3111.01  PERSONAL SERVICES

The projection merely lists all positions and corresponding dollars for salaries 
and wages and staff benefits currently authorized in the current-year 
Governor's Budget.

Salary and benefit increase estimates for both the current and budget fiscal 
years and the net impact of merit salary adjustments, reclassifications, and 
turnover savings have been incorporated in the Uses of Funds section of the 
projection as a single line entitled:

9978-3 Salary and Benefit Increase Reserve

This reserve will be used by BPA as the source of funding in adjusting 
personal services upon receipt of more definitive information about salary 
and benefit increases and Schedule 7A data.

In detailing this part of the request, the campus should first detail the 
Positions Established, the Reductions in Authorized Positions, and the 
Positions Reclassified sections of Schedule 2 (positions and dollars) to reflect 
changes dictated by a projected surplus or deficit or to reflect proposed 
transfers of positions.  Care should be taken to ensure that reductions in 
authorized positions and positions reclassified involve positions actually in 
the budget.  The position serial number should also be indicated, but not 
keypunched, on the Schedule 2 form for future cross-reference with the 
Controller's Schedule 8 tab runs.

Secondly, proposed new positions should be detailed.  Dollars for new 
positions should not be shown; they will be inserted automatically by the 
computer at the latest salary rates shown on the CSU Salary Schedules.

Computation and insertion of staff benefits will be done by the computer.  
While staff benefits should not be keypunched, adding or deleting positions 
will affect staff benefits, and this must be kept in mind to ensure that total 
expenditures stay within available revenue.

In summary, the campus should keypunch the 18-digit budget account codes, 
number of positions, and dollars for workload and administrative 
adjustments.  Only budget account codes and positions should be keypunched 
for proposed new positions.  The computer will insert data for authorized 
positions, staff benefits, and dollar projections for new positions at current 
rates automatically.  Later in the summer, BPA will update personal services 
for the final salary and benefit increases and budget-year Schedule 7A data.  
Reductions in authorized positions and positions reclassified amounts also 
will be updated at that time.