Lane County Health and Human Services outlines proposed 2025–26 budget cuts including end of mobile public health and workforce funding loss

Lane County Health and Human Services on May 13 presented a proposed fiscal year 2025–26 budget and outlined program reductions driven by declining federal and some state resources.

Public-health division manager Jocelyn Warren said the department’s proposed budget is about $218,000,000 and that the public-health program portion being presented totals approximately $24,850,000 with staffing at about 101 full‑time equivalents. “In this proposed budget, public health continues to make reductions, eliminating another 10.5 FTE from last year's proposed budget levels,” Warren said, adding that the county plans to eliminate the mobile public‑health program by the end of the calendar year.

The nut graf: County officials told the budget committee the reductions reflect a drop in federal pandemic-era funding and other grants. That shortfall, they said, will force changes to services and staffing across public health, community health centers and human services — including ending some outreach programs, scaling back optional service lines and absorbing some program costs internally.

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