Office of Homeland Security
The enacted budget makes no changes to the State Operations portion of the Executive Budget.
The Executive Budget recommends (analysis as of January 21, 2006):
- An overall level of 147 FTE positions, an increase of 37 FTE positions over the Office’s adjusted FTE level for March 31, 2005. All these new FTEs are added to the administration program. During SFY2005-06, 24 FTEs were added to the new Homeland Security Program, completely supported by Federal funds. These federal funds are not appropriated as State Operations funds but rather as Local Assistance funds, either though they employ State employees. This is an unusual arrangement which should be discussed at statewide agency labor management.
- An All-Funds appropriation of $17,767,000, a $259,000 increase over the enacted SFY2005-06 appropriation. The entire increase is in the Administration Program, of which $252,000 is for personal service. According to the Senate Finance Committee the 35 of the 37 new FTE positions are to staff the New York State Preparedness Training Center at the Oneida County Airport. It is intended to serve as a centralized anti-terrorism training facility for both State and local first-responders. According to the Senate, the total cost of this new program for SFY2006-07 is $4.6 million. However the total increased funding for SFY2006-07 is only $259,000. An explanation of this discrepancy should be sought at statewide labor management.
- A new $350,000 million federal fund appropriation in the Local assistance budget for the Homeland Security grant program. This appropriation consolidates several programs that had specific Local assistance appropriations in past budgets. As discussed above, 24 State FTEs are supported with a portion of this funding.
Program Details-State Operations
Enacted
Proposed
Enacted
Change in
Percent
Program
2005-06 Budget
2006-07 Budget
2006-07 Budget
Appropriation
Change
All Funds
$17,508,000
$17,767,000
$17,767,000
$259,000
1.5%
General Fund
$8,590,000
$8,849,000
$8,849,000
$259,000
3.0%
Special Revenue - Other
$7,418,000
$7,418,000
$7,418,000
$0
0.0%
Internal Service Fund
$1,500,000
$1,500,000
$1,500,000
$0
0.0%
Administration Program
$8,590,000
$8,849,000
$8,849,000
$259,000
3.0%
Personal Service
$3,048,000
$3,300,000
$3,300,000
$252,000
8.3%
Nonpersonal Service
$5,542,000
$5,549,000
$5,549,000
$7,000
0.1%
Cyber Security Pgm
$7,418,000
$7,418,000
$7,418,000
$0
0.0%
Special Revenue - Other (SRO)
$7,418,000
$7,418,000
$7,418,000
$0
0.0%
Internal Service Fund
$1,500,000
$1,500,000
$1,500,000
$0
0.0%
Critical Infrastructure Account - (SRO)
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$0
0.0%
Cyber Upgrade Acct - (SRO)
$800,000
$800,000
$800,000
$0
0.0%
Public Service Account - (SRO)
$5,618,000
$5,618,000
$5,618,000
$0
0.0%
Personal Service
$2,539,000
$2,539,000
$2,539,000
$0
0.0%
Nonpersonal Service
$2,253,000
$2,253,000
$2,253,000
$0
0.0%
Fringe benefits
$826,000
$826,000
$826,000
$0
0.0%