Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

The Executive Budget recommends a net increase of 245 FTE’s, including in increase of 232 FTE’s in the Community Services program, 38 FTE’s in the Institutional Services program, offset by a reduction of 25 FTE’s in Central Coordination and Support. The FTE workforce will be 22,182 positions on March 31, 2002. The Executive Budget also recommends (analysis as of January 17, 2001):

Discharge of 179 clients from institutional care, with new admissions restricted to emergency situations and special treatment units.

An increase of 60 Intensive Treatment Unit beds
The opening of 60 new secure beds at the Valley Ridge Center for Intensive Treatment (Norwich) in January 2002

Opening 24 State-operated community beds in NYC for referrals of severely disabled children from the Health and Hospitals Corporation and the Administration for Children’s Services
Continued funding for the development of 100 State-operated NYS-CARES beds
Streamlining administrative programs (centralizing certain human resources and payroll functions)—which is expected to generate $17.8 million in savings
Providing education and training services for public and private sector employees through partnerships with voluntary not-for-profit and other agencies
Consolidation of Taconic DDSO into other district office catchment areas. PEF suspects that Taconic DDSO will be merged with Capital District DDSO and Hudson Valley DDSO.
New capital project funding for 17 new labs at the Institute for Basic Research
A decrease in nonpersonal services funding of $243,000 at the Institute for Basic Research. These funds may be folded into the new capital funding for IBR.
The Central Coordination and Support Program does not show an appropriation for the Quality Assurance Audit Account, a Special Revenue Fund appropriation of $1.6 million in SFY 2000-01
Despite the projected increase of 232 FTE’s in the Community Services Program, the budget shows only an 11.8% increase in personal services, approximately 9.5% of which reflects salary increases. Similarly, the Institutional Services Program, which is supposed to be increased by 38 FTE’s, shows only a 6.6% increase, which does not even accommodate contractual increases.
Aid to Localities increases include:

A Medicaid trend factor of 3.52% for ICFs and most Home and Community Based Services Waiver programs, providing sufficient funding for a base salary increase for 38,000 direct care workers
$4.3 million for non-trended programs to support a $500 base wage and benefit increase

$105 million for NYS CARES, funding 1,000 additional beds, 600 case management opportunities, and 190 day service opportunities

Development of 1,050 day habilitation service opportunities for aging out populations, 140 new beds, day services and service coordination for legally mandated populations, and 1,550 new supported employment placements.

Office of Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities
Program Details-State Operations
	Enacted	Proposed	Change in	Percent
Program	2000-01 Budget	2001-02 Budget	Appropriation	Change
All Funds	$1,045,451,000	$1,140,152,000	$94,701,000	9.1%
General Fund	$131,455,000	$153,296,000	$21,841,000	16.6%
Special Revenue-Federal	$80,000	$80,000	$0	0.0%
Special Revenue-Other	$911,411,000	$983,521,000	$72,110,000	7.9%
Enterprise	$1,950,000	$2,350,000	$400,000	20.5%
Fiduciary	$555,000	$755,000	$200,000	36.0%
Internal Service Fund	$0	$150,000	$150,000	100.0%

Central Coordination	$52,705,000	$54,563,000	$1,858,000	3.5%
Personal Service	$36,051,000	$39,171,000	$3,120,000	8.7%
Nonpersonal Service	$14,970,000	$15,162,000	$192,000	1.3%
Special Revenue-Other	$1,604,000	$0	($1,604,000)	-100.0%
Special Revenue-Fed.	$80,000	$80,000	$0	0.0%
Internal Service Fund	$0	$150,000	$150,000	100.0%

Community Services	$639,264,000	$708,127,000	$68,863,000	10.8%
Personal Service	$539,541,000	$603,254,000	$63,713,000	11.8%
Nonpersonal Service	$94,146,000	$99,033,000	$4,887,000	5.2%
Maintenance Undist.	$5,577,000	$5,840,000	$263,000	4.7%

Institutional Services	$337,730,000	$360,660,000	$22,930,000	6.8%
Personal Service	$208,051,000	$221,707,000	$13,656,000	6.6%
Nonpersonal Service	$47,051,000	$52,230,000	$5,179,000	11.0%
Enterprise	$1,950,000	$2,350,000	$400,000	20.5%
Fiduciary	$505,000	$705,000	$200,000	39.6%
Maintenance Undist.	$80,173,000	$83,668,000	$3,495,000	4.4%

Maintenance Undistributed	$0	$0	$0
Offset	($909,807,000)	($983,521,000)	($73,714,000)	8.1%
Special Revenue-Other	$909,807,000	$983,521,000	$73,714,000	8.1%

Research in MR	$15,752,000	$16,802,000	$1,050,000	6.7%
Personal Service	$13,601,000	$14,894,000	$1,293,000	9.5%
Nonpersonal Service	$2,101,000	$1,858,000	($243,000)	-11.6%
Fiduciary	$50,000	$50,000	$0	0.0%

Last Updated on 1/19/01