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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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