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This summary outlines the budget decisions, revenue trends, and reduction targets for Cuyahoga County in 2008. It provides an overview of the resources available to finance operations and the parameters for the budget.
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Commissioner Jimmy Dimora Commissioner Timothy F. Hagan Commissioner peter Lawson Jones Cuyahoga County’s 2008 Budget Summary December 13, 2007
2008 Budget Parameters • Decisions driven by resources available to finance operations. • Budget based on 2007 expenditure projections minus one-time expenditures. Included annualized impact of decision items approved during 2007. • General Fund and Human Service Levy agencies asked to achieve a 3% reduction target. • Budget does not provide for any salary adjustments. • Budget provides for an anticipated hospitalization increase of 5% and a 1.1% increase in PERS. • Budget provides for a 3% inflationary increase in certain expenditure categories. • Additional funding requests for $8.1 million were not funded.
Property Tax - $0.4 million decrease based on Auditor’s assessed property values. • Sales Tax - Estimated to be 26.2% higher in 2008 based on 0.25 increase for new exhibition hall. • Intergovernmental – The $19.9 million decrease in intergovernmental is due to one-time TANF dollars received in 2007. • Charges for Services - Increases $16.3 million due to higher solid waste fees, parking fees, sewer maintenance fees, space maintenance fees and hospitalization self-insurance charges. • Miscellaneous – Decreases $17.0 million due to an $11 million property sale included in 2007.
General Government – Is expected to drop by $12.1 million due to reductions in the Board of Elections’, Auditor’s and Information Services’ budgets. • Judicial – Increase of $0.7 million. • Social Services – Decrease of $16.5 million due to $4.9 million for Children & Family Services and $20.4 million Employment & Family Services due to revenue reductions. • $7.6 million increase in Public Works is due to Engineer’s road projects. • Debt Service – Includes $7.4 million for a $168 million debt issue during first half. The annualized debt service costs in 2008 will be $10.3 million. • Development – Decreases $6.7 million as focus will be on the Medical Mart project. • Miscellaneous – Increases $13.6 million due to hospitalization and worker’s compensation accounts.
Property Tax – Decreasing $9.2 million to satisfy increased debt service requirements of $7 million for ¾ of a year from an anticipated debt issue totaling $168 million. • Sales Tax - Estimated to be 26.2% higher in 2008 due to 0.25% tax increase. • Fines and Forfeitures - $0.5 million higher due to Clerk of Courts’ collections improvement. • Intergovernmental Revenue – $4.6 million increase is related to commercial activity tax reimbursement. • Charges for Services - $5.1 million decrease due to continued decline of real estate fees. • Miscellaneous – Decreasing $8.3 million primarily due to the anticipated proceeds from the sale of the Skilled East property MetroHealth currently occupies of $11 million.
General Government – Decrease of $6.5 million primarily due to the Board of Elections reduction of $4.7 million. • Judicial – Decreases $0.4 million. The Judicial area consumes 48.4% of the General Fund budget. • Social Services – Decreases by $6.3 million. Human Services departments requested to reduce an additional $6.9 million on top of the 3% reduction. • Development – Decreases by $2.5 million because of lower discretionary grant funding and focus on Medical Mart project. • Health & Safety – Decreases by $1.6 million and consumes 14.1% of the budget.
