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Governor Purdue's Budget Report (proposal) for Fiscal Year 2009 originally allocated $9,410,285 to the Georgia Supreme Court. After reviewing projected revenue to the General Fund, from which the Supreme Court funding derives, Purdue ordered the Court reduce its budget by 25%.
Most of the operating overhead for the Court consists of salaries and benefits (the Justices have not received a raise for more than ten years), which made such a drastic spending reduction impossible without significantly compromising services to the public and putting the Court in danger of violating constitutional mandates. Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, who retires at the end of June 2009, negotiated a compromise with Governor Purdue that resulted in a smaller budget cut, coupled with deferred expenditures, that helped the state legislature balance its FY 2009 budget.
The "final" budget for the Supreme Court is $8,837,947.
Highlights of the budget reduction include:
* Reduced staff cost-of-living salary adjustment from 3.5% to 2.5% * Reduced employer contribution to the state health care plan from 22.843% to 22.165%, instead of the planned increase to 24.182% * Renegotiated rent increase for the Supreme Court building from $38,774 next year to $11,349. * Reduced increased travel reimbursement for Justices, mandated by Georgia HB 120 (2007) from $11,356 to $4,850. * Changed the Worker's Compensation premium rate structure to save $9,146. * Reduced operating expenses by 2.5%, for a savings of $108,754. * Reduced funding for Supreme Court committee on Children, Marriage and Family Law from $104,718 to $60,000. * Delayed implementation of the new electronic filing system indefinitely. * Eliminated proposal to add one new security officer to the court staff. Incoming Chief Justice Carol Hunstein commented in a June 12 radio interview with Denis O'Hayer of WABE (Atlanta's PBS station) that she was honor-bound to uphold the agreement between her predecessor and the Governor, and said she would not seek to renegotiate terms.
On June 24, 2009, Governor Purdue's office announced the state may face a second round of budget cuts. There has been no specific mention of the potential impact on the Georgia Supreme Court budget.
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