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Senate leaders propose $14.5 billion budget for coming year
The
Senate leadership unveiled a blueprint for state spending over
the next two years with introduction last Friday of the
current operations appropriation bill. The measure, S. 1005,
was filed by the three co-chairs of the Appropriations Base
Budget Committee, Sens. Aaron Plyler, Fountain Odom and Howard
Lee.
Introduction of the bill marks the official starting point of
what is expected to be a long and difficult budget-writing
process that will extend at least until July 1, the start of
the state’s new fiscal year. The proposed spending levels in
the bill for the various state agencies and departments
represents a consensus view at this point of what the state
needs just to maintain current programs. Legislation will be
offered later – the so-called expansion budget -- to propose
spending, if any, on new programs.
Of the $14.54 billion in proposed spending in the year that
begins July 1, $5.96 billion would go to the Department of
Public Instruction to operate the k-12 public schools. Another
$1.82 billion would go to the UNC Board of Governors to run
the university system, and $663.3 million would go to support
the community colleges. Outside of education, spending on
social programs is the second-largest area of the proposed
budget, with $3.43 billion earmarked for the Department of
Health and Human Services in the year ahead.
The spending plan envisions $1.32 billion in transportation
spending supported by the Highway Fund, and $988.7 million in
transportation spending supported by the Highway Trust Fund.
As Gov. Mike Easley requested, the budget for the public
schools includes funds to reduce class size n kindergarten to
18 students in the coming school year.
The spending plan grants raises of 2 percent to state
employees, including school teachers. It sets the salary for
the governor and the chief justice of the state Supreme Court
at $120,799. Council of State members would earn $106,613 and
secretaries of state agencies would be paid $104,161. About
the highest-paid state official would be the State Controller,
at $132,680.
| Current
Operations – General Fund |
2001-2002 |
2002-2003 |
| |
| General
Assembly |
$39,953,848 |
$39,953,848 |
| Judicial
Department |
377,356,206 |
377,356,206 |
| Office of the
Governor |
|
|
|
Office of
the Governor |
5,497,905 |
5,497,905 |
|
Office of
State Budget, Planning, and Management |
5,702,900 |
5,722,900 |
|
Flood
Mapping and Surveying |
1,211,845 |
1,211,845 |
|
Housing
Finance |
5,220,000 |
5,220,000 |
| Department of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention |
144,568,423 |
146,318,423 |
| Office of the
Lieutenant Governor |
676,308 |
676,308 |
| Department of
the Secretary of State |
8,730,901 |
8,730,901 |
| Department. of State
Auditor |
11,984,518 |
11,984,518 |
| Department of State
Treasurer |
|
|
|
State
Treasurer |
7,719,007 |
7,719,007 |
|
Special
Contributions |
12,294,780 |
12,294,780 |
| Department of
Public Education |
5,958,233,628 |
6,310,194,196 |
| Department of
Justice |
75,557,337 |
75,557,337 |
| Department of
Agriculture and Consumer Services |
55,845,276 |
55,845,276 |
| Department of Labor |
16,368,178 |
16,368,178 |
| Department of
Insurance |
|
|
|
Insurance |
23,362,288 |
23,362,288 |
|
Direct
Appropriation |
1,500,000 |
4,500,000 |
| Department of
Administration |
61,917,180 |
61,917,180 |
| Office of the
State Controller |
11,640,271 |
11,640,271 |
| Department of
Transportation |
10,451,882 |
14,486,443 |
| Department of
Environment and Natural Resources |
161,778,842 |
161,778,842 |
| Clean Water
Management Trust Fund |
30,000,000 |
70,000,000 |
| Office of
Administrative Hearings |
2,864,088 |
2,864,088 |
| Rules Review
Commission |
329,085 |
329,085 |
| Department of
Health and Human Services |
|
|
|
Central
Management and Support |
48,106,360 |
80,171,660 |
|
Division
of Aging |
29,825,449 |
29,825,449 |
|
Division
of Child Development |
326,213,681 |
326,213,681 |
|
Division
of Early Intervention and Education |
75,633,148 |
75,633,148 |
|
Division
of Public Health |
109,739,919 |
109,739,919 |
|
Division
of Social Services |
190,252,330 |
197,325,624 |
|
Division
of Medical Assistance |
1,971,138,483 |
2,213,749,436 |
|
N.C.
