Analysis as of February 7, 2000:

• According to the Assembly and Senate the $8,663,400 increase in the Real Property Management and Development program includes:

• $2,110,000 in additional non-personal service appropriations to cover additional rental lease payments at 250 Broadway in Manhattan to the relocation of legislative offices formerly at 270 Broadway which was sold by the state in SFY1999-00;
• $1,700,000 in additional non-personal service appropriations to cover operating and other costs associated with the new DEC building in Albany;
• $2,546,700 in increased non-personal service appropriations to cover increased fixed and various increased contractual costs;
• $1,200,000 in increased personal services costs reflecting annualization of negotiated salary increases;
• $738,000 in additional Special Revenue Other appropriations reflecting additional parking revenues, increased costs for the Albany Plan including utilities and security for the new East Garage and new Water Street lot; and
• $300,000 decrease appropriation reflecting the transfer of the management of the New York Net program to the Information and Technology program.

• According to the Assembly and Senate $3 million of the $3.9 million decrease in the Internal Service Fund appropriation for the information technology and procurement program reflects the elimination of OGS’s mainframe computer system. The $1,343, 5000 increase in the personal service appropriation is due to the transfer of the responsibility for the management of the New York Net program from the Executive Direction and Real property Management and Development programs (+600,000) and normal salary increases and awards.
• According to the Assembly and Senate the $488,400 decrease in the personal service appropriation for the Executive Direction program reflects staff attrition savings and the transfer of management responsibility for the New York Net program to the Information Technology and Procurement program. The $1,171,000 of the $1.9 million increase in the Internal Service appropriation for the executive Direction program is for costs associated with a risk management study to determine whether it is better for the state to Self-insure or contract with an insurance company to cover these costs.

The Executive Budget recommends (analysis as of January 20, 2000):

• A reduction of 35 ASAFL positions in the Information and Technology Procurement program, a reduction of 6 ASAFL positions in the Real Property Management and Development program, and a reduction of 1 position in the Executive Direction program. The OGS workforce would total 2,130 ASAFL positions. The GOER report shows a reduction of 45 positions through attrition and a total full-time equivalent workforce of 1,963 positions. It is unclear what the discrepancy between these different total workforce positions represents.
• An overall increase of $6,642,800 in the State operations portion of the OGS budget. Most of the increase is in the Real Property Management and Development (RPMD) program, which is increased by $8,663,400. Over $7.1 million of that increase is in the non-personal service and internal service appropriations for the RPMD program. $5 million of the non-personal service increase is for contractual services.
• No explanation is provided for the $1,343,500 increase in the General Fund personal service appropriation and the $3,950,000 reduction in the internal service appropriation in the Information Technology and Procurement program. Two of the 35 AFAFL position reductions in this program are from the General Fund personal service line appropriation and the remainder are from the internal service appropriation. Since there is an increase in the General Fund personal service appropriation despite the loss of 2 positions, it appears that some positions are being moved to this appropriation line from the internal service appropriation line. We believe that the remainder of the position losses in this program represent a movement of employees to the Office of Technology’s consolidated data center; however, we need to have that confirmed by OGS management.
• The $1.7 million decrease in the General Fund appropriation in the Design and Construction program represents the elimination of New York’s share of the cost of the National World War II memorial. This was an addition made to the OGS budget by the Legislature in its SFY1999-00 budget.
• The Executive Budget Appendix states that OGS is developing key performance measures that will be put in place during SFY2000-01. It also states that "OGS will work with the Division of Budget to determine how to link information about performance to the budgeting process."

Last Updated on 02/03/00