State University of New York

The enacted budget makes the following changes to the Executive Budget (analysis as of March 29, 2012):

·         Adds $27.8 million in appropriations, to be divided equally, for the three SUNY hospitals.

·         Rejects the broad Executive Budget proposal to allow the Executive to have unlimited transfer and interchange authorization over all State Operations appropriations, and apparently does not create any specific transfer and interchange authorization for this agency. For additional detail please see page 5 of the Summary of the SFY 2012-13 Enacted Budget memo.

The Senate and Assembly made the following changes to the Executive Budget (analysis as of March 12, 2012)

·         The Senate adds $71.5 million to the All Funds budget; $55 million is for the teaching hospitals at Stony Brook, SUNY Downstate and SUNY Upstate (including Long Island College Hospital). The additional funding is within the Hospital Income Reimbursable program.

·         The Assembly adds $27.8 million to the All Funds budget; all of it is for the teaching hospitals at Stony Brook, SUNY Downstate and SUNY Upstate (including Long Island College Hospital). The additional funding is within the Hospital Income Reimbursable program.

The 21-day amendments propose the following changes (analysis as of February 17, 2012):

·         Technical corrections to properly recognize anticipated spending of tuition revenue within SUNY’s Revenue Offset Account instead of SUNY’s Tuition Reimbursable Account. (

According to the Senate and Assembly analysis of the Executive Budget (analysis as of February 17, 2012):

·         The Executive Budget proposes $2.9 billion for the operations of the three SUNY teaching hospitals at Brooklyn, Stony Brook and Syracuse, an increase of $83.7 million, or 3.1 percent above SFY 2011-12 levels. This includes a $60 million subsidy that was proposed for elimination last year but subsequently restored by the Legislature to support the three state university hospitals.

The Executive Budget recommends (analysis as of January 17, 2012):

A SFY 2012-13 workforce of 42,206, or an. the same as the adjusted workforce for 3/31/12; which is 9 FTEs less than the 3/31/12 FTE level projected in the SFY 2011-12 Executive Budget  .

The chart shows current fiscal year FTEs along with the recommended differences in FY 2012-13 FTEs:

·   An All Funds State Operations budget of $8.6 billion, an increase of $501 million, or 6.2% from the enacted SFY 2011-12 budget.

·   The appropriation for Doctoral and Health Science campuses has been decreased by $79.345 million.  The impact of this cut on all SUNY Hospitals’ operations should be explored at Statewide labor management meetings.

·   Sections 8, 10 and 11 of Part N of the Public Protection and General Government Article VII bill makes several technical changes as relates to transfers between various SUNY funds that affect SUNY hospitals.  The impact of these changes on all SUNY Hospitals’ operations should be explored at Statewide labor management meetings.

·   SUNY employed an estimated 10,050 employees under consultant contracts in SFY 2011-12 (or approximately 1,293.4 FTEs) at a cost of $78.3 million. It is estimated that 9,986 consultant employees will be employed in SFY 2012-13 (or approximately 1,240.9 FTEs) at an estimated cost of $71.6 million or $6.7 million less than SUNY spent in SFY 2011-12. The expenditures may include more than personal service costs and is inconsistent with Office of State Comptroller data on consultant spending so it is difficult to draw conclusions as to the cost per consultant employee.