Commissioner breaks down DOI's FY27 budget: PS, OTPS, and headcount details
Shahada breaks down the $53.7M FY27 budget into $29.3M in personal services and $21.4M in city-funded OTPS, supplemented by $3M in forfeiture funds. She explains that only 275 DOI-funded positions remain after accounting for CCPC staff, with 162 additional intra-city and on-loan staff bringing the total to 437.
My testimony.
Testimony today will walk you through the proposed fiscal year 27 executive budget, the tangible impact of the proposed budget cuts, and the roles that forfeiture and integrity monitorships play in our budget and the associated challenges with each.
DOI's $53.7 million fiscal year 2027 executive budget includes $29.3 million
in personal services or PS funds, which primarily funds staff salaries, and $21.4 million in city-funded OTPS, which pays for DOI's lease obligations and integrity.
monitorships.
This OTPS funding will be supplemented with $3 million from DOI's forfeiture funds for a total OTPS spend of $24.4 million.
We have been supplementing our budget significantly with forfeiture funding, particularly for OTPS items.
Such as computers, laptops, vehicles, trainings, and office equipment.
I will describe our forfeiture funding in more detail shortly.
The current budgeted headcount for DOI-funded employees in fiscal year 2027 is only 282 positions.
Seven of those positions are staff
for an entirely separate entity, the Commission to Combat Police Corruption, that is not part of DOI, but which is nonetheless funded through DOI.
This brings down the budgeted headcount for DOI
I funded employees working on DOI matters to just 275 positions.
An additional 162 interest city and on loan staff report to DOI for a total of 437 employees who work on DOI matters.
The fiscal year 2027 executive budget
also contains nearly $3.4 million for which DOI simply acts as a pass-through entity.