Annual Budgets

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SALARY - REGULAR

Payment for normally assigned hours of work for elected, appointed, classified and unclassified personnel who are employed for 40 hours per week.

$6,108,539

SALARY - PT & TEMP

Payment for assigned hours of work for classified, unclassified, elected, and appointed personnel who are employed for less than 40 hours per week, and temporaries who may work up to 40 hours per week for less than a full year.

$35,996

BENEFITS - F I C A

County payment for all employees for taxes due under the laws of the Social Security Act. This is the Old Age Survivor's and Disability Insurance (OASDI) portion of 6.2% up to the available published maximum of $76,200 salary base in FY 2000-2001.

$346,256

BENEFITS - MEDICARE

County payment for all employees for taxes due under the laws of the Social Security Act. This is the Health Insurance (HI) portion (Medicare) of 1.45% without a maximum salary base in FY 2000-2001.

$86,303

BENEFITS - HEALTH INSURANCE

Payment of the County's portion for all employees insured under any County sponsored health maintenance plans, such as Complete Health and Partners.

$799,334

BENEFITS - LIFE INSURANCE

Payment of the County portion (currently 100%) for all employees insured under the County sponsored life insurance plan (with benefits equal to double the employee's salary, up to a maximum of $100,000).

$8,916

BENEFITS - RETIREMENT

Payment of the County's six percent match of all employee contributions to the Jefferson County Employee's General Retirement Program. It also records the employee's share if the employee is in non-pay status on actual military leave.

$405,733

BENEFITS - TUITION REIMBURSEMENT

Payment to employees who have been approved and accepted under the Personnel Board's Tuition Reimbursement Policy. The percentage of repayment is based on the grade obtained per term (maximum two terms per year) at The University of Alabama at Birmingham

$3,000

ALLOWANCES - ELECTED OFFICIALS

Payment for board members who receive an amount of money as allowance, per state legislation.

$4,000

REPAIR CONTRACTUAL MAINTENANCE

Annual maintenance and support of the Board’s systems and equipment.

$102,426

SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE

Payment for software maintenance only. Technical software support charges are recorded in commitment item

$413,544

RENTAL-FACILITIES

Payment for assessment facility rentals (local hotels) for procedures such as Police Captain testing and Firefighter testing where the number of candidates to be tested is greater than the accommodationsat the 2121 building.

$142,030

SUPPLIES - OPERATION

Cost of microcomputers, printers, scanners, word processing equipment, etc. under $5,000.

$12,735

SUPPLIES - UNIFORMS

Payment for the purchase of security officer uniforms.

$500

SUPPLIES - JANITORIAL

Supplies needed for the Board's housekeeper.

$3,000

SUPPLIES - INFO TECH

Costs of small equipment of less than $1,000 and may include patch cables, external hard drives, laser printers, wireless devices, work sample equipment, etc.

$69,072

GENERAL OFFICE

Costs for those items necessary for operation of a regular office. Such items include pens/pencils, staples, copier paper, printer cartridges, fax cartridges, etc.

$6,500

SUPPLIES - FOOD PURCHASES

Payment for meals for visiting assessors who volunteer from public agencies nationwide to serve as evaluators for the Testing process and meals provided for LEDGE Training participants.

$30,700

SUPPLIES - OTHER

Any supply item that is not charged to other Supply account codes.

$1,000

OUTSIDE SERVICES

Payment for outside professional services retained, such as transcription services, scoring services of the Police Officer/Deputy Sheriff/Firefighter examinations, IT system evaluation consulting services; online skill based test assessment services and document destruction services.

$448,875

OUTSIDE SERVICES - LEGAL

Payment for outside attorney fees, such as expenses related to Balch & Bingham, LLP and Lloyd, Gray, Whitehead & Monroe, PC. Also includes Hearing Officer expenses.

$510,000

OUTSIDE SERVICES - PRINTING

Payment for outside vendors (such as Wright & Associates and Office Depot) to provide printing services of business cards, name tags, jobsquest.com business cards, etc.

$1,000

OUTSIDE SERVICES - ADVERTISING

Payment for advertising costs for media as it relates to announcing job vacancies, and providing greater exposure to a broader range of media (such as job search engines).

$110,411

POSTAGE

Payment for postage and shipping service through the federal postal service.

$1,000

TELEPHONE

Payment for local telephone service within the County telephone system or BellSouth lines and charges, as well as any long distance telephone service.

$9,200

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SERVICE

This account records payment for local telephone service for mobile telephone connection and associated air time.

$10,000

PUBLICATIONS

Cost of books, periodicals and subscriptions which results in a benefit to the agency, predominantly used to support management and supervisory development, customer service, and HR legal classes. Also, includes expenses of maintaining an ongoing subscription to professional or technical journals (includes Fair Labor Standards Subscription, Salary Surveys for annual survey, etc.).

$5,750

ASSOCIATION & MEMBERSHIP DUES

Payment for expenses of professional membership held by staff for Board purposes. Examples include memberships for Society of Human Resource Management, International Personnel Management Association, Association of Government Accountants, etc.

$4,270

SOFTWARE LICENSES

Costs of computer software and licenses under $5,000.

$73,932

INSURANCE - OTHER

Payment of liability insurance for employees and Board assets.

$42,000

TRAVEL-LOCAL MILEAGE

Payment to staff for the wear and tear on personal vehicles as a result of traveling to jurisdictions for site visits or recruiting career fairs.

$2,800

OTHER - TRAVEL

Payments for other travel

$13,500

STAFF DEVELOPMENT & ASSOCIATED TRAVEL

Payments for staff for travel to, registration for, and completion of annual association and conventions, seminars, and specialized training, which results in benefit to the Personnel Board.

$70,850

INDIRECT

In FY 2011, Jefferson County began a new process of charging departments/agencies for central services provided by the County. These services include, but are not limited to, the processing of payroll checks, purchase order/voucher requests, budget amendment requests, help desk incidents, and the number of telephone lines assigned.

$50,000

INDIRECT-SQUARE FT. CHARGE

Rent payments to the County. Includes the charges assessed by General Services for cleaning and maintenance of Personnel Board facilities.

$636,000

INDIRECT-MOTOR POOL

Charges for rental of a County motor vehicle by the agency. Includes rental of County car to travel to Career Fairs as it relates to publicizing job vacancies, and site visits to jurisdictions.

$500

Personnel Board Fund

$10,569,672