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Data Current as of:  8/9/2016



FISCAL YEAR 2017 BUDGET SUMMARY ($000)
ACCOUNT FY2017
Conference		 FY2017
Vetoes		 FY2017
Overrides		 FY2017
GAA
Commission on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren 100 0 0 100
GLBT Commission 500 0 0 500
Commission on the Status of Asian Americans 50 0 0 50
Office of the Secretary of Administration and Finance 3,130 0 0 3,130
Commonwealth Performance Accountability and Transparency 389 0 0 389
Administration and Finance IT Costs 31,230 -829 0 30,401
Caseload and Economic Forecasting Office 130 0 0 130
Municipal Regionalization and Efficiencies Incentive Reserve 11,425 -7,950 7,950 11,425
OCCS Provider Rate Increase 12,500 -7,500 7,500 12,500
Early Retirement Incentive Program NonPayroll Costs 9,954 0 0 9,954
Clean Water Trust Contract Assistance 63,709 -6,331 0 57,379
Massachusetts Department of Transportation Contract Assistance 125,000 0 0 125,000
Commonwealth Infrastructure Investment Assistance Reserve 10,000 0 0 10,000
Uniform Law Commission 70 -70 70 70
Victim Reserve 250 -250 250 250
South Essex Sewerage District Debt Service Assessment 34 0 0 34
Massachusetts IT Center Operational Expenses 500 0 0 500
Chapter 257 and Human Service Reserve 36,246 0 0 36,246
UMass Dartmouth Visual and Performing Arts/Bristol CC 2,700 0 0 2,700
TOTAL    307,917 -22,930 15,770 300,757

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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE 328,776,061
Direct Appropriations
0950-0030 Commission on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
For the commission on the status of grandparents raising grandchildren 		100,000
0950-0050 GLBT Commission
For the commission on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth established in section 67 of chapter 3 of the General Laws; provided, that funds shall be used to address issues related to the implementation of the state's anti-bullying law as outlined in section 37O of chapter 71 of the General Laws 		500,000
0950-0080 Commission on the Status of Asian Americans
For the commission on the status of citizens of Asian and Pacific Islander descent under section 68 of chapter 3 of the General Laws 		50,000
1100-1100 Office of the Secretary of Administration and Finance
For the office of the secretary; provided, that the secretary shall provide biannual reports, the first of which shall be submitted not later than August 3, 2016 and the second of which shall be submitted not later than February 2, 2017 to the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided further, that the reports shall summarize existing and proposed collective bargaining agreements in an electronic format which shall include the following information for each agreement: (a) the session law for the previously agreed upon collective bargaining agreement; (b) the current agreement status; (c) the collective bargaining unit and unit number; (d) the full-time equivalent employees subject to the agreement by item; (e) a description of the membership of the unit; (f) the total salary base of the most recent previous agreement; (g) the start date and expiration date of the most recent agreement; (h) the estimated total fiscal impact of the agreement compared to the previous agreement; (i) the base salary increases required by the agreement by effective time; and (j) the funding status of the agreement; provided further, the report shall detail by bargaining unit the costs to the Commonwealth resulting from the collective bargaining agreements with various public employees' unions, delineated by line item; provided further, that the report shall include the effective date of any new negotiations or renegotiations, the end date of the contract, the number of employees in the bargaining unit by department, the costs associated with any new negotiations or renegotiations, including salary adjustments, step increases, statutory benefits and other non-salary costs for the current and subsequent fiscal years for the life of the contract; 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; provided further, that the executive office shall provide quarterly reports to the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing federal grant applications submitted and federal grants received by executive branch agencies during the applicable reporting period; provided further, that the executive office for administration and finance shall coordinate with the executive office of health and human services to develop a pay-for-performance model to promote employment among recipients of programs administered or contracted by the department of transitional assistance; provided further, that the executive office for administration and finance may coordinate with the Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School to develop the pay-for-performance model; and provided further, that the executive office for administration and finance shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than March 1, 2017 on efforts to develop the pay-for-performance model and on the feasibility of implementing that model in fiscal year 2018 		3,129,590
1100-1201 Commonwealth Performance Accountability and Transparency
For supporting activities relating to accountability and transparency including, but limited to, economic forecasting, adoption of uniform procedures across state agencies and departments and maximizing federal revenue opportunities 		388,828
1100-1700 Administration and Finance IT Costs
For the provision of information technology services within the executive office for administration and finance 		30,400,957
1106-0064 Caseload and Economic Forecasting Office
For the caseload and economic forecasting office; provided, that the caseload and economic forecasting office shall forecast: (a) MassHealth enrollment by group and coverage type; (b) participation in state-subsidized childcare provided through items 3000-3060 and 3000-4060; (c) participation in emergency assistance and housing programs provided through items 7004-0101, 7004-0102 and 7004-0108; (d) enrollment, both active members and dependents, in the group insurance commission; (e) recipients of direct benefits provided by the department of transitional assistance through items 4403-2000, 4405-2000 and 4408-1000; (f) participation in programs provided by the department of children and families through items 4800-0038 and 4800-0041; and (g) other related economic forecasts; provided further, that the office shall report its fiscal year 2016 actuals, fiscal year 2017 actuals and forecasts and fiscal year 2018 forecasts to the executive office for administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than October 14, 2016; and provided further, that the office shall submit updated forecasts to the executive office for administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than January 16, 2017 and March 15, 2017 		130,320
