State Board of Elections
The enacted budget makes the following changes to the Executive Budget (June 22, 2010):
· Provides in Article VII legislation that the Board provide the Department of Correctional Services and the Division of Parole sufficient voter registration forms to allow them to comply with the requirement that they provide such forms to persons upon the expiration of their maximum sentence of imprisonment
· Makes no changes in the Board’s All Funds appropriations, which is reduced by $260,000 from its SFY 2009-10 enacted budget All Funds appropriation.
The Executive Budget recommends (analysis as of January 26, 2010):
A FY 2010-11 workforce of 63 FTEs, the same level as in 2009-10. There are no changes between the estimated 3/31/10 workforce in the SFY 2009-10 Executive Budget and the SFY2010-11 Executive Budget.
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Program |
FY 2009-10 Adjustment |
FY2010-11 FTEs 3/31/11 |
FY 2010-11 Difference |
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Regulation of Elections |
0 |
63 |
0 |
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Total |
0 |
63 |
0 |
· An All Funds appropriation of $13.135 million, a $260,000 decrease (-1.9%) from the enacted SFY 2009-10 All Funds appropriation.
· The total appropriation for Personal Service is $4,162,000, a $241,000 or 6.1% increase from enacted SFY 2009-10 appropriation. According to the Senate, personal services are reduced by $84,000 in collective bargaining savings, we assume this is the Board’s share of the $250 million in proposed union concessions.
· A $6.661 million decrease in the contractual services appropriation reflecting the elimination of the $5 million appropriation for the Voting Machine Examinations Account which was for the certification and purchase of Help America Vote Act (HAVA) compliant voting machines. Remaining funds from prior years are re-appropriated. In addition the appropriation for the Help America Vote Act Matching Funds Acct is reduced by $500,000 and its remaining funds from prior years are re-appropriated.
· A new Special Revenue Federal maintenance undistributed appropriation of $6,500,000; according to the Assembly this is to accommodate the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act.
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The State
Board of Elections employed an estimated 22 employees under consultant contracts
in SFY 2009-10 at an estimated cost of $6.4 million or an average annual cost of
$291,623 per consultant. In SFY 2010-11 the Board will employ 22 FTE
consultants at a cost of $1 million or an average annual cost of
$45,455 per FTE consultant. The discrepancy in
the cost of agency consultants from last year to this year and the purpose of
these consultant employees and whether their work can be done by state employees
should be discussed at statewide labor management.
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