Funding of Constitutional Officers - Virginia Joint Legislative Audit ...

Assembly would need to make specific decisions
for each of these choices.
To assist in the process of developing
a revised funding system for the constitutional
officers, JLARC staff developed
computer models to calculate costs for each
constitutional office, and to determine the
State and local shares of the costs. To
evaluate the impact of the changes in the
system on the funding for each office, the
models can be used to vary certain choices,
such as average base salaries, salary in-
creases, a cost-of-competing factor for
personnel, fringe benefits, and State and
local shares of service costs. Two examples
of how the models can be used are
shown in Appendix E.
Finally, the recommendations in this
report, with the suggestions of the State
Compensation Board and the constitutional
officers, can provide a sounder basis for
allocating funds to Virginia's local constitutional
officers.
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