1599-0026 Municipal Regionalization and Efficiencies Incentive Reserve
For a reserve to support municipal improvements; provided, that not more than $1,000,000 shall be expended for an incentive program for communities and municipalities engaging in the use of best practices determined by the Community Compact Cabinet created by Executive Order No. 554 issued January 23, 2015; provided further, that not less than $2,000,000 shall be expended for a multi-year competitive grant program to provide financial support for one-time or transition costs related to regionalization and other efficiency initiatives, with allowable applicants to include municipalities, regional school districts, school districts considering forming a regional school district or regionalizing services, regional planning agencies and councils of governments; provided further, that funds may be expended to expand programs that received funding from this item in prior fiscal years and on programs with proven replicable outcomes for municipalities; provided further, that grants may include funds to evaluate the use of advanced analytics and business intelligence tools for municipalities across the Commonwealth; provided further, that the executive office for administration and finance shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than March 15, 2017 on: (i) results to date of grants awarded in fiscal year 2017 and in prior fiscal years; and (ii) replicable outcome measures for projects awarded to date; provided further, that not less than $2,800,000 shall be expended to fund the District Local Technical Assistance Fund established in section 2XXX of chapter 29 of the General Laws, including projects that encourage regionalization, to be administered by the division of local services and distributed through the District Local Technical Assistance Fund; provided further, that $3,350,000 shall be transferred to the executive office of public safety and security for a competitive grant program for public safety and emergency staffing to be administered by that executive office; and provided further, that the grants shall be awarded to communities that: (a) have populations of at least 60,000; and (b) demonstrate that their police or fire departments had an operating budget per capita of less than $200 in 2010; provided further, that grant funds under this item shall only be provided to communities who submitted qualifying applications that were approved by the executive office of public safety and security in fiscal year 2016; provided further, that each state entity administering grant funds through this item shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means no later than February 15, 2017 detailing grants awarded through this item and the criteria used for distribution; provided further, that $400,000 shall be transferred to the executive office of public safety and security for a competitive grant program for public safety and emergency staffing to be administered by that executive office; and provided further, that the grants shall be awarded to communities that: (a) have populations of at least 60,000; and (b) demonstrate that their police or fire departments had an operating budget per capita of less than $200 in 2010; provided further, that grant funds under this item shall only be provided to communities who submitted qualifying applications that were approved by the executive office of public safety and security in fiscal year 2016; provided further, that each state entity administering grant funds through this item shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means no later than February 15, 2017 detailing grants awarded through this item and the criteria used for distribution; provided further, that not less than what was appropriated in this item in section 2 of chapter 165 of the act of 2014 for a 1-time grant to the city of Quincy shall be expended again for a 1-time grant to the city of Quincy in fiscal year 2017; provided further, that not less than the amount appropriated in this item in section 2 of chapter 165 of the acts of 2014 for the city of Haverhill shall be expended again in fiscal year 2017; provided further, that not less than $30,000 shall be expended for Camp Kiwanee in Hanson; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for geographic information system project in the city of Lynn; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended to Abington for public safety grant along route 18; provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended for design or construction at the Shawsheen Valley Technical High School; provided further, that not less than $40,000 shall be expended for the purpose of data collection and analysis for the Taunton Opioid Task Force Community Follow-up Pilot Program; provided further, that not less than $350,000 shall be appropriated to Plymouth County; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for municipal technology improvements in the town of Danvers; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended for the West Roxbury Main Streets Parkway Community Pavilion construction project on Centre street in the West Roxbury section of the city of Boston; provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended for public safety improvements on the Cox street bridge in the town of Hudson; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for facility construction, upgrades or repairs for public schools in the city known as the town of Agawam; provided further, that not less than $60,000 shall be expended for rubber flooring for the Keverian school's tot lot in the city of Everett; provided further, that not less than $100,000 be expended on camera for Almont park, Roberts field, Port Norfolk park and Franklin park in the Mattapan and Dorchester sections of the city of Boston; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for Youth & Family Enrichment Services, Inc. in the Hyde Park section of the city of Boston to provide after-school academic enrichment for area youth; provided further, that $20,000 shall be expended for the Makerspace program in the town of Medway; provided further, that $150,000 shall be expended to mitigate student overcrowding in the town of Natick; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be provided to the department of public health in the city of Worcester for investments in staff for mental health providers in Worcester county; and provided further that $35,000 shall be expended for the purchase of a mobile de-watering pump for the Duxbury, Marshfield, and Scituate fire departments to have independent means to aid flooded properties
 		11,425,000
1599-0042 OCCS Provider Rate Increase
For a reserve to the department of early education and care to be distributed to increase reimbursement rates for center-based subsidized early education and care and for salaries, benefits and stipends for professional development of early educators or programmatic quality improvements; provided, that funds appropriated in this item shall be used to increase such reimbursement rate by an equal percentage for all such providers 		12,500,000
