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Framingham health director: FY2026 cuts could remove medical assistant and environmental officer positions
Summary
Health director Bill Lehi told the Board of Health that the city’s FY2026 level-services guidance and funding decisions leave vulnerable positions unfilled, limiting clinic operations and hazardous-waste oversight.
Bill Lehi, Framingham’s health director, told the Board of Health on May 13 that the department’s proposed fiscal 2026 budget returned from the mayor’s office without funding for a medical assistant post and put the environmental protection officer position at risk.
“I was hoping to keep that position on for as long as we could, but when they looked at our department they said that was one of the…
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