Council on the Arts

Council on the Arts

The 21-day amendments to the Executive Budget recommend the following changes (analysis as of February 13, 2008):

Creates a new Council on the Arts Account, SRF, with $100,000 in federal funding for non personal services. This account did not exist in the enacted 2007-2008 Budget.

The Executive budget recommends (analysis as of January 28, 2008):

A FY 2007-08 workforce of 55. This maintains the number of FTEs from the adjusted FTE level for FY 2007-08.

The total appropriation for Personal Service is $6.4 million, a 1.6% increase over SFY 2007-08.
An All Funds increase of $1.2 million (13.6%) from SFY 2007-.08
The Council on the Arts did not employ consultant employees in SFY 2007-08 and that remains the same for SFY 2008-09.
The 2008-09 Executive Budget recommendations provide $6.1 million for administration of the Council’s program and $49 million in General Fund support for arts grants, decentralization grants and arts-in education grants, the same level as the 2007-08 budget.
The Assembly shows a reduction of $1.3 million for the New York State Theater Institute (NYSTI) due to a SFY 2007-08 adjusted appropriation resulting from the payment of retroactive fringe benefit costs to employees which is being proposed as a deficiency appropriation. This does not appear in the PEF spreadsheet because it was an adjustment in the current year.

Council on the Arts
Program Details-State Operations
	Enacted	Proposed	Change in	Percent
Program	2007-08 Budget	2008-09 Budget	Appropriation	Change
All Funds	$8,859,000	$10,164,300	$1,305,300	14.7%
General Fund	$6,066,000	$6,142,000	$76,000	1.3%
Special Revenue-Federal (SRF)	$0	$100,000	$100,000	100.0%
Special Revenue-Other (SRO)	$2,793,000	$3,922,300	$1,129,300	40.4%

Personal Services	$6,273,100	$6,376,400	$103,300	1.6%
Contractual Services	$2,216,100	$2,190,700	($25,400)	-1.1%

Administration	$6,066,000	$6,142,000	$76,000	1.3%
Personal Service	$4,183,000	$4,214,000	$31,000	0.7%
Regular	$4,183,000	$4,214,000	$31,000	0.7%
Nonpersonal Service	$1,883,000	$1,928,000	$45,000	2.4%
Supplies and materials	$37,700	$39,000	$1,300	3.4%
Travel	$75,300	$77,000	$1,700	2.3%
Contractual Services	$1,694,700	$1,735,000	$40,300	2.4%
Equipment	$75,300	$77,000	$1,700	2.3%
Special Revenue-Federal (SRF)	$0	$100,000	$100,000	100.0%

Council on the Arts Acct - (SRF)	$0	$100,000	$100,000	100.0%
Nonpersonal Service	$0	$100,000	$100,000	100.0%

Empire State Plaza Perform Arts Center Corp Pgm	$634,000	$650,000	$16,000	2.5%
Cultural Education Acct - (SRO)	$634,000	$650,000	$16,000	2.5%
Personal Service	$190,200	$193,900	$3,700	1.9%
Regular	$126,800	$126,800	$0	0.0%
Temporary Service	$57,100	$60,300	$3,200	5.6%
Holiday/overtime compensation	$6,300	$6,800	$500	7.9%
Nonpersonal Service	$443,800	$456,100	$12,300	2.8%
Supplies and materials	$76,100	$78,900	$2,800	3.7%
Travel	$6,400	$6,400	$0	0.0%
Contractual Services	$348,700	$357,200	$8,500	2.4%
Fringe benefits	$6,300	$6,300	$0	0.0%
Indirect costs	$6,300	$7,300	$1,000	15.9%

NYS Theater Institute Corp Pgm	$2,159,000	$3,272,300	$1,113,300	51.6%
Cultural Education Acct - (SRO)	$2,159,000	$3,272,300	$1,113,300	51.6%
Personal Service	$1,899,900	$1,968,500	$68,600	3.6%
Regular	$1,597,700	$1,735,700	$138,000	8.6%
Temporary Service	$302,200	$232,800	($69,400)	-23.0%
Nonpersonal Service	$259,100	$1,303,800	$1,044,700	403.2%
Supplies and materials	$43,200	$142,000	$98,800	228.7%
Travel	$43,200	$3,000	($40,200)	-93.1%
Contractual Services	$172,700	$98,500	($74,200)	-43.0%
Equipment	$0	$15,600	$15,600	100.0%
Fringe benefits	$0	$975,800	$975,800	100.0%
Indirect costs	$0	$68,900	$68,900	100.0%