1599-0063 Early Retirement Incentive Program NonPayroll Costs
For a reserve to fund the costs of sick leave and vacation leave buyout of employees participating in programs implemented under chapter 19 of the acts of 2015, and additional health and other benefit costs of employees who fill positions vacated pursuant to said chapter; provided, that the secretary of administration and finance may transfer from this item to other items of appropriation and allocations thereof for fiscal year 2017 amounts necessary to meet these costs, in accordance with a transfer plan which shall be filed 15 days in advance with the house and senate committees on ways and means 		9,954,074
1599-0093 Clean Water Trust Contract Assistance
For contract assistance to the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust for debt service obligations of the trust under sections 6 and 18 of chapter 29C of the General Laws, prior appropriation continued
 57,378,520
1599-1970 Massachusetts Department of Transportation Contract Assistance
For a reserve for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to defray the costs of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, or its successor, incurred in fiscal year 2017 under section 138 of chapter 27 of the acts of 2009
                Commonwealth Transportation Fund ............... 100%
125,000,000
1599-1977 Commonwealth Infrastructure Investment Assistance Reserve
For contract assistance and other payments to the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency for payment of debt service and related obligations in connection with bonds issued by the agency under chapter 293 of the acts of 2006 and chapter 303 of the acts of 2008 		10,000,000
1599-2003 Uniform Law Commission
For the Uniform Law Commission; provided, that prior fiscal year payments may be payable from this item
 70,000
1599-2014 Victim Reserve
For a reserve for victim assistance to be paid to the estate of the plaintiff in the case of Davis v. Rennie, civil action NO. 96-cv-11598MEL; provided, that the funds shall satisfy in part the judgment
 250,000
1599-3234 South Essex Sewerage District Debt Service Assessment
For the South Essex Sewerage District debt service assessment 		33,914
1599-3856 Massachusetts IT Center Operational Expenses
For rent and associated costs at the Massachusetts information technology center in the city of Chelsea 		500,000
1599-6903 Chapter 257 and Human Service Reserve
For the fiscal year 2017 costs of rate implementations under chapter 257 of the acts of 2008, including but not limited to, costs associated with any court order or settlement between providers and the Commonwealth related to the rate implementation process, and the compensation or salary and associated employee-related costs to personnel earning less than $40,000 in annual compensation who are employed by private human service providers that deliver human and social services under contracts with departments within the executive office of health and human services and the executive office of elder affairs; provided, that home care workers shall be eligible for funding from this item; provided further, that workers from shelters and programs that serve homeless individuals and families that were previously contracted through the department of transitional assistance and the department of public health who are currently contracted with the department of housing and community development and direct care workers that serve homeless veterans through the department of veterans' services shall be eligible for funding from this item; provided further, that no funds from this item shall be allocated to special education programs under chapter 71B of the General Laws, contracts for early education and care services or programs for which payment rates are negotiated and paid as class rates as established by the executive office of health and human services; provided further, that no funds shall be allocated from this item to contracts funded exclusively by federal grants as delineated in section 2D of this act; provided further, that the secretary of administration and finance may transfer from the sum appropriated in this item to other items for fiscal year 2017, amounts that are necessary to meet these costs where the amounts otherwise available are insufficient for the purpose of rate implementations; provided further, that the executive office for administration and finance shall report quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means on transfers made from this item; provided further, that the report shall identify, by line item and service class, all transfers made from this item as of the date of the report and all transfers expected to be made prior to the end of the fiscal year; provided further, that the executive office of health and human services shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the executive office for administration and finance, not later than January 16, 2017, on the implementation of rates pursuant to said chapter 257, including: (a) spending and revenue for rates not yet promulgated as of July 1, 2016, by item, revenue source, service class and start date of implementation; (b) spending and revenue for rates promulgated not later than June 30, 2015 that have received a biennial rate review or have not received a biennial rate review by item, revenue source, service class and start date of implementation; (c) spending and revenue for rates due to be reviewed on July 1, 2016 by item, revenue source, service class and start date of implementation; (d) estimated spending and revenue for rates to be reviewed between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017, inclusive, by item, revenue source, service class and projected start date of implementation; and (e) payroll spending in fiscal year 2010 and fiscal year 2016 aggregated by vendor and by service class; and provided further, that contracts between providers and the executive office of health and human services and the executive office of elder affairs shall require providers to report on the impact of the rate implementations on employee salaries, employee-related costs and operations 		36,245,575
1599-7104 UMass Dartmouth Visual and Performing Arts/Bristol CC
For a reserve for the facilities costs associated with the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth including funds from this item for Bristol Community College 		2,700,000

account description amount
Intragovernmental Service Spending 28,019,283
1100-1701 Chargeback for Administration and Finance IT Costs
For the cost of information technology services provided to agencies of the executive office for administration and finance
                Intragovernmental Service Fund ............... 100%
28,019,283

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