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contracting firm complete, the start of the lead consultant
overview and analysis for the three-year laboratory
implementation phase will begin soon. The Department
continues its ongoing effort in the Homeland Security
Changes From 2010-11 Budget
Gross
Appropriation
($)
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Budget Summaries
acquisitions. The Department has also successfully
implemented efficiencies, and its efficiency committee
continues to meet to explore additional cost savings measures.
Intrafund
Transfer
($)
Revenue
($)
Net
County Cost
($)
2010-11 Final Adopted Budget
New/Expanded Programs
29,156,000 120,000 2,205,000 26,831,000 204.0
1. Custodial Services Contract: Reflects funding needed
to fully implement a custodial services contract to
replace services currently performed by work-release or
community services workers in response to
management audit findings.
75,000 -- -- 75,000 --
2. Laboratory Information Technology Integration:
Reflects funding needed to fully transfer the
management of lab personal computers to ISD to
ensure adequate back-up of data files.
Curtailments
1. Salaries and Employee Benefits: Reflects the
elimination of 1.0 vacant budgeted position needed to
address the County’s projected structural deficit for
FY 2011-12.
Other Changes
1. Salaries and Employee Benefits: Reflects
Board-approved increases in health insurance subsidies.
2. Retirement Debt Service: Reflects the elimination of
the Department’s proportional share of the costs
associated with the issuance of the 1994 Pension
Obligation Bonds. The bonds were fully paid in
FY 2010-11.
3. Workers’ Compensation: Reflects changes due to
anticipated benefit increases, escalating medical cost
trends and changes in the recently passed workers’
compensation law.
4. LTD: Reflects an anticipated increase in the number of
LTD claims and medical related cost increases.
5. Unemployment Insurance: Reflects an anticipated
decrease in the number of unemployment insurance
claims.
6. Retiree Health Insurance: Reflects changes due to a
projected ten-percent (10%) increase in insurance
premiums in FY 2011-12, and the fourth year of a
four-year plan to recover the one-time augmentation
provided to departments in FY 2007-08 to assist in the
transition from the use of retirement surplus earnings to
subsidize retiree insurance costs.
7. Deferred Compensation: Reflects an overall decrease
in deferred compensation plan costs due to reduced
County contribution rates along with a corresponding
decrease in the County’s total annual contribution limit
as approved by the Board of Supervisors.
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37,000 -- -- 37,000 --
(35,000) -- -- (35,000) (1.0)
141,000 -- -- 141,000 --
(893,000) -- -- (893,000) --
98,000 -- -- 98,000 --
9,000 -- -- 9,000 --
(5,000) -- -- (5,000) --
69,000 -- -- 69,000 --
(70,000) -- -- (70,000) --