Office for Technology
The Executive Budget recommends:
A total of 710 FTEs, no change from last year.
A $97.4 million Internal Service Fund appropriation for the operation of the consolidated State Data Center, a $4.26 million increase over last year’s appropriation. This fund will support positions transferred primarily from State agencies and the cost of upgrading and operating the Center’s computers. Since there are no increase in the number of FTEs at OFT the increase is probably all for non-personal services costs related to the upgrade and operation of OFT’s computers.
A $20.6 million Internal Service Fund appropriation for the New York Intranet, a $3.8 million increase over last year’s appropriation.
An $11.3 million General Fund Maintenance Undistributed appropriation for the renovation of space to house the Data Center. This represents a $700,000 decrease from last year’s appropriation. There is no longer a separate appropriation for a Command Center, that appropriation was $3.316 million last year. No further details are provided as to any new location for the Data Center.
A new $1.446 million General Fund Maintenance Undistributed appropriation to improve the security of State computer systems.
A $1.608 million General Fund Maintenance Undistributed appropriation to expand technology training for users and executive staff, a $1.008 million increase over last year’s appropriation.
A new $1.608 million General Fund Maintenance Undistributed appropriation to develop a Geographic Information System in OFT.
A new $1.608 million General Fund Maintenance Undistributed appropriation for a "technology inventory" which will most likely be used for contractual services since thee are no FTE increases projected for the agency.
A new $35 million appropriation for the Governor’ s proposed E-Government initiative. This initiative will be coordinated by OFT and consists of 75 priority e- government projects across 31 State agencies. When completed vendors, businesses, and citizens will have the ability to:
apply for and renew professional and operating licenses online;
obtain recreational licenses and driver’s licenses over the Internet;
access benefits and eligibility information and submit official documents from home or office computes; and
access a new automated procurement system
It is unclear what the $35 million will be used for and it is likely little of it will be used for State employee positions since there is no FTE increase provided for OFT this year. This issue, along with the use of the other maintenance undistributed appropriations, needs to be clarified with OFT management.
| Office for Technology | ||||
| Program Details-State Operations | ||||
| Enacted | Proposed | Change in | Percent | |
| Program | 2000-01 Budget | 2001-02 Budget | Appropriation | Change |
| All Funds | $215,711,300 | $271,409,000 | $55,697,700 | 25.8% |
| General Fund | $51,741,700 | $89,379,000 | $37,637,300 | 72.7% |
| Special Revenue - Federal | $0 | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | 100.0% |
| Special Revenue - Other | $0 | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | 100.0% |
| Internal Service Fund | $163,969,600 | $172,030,000 | $8,060,400 | 4.9% |
| E-Government | $0 | $35,000,000 | $35,000,000 | 100.0% |
| Maintenance Undistributed | $0 | $25,000,000 | $25,000,000 | 100.0% |
| Special Revenue - Federal | $0 | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | 100.0% |
| Special Revenue - Other | $0 | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | 100.0% |
| Office for Technology | $233,158,300 | $236,409,000 | $3,250,700 | 1.4% |
| Personal Service | $1,634,400 | $8,800,000 | $7,165,600 | 438.4% |
| Nonpersonal Service | $32,660,300 | $35,783,000 | $3,122,700 | 9.6% |
| Maintenance Undistributed | $17,447,000 | $19,796,000 | $2,349,000 | 13.5% |
| -- Data Center Consolodation | $12,000,000 | $11,300,000 | ($700,000) | -5.8% |
| -- State Technology Law | $1,531,000 | $0 | ($1,531,000) | -100.0% |
| -- Command Center | $3,316,000 | $0 | ($3,316,000) | -100.0% |
| -- Training Activities | $600,000 | $1,608,000 | $1,008,000 | 168.0% |
| -- Technology Inventory | $0 | $1,200,000 | $1,200,000 | 100.0% |
| -- Security Initiative | $0 | $1,446,000 | $1,446,000 | 100.0% |
| --Geographic Information System | $0 | $4,242,000 | $4,242,000 | 100.0% |
| Internal Service Fund | $163,969,600 | $172,030,000 | $8,060,400 | 4.9% |
| -- Entrepreneurial Technology Account | $19,000,000 | $19,000,000 | $0 | 0.0% |
| -- New York intranet (NYT) | $16,799,600 | $20,600,000 | $3,800,400 | 22.6% |
| - - State Data Center | $93,170,000 | $97,430,000 | $4,260,000 | 4.6% |
| -- Human Services Telecommunications Account | $35,000,000 | $35,000,000 | $0 | 0.0% |