May 26, 2016:

“The state is going to have to pick up the cost that was once being born by the feds, because we can’t jeopardize the livelihoods of residents just because the feds have decided to pull the plug on funding,” McGuire said.

The senator said the funding problems are not reason to hasten the facility’s closure. He called the current three-year timeline “hogwash,” saying it will take longer for the state to figure out how to care for some of the state’s most medically fragile people without comprising their well-being.

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Sonoma Developmental Center losing millions in federal funding

Provided courtesy of The Press Democrat by Derek Moore.