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Mohave County Board of Health reviews tentative FY27 public health budget; approves staff report
Summary
Assistant Health Director Clint Welty presented a tentative FY27 budget that shifts personnel and funds within four divisions; the board approved the report (feedback only), not the final budget, and asked staff for a year‑over‑year increase comparison.
The Mohave County Board of Health on Jan. 26 heard a high-level overview of the tentative fiscal year 2027 public health budget and voted to approve the staff’s report of recommendations and feedback to be forwarded to the Board of Supervisors.
Assistant Health Director Clint Welty told the board the department is organized into four divisions — administration, environmental health, nursing and nutrition and health promotion — and described a breakdown between mandated, essential and discretionary services. “This is just a sort of a brief, high level, broad overview of the tentative budget that was submitted,” he said.
Welty said the submitted budget would increase general-fund spending by about $36,000, primarily for personnel costs including management and vital‑records support, and noted internal service charges (IT, copying, communications) are reviewed monthly and reallocated to program accounts when appropriate. He described an initiative to add a vital‑records specialist and a proposed reclassification in environmental health that unfreezes a supervisor position while freezing a coordinator post, with a net personnel increase of less than 1% for that division.
On nursing, Welty said the net estimated increase for FY27 is just under $60,000 largely for salaries not covered by grants, and that the division’s responsibilities include immunizations, TB surveillance and mobile health services. The nutrition and health promotion division’s net impact to general funds was characterized as about a 27% increase (roughly $62,000), driven mostly by personnel.
Board members asked for a calculation of the total year‑over‑year increase; Welty said he had not prepared that number but would provide it to the board. Supervisors also pressed staff to clarify what the county is legally required to provide versus what the department lists as essential or discretionary services.
The board voted to “approve the report” — an action the attorney and staff characterized as acceptance of the overview and feedback, not formal adoption of the FY27 budget. The department will bring a final public‑health budget to the board before it goes to the Board of Supervisors.
What’s next: staff will calculate and circulate the overall percentage increase compared with the prior year and present the final budget to the Board of Health before sending it to the Board of Supervisors.
