Raises approved for Fresno County Health Department staff

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Salary increases and different benefits person been approved for immoderate workers astatine the Fresno County Department of Public Health, officials with the metropolis announced successful their effect to Civil Grand Jury's Report No. 4.

Officials with the metropolis accidental the Fresno County Board of Supervisors, County Administrative Office (CAO), and DPH person antecedently identified galore of the areas highlighted successful the study and person been actively addressing them. Some of them include:

• The Board of Supervisors approved wage increases for the DPH Environmental Health inspector positions of 23% by July 2025.
• The Board of Supervisors has not lone approved wage increases but besides approved escaped downtown parking and much affordable wellness attraction to assistance pull and clasp staff.
• DPH plans to update existing fees and adhd caller fees to enactment the division's programme operations and code updated California Retail Food Code requirements. The projected fees volition beryllium presented to the committee successful the aboriginal fall.
• DPH has implemented important website improvements since the Grand Jury interviewed unit and continues to place areas to amended specified arsenic navigation and accessibility.
• The Grand Jury raised concerns with the AMANDA system, which has improved the efficiencies successful billing and inspection workflows.
• In October 2024, Fresno County volition big the CDPH statewide Pre-Standardization Conference to guarantee the azygous mentation and exertion of the California Retail Food Code.

Officials accidental the Fresno County Department of Public Health, including the Environmental Health division, prioritizes nationalist information erstwhile it involves immoderate food-borne unwellness investigations.