2013 centre county government budget
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At the December 4, 2012, Centre County Board of Commissioners meeting, I presented my 2013 Budget. Here is the PowerPoint from my presentation.TRANSCRIPT
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2013 CENTRE COUNTY GOVERNMENT TENTATIVE BUDGETPRESENTATION
Commissioner Michael Pipe
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2013 Budget
• One of the duties of the minority commissioner is to offer a different viewpoint from the majority commissioners and to hold them accountable.
• Set up meetings with all of the Department Heads and Elected Officials. I went line-by-line through their budgets.
• Town Hall Meetings
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• Centre Crest• Children and Youth Services• Commissioners• Conservation District• Controller• Cooperative Extension• Coroner• Court Administration• Criminal Justice Planning• District Attorney• District Judges• Domestic Relations• Elections and Voter Registration• Emergency Communications/9-1-1• Emergency Services• GIS• Housing Authority• Human Resources
• Jury Commissioners• Maintenance• Planning and Community Development• Probation & Parole• Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts• Public Defender• Recorder of Deeds• Records Management• Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans'
Court• Risk Management• Sheriff• Tax Assessment• Tax Collection/Tax Claim• Transportation• Treasurer• Veterans' Affairs• Weights and Measures
Board Agreement in over 30 Areas of the Budget
Board has 98.5% of Agreement.
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• Use of Act 13 Funds
• Amount of Contingency Fund
• Prison payroll changes
• Contract with Community Help Centre
• Staffing at the Office of Aging
• Cuts in services at Mental Health/Intellectual Disabilities
Areas of Debate
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Robust Debate on Act 13
• Impact fee was for natural gas related impacts
• Governor Corbett side-stepped around “no tax” pledge
• I supported the passage of the ordinance even though the fee was not enough
• Have there been impacts related to the drilling?
• Use the Act 13 to balance the budget or else taxes go up
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Robust Debate on Act 13
• Amount of impact fee will decline. After Year 3 (Spring 2014 payment) the maximum amount that can be assessed for a well is $20,000. For the $660,000 payment the County received, the assessed amount for a well was at $50,000.
• Snow Shoe Borough - $7,000
• Using Act 13 funds for programs that we’ve historically used General Fund money concerns me as they might be being moved onto the endangered species list.
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Act 13 Payment Schedule
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Act 13 Impact Fee Municipal Distribution
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Human Services Cuts
• Cuts to three areas of human services budgets:
– Adult Services – contract with Community Help Centre
– Office of Aging – laying off 3 staff positions
• 3 “Care Managers II” (case workers)
– Mental Health/Intellectual Disabilities
• $350,000 reduction in Purchase Client Services
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Cuts to Human Services
• Adequately funding human services is important because “it helps people address their problems now instead of in the future, when the problems could worsen and become more expensive to address.”
• What could happen if human services are reduced?
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Taxes
• I’ll never be afraid to advocate and fund something that I believe is important
– 9-1-1 radio system upgrade
• There will be a time in the future when a Centre County Board of Commissioners raises taxes. Hopefully, it’s been after they have exhausted every other measure.
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Hope for a compromise?
• The Board of Commissioners has 24 days until final passage of the budget…
• Different perspectives, different approaches