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Timeline for COVID-19 funding sunset and its impact on DOHMH budget
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Council Member Schulman inquires about the timeline for COVID-19 funding to sunset. Acting Commissioner Morse and CFO Anderson provide details on the funding extension and sunset dates for various programs.
- Federal partners have granted an extension to use COVID-19 funds through the next fiscal year
- About $200 million is budgeted for FY25 and FY26 combined related to COVID funding
- Epidemiology and lab capacity funding will sunset in July 2026
- Vaccination and immunization funding will sunset in June 2027
Lynn Schulman
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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Federal grants provided to the city are expected to sunset soon due to a combination of a lower COVID nineteen case rate, the end of the state of emergency in May 2023.
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The fiscal twenty twenty six budget for COVID nineteen services is $5,600,000, nearly $50,000,000 less than last year's adopted budget of $55,600,000.
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When is the exact timeline that COVID nineteen funding will completely sunset?
Michelle Morse
0:34:22
Thank you for that question, Chair Schulman.
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This is a really great and challenging example of the boom bust cycle in public health funding that makes it difficult for us to continue core services when funding only really increases during emergencies.
0:34:38
We have been working with our federal partners around those funds.
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They have granted us an extension to use those funds through the next fiscal year, which is helpful.
0:34:50
And I'll pass to our chief financial officer to share a few more details on that.
Aaron Anderson
0:34:57
Thanks for the question.
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Yeah.
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We have about $200,000,000 budgeted in FY25 five and FY twenty six combined related to the COVID funding.
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And, yeah, as doctor Moore said, we're very pleased that we've been granted an extension.
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The two biggest components of that are the Epi and lab capacity funding, which is sunsetting in July 2026, and the vaccination and immunization funding, is sunsetting in June of twenty twenty seven.