Supervisors Seek Responses : Plan to Cut Funds for 75 Programs Set Aside

County supervisors Tuesday heard a staff proposal to slash funding for 75 federally supported county health and social service programs paid for with money the Reagan Administration wants to cut.

The board set the proposal aside until three county advisory boards and the private agencies whose budgets would be cut could respond to the recommendations.

Several board members also complained that they still lacked enough information about the effect the proposed cuts would have on other parts of the county’s nearly $1-billion annual budget.

At issue is how the county should respond to the Reagan Administration’s proposal to eliminate federal revenue sharing, a program that this year contributed $12.4 million to the county budget. The county passed along more than half of that money to private agencies under contract to provide health and social services to the poor, the aged, minorities and troubled youths.

Under the proposal submitted Tuesday by Chief Administrative Officer Clifford Graves, the county would continue to fund some programs at reduced levels for another year, fully fund others for part of the year and eliminate the rest when the county’s next fiscal year begins July 1.

This is how the three county departments that use the revenue sharing money have suggested the cuts be spread:

- Department of Social Services. Funding would be eliminated in December for 50 private agencies providing services ranging from emergency shelter for the homeless to counseling for delinquent youths.

- Department of Health Services. Funding would be eliminated for five of the county’s 17 community clinics, which provide health services to poor people. Funding would be reduced for 12 other clinics until July, 1986, when it would be eliminated.

- Area Agency on Aging. Funding would be eliminated June 30 for three agencies now under contract with the county to provide services for the aged. Five other programs would be funded at full or reduced levels until July, 1986, when all funding would be eliminated.

The supervisors set a hearing for April 16 to allow comments from the affected agencies and from the county residents they serve.