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Department for the Deaf and Hard-Of-Hearing [751]

Secretarial Area: Health and Human Resources

Mission:
The Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (VDDHH) works to reduce the communication barriers between persons who are deaf or hard of hearing and those who are hearing, including family members, service providers, and the general public.

Operating Budget Summary
This table shows the Governor's proposed budget for the next two years and the agency's official budget for the previous six years. more... More historical data is available for this agency on DPB's website under the Virginia's Budget page. If you click on the Budget Round Description links under any of the "DPB Appropriation Database" tables and open the filter you can select various fields to get greater detail and you can select the official chapter data going back for several decades. The "Caboose" chapters are the final biennial budget approved by the General Assembly and signed into Law. Check it out here

Operating Budget Summary

This table shows the Governor's proposed budget for the next two years and the agency's official budget for the previous six years.
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Biennium	Fiscal Year	Source	GF	NGF	Total
2008-2010	2009	Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly	$1,374,601	$14,389,078	$15,763,679
2008-2010	2010	Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly	$1,278,736	$14,389,078	$15,667,814
2010-2012	2011	Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly	$840,901	$14,823,149	$15,664,050
2010-2012	2012	Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly	$840,901	$14,823,149	$15,664,050
2012-2014	2013	Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly	$844,985	$10,561,124	$11,406,109
2012-2014	2014	Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly	$844,994	$10,938,174	$11,783,168
2014-2016	2015	Governor's Proposed Budget	$927,452	$10,938,174	$11,865,626
		Base Budget	$844,994	$10,938,174	$11,783,168
		Addenda (Changes to the Base)	$82,458	$0	$82,458
2014-2016	2016	Governor's Proposed Budget	$927,545	$5,938,174	$6,865,719
		Base Budget	$844,994	$10,938,174	$11,783,168
		Addenda (Changes to the Base)	$82,551	($5,000,000)	($4,917,449)

Positions Budget Summary

Biennium	Fiscal Year	Source	GF	NGF	Total
2008-2010	2009	Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly	12.00	2.00	14.00
2008-2010	2010	Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly	12.00	2.00	14.00
2010-2012	2011	Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly	10.50	3.50	14.00
2010-2012	2012	Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly	10.50	3.50	14.00
2012-2014	2013	Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly	8.37	2.63	11.00
2012-2014	2014	Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly	8.37	2.63	11.00
2014-2016	2015	Proposed Positions	8.37	2.63	11.00
		Base Budget	8.37	2.63	11.00
		Addenda (Changes to the Base)	0.00	0.00	0.00
2012-2014	2016	Proposed Positions	8.37	2.63	11.00
		Base Budget	8.37	2.63	11.00
		Addenda (Changes to the Base)	0.00	0.00	0.00

Operating Budget Addenda (in order of greatest impact)

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Account for new relay center contract

Decision Package

Reduces agency appropriation reflecting the anticipated lower cost of a new relay contract negotiated after the removal of corresponding budget language restrictions. Striking the current language is necessary as there may be no way to meet its provisions in future relay center contracts. A comparison between current contract costs and the national average paid for basic relay services has the potential to generate savings of up to $5.0 million annually, savings which will be passed on to localities through the Communications Tax fund beginning in FY 2016.

	FY 2015	FY 2016
Nongeneral Fund	$0	($5,000,000)

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Consolidate shared services support

Decision Package

Transfers $50,000 from the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) to the Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DDHH). DDHH currently contracts with DARS to perform select routine back office functions. As part of the renegotiation of this contract, DARS and DDHH determined that $50,000 should be credited to DDHH to account for a funding transfer that occurred in the mid-1990s. This addendum moves this funding to DDHH and is offset with a companion reduction in DARS.

	FY 2015	FY 2016
General Fund	$50,000	$50,000

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Distribute Central Appropriation amounts to agency budgets

Base Budget Adjustment

Adjusts the agency budget to reflect amounts moved to or from Central Appropriations to cover the continued cost of public employee salary increases, increases in state employee health insurance premiums, changes in state employee retirement and other benefit contribution rates, and other centrally funded items being continued from the 2012-14 biennium into the 2014-16 biennium.

	FY 2015	FY 2016
General Fund	$32,416	$32,416

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Adjust agency appropriation for the cost of Performance Budgeting system charges

Decision Package

Provides appropriation to pay for the agency's share of ongoing Performance Budgeting system operating and maintenance costs. The general fund share of this cost was previously budgeted in Central Appropriations.

	FY 2015	FY 2016
General Fund	$84	$84

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Fund changes in state employee workers' compensation premiums

Decision Package

Adjusts the agency's budget for workers' compensation premiums based on the allocation of 2015 and 2016 program costs provided by the Department of Human Resource Management. The allocation is based on the historical experience of the agency and reflects the current policy of providing agencies with 50 percent of any increased costs and allowing agencies to retain 50 percent of any reduced costs.

	FY 2015	FY 2016
General Fund	($48)	($42)

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Fund agency costs for the new Cardinal accounting system

Decision Package

Provides appropriation to the agency’s budget to pay for the agency’s share of the costs for the new Cardinal accounting system. The Department of Accounts allocates the yearly cost of the system to agencies based upon the number of transactions the agency completed in the previous fiscal year.

	FY 2015	FY 2016
General Fund	$0	$83

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Adjust funding for premium changes in the automobile insurance liability program

Decision Package

Adjusts agency funding for the approved premium changes in the state’s automobile insurance liability program.

	FY 2015	FY 2016
General Fund	$6	$6

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Adjust funding to agencies for information technology and telecommunication charges

Decision Package

Adjusts the agency budget for information technology and telecommunication charges based on the required cost of living adjustments contained in the Northrop Grumman contract and the elimination of the debt recovery surcharge originally approved by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission on July 12, 2010.

	FY 2015	FY 2016
General Fund	$0	$4

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