GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES 
FISCAL YEAR 2003 
BUDGET SUMMARY

 


ADJUSTMENTS TO CURRENT BUDGET - STATE GENERAL FUNDS


Governor's
Recommendations
FY 2002 STATE APPROPRIATIONS
$1,388,715,226
Annualizers:
1 Annualize the cost of the FY 2002 salary adjustment. 12,335,958
2 Annualize the cost of MicroSoft licenses required as part of the Georgia Technology Authority statewide contract for Microsoft Enterprise Licenses ($2,833,950) and annualize the cost of purchasing Master License Agreements ($2,964,370).
5,798,320
3 Annualize the cost of contracts with District Attorney offices in 9 judicial circuits (32 counties) for Child Support Enforcement (CSE) services.
3,659,911
4 Annualize funding for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) to cover anticipated increases in drug costs and to maintain an average monthly enrollment of 3,663 clients.
2,527,122
5 Annualize 725 community based Mental Retardation Waiver Program (MRWP) slots filled in FY 2002 and phase in 507 additional slots beginning July 1, 2002.
1,838,763
Non-recurring Items:
6 One-time costs for medical and forensic equipment purchases for MHMRSA facilities
(1,608,028)
7 One-time costs for equipment
(25,500)
8 Bridge funds for revenue maximization administrative support
(1,100,000)
Other Adjustments:
9 Reduce personal services to reflect the 4.09 percentage point reduction to the employer contribution rate for the Employees' Retirement System.
(19,712,958)
10 Redirect $50,000 in state funds to allow uninsured Georgians access to HIV/AIDS related drugs to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP).
Yes
General Administration and Support
11 Partially restore FY 2002 enhancement funding by phasing in 822 new slots for the Community Care Services Program (Slot funding based on FY 2003 slot values).
(1,028,848)
12 Eliminate contract funding for the following:
a. Education for the elderly on legal issues
(284,148)
b. Jomandi Theater
(200,000)
c. Intergenerational Resource Center to provide adult day care
(150,000)
d. Training to caregivers of persons with dementia
(96,000)
e. Georgians Give Back to provide live musical entertainment to older Georgians in personal care homes and nursing homes
(50,000)
13 Reduce contract funding for the following:
a. Family Connection technical assistance to local collaboratives
(404,800)
b. Family Support Registry for CSE
(324,356)
c. Office of Adoptions Warm Line and Public Information
(106,402)
d. Audits/evaluations of Community Service Boards
(102,242)
e. Miscellaneous contracts
(249,485)
14 Reduce funding for the following:
a. One quarter of the FY 2002 enhancement funding for the Home and Community Based Services Program
(1,000,000)
b. Family Connection implementation grants to reflect the implementation status of collaboratives
(500,000)
c. Refinance matching funds for the Family Caregiver Act
(250,000)
d. Administrative costs
(3,476,308)
e. Division conference travel
(52,705)
f. Divisional personal services
(189,022)
Division of Public Health
15 Eliminate FY 2002 enhancement funding for the following:
a. Babies Born Healthy
(2,537,000)
b. One district epidemiologist
(100,000)
c. Georgia Asthma Initiative
(75,000)
d. Effingham County Health Department expansion
(50,000)
16 Eliminate contract funding for the following:
a. Suicide Prevention
(350,000)
b. Newborn Follow-up (Starting Point) Program
(100,000)
c. Scoliosis screening by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
(86,000)
d. NAPHCare Pharmacy contract for Tuberculosis drugs
(75,000)
e. HIV counseling for healthcare professionals
(70,340)
f. Genetic evaluation and treatment recommendations by Emory University
(59,000)
g. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness
(35,000)
h. Community Outreach Program for substance abuse education
(25,000)
i. Access to Healthcare conference sponsored by Fulton County District Administration
(15,000)
17 Reduce contract funding for the following:
a. Visiting Nurses Services
(222,806)
b. Life Flight at Georgia Baptist Hospital and the Savannah Memorial Hospital helicopter
(150,000)
c. Purchase of clotting factor by Hemophilia of Georgia
(131,000)
d. Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies Powerline (Total funds - $32,000)
(16,000)
e. Miscellaneous contracts
(178,838)
18 Reduce funding for the following:
a. Operating Grant in Aid for county health departments
(3,500,000)
b. Reduce state funding available for the Cancer State Aid Program
(2,021,660)
c. Osteoporosis Outreach Program
(200,000)
d. Miscellaneous Tuberculosis Program funding
(109,824)
e. Division conference travel (Total funds - $98,247)
(68,700)
f. District administration personal services
(99,587)
19 Eliminate funding for the following:
a. Healthy Farmers Program
(200,000)
b. Staff certification and training for diabetes
(169,269)
C. Motherhood and Beyond the GAP childbirth education program
(39,288)
Division of Family and Children Services
20 Eliminate contract funding for the following:
a. Contract to provide services to the homeless
(224,000)
b. Telemedicine contract to assist doctors in rural areas
(200,000)
c. Augusta Child Advocacy Center
(100,000)
d. Paulding Child Advocacy Center
(100,000)
e. Transitional homes for homeless men
(100,000)
f. Elaine Clark Center
(100,000)
g. ACE Program which provides community outreach to youth 
(75,000)
h. Metro Atlanta Opportunities Industrialization
(50,000)
i. Georgia Career Information System
(22,779)
j. Kids in Discovery of Self
(20,000)
k. Scottsdale Child Development Center
(20,000)
l. Atlanta Project
(18,000)
21 Reduce funding for the following:
a. TANF children who might be removed from SSI. Anticipated changes in SSI eligibility have not occurred and funds are not needed
(1,122,012)
b. Administrative positions and operational costs
(279,725)
c. Miscellaneous contracts
(27,324)
d. Division conference travel
(378,595)
e. Grants to counties personal services
(1,096,949)
f. Divisional personal services
 (30,354)
Division of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse
22 Eliminate contract funding for the following:
a. Residential treatment for MR adolescents
(600,000)
b. Training for staff treating co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse
(585,000)
c. Project Plus
(175,000)
d. Academic and life skills to children of substance abusers
(100,000)
e. Atlanta Fulton County Action Authority
(50,000)
f. University of Georgia School of Social Work
(28,634)
23 Reduce contract funding for the following:  
a. Emory Autism Resource Center
(417,000)
b. Selected (3) Atlanta Regional Hospital contracts
(109,112)
c. Circle of Recovery, Inc. substance abuse training
(130,000)
d. PERMES administrative survey
(75,000)
e. University of Georgia training and Emory University DUI
(73,319)
f. Georgia Council for the Hearing Impaired
(10,000)
g. Miscellaneous contracts
(41,875)
24 Other Reductions:
a. Reduce the Community Services provided through regions
(2,456,973)
b. Refinance outpatient substance abuse funds with federal funds
(1,038,500)
c. Close the Children's Unit at Atlanta Regional. No children under 12 will be served in a hospital setting
(936,084)
d. Transfer substance abuse detoxification from hospitals to communities
(807,939)
e. Discontinue 3 respite beds at Gracewood Hospital
(154,845)
f. Community-based personal services
(610,858)
g. Hospital-based personal services
(695,296)
ADJUSTED BASE - STATE GENERAL FUNDS
$1,360,220,013