Finance Advisory Committee

At a Glance

HONORABLE JOHN G ROWLAND, Chairman

Marc S. Ryan, Clerk

John Bacewicz, Assistant Clerk

Established - 1943

Statutory authority – CGS Section 4-93 et. al.

Central office - State Capitol,

Hartford, CT 06106

Average number of full-time employees - None

Mission

The mission of the Finance Advisory Committee is stated under Statutory Authority.

Statutory Authority

Approval of the Finance Advisory Committee is required for all transfers from the resources of any state fund to any budgetary agency in excess of the regular appropriations thereof and for the transfers of any unexpected balances of appropriations to other appropriations of the same agency when such transfers exceed $50,000 or ten percent of such appropriations in any fiscal year.

Membership on the Committee, composed of 4 elected state officers and 5 legislative members, is as follows:

Governor John G. Rowland; Lieutenant Governor M. Jodi Rell; State Comptroller Nancy S. Wyman; State Treasurer Denise Nappier; Senators Robert Genuario, Jr. and Toni Harp, Representatives William Dyson, Peter Metz and Annette Carter. Alternate members are as follows: Senators Joan V. Hartley and Judith Freedman; Representatives Robert Ward; Konstantinos Diamantis and Terry Backer.

The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management serves as clerk and the Executive Budget Officer of Budget and Financial Management Division as assistant clerk.

Following are the transactions approved by the Committee during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2003:

General Fund Transfers Between Appropriations
Trans. No.	Agency and Description	Amount
2003-1	Office of Policy and Management - Homeowners Freeze to Elderly Renters	$ 275,000.00
2003-2	Department of Public Health - Personal Services to X-Ray Screening and Tuberculosis Care	150,000.00
2003-3	Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services - Personal Services and Housing Support to Other Expenses, Drug Treatment, Legal Services and Professional Services	1,213,485.00
2003-4	Department of Social Services - Children's Health Council, Health Start, Legal Immigrants, Temporary Assistance to Families to HUSKY Outreach and Data Collection, Medicaid and Work Performance Bonus	14,739,405.00
2003-5	Department of Revenue Services, Division of Special Revenue - Personal Services to Other Expenses	125,000.00
2003-6	Office of Workforce Competitiveness - CETC Workforce to Personal Services	100,000.00
2003-7	Department of Public Health - School-based Health Clinics to Community Health Services	75,000.00
2003-8	Department of Mental Retardation - Personal Services and Community Residential Services to Other Expenses, Coop. Placements Program, Early Intervention, Workers' Compensation and Rent Subsidy Program	8,795,000.00
2003-10	Department of Education - Repair Instructional Equipment to School Textbooks and Educational Equalization Program and Magnet Schools to Other Expenses to Personal Services	1,667,000.00
2003-11	Legislative Management - Other Expenses, Equipment and Minor Capital Improvements to Personal Services	1,550,000.00
2003-12	Commission on Children - Other Expenses and Equipment to Personal Services	12,863.00
2003-13	Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission - Other Expenses and Equipment to Personal Services	7,000.00
2003-14	Department of Veterans' Affairs - Personal Services to Other Expenses	300,000.00
2003-15	Office of the Attorney General - Personal Services to Other Expenses	374,116.00
2003-16	Office of the Chief Medical Examiner - Personal Services to Other Expenses	155,000.00
2003-17	Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services - Personal Services, to General Assistance and Special Population to Other Expenses, Medications, Conn. MHC, Professional Services, Workers Comp. And Grants Mental Health	3,821,891.00
2003-18	Department of Correction - Personal Services to Workers Compensation	3,300,000.00
2003-19	Department of Children & Families - Various Accounts to Other Expenses, Worker's Compensation Claims, Support for Recovering Families, No Nexus Special Education and Board & Care-Adoption	9,075,000.00
2003-20	Department of Social Services - Medicaid to State Administered General Assistance	18,149,003.00
2003-21	Office of the State Comptroller, Miscellaneous Accounts - Higher Education Alternative Retirement, Pensions & Retirement and Other Statutory Group Life to Employee Social Security and Retirees Healthcare	9,325,000.00
2003-23	Department of Public Works - Personal Services, Management Services, Rents and Moving and Facilities Design Expenses to Other Expenses	1,000,000.00
2003-27	Department of Education - Open Choice to Magnet Schools	80,000.00
2003-28	Division of Public Defender Services - Special Public Defender Non Contractual to Special Public Defender Contractual	90,000.00
2003-29	Department of Social Services - Various Accounts to Medicaid, Old Age Assistance, Aid to the Blind CT Pharmaceutical Assistance, Contract to the Elderly, Connecticut Home Care Program, Services for Persons with Disabilities, State Administered General Assistance	53,373,269.00
	Total - General Fund Transfers Between Appropriations	$ 127,753,032.00
Transportation Fund Transfers Between Appropriations
2003-9	Department of Transportation - Personal Services to Handicapped Access	$ 2,100,000.00
2003-22	Office of the State Comptroller, Miscellaneous Accounts - Transportation Fund Social Security to Transportation Fund Employee Health Service Cost	100,000.00
2003-26	Department of Transportation - Personal Services to Bus Operations	2,800,000.00
	Total - Transportation Fund Transfers Between Appropriations	$ 5,000,000.00
	Special Fund Transfers Between Appropriations
2003-24	Insurance Department - Personal Services to Indirect Overhead	$ 94,055.00
2003-25	Department of Public Utility Control - Personal Services to Indirect Overhead	148,590.00
	Total - Special Fund Transfers Between Appropriations	$ 242,645.00