SAN JOSE, Calif. -- County of Santa Clara Executive Pete Kutras confirmed the long feared cuts to the county budget Monday and it doesn't look good for anyone.

"We don't see any relief in sight," Kutras said Monday about the county budget situation, calling it "painfully devastating" and "depressing."

It has been no secret over the last few months that the board of supervisors had some difficult decisions to make about choosing what programs and jobs stay and which ones go. Although specific jobs were not named Monday, Kutras painted a rough picture of those that will suffer, and that's just about everyone.

"Basically, every program area is going to see cuts," Kutras said.

County departments have had to cut $145.8 million, nearly 20 percent of the county's discretionary revenue and four times more than the amount reduced in each of the past two years.

The areas where the biggest cuts will come are in the areas of mental health, drug and alcohol services and public health, but even the district attorney, sheriff's office, department of corrections and the public defender can expect cuts, Kutras said.

"The public health, mental health and alcohol and drug services departments rely heavily on discretionary funds to provide services beyond the mandated level," Kutras said. "Consequently these areas are hard hit as the general fund does not have the capacity to continue non-mandated services at the level of past years."

A total of 480 full time county positions will be eliminated when the budget is approved in June, according to a statement from the county.

"The reductions and other solutions proposed to meet the projected $227.2 million shortfall are painfully devastating," Kutras said. "In some instances, it will mean the elimination of vitally needed community services."

The county has considered and acted on several ideas to help mitigate the deficit. The county will issue the first of a possible three pension obligation bonds in June that will save the county $6.84 million this year. A 911 fee for unincorporated areas of the county should bring in $500,000 in 2008 and $1.5 million each year after.

The county can still expect another three years of deficit reductions, Kutras said.

San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis said cuts to mental health services could make the streets less safe.

"There are some people on the street who have some serious mental illness issues," Davis said. "Too often we end up confronting them under certain circumstances when citizens are calling us because of their strange behavior -- and it's never a good recipe, we're always trying to deal with these issues."

Over the last few months, several groups including SEIU Local 521, mental and public health workers and many county non-profit groups, have made appeals to the board in an effort to avoid the cuts but it appears the cuts will land squarely on those same groups.

Brian O'Neill, spokesman for SEIU Local 215, said he is analyzing the budget proposal now and expects to rebut several cuts to mental and public health and urge the board to find other solutions.

"This will cause an increase in emergency room costs and fill our jails," O'Neill said. "In the long run this is not going to solve our budget problems. We need to still look for more revenue from the state and federal government."

According to Amy Carta with Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospitals, health and hospital services will likely lose 352 jobs and must cut $105 million from its budget. Six of the eight services within that system are looking at major cuts, including mental health services, which will have to cut service from 18,000 clients to 11,000. Drug and alcohol services will have to stop treating 39 percent of its outpatient clients and cut 44 percent of permanent beds.

"It's really a recipe for disaster, so many of the gains that we have made over the last 15 years or 20 years in dealing with the mental illness issues and dealing with some of (the) issues with the correctional system are going to go out the window with these cuts ... so we have some real grave concerns about it," Davis said.

Those who will be most affected by the cuts are the uninsured, according to Carta.

"The major problem we have is there are so many uninsured coming through our hospitals," Patricia Gardner of the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits said Monday. "Everyone without health care should be worried."

According to Gardner, roughly 80 percent of those entering the emergency rooms in Santa Clara County are uninsured.

These cuts will bring Santa Clara County down to par with other comparable counties, Kutras said.

The budget will be approved on June 15.