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Budget Summary FY2010

Office of the Secretary of Transportation and Public Works
Data Current as of:  1/26/2010





FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUDGET SUMMARY ($000)
ACCOUNT FY2010
Conference
FY2010
Vetoes
FY2010
GAA
October
Budget
Reductions
Executive Office of Transportation and Public Works 2,474 0 2,474 -1,613
Railroad Property Retained Revenue 27 0 12 0
Transportation Information Technology Costs 6,151 -564 2,076 -372
Regional Transit Authorities Contract Assistance 44,671 -436 39,812 0
TOTAL    53,324 -1,000 44,373 -1,984

NOTE: FY10 GAA values represent the amount expended by the former Executive Office of Transportation and Public Works prior to November 1, 2010. As of Nov. 1st, the department transitioned from budgetary appropriations to a non-budgetary fund.


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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS 63,362,778
Direct Appropriations
6000-0100 Executive Office of Transportation and Public Works
For the office of the secretary of transportation; provided, that the office shall submit quarterly reports to the joint committee on transportation and the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing projects funded through the statewide transportation improvement program including, but not limited to, the location of the projects, the cost of the projects, the date of advertisement of the projects, the commencement date of the projects, the projected completion date of the projects and the source of funds for the projects; provided further, that the office shall also provide the committees with quarterly reports detailing construction and reconstruction projects on town and county ways as described in subdivision (a) of clause (2) of the first paragraph of section 34 of chapter 90 of the General Laws for which municipalities are projected to seek, have filed claims or have been paid state reimbursement; provided further, that a city or town shall comply with the procedures established by the secretary to obtain the necessary information to produce the reports; provided further, that the reports shall include, but not be limited to, the cost of the projects by city or town, the source of funding of the projects by city or town and the commencement and completion dates of the projects by city or town; provided further, that the secretary of transportation, in collaboration with the commissioner of highways, shall file an annual report with the joint committee on transportation and the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than June 30; provided further, that the report shall include spending through the statewide road and bridge program, the Chapter 90 program, the Small Town Road Assistance Program and all other programs expending funds for road and bridge projects; provided further, that the report shall detail the location of the project by city or town, a brief project description, the project cost, the expected completion date, the source of funding and any other information deemed necessary; provided further, that the office shall submit to the house and senate committees on ways and means quarterly reports detailing all personnel-related expenditures made from capital funds; provided further, that the reports shall delineate for the executive office and for each agency, board, authority or commission under its control, the amounts paid in the prior quarter as compensation for each type of position assigned to capital projects that were charged to each such funding source; provided further, that the reports shall also delineate by funding source any other amounts paid for personnel-related costs that were charged to those funds, including payroll allocations for budgetary employees, fringe recovery and other chargebacks; provided further, that the reports shall identify the number of full time equivalent personnel classified in each position type; provided further, that the reports shall list all employees who are paid from this item and items 6010-0002 and 6006-0003 who also receive payments from any capital funds; provided further, that the reports shall include for each of those employees how much money the employees receive from the items and how much money each employee receives from any capital funds; provided further, that the reports shall delineate the information for full-time employees, part-time employees and contracted personnel; provided further, that the report shall delineate any possibility of transferring equipment costs from operating expenditures to capital expenditures, and personnel costs from capital expenditures to operating expenditures, in a cost-neutral manner; and provided further, that agencies within the executive office may, with the prior approval of the secretary, streamline and improve administrative operations pursuant to interdepartmental service agreements
                Commonwealth Transportation Fund ............... 100%
2,474,447
6000-1700 Transportation Information Technology Costs
For the provision of information technology services within the executive office of transportation
                Commonwealth Transportation Fund ............... 100%
2,075,682
6005-0015 Regional Transit Authorities Contract Assistance
