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Welfare Watch - January 12, 2012 -
Governor Deal Presents Budgets
Governor Deal's budgets
for AFY2012 and FY2013 have been released with his State of the State
Address. Both the State of the State and his budget reflect his
priorities for Georgia. In his State of the State he focused on
education, medical and technical education, transportation
infrastructure, port improvements and criminal justice reform.
The FY2013 budget proposal of $16,814,221,25 is almost a billion
dollars larger than last year. To show how much the economy has
improved in the last three years, the FY2010 budget was two billion
dollars smaller than this year's proposed budget.
Tax reform is still on the table and he made reference to it several
times throughout his speech emphasizing tax relief and job growth for businesses
and manufacturing.
The Budgets that impact children and families saw some increases:
In the DCH budget -There were modest increases in Medicaid and
Peachcare. Over $252 million were proposed for increases in these
areas of DCH. All provider rate cuts were eliminated and some
provider rates were significantly increased. Still, DCH may be
underfunded by more than $90 million through increases in
utilization and growth in rolls.
In the DHS budget - TANF was replaced with a $16.7 million proposal.
There were modest increases in adoption services, $3.9 million
increases in the amended and this year's proposed budget for
increased utilization of out-of-home services.
In the DBHDD budget - $29.8 million were proposed for the DOJ
agreement to provide upgraded services. New services include 250 DD
waivers, two Assertive Community Treatment teams, and two community
support teams, case management services, mobile crisis services, and
supported housing for 300 individuals with mental illness.
In the DJJ budget - The Governor is proposing $11.9 to increase bed
capacity at the existing YDCs and RYDCs including 50 new non-secure
residential beds.
In the DOE budget - The Governor is proposing a $76,000 reduction in
the Residential Treatment Centers Grant for both AFY 2012 and
FY2013. This grant funds the portion of education that represents
the local share for Residential Treatment Centers. This
represents a 2% cut per year to this important grant.
In the DJJ budget - $7.7 million is allocated to operate the Atlanta
YDC
The full AFY 2012 and
the FY 2012 budgets are linked here.
2020 Georgia's Reaction to the Budget
GBPI's Reaction to the Budget.
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