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DPH outlines $2.8 billion two-year budget, priorities include behavioral health and CalAIM
Summary
DPH presented a proposed two-year $2.8 billion budget emphasizing behavioral health expansion, transitioning COVID functions into operations, rightsizing administrative capacity (HR, contracts, IT), and preparing for CalAIM benefits and incentive programs.
Jenny Louie, DPH chief financial officer, presented the department's proposed two-year budget for FY22–23 and FY23–24 and said DPH's total budget is about $2.8 billion. Louie said roughly one-third of DPH funding is general fund support and that the 22–23 base includes nearly $1 billion in general-fund subsidy.
Louie summarized the department's expenditure mix—personnel as the largest share, followed by non-personnel contracted services including community-based organizations—and noted the citywide five-year projection prepared by the mayor and controller showed a near-term surplus but longer-term…
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