH OR AMEND THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL DEPOSIT FUND ACCOUNT.

1. Proposed Account Title: 

Mental Health Staffing 

2. Source of Monies: 

Staffing contempt fines pursuant to orders in Coleman vs. Newsom, Case No. 2:90-CV-00520-KJM-SCR 

3. Purpose of Account: 

Administration of court orders in Coleman vs. Newsom, Case No. 2:90-CV-00520-KJM-SCR 

4. Date of Trust Instrument: 

August 29, 2024 

5. Department of Finance Approval: 

By: Date: 

6. Disposition of Residue: 

General Fund 

7. Statute Reference, If Any: 8. Account Investing In SMIF: 

Yes No 

9. Expenditures Authorized: 

Expenditure of staffing contempt fines to address mental health staffing vacancies pursuant to court 

orders in Coleman vs. Newsom, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, Case No. 2:90-CV00520-KJM-SCR 

10. Period of Availability: 

August 30, 2024 through August 31, 2029 

11. DEPARTMENT INFORMATION 

Department: 

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 

Organization Code: 

5225 

Contact Person: 

Sharon Love-Cole 

Title: 

Associate Director 

Signed: Date: 

8/30/2024 

12. STATE CONTROLLER USE ONLY 

Remarks: 

Account Established: 

Date 9/4/2024

on behalf of acting BC G. Singh

BUREAU CHIEF 

STATE ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING DIVISION 

(D)

AUD 10 (REV 07/21) 

FUND AGENCY FY REF/ITEM

0942407 5225 1945 501

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August 30, 2024

Jay Singh, Assistant Division Chief, Operations 

State Accounting & Reporting Division

State Controller's Office 

3301 C Street

Sacramento, CA 95816 

Dear Jay Singh:

Request to Establish Special Deposit Fund Account- Mental Health Staffing

Attached is a request to establish a Special Deposit Fund (SDF) account titled Mental Health 

Staffing on behalf of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).

The purpose of this SDF account is to deposit funds from the Coleman vs. Newsom,

Case No. 2:90-CV-00520-KJM-SCR. The funds deposited in this account will be used for 

expenditures of staffing contempt fines to address mental health staffing vacancies pursuant 

to court orders in Coleman vs. Newsom, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California,

Case No. 2:90-CV-00520-KJM-SCR.

It is anticipated that the funds will be received and/or transferred into the fund in September 

2024. As such, we request the immediate processing and establishment of the SDF account. 

The SDF account will need to have the following transaction accounts set up for the receipt 

and disbursement of funds: Transfer (T) Account for incoming funds transferred from external 

appropriations, Receipt (R) Account for deposit of external funds, and Disbursement (D) 

Account for the payment of expenditures as directed by the settlement agreement.

If the account can be closed earlier than August 31, 2029, CDCR will need to submit a letter 

to the SCO with a copy to our office. If the account is needed beyond the expiration date, 

CDCR will need to submit an amended AUD 10 form, Request to State Controller to Establish 

or Amend Special Deposit Fund Account, to our office at least 45 days prior to the expiration 

date. If you have any questions, please contact Margie Daniels at (916) 445-3434,

extension 2179, or by e-mail Margie.Daniels@dof.ca.gov. 

Sincerely,

Jennifer Koga

Supervising Administrative Analyst 

Fiscal Systems and Consulting Unit

cc: Vanessa Trapnell, Bureau Chief, Bureau of Accounting and Consulting, State Accounting 

and Reporting Division, State Controller's Office

Amy Jarvis, Program Budget Manager, Department of Finance

Sharon Love-Cole, Associate Director, California Department of Corrections and 

Rehabilitation

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