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AGENCY TESTIMONY
DOHMH budget overview and staffing for fiscal year 2026
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Commissioner Morse provides an overview of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's budget and staffing for fiscal year 2026. She highlights recent hiring trends and the allocation of opioid settlement funds.
- Reports approximately 7,000 employees and a $2 billion operating budget
- Notes that hiring has outpaced staff departures for the second consecutive year
- Mentions $24 million annual investment in harm reduction and treatment programs from opioid settlement funds
Michelle Morse
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Now I'll turn explicitly to our preliminary budget.
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The health department has approximately 7,000 employees.
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Twenty twenty four marked the second consecutive year in which hiring outpaced staff departures.
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We're successfully rebuilding our capacity in the wake of staffing shortages caused by the pandemic.
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However, we have an operating budget of $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year twenty twenty six.
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About 1,000,000,000 of our funding is city tax levy.
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The rest is supported by federal, state, and private funding.
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Last fall, the city announced additional disbursement of the opioid settlement funds.
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The health department's investments in our harm reduction and treatment programs will total about $24,000,000 annually by fiscal year twenty twenty six.
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Reducing overdose deaths is a major healthy NYC goal and we're grateful to have the funds to make meaningful progress.