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DOC's chronic under-budgeting for overtime expenses
3:23:48
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Council Member Stevens questions DOC officials about the department's consistent under-budgeting for overtime expenses. The DOC explains that they maintain a baseline budget for overtime and receive additional funding from the Office of Management and Budget at the end of the year to cover the shortfall.
- DOC's baseline overtime budget is $137 million, but actual spending is nearly double
- Stevens expresses concern about not budgeting accurately for anticipated overtime costs
- DOC indicates ongoing discussions with OMB to increase the overtime budget
Althea Stevens
3:23:48
So last year DDC adapted budget included 132,700,000.0 for overtime.
3:23:56
At the fiscal year the department's overtime spending was approximately 281,700,000.0 and the preliminary budget the department has budgeted 160,800,000.0 for overtime in fiscal twenty twenty five.
3:24:11
Year after year the department spends nearly double of what its budgets for overtime.
3:24:15
Is there an explanation of why year after year the DOC under budgets for its overtime by nearly half?
Mala Srinivasan
3:24:25
Thank you for your question.
3:24:27
The baseline budget for overtime has always been hundred and $37,000,000 and based on the overtime spent, OMB office of management budget adds funding towards the end of the year to close the gap.
Althea Stevens
3:24:42
But if that's just the baseline funding, have you asked for an increase in anticipation of knowing that it's going to go over?
3:24:48
Because when you create a budget, you're thinking about all of those things and so if we know that it's increased, why are we not budgeting for that and not and waiting to the end of the year?
Mala Srinivasan
3:24:57
So that is the continuing conversations that we have with Office of Management budget to increase the overtime budgets.
Christopher Leon Johnson
3:25:04
So you
Althea Stevens
3:25:05
are in conversation with us.