Primary Department: Public Health Services
Primary Department Head/Elected Official: Leah Barton, Executive Director
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Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Position
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Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
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Request by Public Health Services for approval of one position effective June 28, 2025 for the Office of Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Emerging Diseases.
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Background and Discussion:
Harris County Public Health is requesting approval to address critical public needs. This new position will play a crucial role in supporting Solar for All initiatives by gathering, analyzing, and managing critical data, ensuring quality assurance across program activities, and monitoring and evaluating progress on environmental goals.
Expected Impact:
The overall expected financial impact of the position creation is of an additional $41,707 in FY25 and an annualized impact of $154,913. The increase in personnel expenses will be covered by the Grant Fund.
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County Strategic Plan Goal: 5. Minimize the impact of climate change and disasters.
County Strategic Plan Objective: S: Equitably reduce the health, economic, and other impacts of climate change and disasters.
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Climate/Resilience Initiative (Goal 5): Q3: Develop capacity to measure and regularly pub...
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