Sec. A-30. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MAINE
Historical Society 0037
Initiative: Reduces funding for grants that support education and outreach programs. This initiative relates to the curtailments ordered in Financial Order 003806 F8.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
($1,859) | ($2,937) |
 |
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | ($1,859) | ($2,937) |
Sec. A-31. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, MAINE
Human Rights Commission - Regulation 0150
Initiative: Reallocates funding for one Chief Field Investigator position to 75% General Fund and 25% Federal Expenditures Fund, to be funded through a reduction to All Other and reduces technology funding to maintain costs within available resources.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
$0 | ($19,872) |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($2,063) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($21,935) |
| FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
$0 | $19,872 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($19,872) |
|
|
|
| FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL | $0 | $0 |
Sec. A-32. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
HUMANITIES COUNCIL, MAINE
Humanities Council 0942
Initiative: Reduces funding for grants that support public education programs.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($5,916) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($5,916) |
Sec. A-33. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
INDIAN TRIBAL-STATE COMMISSION, MAINE
Maine Indian Tribal-state Commission 0554
Initiative: Reduces funding for grants to maintain costs within available resources.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($38,000) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($38,000) |
Sec. A-34. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE, DEPARTMENT OF
Administrative Services - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0530
Initiative: Reduces funding through a reduction in the use of Office of Information Technology services to maintain costs within available resources.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($38,500) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($38,500) |
Administrative Services - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0530
Initiative: Reduces funding through a reduction in the use of Natural Resources Services Center services to maintain costs within available resources.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($25,671) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($25,671) |
Administrative Services - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0530
Initiative: Provides funding for increased electrical costs.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$10,238 | $10,238 |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $10,238 | $10,238 |
Boating Access Sites 0631
Initiative: Provides funding to establish baseline allocation in the Fish Hatchery Maintenance Fund account and Boat Launch Facilities Fund account and to increase allocation in the Endangered Nongame Operations program and Support Landowners Program.
| OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$1,500 | $6,000 |
|
|
|
| OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL | $1,500 | $6,000 |
Departmentwide Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0600
Initiative: Transfers one Public Service Manager I position, one Secretary position, one Game Warden position and one Game Warden Sergeant position from the Departmentwide Inland Fisheries and Wildlife program to the Enforcement Operations - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife program to properly align function with funding.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
POSITIONS - LEGISLATIVE COUNT
|
0.000 | (4.000) |
|
Personal Services
|
$0 | ($352,486) |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($68,896) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($421,382) |
Endangered Nongame Operations 0536
Initiative: Eliminates one Biologist I position to maintain costs within available resources.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
POSITIONS - LEGISLATIVE COUNT
|
0.000 | (1.000) |
|
Personal Services
|
$0 | ($17,577) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($17,577) |
| FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
$0 | ($52,175) |
|
|
|
| FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($52,175) |
Endangered Nongame Operations 0536
Initiative: Provides funding for the approved reorganization of one Biology Specialist position to one Biologist I position.
| OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
$804 | $3,885 |
|
All Other
|
$80 | $355 |
|
|
|
| OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL | $884 | $4,240 |
Endangered Nongame Operations 0536
Initiative: Provides funding to establish baseline allocation in the Fish Hatchery Maintenance Fund account and Boat Launch Facilities Fund account and to increase allocation in the Endangered Nongame Operations program and Support Landowners Program.
| OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$1,000 | $4,000 |
|
|
|
| OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL | $1,000 | $4,000 |
Endangered Nongame Operations 0536
Initiative: Reduces funding by managing vacant positions. This initiative relates to the curtailments ordered in Financial Order 003806 F8.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
($8,500) | $0 |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | ($8,500) | $0 |
Enforcement Operations - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0537
Initiative: Transfers 50% of 6 Game Warden positions, one Game Warden Investigator position and 2 Office Associate II positions from 100% General Fund to 50% General Fund and 50% Federal Expenditures Fund and transfers one Game Warden Investigator position from 45% General Fund and 55% Federal Expenditures Fund to 100% General Fund and uses savings to provide funding for Central Fleet Management lease fees.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
($284,014) | ($291,402) |
|
All Other
|
$284,014 | $291,402 |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | $0 |
| FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
$284,014 | $291,402 |
|
|
|
| FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL | $284,014 | $291,402 |
Enforcement Operations - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0537
Initiative: Transfers one Public Service Manager I position, one Secretary position, one Game Warden position and one Game Warden Sergeant position from the Departmentwide Inland Fisheries and Wildlife program to the Enforcement Operations - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife program to properly align function with funding.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
POSITIONS - LEGISLATIVE COUNT
|
0.000 | 4.000 |
|
Personal Services
|
$0 | $352,486 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | $68,896 |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | $421,382 |
Enforcement Operations - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0537
Initiative: Eliminates one Office Associate II position. This initiative relates to the curtailments ordered in Financial Order 003806 F8.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
POSITIONS - LEGISLATIVE COUNT
|
(1.000) | (1.000) |
|
Personal Services
|
($31,076) | ($61,194) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | ($31,076) | ($61,194) |
Enforcement Operations - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0537
Initiative: Reduces funding by managing vacant positions. This initiative relates to the curtailments ordered in Financial Order 003806 F8.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
($40,500) | $0 |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | ($40,500) | $0 |
Fisheries and Hatcheries Operations 0535
Initiative: Eliminates one Fish Culture Supervisor position and reduces the weeks of one Fish Culturist position from 52 weeks to 30 weeks and reduces All Other as a result of closing the State Fish Hatchery in Phillips, Maine to maintain costs within available resources.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
POSITIONS - LEGISLATIVE COUNT
|
0.000 | (1.000) |
|
POSITIONS - FTE COUNT
|
0.000 | (0.423) |
|
Personal Services
|
$0 | ($99,467) |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($6,366) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($105,833) |
Fisheries and Hatcheries Operations 0535
Initiative: Provides funding for the approved range changes of 17 Fish Culturist positions from range 14 to range 16, 6 Fish Culture Assistant Supervisor positions from range 16 to range 18, 9 Fish Culture Supervisor positions from range 21 to range 23 and one Clerk IV position from range 15 to range 18 in the Fisheries and Hatcheries Operations program and one Clerk IV position from range 15 to range 18 in the Public Information and Education Division program.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
$0 | $124,597 |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | $124,597 |
| FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
$1,094 | $2,010 |
|
|
|
| FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL | $1,094 | $2,010 |
Fisheries and Hatcheries Operations 0535
Initiative: Provides funding to establish baseline allocation in the Fish Hatchery Maintenance Fund account and Boat Launch Facilities Fund account and to increase allocation in the Endangered Nongame Operations program and Support Landowners Program.
| OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$5,000 | $20,000 |
|
Capital Expenditures
|
$258,000 | $0 |
|
|
|
| OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL | $263,000 | $20,000 |
Licensing Services - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0531
Initiative: Reduces funding through the elimination of the durable any-deer permit tag to maintain costs within available resources.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($40,000) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($40,000) |
Licensing Services - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0531
Initiative: Reduces funding for Maine Online Sportsman Electronic Services (MOSES) enhancements to maintain costs within available resources.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($50,000) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($50,000) |
Licensing Services - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0531
Initiative: Reduces funding by managing vacant positions. This initiative relates to the curtailments ordered in Financial Order 003806 F8.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
($25,000) | $0 |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | ($25,000) | $0 |
Office of the Commissioner - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0529
Initiative: Reduces funding by reducing the number of advisory meetings by at least 2 to maintain costs within available resources.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
$0 | ($1,000) |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($1,000) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($2,000) |
Office of the Commissioner - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0529
Initiative: Reduces funding by reducing the number of public hearings by at least 3 to maintain costs within available resources.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($6,000) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($6,000) |
Office of the Commissioner - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0529
Initiative: Reduces funding as a result of combining ATV, boating and snowmobile law books and combining open water fishing and ice fishing law books and publishing each set of combined law books every 2 years. This initiative relates to the curtailments ordered in Financial Order 003806 F8.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
($12,000) | ($25,000) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | ($12,000) | ($25,000) |
Office of the Commissioner - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0529
Initiative: Transfers one Chief Planner position from 100% General Fund in the Office of the Commissioner - IF&W program to 75% Federal Expenditures Fund and 25% General Fund in the Resource Management Services - IF&W program.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
POSITIONS - LEGISLATIVE COUNT
|
0.000 | (1.000) |
|
Personal Services
|
$0 | ($67,682) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($67,682) |
Public Information and Education, Division of 0729
Initiative: Reduces funding by no longer publishing Maine Fish and Wildlife Magazine.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($15,000) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($15,000) |
Public Information and Education, Division of 0729
Initiative: Reduces funding for public service announcements through sponsorship of some Maine Public Broadcasting Network programs.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($6,600) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($6,600) |
Public Information and Education, Division of 0729
Initiative: Reduces funding by no longer contracting for advertisements on a website and the television program "Wildfire" and to have a forum for department programs through 4 Wildfire shows.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($22,500) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($22,500) |
Public Information and Education, Division of 0729
Initiative: Reduces funding by no longer purchasing the department's recognition prints to maintain costs within available resources.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($3,060) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($3,060) |
Public Information and Education, Division of 0729
Initiative: Reduces funding by reducing out-of-state trade shows from 7 to 4 each year to maintain costs within available resources.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$0 | ($8,000) |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | ($8,000) |
Public Information and Education, Division of 0729
Initiative: Provides funding for the approved range changes of 17 Fish Culturist positions from range 14 to range 16, 6 Fish Culture Assistant Supervisor positions from range 16 to range 18, 9 Fish Culture Supervisor positions from range 21 to range 23 and one Clerk IV position from range 15 to range 18 in the Fisheries and Hatcheries Operations program and one Clerk IV position from range 15 to range 18 in the Public Information and Education Division program.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
$0 | $5,740 |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | $5,740 |
Public Information and Education, Division of 0729
Initiative: Provides funding for increased electrical costs.
| OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
All Other
|
$1,094 | $1,094 |
|
|
|
| OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL | $1,094 | $1,094 |
Resource Management Services - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0534
Initiative: Transfers one Chief Planner position from 100% General Fund in the Office of the Commissioner - IF&W program to 75% Federal Expenditures Fund and 25% General Fund in the Resource Management Services - IF&W program.
| GENERAL FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
Personal Services
|
$0 | $16,920 |
|
|
|
| GENERAL FUND TOTAL | $0 | $16,920 |
| FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
|
POSITIONS - LEGISLATIVE COUNT
|
0.000 | 1.000 |
|
Personal Services
|
$0 | $50,762 |
|
|
|
| FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL | $0 | $50,762 |
Resource Management Services - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0534
Initiative: Eliminates 2 Conservation Aide positions and one Customer Representati