Health Choice |
34,975,528 |
45,908,556 |
|
Division
of Services for Blind and Deaf/Hard of Hearing |
10,334,149 |
10,334,149 |
|
Division
of Mental Health/DD/SAS |
579,477,510 |
579,477,510 |
|
Division
of Facility Services |
17,334,502 |
17,334,502 |
|
Division
of Vocational Rehabilitation Services |
41,827,726 |
41,827,726 |
| Total
Department of
Health and Human Services |
$3,434,858,785 |
$3,727,541,360 |
| Department of
Correction |
920,050,075 |
920,620,289 |
| Department of
Commerce |
|
|
|
Commerce |
47,352,944 |
47,352,944 |
|
State Aid
to Nonstate Entities |
16,931,308 |
16,931,308 |
| Department of
Revenue |
75,812,784 |
75,812,784 |
| Department of
Cultural Resources |
|
|
|
Cultural
Resources |
60,027,696 |
60,027,696 |
|
Roanoke
Island Commission |
1,878,245 |
1,878,245 |
| Department of Crime
Control and Public Safety |
37,083,513 |
37,083,513 |
| University
of North Carolina Board of Governors |
|
|
General
Administration |
49,707,473 |
50,702,897 |
|
University
Institutional Programs |
44,567,132 |
44,567,132 |
|
Related
Educational Programs |
100,411,702 |
100,411,702 |
|
University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
|
|
|
a. Academic
Affairs |
203,797,548 |
204,307,062 |
|
b. Health
Affairs |
155,432,746 |
156,912,962 |
|
c. Area
Health Education Centers |
45,968,111 |
45,968,111 |
|
North
Carolina State University at Raleigh |
|
|
|
a. Academic
Affairs |
$268,505,282 |
$268,990,234 |
|
b. Agricultural
Research Service |
47,593,717 |
47,567,601 |
|
c. Agricultural
Extension Service |
38,184,585 |
38,184,585 |
|
University
of North Carolina at Greensboro |
94,522,180 |
94,599,504 |
|
University
of North Carolina at Charlotte |
96,481,603 |
96,952,829 |
|
University
of North Carolina at Asheville |
25,659,665 |
25,815,764 |
|
University
of North Carolina at Wilmington |
60,052,512 |
60,403,894 |
|
East
Carolina University |
|
|
|
a. Academic
Affairs |
121,570,399 |
122,833,467 |
|
b. Division
of Health Affairs |
46,430,612 |
46,430,612 |
|
N. C. Agricultural and Technical State University |
60,032,233 |
60,032,233 |
|
Western
Carolina University |
52,333,202 |
52,601,461 |
|
Appalachian State University |
85,813,636 |
86,076,636 |
|
University
of North Carolina at Pembroke |
24,752,283 |
24,693,596 |
|
Winston-Salem State University |
28,325,317 |
28,748,906 |
|
Elizabeth
City State University |
21,784,296 |
21,784,296 |
|
Fayetteville State University |
30,978,475 |
30,978,475 |
|
North
Carolina Central University |
44,740,396 |
44,740,396 |
|
North
Carolina School of the Arts |
16,569,303 |
16,842,922 |
|
North
Carolina School of Science and Mathematics |
11,450,501 |
11,802,687 |
|
UNC
Hospitals at Chapel Hill |
40,052,381 |
40,052,381 |
| Total
University of North Carolina |
$1,815,717,289 |
$1,823,002,344 |
| Community
Colleges System |
663,330,949 |
663,330,949 |
| State Board of
Elections |
3,218,453 |
3,218,453 |
| Contingency
and Emergency |
1,125,000 |
1,125,000 |
| Reserve for
Special Appropriation |
3,080,000 |
3,080,000 |
| Reserve for
Compensation Increase |
184,538,436 |
184,538,436 |
| Reserve for
Motor Pool Reduction |
-1,200,000 |
-1,200,000 |
| Reserve for
Salary Adjustments |
500,000 |
500,000 |
| Reserve for
Retirement Rate Adjustment |
-181,027,500 |
-181,027,500 |
| Reserve for
State Health Plan |
$150,000,000 |
200,000,000 |
| Debt Service |
|
|
|
Debt
Service |
$275,120,390 |
$52,266,860 |
|
Federal |
1,155,948 |
1,155,948 |
| |
| TOTAL
CURRENT OPERATIONS |
$14,540,319,011 |
$15,368,768,454 |
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