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OCC warns cuts will slow investigations as director trims FY2010 request
Summary
The Office of Citizen Complaints presented a proposed FY2010 budget reduced to $4.2 million and said planned eliminations of vacant positions and possible layoffs would increase investigators' caseloads and risk slowing mediations and policy work.
At the Jan. 28 meeting the Commission received the Office of Citizen Complaints' (OCC) proposed FY2010 budget from the OCC director. "Our current budget is $4,500,000," the director stated in explaining the office's baseline and the proposed reduction to $4,200,000 to meet a 12.5 percent contingency cut. The OCC director said eliminating three vacant positions would produce a small surplus to apply toward required additional reductions.
The OCC director told commissioners that the office currently has…
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