The 2024-25 Budget: Future of Public Health Budget Solution

May 21, 2024 - The state operations portion focused primarily on workforce development and emergency preparedness and response and included 404 positions in its spending plan. The funding for LHJs was distributed based on population and equity measures and at least 70  percent of funding is required to be spent on workforce (LHJs plan to hire about 1,300 new positions with the funding).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4904

The 2022-23 Budget: Public Health Foundational Support

Feb 16, 2022 - The plan proposes 404 new positions at CDPH, a 15  percent increase across the relevant CDPH centers and offices, which had 2,617 authorized positions as of December 1, 2021. CDPH intends to draft duty statements for the 404 new positions from January through May of this year, begin advertising positions from May to July, and conduct interviews and make candidate selections from July to October.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4544