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Changes in budgeted positions for fiscal year 2025-2026

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Council Member Schulman inquires about the increase in budgeted positions for fiscal year 2025-2026. CFO Aaron Anderson provides some details on the changes and reasons behind them.

  • The number of budgeted positions increased from 29 to 35
  • New positions are primarily related to surveillance and testing
  • The increase reflects shifting of funds from year to year
  • DOHMH expects to roll over a significant amount of grant funding to FY '26
Lynn Schulman
0:36:45
There are 35 positions budgeted for fiscal fiscal twenty twenty five adopted plan had 29 positions.
0:36:52
Which positions were added?
Michelle Morse
0:36:55
I'll pass this one to our chief financial officer.
Aaron Anderson
0:36:58
Thanks for the question.
0:37:00
Yeah.
0:37:00
So these are really around surveillance and testing.
0:37:03
We can get back to you with the specifics but incremental increase to reflect shifting of funds from year to year.
Lynn Schulman
0:37:09
Okay.
0:37:09
What are the 35 job titles?
0:37:12
Do you have those?
Aaron Anderson
0:37:13
We can get back to you on
Andrea Arcila
0:37:14
the specifics.
Lynn Schulman
0:37:14
Can you get those to us?
0:37:16
Thank Why were positions added when so much funding will be lost soon?
0:37:20
Or is that just you're talking about the juxtaposition of the
Aaron Anderson
0:37:24
This is timing.
0:37:25
I mean there's a lot of funding that we haven't this is around the time of year that we roll a lot of grant funding to FY '26.
0:37:30
So we do expect that a lot will be rolled.
0:37:32
And again we're pleased that the funds were extended and so Right.
0:37:35
The extent that they were we'll have to
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