State Office for the Aging
The enacted budget makes the following changes to the Executive Budget (analysis as of April 2, 2007):
- Adds $610,000 to the office’s All Funds budget, including $85,000 in personal service funding in the Administration and Grants Management Program for additional staff for oversight of the Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORC) and Neighborhood Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NNORC).
- Adds $525,000 to the maintenance undistributed appropriation in the Administration and Grants Management Program, as follows: $200,000 for a Family Caregiver Council, including $75,000 in personal service; 225,000 for the Alzheimer’s Advisory Coordinating Council, suballocated to DOH; $90,000 for services and expenses of NORCs and NNORCs; $10,000 for the Caregiving in New York study; $100,000 for the Mature Worker Taskforce; and $100,000 for developing model zoning and planning guidelines that foster age-integrated communities.
- Adds Article VII language to establish a Coordinating Council for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia, to facilitate interagency planning and policy, review agency initiatives and provide a forum for discussion related to formulation of a comprehensive statewide policy. The Director of the Office for the Aging is a member of the council.
- Adds Article VII language to establish a Mature Worker Task Force to coordinate state efforts to assist older workers, to support business growth in light of increasing aging workforce and to combat ageism. The Director of the Office for the Aging is the co-chair of the task force.
- Adds Article VII language for the Office, in coordination with the Department of State, to prepare or cause to be prepared model zoning and planning guidelines that foster age integrated communities and make recommendations for assisting mixed-use age-integrated housing development or redevelopment demonstration projects. Creates an advisory committee for this purpose.
The Senate and Assembly recommend (analysis as of March 16, 2007):
- Senate: Adds $50,000 for Geriatric Chair feasibility studies and $1 million for a pilot program in geriatric case management. These may be State Operations appropriations.
- Assembly: Adds $200,000 to the Administration and Grants program for the services and expenses of establishing a family caregiver council, including $75,000 in personal service.
The 21-day amendments to the Executive Budget recommend the following changes (analysis as of February 22, 2007):
- Adds $200,000 to the Administration and Grants Management Program’s Maintenance Undistributed appropriation to support the administration of the Family Caregivers Council. This appropriation was previously allocated to Local Assistance, which has now been removed.
The Executive Budget recommends (analysis as of February 2, 2007):
A FY 2007-08 workforce of 141, unchanged from the adjusted FTE level for FY 2006-07. The following chart identifies adjustments in the current fiscal year’s FTEs along with the recommended differences in FY 2007-08 FTEs by program (if the FTE’s are the same the program is not listed):
Program
FY 2006-07 Adjustment
FY 2007-08 Difference
Administration and Grants Management
+7
0
- The total appropriation for Personal Service is $2.2 million, a 16.9% increase from SFY 2006-07. This may represent the annualization of the addition of seven positions late in the current fiscal year. This should be clarified at Labor/Management.
- An All Funds increase of $172,000, (1.3%) from SFY 2006-07
- The Executive Budget shows that the Office for the Aging employed an estimated 7 employees under consultant contracts in SFY 2006-07 at an estimated cost of $194,000 or an average cost of $ 27,714 per consultant contract employee. It is estimated that the number of employees employed under consultant contracts and their cost will stay the same in SFY 2007-08.
- According to the Senate and Assembly, $150,000 in funding for the Community Greenhouse Demonstration Project is eliminated.
State Office For The Aging Program Details-State Operations Enacted Proposed Enacted Change in Percent Program 2006-07 Budget 2007-08 Budget 2007-08 Budget Appropriation Change All Funds $13,034,000 $13,406,000 $14,016,000 $982,000 7.5% General Fund $2,384,000 $2,756,000 $3,366,000 $982,000 41.2% Special Revenue-Federal $10,250,000 $10,250,000 $10,250,000 $0 0.0% Special Revenue-Other $300,000 $300,000 $300,000 $0 0.0% Enterprise Funds $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $0 0.0% Personal Services $1,903,000 $2,345,000 $2,430,000 $527,000 27.7% Administration & Grants Management Program $13,034,000 $13,406,000 $14,016,000 $982,000 7.5% Personal Service $1,903,000 $2,225,000 $2,310,000 $407,000 21.4% Regular $2,211,000 $2,211,000 Enacted Budget adds staff for oversight of NORC $0 $85,000 $85,000 100.0% Temporary Service $14,000 $14,000 Nonpersonal Service $306,000 $306,000 $306,000 $0 0.0% Supplies and materials $33,000 $33,000 Travel $56,000 $56,000 Contractual services $210,000 $210,000 Equipment $7,000 $7,000 Maintenance Undistributed $175,000 $225,000 $750,000 $575,000 328.6% Personal Service $75,000 $75,000 Regular $75,000 $75,000 Nonpersonal Service $0 $150,000 $675,000 $675,000 100.0% Supplies and materials $15,000 $15,000 Travel $40,000 $40,000 Contractual services $80,000 $80,000 Equipment $15,000 $15,000 Enacted Budget Adds $0 $525,000 $525,000 100.0% Special Revenue-Federal $10,250,000 $10,250,000 $10,250,000 $0 0.0% Special Revenue-Other $300,000 $300,000 $300,000 $0 0.0% Enterprise $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $0 0.0% Federal Health & Human Services Fund - (SRF) $8,700,000 $8,700,000 $8,700,000 $0 0.0% Office for Aging Federal Grants Account - (SRF) $1,200,000 $1,200,000 $1,200,000 $0 0.0% Senior Community Svcs Employment Acct - (SRF) $350,000 $350,000 $350,000 $0 0.0% Aging Grants & Bequests Acct - (SRO) $250,000 $250,000 $250,000 $0 0.0% Nonpersonal Service $250,000 $250,000 Supplies and materials $50,000 $50,000 Travel $50,000 $50,000 Contractual services $150,000 $150,000 Long Term Care Insurance Resource Center Acct - (SRO) $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $0 0.0% Personal Service $45,000 $45,000 Regular $45,000 $45,000