For certain assistance to the regional transit authorities, including operating grants and reimbursements to increase the accessibility of transit provided to the elderly and disabled under the mobility assistance program, the regional transit authority program and the intercity bus capital assistance program; provided, that the commonwealth, acting by and through the executive office for administration and finance, for the period beginning July 1, 2009 and ending June 30, 2010, may enter into contracts with the authorities; provided further, that notwithstanding section 152A of chapter 161 of the General Laws and section 23 of chapter 161B of the General Laws, the amount shall be at least 50 per cent but not more than 75 per cent of the net cost of service of each authority incurred in fiscal year 2009, shall be paid by the commonwealth, and shall not be assessed upon the cities and towns constituting the authorities; provided further, that the share assessed upon the cities and towns shall be at least 25 per cent of the net cost of service; provided further, that in the event that 25 per cent of the net cost of service of each authority exceeds 102.5 per cent of the previous year's local assessment, excluding payments made by cities and towns for the costs of new service for which the cities and towns have not previously been assessed as allowed by chapter 580 of the acts of 1980, the regional transit authority shall reduce its operating expenses or increase its revenues to meet the difference; provided further, that operating expenditures of each of the regional transit authorities for fiscal year 2010 shall not exceed 102.5 per cent of its operating expenditures for fiscal year 2009; provided further, that for the purposes of this item, operating expenditures shall not include federal, private or additional municipal non-state revenue sources or any expenses arising from the provision of services required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, or new services implemented after July 1, 1999, in an amount not to exceed a total of $3,613,905 for the 16 regional transit authorities; provided further, that the new services shall have first received approval of the appropriate regional transit authority advisory board; provided further, that not less than 25 per cent of the net cost of service of the new services shall be assessed to the cities and towns of the appropriate transit authority, as detailed previously in this item; provided further, that each regional transit authority which provides the new services shall file a report with the house and senate committees on ways and means and the joint committee on transportation, detailing the total costs and revenues associated with the new service; provided further, that the cost of the new services shall not annualize to more than $3,613,905; provided further, that the executive office of transportation shall work cooperatively with the authorities and other public and private funding sources to maximize new revenue sources to expand transit services; provided further, that the authorities and the executive office of transportation shall develop processes and procedures for contracts for services with other state agencies; provided further, that the executive office of transportation and the authorities shall work cooperatively to implement multi-year contracting for regional transit authority capital projects, particularly for construction projects and other multi-year commitments of the authorities; provided further, that the regional transit authorities shall implement structural, managerial and administrative reforms in order to achieve cost savings in services provided by the authorities; provided further, that the reforms shall include, but not be limited to, improved financing procedures for capital needs, approved plans for short and long-term service, a coordinated program of mass transportation for the regional transit authorities that provides standards of service for the authorities for types of service, passenger miles, hours of service, cost of service by route and mile and passenger, non-transportation revenue and system revenue-generating options including, but not limited to, fare revenue and advertising revenue, assessments on member cities and towns, net operating investment per passenger-mile ratio and service quality standards; provided further, that the program shall involve an approach to service coordinated with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and other transit providers in order to achieve maximum efficiency of regional transit authority service routes; provided further, that all regional transit authorities shall achieve the fare or revenue recovery ratio of 40 per cent within 18 months after the effective date of this act; and provided further, that the Massachusetts Association of Regional Transit Authorities shall, on or before November 15, 2009, report to the joint committee on transportation and the house and senate committees on ways and means on the operations of the authorities in the first half of fiscal year 2010 and focus the report on the reforms and improvements
39,811,548

account description amount
Retained Revenues
6000-0110 Railroad Property Retained Revenue
For the purpose of property management and maintenance of railroad properties owned by the executive office of transportation on behalf of the commonwealth, including the cost of personnel; provided, that the office may expend an amount not to exceed $27,344 from the rents and fees received pursuant to section 4 of chapter 161C of the General Laws
                Commonwealth Transportation Fund ............... 100%
11,532

account description amount
Intragovernmental Service Spending 2,008,226
6000-1701 Chargeback for Transportation Information Technology Costs
For the cost of information technology services provided to agencies of the executive office of transportation and public works
                Intragovernmental Service Fund ............... 100%
2,008,226

account description amount
Federal Grant Spending 16,981,343
6000-0018 Rural Public Transportation Assistance
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Rural Public Transportation Assistance
4,399,436
6000-0020 Jobs Access - Reverse Commute
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Jobs Access Reverse Commute
3,187,885
6000-0023 Rural Public Transportation Planning
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Rural Public Transportation Planning Grant
3,935,000
6000-0049 Elderly and Handicapped Transportation Capital Grant
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Elderly and Handicapped Transportation Capital Grant
5,459,022

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