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Fiscal Year 2004 Proposed Budget

Section C - General Government
Office of Support Services

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OFFICE OF SUPPORT SERVICES
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

PROGRAM MISSION: To provide timely, cost effective and responsive administrative services and products to OSS and other County staff in order to support our customers in performing their jobs.

The Administrative Services section provides administrative support to OSS including the Printing and Equipment funds as a whole. The primary areas of service include financial planning and management, technology planning, evaluation, acquisition and implementation of human resources management, purchasing and warehousing. Administrative Services manages the County motor pool and the Courthouse area employee parking program.

Administrative Services Section
FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 % Change:
Actual Adopted Proposed '03 to '04
Personnel $709,128 $932,694 $994,330 7%
Non-Personnel 1,049,198 922,102 947,846 3%
Subtotal 1,758,326 1,854,796 1,942,176 5%
Intra-County Charges (9,734) (57,602) (62,512) 9%
Total Expenditures 1,748,592 1,797,194 1,879,664 5%
Revenues - - - -
Net Tax Support $1,748,592 $1,797,194 $1,879,664 5%
Authorized FTEs 13.5 14.5 14.5
Funded FTEs 13.5 14.5 14.5

SIGNIFICANT BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Increase in personnel ($61,636) reflects step and fringe benefits increases and new hires above entry level.
  • Increase in non-personnel ($25,744) is primarily due to County vehicle charges and increased telephone costs.
  • Increase in Intra-County Charges reflects step and fringe benefit increases for administrative support charged to the Printing Fund.


PERFORMANCE MEASURES:

FY 2001 FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 FY 2004
Actual Actual Estimate Estimate Target
Mission Outcome Measures
Percent of desktop computer problems satisfactorily resolved in 8 hours N/A N/A 90% 95% 98%
Percent of accurate payroll checks issued N/A N/A N/A 98% 99%
Number of correcting adjustment to financial reports N/A N/A 400 300 250
Percent of grams processed satisfactorily N/A N/A N/A 95% 98%
Percent of payments posted within the established timeframe N/A N/A N/A 95% 98%

Objective: To decrease the workload by 10% through increased accuracy, timeliness and responsiveness.

  FY 2001
Actual
FY2002
Actual
FY2003
Estimate
FY 2004
Estimate
FY 2004
Target
  Workload Measures
  Maximum time to respond to desktop computer problems N/A N/A 4 hours 3 hours 1 hour
  Number of computer applications supported N/A 5 8 8 8
  Number of desktop computers supported N/A N/A 100 100 100
Motor pool utilization 86% 86% 87% 88% 90%  
  Number of motor pool vehicles 30 32 32 32 32
  Number of payment vouchers processed N/A 8,552 8,500 8,500 8,400
  Number of credit card transactions N/A N/A N/A 1,200 1,300
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