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DPS asks Appropriations to cover $1.1M indirect-cost shortfall, shift criminal-history expenses to general fund
Summary
Department of Public Safety officials told the House Appropriations Committee they project a roughly $1.1 million deficit in the agency’s indirect cost pool and said they must move certain Criminal Justice Services expenses into the general fund, citing an inability of special funds to sustain the lines.
The Department of Public Safety asked the Vermont House Appropriations Committee on Jan. 15 for budget adjustments to cover a projected deficit in the agency’s indirect cost pool and to shore up a shortfall in the Criminal History Record Check Fund.
For the record, Ray Hollenbeck, Director of Finance and Administration at the Department of Public Safety, told the committee the agency projects “a deficit at the end of the year of $1,100,000” in the indirect cost pool and just over $1,000,000 in the Criminal Justice Services special fund tied to the Vermont Crime Information Center. Hollenbeck said the department is asking to move existing line items into the general fund to avoid that deficit rather than to create new recurring spending.
Hollenbeck said two contract line items are the most visible examples: $75,000 to preserve access to legacy Spillman computer-aided dispatch records, and a larger Crosswind (vendor) contract payment that was underbudgeted in the current-year…
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