California voters passed the Mental Health Services Act in 2004 because they know how mental illness debilitates their families, destroys their friends and harms their communities. It is thus disturbing that the state agency overseeing Prop. 63 spending is ignoring the requirements of the law – to spend the funds it raises on services to individuals with serious mental illness. Prop. 63 levied a 1 percent surtax on million-dollar incomes to fund health services for mentally ill adults and children – about 5 percent of the general population. So, funds have gone to programs for people with no history of mental illness to promote mental wellness – a happy state, for sure, but not the voters’ intent according to a recent story in the San Francisco Chronicle.