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Communication No. 151, Bill No. 36 <br />April 21, 2009 <br />Page -2- <br />In addition to the cuts made by the departments major changes in projected expenditures are as <br />follows: <br />General Government <br />• Clerk/Council. Election's budget has been reduced in this non-election year. The Council's <br />$900,000 contingency account has been eliminated. <br />• Office of Management. Funding for coqui frog eradication has been removed from the <br />budget request. <br />• Data Systems. Funding restrictions prevent the department from proceeding with expansion <br />of the document management project. <br />• Finance. Savings resulted from closing out a financing lease, postponing a real property tax <br />software purchase, reducing Hague Convention costs for real property tax sales and <br />distributing the budget for advertising. <br />• Public Works. Additional costs for janitorial services and fuel offset the reduction in budget <br />for Flood Insurance Rate Maps updates. <br />Public Safety <br />• Police. Offsetting the decrease from the postponement of the police fleet transition and the <br />omission of the grant match for the interoperable communication system aze increases in fuel <br />costs and police officers' wages from a previously negotiated collective bargaining contract. <br />• Fire. The budget includes fire fighters' salary increases from a previously negotiated contract <br />and is reduced by the elimination of the prior year budget for helicopter purchase. <br />• Civi/ Defense. Included in the budget is the projected $1.1 million State Homeland Security <br />grant. <br />Health, Education and Welfare <br />• Housing. A drop in grant funding results in the $1.7 million decrease in the department's <br />budget. <br />Culture and Recreation <br />• Administration. Excluded from Parks Administration's budget are funds for the Veterans <br />Center match, the Mahukona Boat Ramp study and the Kahalu'u Park Ranger programs. The <br />Lava Viewing program will continue. The West Hawaii Golf program subsidy has been <br />reduced to $500,000. <br />Sanitation and Waste Disposal <br />• Solid Waste Division. The Solid Waste budget has decreased with the reductions in <br />miscellaneous contractual services and cover material expenditures. <br />FC REPORT NO. 51 <br />