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Recommendations |
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| FY 2002 STATE APPROPRIATIONS |
$1,388,715,226
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| Non-recurring Items: | ||
| 6 | One-time costs for medical and forensic equipment purchases for MHMRSA facilities |
(1,608,028)
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| 7 | One-time costs for equipment |
(25,500)
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| 8 | Bridge funds for revenue maximization administrative support |
(1,100,000)
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 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)
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| 12 | Eliminate contract funding for the following: | |
| a. Education for the elderly on legal issues |
(284,148)
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| b. Jomandi Theater |
(200,000)
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| c. Intergenerational Resource Center to provide adult day care |
(150,000)
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| d. Training to caregivers of persons with dementia |
(96,000)
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| e. Georgians Give Back to provide live musical entertainment to older Georgians in personal care homes and nursing homes |
(50,000)
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| 13 | Reduce contract funding for the following: | |
| a. Family Connection technical assistance to local collaboratives |
(404,800)
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| b. Family Support Registry for CSE |
(324,356)
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| c. Office of Adoptions Warm Line and Public Information |
(106,402)
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| d. Audits/evaluations of Community Service Boards |
(102,242)
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| e. Miscellaneous contracts |
(249,485)
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| 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)
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| b. Family Connection implementation grants to reflect the implementation status of collaboratives |
(500,000)
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| c. Refinance matching funds for the Family Caregiver Act |
(250,000)
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| d. Administrative costs |
(3,476,308)
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| e. Division conference travel |
(52,705)
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| f. Divisional personal services |
(189,022)
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| Division of Public Health | ||
| 15 | Eliminate FY 2002 enhancement funding for the following: | |
| a. Babies Born Healthy |
(2,537,000)
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| b. One district epidemiologist |
(100,000)
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| c. Georgia Asthma Initiative |
(75,000)
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| d. Effingham County Health Department expansion |
(50,000)
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| 16 | Eliminate contract funding for the following: | |
| a. Suicide Prevention |
(350,000)
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| b. Newborn Follow-up (Starting Point) Program |
(100,000)
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| c. Scoliosis screening by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta |
(86,000)
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| d. NAPHCare Pharmacy contract for Tuberculosis drugs |
(75,000)
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| e. HIV counseling for healthcare professionals |
(70,340)
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| f. Genetic evaluation and treatment recommendations by Emory University |
(59,000)
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| g. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness |
(35,000)
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| h. Community Outreach Program for substance abuse education |
(25,000)
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| i. Access to Healthcare conference sponsored by Fulton County District Administration |
(15,000)
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| 17 | Reduce contract funding for the following: | |
| a. Visiting Nurses Services |
(222,806)
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| b. Life Flight at Georgia Baptist Hospital and the Savannah Memorial Hospital helicopter |
(150,000)
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| c. Purchase of clotting factor by Hemophilia of Georgia |
(131,000)
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| d. Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies Powerline (Total funds - $32,000) |
(16,000)
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| e. Miscellaneous contracts |
(178,838)
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| 18 | Reduce funding for the following: | |
| a. Operating Grant in Aid for county health departments |
(3,500,000)
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| b. Reduce state funding available for the Cancer State Aid Program |
(2,021,660)
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| c. Osteoporosis Outreach Program |
(200,000)
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| d. Miscellaneous Tuberculosis Program funding |
(109,824)
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| e. Division conference travel (Total funds - $98,247) |
(68,700)
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| f. District administration personal services |
(99,587)
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| 19 | Eliminate funding for the following: | |
| a. Healthy Farmers Program |
(200,000)
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| b. Staff certification and training for diabetes |
(169,269)
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| C. Motherhood and Beyond the GAP childbirth education program |
(39,288)
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| Division of Family and Children Services | ||
| 20 | Eliminate contract funding for the following: | |
| a. Contract to provide services to the homeless |
(224,000)
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| b. Telemedicine contract to assist doctors in rural areas |
(200,000)
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| c. Augusta Child Advocacy Center |
(100,000)
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| d. Paulding Child Advocacy Center |
(100,000)
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| e. Transitional homes for homeless men |
(100,000)
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| f. Elaine Clark Center |
(100,000)
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| g. ACE Program which provides community outreach to youth |
(75,000)
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| h. Metro Atlanta Opportunities Industrialization |
(50,000)
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| i. Georgia Career Information System |
(22,779)
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| j. Kids in Discovery of Self |
(20,000)
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| k. Scottsdale Child Development Center |
(20,000)
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| l. Atlanta Project |
(18,000)
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| 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)
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| b. Administrative positions and operational costs |
(279,725)
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| c. Miscellaneous contracts |
(27,324)
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| d. Division conference travel |
(378,595)
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| e. Grants to counties personal services |
(1,096,949)
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| f. Divisional personal services |
(30,354)
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| Division of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse | ||
| 22 | Eliminate contract funding for the following: | |
| a. Residential treatment for MR adolescents |
(600,000)
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| b. Training for staff treating co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse |
(585,000)
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| c. Project Plus |
(175,000)
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| d. Academic and life skills to children of substance abusers |
(100,000)
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| e. Atlanta Fulton County Action Authority |
(50,000)
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| f. University of Georgia School of Social Work |
(28,634)
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| 23 | Reduce contract funding for the following: | |
| a. Emory Autism Resource Center |
(417,000)
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| b. Selected (3) Atlanta Regional Hospital contracts |
(109,112)
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| c. Circle of Recovery, Inc. substance abuse training |
(130,000)
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| d. PERMES administrative survey |
(75,000)
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| e. University of Georgia training and Emory University DUI |
(73,319)
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| f. Georgia Council for the Hearing Impaired |
(10,000)
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| g. Miscellaneous contracts |
(41,875)
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| 24 | Other Reductions: | |
| a. Reduce the Community Services provided through regions |
(2,456,973)
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| b. Refinance outpatient substance abuse funds with federal funds |
(1,038,500)
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| c. Close the Children's Unit at Atlanta Regional. No children under 12 will be served in a hospital setting |
(936,084)
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| d. Transfer substance abuse detoxification from hospitals to communities |
(807,939)
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| e. Discontinue 3 respite beds at Gracewood Hospital |
(154,845)
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| f. Community-based personal services |
(610,858)
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| g. Hospital-based personal services |
(695,296)
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| ADJUSTED BASE - STATE GENERAL FUNDS |
$1,360,220,013
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