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Honorable James Y. Arakaki
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<br /> May 5, 2003
<br /> Other Grants. Major changes to our anticipated grants-in-aid are as follows:
<br /> • Federal Transit Administration, $284,000
<br /> • US Firefighters Association, Firefighter Safety, $297,220
<br /> • Greetings Program, $75,000
<br /> • Visitors Aloha Program, $40,000
<br /> • Sex Crimes Unit, discontinued <$174,000>
<br /> Tipping Fees. We adjusted the tipping fee revenues in the Solid Waste Fund by $853,645
<br /> due to the anticipated tee increase.
<br /> Expenditures
<br /> Along with the above changes in revenue projections, there have been adjustments to
<br /> estimated expenditures. The most significant are shown below:
<br /> • Ilealth Fund increase, $680,000
<br /> • Cost of Sales - Hamakua Lands, $300,000, to pay for consolidation/subdivision plans
<br /> and surveys
<br /> • Debt Service increase, $265,000, due to the increase in our bond issue
<br /> • COPS Ahead positions, $250,92()
<br /> • Sex Crime Units positions, $62,343
<br /> • Matching funds for USFA grant, $127,380
<br /> • Prosecuting Attorney S&W, $93,192, to pay for 3 new positions
<br /> New Positions
<br /> • 2 Election Clerk II (delete Sr. Election Clerk), Elections
<br /> • Legal Clerk III, Corporation Counsel
<br /> • Senior Account Clerk, Environmental Management
<br /> • Investigator III, Prosecuting Attorney
<br /> • Victim/Witness Counselor I[, Prosecuting Attorney
<br /> • Clerk [1, Prosecuting Attorney
<br /> Summary
<br /> This amended budget includes funding to expand services in public safety, improve our
<br /> computer system, and enable departments to maintain services at present levels. Still,
<br /> there are many challenges ahead -meeting environmental, safety, and accessibility
<br /> requirements; replacing old facilities and infrastructure; providing adequate services i?
<br /> growing communities -which all require more resources to address.
<br /> My staff and I have, over the past two years, made it our goal to build solid financial and
<br /> service bases that will enable this County to meet the challenges presented. We enter the
<br /> next fiscal year several steps closer to achieving our goal, and we will continue to move
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<br /> in this direction. We are committed to making our real property tax laws more relevant
<br /> and fair, our rates and ties more appropriate, and our operations more efficient.
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