| Changes from FY 2010-11 Year-to-Date: |
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| 1. Dairy Farm Inspection Shift to Industry. The Governor recommended the transfer of on-site dairy farm inspection to industry groups while the State retained inspection duties of processing facilities and general audit functions, saving 6.0 FTEs and $600,000 GF/GP. The Senate rejected the Governor's recommendation. |
0
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| 2. Nursery Stock Inspection Shift to Industry. The Governor recommended the transfer of local and intrastate nursery stock inspection to a third party group paid for by industry while the State retained inspections required for export, saving 6.0 FTEs and $500,000 GF/GP. The Senate rejected the proposal and $300,000 of the reduction. |
(200,000)
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| 3. Intercounty Drain District Assessment. The Governor recommended a new $500 assessment on intercounty drain districts (which number 1,100) to pay for department's role in providing assistance. New revenue would add $117,700 to the program in addition to supplanting $432,300 in GF/GP (a total of $550,000 restricted). The Senate rejected the recommendation. |
(432,300)
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| 4. Grain Inspection Program Fee Increase. The Governor and Senate increased fees charged for grain inspections to offset a total of $300,000 GF/GP. |
0
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| 5. Elimination of Animal Feed Nutritional Analysis. The Governor and Senate recommended that the department no longer monitor feed nutrition, but would continue all other feed safety activities. This would save $250,000 GF/GP annually. |
(250,000)
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| 6. Animal Shelter Inspection Program Shift to Outreach. The Governor and Senate reduced funding for the inspection program, and required a focus on education and outreach, saving $100,000 GF/GP. |
(100,000)
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| 7. Adjustments for Actual Revenue Received. The Governor and Senate reduced fund sources to reflect the expected receipt of revenues from private ($86,400), Federal ($898,500), and restricted ($1,403,100) funds. |
(2,388,000)
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| 8. Administrative Reductions and Other Adjustments. The Governor and Senate reduced funding for the lab ($427,000 GF/GP), other units ($104,700 GF/GP), and Capital Outlay ($1.0 million restricted) and shifted $53,400 from restricted to GF/GP. |
(1,531,700)
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| 9. Items of Difference. Senate provided $100 item-of-difference with budget line items. |
0
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| 10. Elimination of Mackinac Bridge Bovine TB Inspections. The Governor and Senate reduced bovine TB inspections, saving $332,000 GF/GP. |
(332,000)
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| 11. Early Retirement GF/GP Savings from FY11. |
(1,006,200)
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| 12. Economic Adjustments. The Governor and Senate included $1,590,600 Gross and $786,100 GF/GP. For DIT, a total of $20,600 Gross and $18,300 GF/GP. |
1,611,200
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| Total Changes |
($4,629,000)
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| FY 2011-12 Senate-Passed Gross Appropriation |
$71,819,300 |