Transcript FY15 Maintenance Plan Discussion Fiscal Committee October 2, 2013 FY15 GAA Timeline October Oct- Jan Late January Early February Feb - Mar April May June July August •SFY15 Maintenance Submission to ANF: Due October 15, 2013 •House.

FY15 Maintenance Plan
Discussion
Fiscal Committee
October 2, 2013
FY15 GAA Timeline
October
Oct- Jan
Late
January
Early
February
Feb - Mar
April
May
June
July
August
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•SFY15 Maintenance Submission to ANF: Due October 15, 2013
•House 1 Prep
•Governor’s FY15 Proposal “House 2” is released.
•H/SWM SFY15 Maintenance Submissions due.
•Work with H/SWM in preparing the SFY15 budget.
•HWM releases and House Engrosses its version of FY15 Budget.
•SWM releases and Senate Engrosses its version of FY15 Budget.
•House and Senate enact the Conference Committee recommended budget and sent to Governor. Governor can veto
(must be submitted 10 days after the budget is enacted by the legislature) and legislature can override.
•Once override process is complete the FY15 GAA is finalized.
•All agencies must submit to ANF, through the MBA database, the SFY15 Spending Plan. The plan, which requires ANF
approval, details FTEs, object class spending and realignment, and revenue projections.
FY15 Maintenance Plan
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All state agencies are currently developing FY15 maintenance plans
for ANF.
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ANF defines maintenance as “…the funding level, after minimal
adjustments in specific areas, to enable a department to carry out the
same level of services next year as was achieved in the current year.”
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Aspirational budgets are not part of this process.
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The process just began with ANF approving FY14 Spending Plans on
September 30. Agencies need to wait for FY14 approval from ANF
because FY15 maintenance plans are based on the FY14 Spending
Plan. We, therefore, do not have details on the FY15 financials, but
have an overall grasp on potential FY15 exposures.
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The following slides provide an overview of the various issues we are
considering when developing the FY15 Maintenance Plan.
FY15 Maintenance - Admin Account
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The following are areas that will have FY15 Maintenance increases:
 Payroll:
1. FY14 Additions: We requested 9 additional positions in
the FY14 Spending Plan. There is more than sufficient
funds in FY14 to support all positions. ANF has approved
seven positions; these will be added add to the FY15
Maintenance base.
2. FY15 CBA: It is likely that EEC’s union employees (NAGE
and SEIU) will have a new collective bargaining agreement.
The rate and cost are not known as yet.
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Biennial Market Rate Analysis: According to CCDF regulations,
EEC must conduct a biannual market rate analysis. The cost is
approximately $80K.
There will be roughly $110K in anticipated FY14 Springfield
relocation costs that will not be necessary in FY15.
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Office Lease Space:
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There are scheduled increases in several of EEC’s offices
(Central and Taunton are examples.)
FY15 Maintenance Plan – Access
Management
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For maintenance purposes, EEC will move the $700K in additional
FY14 funds to the seven CCR&Rs from 3000-4070 to this
appropriation in the FY15 Maintenance Plan.
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The funds supported the reconstruction of the CCR&Rs' infrastructure
to help ensure the timely and effective processing of the opening of
access project.
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In FY15, the CCR&Rs will need to maintain the new supports and it is
more appropriate to fund all the CCR&R contracts from one source.
Also, it is not certain that the legislature will continue funding for
3000-4070.
FY15 Maintenance Plan - Caseload
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General Presumptions in Building FY15 Caseload:
1. Consolidated Net Surplus (CNS) funds an $11.5M Rate Increase:
CNS is a likely occurrence. We will assume annualizing the FY14
CNS increase to the FY15 maintenance base.
2. The rate increase negotiated by SEIU will be limited to FCC
providers and will not be calculated for Center Based providers in
our FY15 maintenance budget.
3. OER has asked us to build into maintenance the cost of a
differentiated rate structure for SEIU.
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3000-3050 / DCF: For the FY14 spending plan we projected serving
roughly 6000 children per month. This amount allowed EEC to stay
within the FY14 appropriated amount and potentially add 376 children
(which is included in the 6000 total). We will base the FY15
maintenance amount on serving 6000 children per month.
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3000-4050 / DTA: We will use the same methodology used in the
FY14 spending plan. We will use the projected FY14 June child count
as the FY15 base and apply FY13 month-to-month variation to project
FY15 month-to-month variation.
FY15 Maintenance Plan - Caseload
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3000-4060 / IE
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3000-4070 / Waitlist Remediation:
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Move over the 2,300 (or more) children funded from 3000-4070
in FY14 to this item in FY15.
Build in the additional (roughly 800 children) children to whom
we opened IE access as part of our backfill attrition policy into
FY15.
After adding the 2,300 and 800 points of access opened in FY14
to the totals we will use the projected FY14 ending child count in
IE and 3000-4070 as the base for FY15 IE maintenance plan. We
will assume CCR&R will backfill any voucher slots vacated in FY15
with another child.
The inclusion of another $15M for Waitlist Remediation for FY15 is
maintenance in our view because:
a) there was no indication from the legislature and ANF that
this was a one-year project; and
b) to continue 3000-4070 is maintaining the state's policy of
reducing the IE waitlist growth.
We would request $14.3M because $700K would be transferred to
the 3000-2000 in FY15.
FY15 Maintenance Plan - Other
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We will assume level funding for:
 3000-5000 / Head Start
 3000-5075 / UPK
 3000-6075 / Mental Health
 3000-7050 / Family Services
 3000-7070 / Reach Out and Read.
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We could assume level funding for:
 3000-3000 / STEM Curriculum Funding: FY15 funding could be
argued as maintenance as it would be continuing a project funded
in FY14.
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We will not assume level funding for:
 3000-4065 / Early ED Provider Quality Enhancements: We
believe this is a one year deal; therefore, no maintenance funding
required in FY15.