Welcome to day three of our budget workshops.

We are happy this day to have health, municipal courts, hits and ARA and HR today.

So we will be action-packed.

Starting us off today is the Health Department.

And I would like to welcome Health Department Director Teresa Tran and Darren Asher to present their proposed FY27 budget presentation.

And I'd like to welcome my colleagues.

I have my Vice Chair Mario Castillo, staff from Councilmember Twila Carter's office, Vice Mayor Pro Tem Amy Peck, staff from Mayor Pro Tem Casatex Tatum's office, Councilmember Julian Ramirez, staff from Councilmember Charcia Jackson's office, Abby Kayman's office, and Fred Flickinger's office.

So welcome everyone and Director Tran, the floor is yours.

Thank you so much, Chair Alcorn and everybody for um in a in a advance for your attention.

I'm really glad that we're at the beginning of the day and not your like four o'clock presentation.

So I wanted to recognize our health department team, our executive team sitting right here behind us.

And then they just became members of the health department, but um Victor with finance and Mr.

Velinski, who used to work for the city.

So really uh this budget presentation is going to show you that we're a department with a vision and a plan for this administration and whatever administration comes after.

So we can go to the next slide.

And there's our table of contents.

Next slide.

Okay, our organizational chart, as you can see, I have nine direct reports.

All of them are at the assistant director or um the deputy assistant director level.

Our deputy public health authority who has been, you know, really the person who's taught me how to become the public health authority is Dr.

Janina White.

We've got our Chief Communications Officer Tucker Wilson.

Our Chief Science Officer, Dr.

Lauren Hopkins is one of the premier chief um environmental scientists in the nation.

We're very grateful to have her at the department.

Mrs.

Moore is uh the direct deputy director and our chief of staff.

Um, and then we have um Dr.

Renita Madu, who's over public health infrastructure chronic disease quality, strategic planning.

Um, Mr.

Roger Seely, who many of you have been in contact with because he's over environmental health, and that includes consumer health and also our epidemiology and lab programs.

Um, Ms.

Naomi Masias, who is our director over public health services, and that's our clinics and patient-facing services such as the multi-service centers, and then our bureaus of immunization uh tuberculosis and HIV.

Um, Mark Seal is our um C our chief technology officer, probably one of the best, I think, in the city.

Um, and then Amber Haig is our assistant.

Oh, oops, I I skipped Lishonda Mallory Horn, who's our assistant director over human services.

Thanks, Darren.

Uh and she she is overseeing our re-entry program, our violence prevention, youth health, and uh WIC and AAA programs.

Uh, Amber Haig is over operation support, so all of the procurement and grants and um the billing that we have to do and as well as human resource needs, and then of course, Darren Asher over administrative services, which includes not only um finance, but logistics and grant administration and all of the administration it takes for us to actually run our department.

If I might interrupt you just a second to welcome a couple more people and also to say as I went through your budget, uh I noticed all of the restructuring.

You've done a lot of restructuring, and it seems to make a lot of sense to me.

So I hope that you'll you'll go into that some um during your budget presentation.

I do want to welcome um staff from council member Alejandra Salinas.

Perfect and anyone else.

Okay.

Um yes, you will see that our so our restructuring process is hopefully going to be completed by the end of the year.

It starts with financial restructuring, and it will then proceed after I'm done with my deep dives and um understanding deeply what all of the programs are, what they mean to the city, and whether they belong in public health or not.

We will uh continue and finish our restructuring.

Um, and we may need more things.

I don't know that yet until I do all of my deep dives.

I've made a commitment that I won't physically restructure our organizational chart until after I've done a deep dive to have a comprehensive view of what we are doing as a department in light of everything else that's going on in the community.

All right.

So our request was to show how our programs fall within strategic alignment, and so you'll see that within government that works public safety and quality of life, we are very heavy on the quality of life portion.

When you look at this the department budget by priority, uh we've got 33% under government that works, 23% under quality of life, and 43% under public safety.

What this structure does not allow us to really show is what I want to show on the next slide.

Which is that very much we are we have a greater return to the city than what we are expending from the city simply because so many of our programs are grant funded or special funded.

And so while under the structure that we are presenting to you today is really just the um general fund and the special funds, when you see all those things in red, those are services that we bring to the city and which our administrative services support bringing those to the city that the city is not paying for.

And so many of those, when you if we were to put our grant funded programs into the structure that from the slide before, you'd see the list just expand much far beyond what would be able to fit on that one slide, um, and you'd see a larger expanse even in quality of life and um and public safety.

All right, next slide.

So our expenditures by program, you will see, and I wanted to break this down specifically to you as well, just because the health department budget is different than other department budgets in that we are so heavily funded by grants, and you'll see that our only 22% of our operating budget comes from the general fund, and that the majority of our budget really comes from special revenue and grant funds.