Department of Public Safety Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Proposal
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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY FISCAL YEAR 2021 BUDGET PROPOSAL PHILIP B. SCOTT, GOVERNOR OF VERMONT MICHAEL SCHIRLING, COMMISSIONER CHRISTOPHER HERRICK, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY FISCAL YEAR 2021 BUDGET PROPOSAL TABLE OF CONTENTS Budget Summary and Presentation ................................................................................ 1 Budget Development Form (Crosswalk) ........................................................................ 12 Narrative and Key Budget Issues ................................................................................... 24 Budget Rollup ............................................................................................................... 43 Budget Detail ................................................................................................................. 57 Position Summary Report ........................................................................................... 128 Federal Receipts Detail ................................................................................................ 178 Interdepartmental Transfers ....................................................................................... 184 Grants Out Inventory .................................................................................................. 186 Department Public Safety FY 2021 SUMMARY & HIGHLIGHTS FY 2021 Governor’s Recommend Budget • Overall increase of 6.8.% (all funds) MISSION: The Department of Public Safety provides planning, prevention, and protection • 4.7% increase in General and Transportation services through the work of its six Divisions, to ensure a safe and secure environment and Funds Combined (part of a multi-year budget enhanced quality of life for the Citizens of the stabilization strategy) State of Vermont. • Position Update: Total of 602 positions (8 Exempt, 594 Classified) Governor's Recommended Budget • COLA/Step impacts FY 2021 INTERDEPARTMENTAL FEDERAL FUNDS, $5,910,469 , FUNDS, 5% • Internal Service Fee increases $17,088,474 , 15% • VSP Overtime Budget line item adjustment SPECIAL • VSP Body Cameras FUNDS, $16,331,543 , 14% • Mental Health Clinicians (1 FTE from DPS GENERAL FUNDS, budget) $55,598,940 , TRANSPORTATION 48% FUNDS, $20,250,000 , 18% • Operating line item adjustments 1 of 189 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSIONER Michael Schirling DEPUTY COMMISSIONER Christopher Herrick Overview FY 2021 PROPOSED GENERAL STAFF: 602 (FY 21) FY2019 MAJOR PROGRAM INITIATIVES FUND APPROPRIATION FY 2019 $ 55.6 M Total Spending: $110,382,251 VERMONT STATE POLICE 5.2% 7.8% STAFF: 443 BUDGET 3.3% $40.5 M $20.4 M $1.6 M 59,736 $115,179,426 9.0% FY 2021 Proposed General Transportation Fund Grant Funding Leveraged Calls for Service in 2018 602 STAFF Fund Appropriation 11.8% 14.2% 5.1% 62.9% VERMONT 14.8% EMERGENCY $69,392,295 MANAGEMENT Vermont State Police 17.6% STAFF: 24 48.3% $13,043,647 $433,306 $288,426 $10.6 M 3 Vermont Emergency FY 2021 Proposed General Emergency Relief & Grant Funding Leveraged State Emergency Operations Management Fund Appropriation Assistance Fund Center Activations in 2019 $9,904,505 $55,598,940 Division of Fire Safety DIVISION OF FIRE General Funds $3,690,766 SAFETY $20,250,000 Vermont Forensic Lab Transportation Funds $8,586,746 STAFF: 55 Criminal Justice Services $477,905 $6.3 M $1.1 M $85,957 $17,088,474 Federal Funds $5,764,292 FY 2021 Proposed General Fire Prevention & Building Fire Service Training Council Grant Funding Leveraged Administration Fund Appropriation Inspection Special Fund $16,331,543 Special Funds ADMINISTRATION $5,910,469 Richard Hallenbeck, Director VERMONT FORENSIC LAB Inter-Unit Transfer Funds Megan Klinefelter, Deputy STAFF: 26 STAFF: 27 $4.1 M $11,792 ~80 2,800 FY 2021 Proposed General Blood & Alcohol Testing Fund State, Local, County, and Forensic Testing $5.4 M Fund Appropriation Federal Agencies Supported Submissions in 2019 PROPOSED GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATION FY21 CRIMINAL $12.5 M JUSTICE GRANT PAYMENTS MADE SERVICES 243 STAFF: 29 $2.9 M $825,841 $29,850 340 SUBGRANTEES Organizations Supported by FY 2021 Proposed General Criminal History Records Grant Funding Leveraged DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY 115 Fund Appropriation Check Fund Fingerprint Record Checks COMMUNITIES SERVED 2 of 189 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSIONER Michael Schirling DEPUTY COMMISSIONER Christopher Herrick Vermont State Police FY 2021 PROPOSED GENERAL DIRECTOR 2018 MAJOR PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FUND APPROPRIATION Colonel Matthew Birmingham $43.7 M EXECUTIVE OFFICER FIELD FORCE DIVISION Major Ingrid Jonas Major James Whitcomb This division operates from ten STAFF: 441 Field Stations throughout Vermont, BUDGET