Adopted Budget Projected Budget 2016-2017

GENERAL GOVERNMENT RESULT AREA SUMMARY

BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS  The Adopted FY 16-17 General Government Result Area Budget is increasing by $1.44 million, or 3.3%.  The Adopted FY 16-17 General Government Result Area Budget includes 256.501 FTE positions, a net increase of 4.5 FTE. One additional position (1 FTE) each is added in the Finance, Communications, and Legal Departments. The Legal Department addition, an Assistant City Attorney, is funded equally between the Legal Department and the Housing Partnership Fund. One FTE was transferred from the Engineering and Inspections Department to Information Technology.  The Contact Center moves from Executive to the Communications Department for FY 16-17.  The FY 16-17 Adopted Budget includes service enhancements for technology including a Human Resources video interviewing software and Network Services Office 365 upgrades for the organization.  The FY 16-17 Adopted Budget includes a Service Enhancement for an additional day of holiday pay at Christmas to achieve parity with the State of North Carolina and other local governments.  The FY 16-17 Economic Development Fund Budget includes support for the National Folk Festival and Triad Stage.  The FY 16-17 Adopted Budget includes performance based incentive payments to Procter & Gamble, Honda Aircraft Company, and Coilplus for existing industry expansion projects that support the creation of 552 new jobs and new capital investment of $321,620,692.  The FY 16-17 Adopted Budget for the General and Employee Risk Retention Funds is increasing by $4,934,746, or 9.8%.  General Fund support previously allocated to Downtown Greensboro Inc. will directly underwrite the City’s downtown cleaning and maintenance crew managed by Field Operations.

Adopted FY 2016-17 Budget

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