Below is a summary of key child and family budget items. Please let me know if you have any questions about any of these cuts or if you have a question about a program that you do not see on this list. Also, this summary does not cover the special provisions in the budget bill, which have a significant impact on how these cuts will be implemented.
For a line-by-line summary of the HHS, Public Education, and Juvenile Justice budgets, go to Action for Children's website, www.ncchild.org .
BIG PICTURE -
In both public education and health and human services, the legislature leaves massive cuts to be made by state and local administrators. In some ways, this is good, because these administrators often have a better understanding of which cuts will do the least damage. On the other hand, legislators could be putting these folks in an impossible place - assigning them with so much money to make up that they cannot keep up basic operations. What we know is that lots of specific cuts will come out over the next several months as state and local officials are forced to make these decisions.
Also, large amounts of nonrecurring revenue, mostly federal stimulus money, is used to pay for recurring expenses. This means that when the stimulus money runs out after 2011, we'll have a large structural deficit waiting for us. It's hard to fault legislators for doing this given the severity of the budget shortfall, but it will be an issue we'll have to deal with down the road.
FY10 Departmental Budget Changes:
Public Education: 10% overall budget cut
Juvenile Justice: 16% overall budget cut
Health and Human Services: 30% overall budget cut
-Blind, Deaf / Hard of Hearing Services: 25% budget cut
-Child Development: 16% budget cut
-Medical Assistance (Medicaid): 37% budget cut
-MH/DD/SA: 19% budget cut
-Public Health: 17% budget cut
-Social Services: 12% budget cut
-Health Choice: 12% budget EXPANSION!
PUBLIC EDUCATION
LEA Adjustment - this one is very important. The legislature chose NOT to mandate increased class size and in fact requires LEAs to keep K-3 class size at current levels. However, they are leaving the LEAs with the unpleasant task of administering huge cuts in their districts. It's inevitable that this cut will result in fewer teachers, teachers' assistants, and classroom resources. FY10 ($225 million); FY11 ($304,774,366) recurring
Textbooks - the legislature phases in a complete moratorium on new textbook adoptions by FY11. FY10 ($47,977,278) nonrecurring; FY11 ($115,410,044) nonrecurring
Central Office Administration - this line item cuts funding to LEAs for district staff. FY10 and FY11 ($14,613,199) recurring
More at Four - this is only half of what we thought it could be, so good news here. FY10 and FY11 ($5 million) recurring
Support for struggling students - this line item eliminates funding for children who score low on certain state tests. FY10 and FY11 ($38,339,798) recurring
Literacy Coaches - eliminates funding for all literacy coaches. FY10 and FY11 ($12,034,400) recurring
Funding Reductions to non-profit support organizations - FY10 ($4,594,519); FY11 ($6,702,953) recurring
Dropout Prevention Grants - This allocation creates a competitive grant program for projects that address dropout prevention. FY10 and FY11 $13,000,000 recurring (yep, that's right, an increase!)
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Division of Child Development
Child Care Subsidies - damaging reduction to child care subsidies. FY10 and FY11 ($15,186,301) recurring
Smart Start - I thought this was going to be worse. FY10 ($15,965,000); FY11 ($16,330,000) recurring
MH/DD/SA
Eliminates 350 positions within the Division (unclear which ones). FY10 and FY11 ($12,858,290) recurring
CAP/MR-DD Reduction - FY10 and FY11 ($16,000,000) recurring
State Funded Services - this line item reduces funding for services provided by LMEs. FY10 and FY11 ($40,000,000) recurring
Crisis Services - this line item provides funding for inpatient capacity at community hospitals. FY10 and FY11 $12,000,000 recurring (another increase!)
Public Health
AIDS Drug Assistance - reduces funds to purchase AIDS drugs. FY10 and FY11 ($3,074,119) nonrecurring
Contracts - the legislature eliminates funding for the collection and analysis of data concerning infants and children, and it reduces funding for three contracts that have "unobligated funds." They do not specify which contracts.
More Contracts - Reduces the appropriation for public health contracts that: do not meet the Division's core mission; do not provide a direct service; have had unobligated funds in the past; have failed to meet past goals. FY10 and FY11 ($4,010,072) recurring
Infant mortality, birth defects, and teen pregnancy prevention - the legislature allocates an additional $1.4 million to these efforts. (all nonrecurring)
Health Choice - Provides funds to increase enrollment by 7% in FY10 and 3% in FY11 - $17,096,952 and $21,942,732, respectively. The legislature also imposes co-pays for prescription drugs and non-emergency hospital visits.
Division of Social Services
Work First - cash assistance for struggling families is reduced. FY10 and FY11 ($7,178,459) recurring
Child Advocacy Centers funding reduction - FY10 and FY11 ($200,000) recurring
Foster Care and Adoption assistance - the line item says this reduction reflects greater federal funding, but there is no specific replacement. FY10 ($2,840,235) nonrecurring and FY11 ($1,452,537) nonrecurring
State Aid to Counties - FY10 and FY11 ($5,473,985) nonrecurring
Eliminates funding for child support offices - FY11 ($4,082,811)
Child Welfare Collaborative - $900,000 increase for FY10!
Medicaid
Provider Rate Reductions - These rate reductions will be administered at the discretion of the Secretary. FY10 ($76,440,896) recurring and FY11 ($82,261,586) recurring.
Community Support reduction - FY10 ($65,000,000) and FY11 ($97,500,000), both recurring.
Level III and IV group homes - this cut is significantly less than what was in the most recent House budget. FY10 ($15,860,960) recurring and FY11 ($22,554,622).
Consolidate Case Management - FY10 ($41,029,684) recurring and FY11 ($72,907,230) recurring.
Freeze CAP slots - FY10 ($6,646,956) recurring and FY11 ($7,274,842) recurring.
JUVENILE JUSTICE
Eliminates the Center for the Prevention of School Violence - FY10 and FY11 ($481,225) recurring
Eliminate funding for the Governor's 1 on 1 program - FY10 and FY11 ($1,645,545) recurring
Eliminate Support our Students program - FY10 and FY11 ($6,627,532) recurring
No additional funding for Juvenile Crime Prevention Councils
Samarkand YDC is closed; Dobbs stays open
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