from which uniformed Troopers $74,084,174 provide law enforcement services to 59,736 65,086 61 528 441 STAFF Calls for Service Motor Vehicle Stops Motor Vehicle Crashes Firearms Seized SUMMARY OF approximately 200 towns and nearly 2.7% 320 miles of interstate highways. Resulting in 69 Fatalities 4.2% FY 2019 IMPACTS 6.8% 59.0% CRIMINAL DIVISION Major Dan Trudeau 71 This division investigates major 27.3% YEARS OF SERVICE criminal offenses and works closely with the Field Force Division, Homeland Security, state and federal 119 80 14 27 $40.6 M prosecutors, the office of the Chief Evidence Submissions Drug Task Force Open Homicides Investigated Crime Scene Search including 987 Items Cases 6 Homicides Unsolved Activations Resulting in $43,700,118 GENERAL FUND Medical Examiner, law enforcement General Funds SPENDING agencies and fire departments to Imaged by Computer 102 Arrests 69 Days of Processing bring resolution to cases. Crime Unit 418 Seizures $20,250,000 Transportation Funds 2019 Support Services Division Highlights: The Recruiting Unit actively $1.6 M SUPPORT SERVICES $5,023,746 TOTAL GRANT FUNDING DIVISION • Improvement to the mentoring program for new troopers recruits trooper candidates • Increased participation in initiatives that promote fair and all year with a goal of finding Federal Funds to local jurisdictions, local Major Ingrid Jonas organizations, and State impartial policing 30-40 qualified prospective $3,145,278 This division provides the support, agencies, including: • Commander attendance at an IACP Leadership Institute recruits annually to fill Special Funds planning and infrastructure to address violence against women crimes vacancies and keep up with 26 necessary for the department • Developed and implemented a leadership and training attrition and retirement. The $1,965,032 $325,704 and assesses needs to keep each program for field supervisors recruits are placed in one of Trooper Vacancies Inter-Unit Transfer Funds COMMUNITY DRUG division operational. • Expanded the Public Safety Answering Points software to two Vermont Police Academy Currently being Recruited document employee evaluation, recognition and feedback classes held each year. INTERDICTION PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS GRANTS HOMELAND SECURITY UNIT $1,548,717 60+ DUI Enforcement Special Fund The Homeland Security Unit’s Participants attended mission is to support federal, state, the 2019 Threat Hazard $870,351 $63,534 Identification Risk Law Enforcement Services Fund RECREATIONAL BOATING local and private sector efforts to prevent, protect against and prepare Assessment (THIRA) and Stakeholder Preparedness SAFETY GRANTS for threats and acts of terrorism. $4.1 M $733,680 $100,000 State Homeland Security Operation Stonegarden Nonprofit Security Review (SPR) to understand Grant Program Funding Grant Program Funding Grant Program Funding Vermont’s natural, manmade, and technological risks and Awarded in FY19 for Awarded in FY19 Awarded in FY19 to determine capabilities and DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY Preparedness Activities Support Physical Security gaps. 3 of 189 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSIONER Michael Schirling DEPUTY COMMISSIONER Christopher Herrick Vermont Emergency Management FY 2021 PROPOSED GENERAL DIRECTOR 2019 MAJOR PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FUND APPROPRIATION Erica Bornemann $730,416 DEPUTY DIRECTOR TRAINING & EXERCISE Charles Deasy The Engagement Section provides 45 a robust training and exercise Organizations and STAFF: 24 program that is imperative to ensure jurisdictions, including over BUDGET that Emergency Management 881 8 11 500 individuals, participated $11,204,396 professionals can excel in their field in the statewide Catastrophic 24 STAFF Hours of Training Local Exercises Statewide Exercises Exercise #4 over 3 days in at the State, regional and local level. 6.5% 1,559 Students Trained 40 Organizations and 67 Organizations and October focusing on recovery after a tropical storm. 6.3% SUMMARY OF 122 Sessions Held Jurisdictions Supported Jurisdictions Supported FY 2019 IMPACTS SCHOOL SAFETY 87.1% The Vermont School Safety Center enhances preparedness in K-12 41.6% $10.6 M schools, convening school safety 184 of 442 Vermont Schools TOTAL GRANT FUNDING partners to share emerging trends. are participating in the in to municipalities, Regional 239 $4.0 M 149 Homeland Security Planning Grant programs improve school $730,416 Planning Commissions, schools, Schools Received School Obligated in School Projects Selected at 69 Training and Exercise Project, security infrastructure, build capacity General Funds other State agencies, and Safety Funding for 560 Safety Grants to Vermont Schools in the Second finishing up in 2020. public utilities, including: in behavioral threat assessment, and assist with emergency planning. Projects in Round 1 Schools in Round 1 Round of Funding $9,763,980 Federal Funds $7.2 M EMERGENCY