OHCS 11-13 Governor's Proposed Budget is Incrementally Higher than Current Services Budget.

I recently ran across a document HERE that presents the 2011-2013 current services budget by Oregon state agency.  A recent Oregonian story HERE indicated that the Governor has chosen to ignore the current services budget as it would show a $3.5 billion shortfall compared to the budget he has proposed.

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In analyzing the OHCS portion of the current services budget compared to the Governor's proposed budget I discovered that the OHCS budget bucks the overall trend and is actually incrementally HIGHER than the published current services estimate.  

Several additional observations (see table pasted above for more detail):

1. The total proposed funding in the Governor's  budget is actually .9% HIGHER ($9,316,539 ) than the current services estimate.
2. The other funds category shows the highest growth (7.9%) above the current services estimate
3. The General Fund category is 9.9% LOWER ($1,051,623) than the current services estimate, and Federal Funds are .1% lower than the current services estimate--all other fund categories are equal or are HIGHER than the current services estimate when compared on a percentage basis (some categories do show minor $$ reductions).
4. Proposed FTE for OHCS are 32.2% (41.2 FTE) ABOVE the current services estimate. This may reflect impact of Hardest Hit staff (although it would seem that some of those FTE costs should have been baked into the legislatively approved 09-11 costs).

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.