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Fiscal Year 2004 budget and Fiscal Year 2003 revisions
August 13, 2002 | document 2002-12
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Summary
In 1997 the Council agreed (with Bonneville) to plan to make budget cuts
totaling approximately $5.4 million over four years, fiscal years 1998
through 2001. At that time, it was anticipated that the Council's role would
diminish in power planning and fish and wildlife program development. Much
of the Council's budget cuts in 1997 were based on these predictions.
Instead, the Council's role and workload has increased substantially.
Electricity industry restructuring is far from being fully implemented and
as a result, the Council continues to be heavily involved in regional power
resource planning, hydrosystem operations analysis, energy system
reliability/adequacy and conservation resource issues. In addition, the
Council has increased accountability for fish and wildlife spending,
implemented a new project selection process, including site review at the
province level by the Independent Scientific Review Panel, is guiding the
development of subbasin plans throughout the region, and is amending its
fish and wildlife program. In short, we have an enhanced role and new
responsibilities in the region for fish and wildlife restoration.
These proposed budgets reflect increased contracting needs in the power
planning division during their development of the fifth power plan in FY
2003, and illustrate the Council's efforts to contain costs by absorbing
inflationary increases over the next two years. The Council's FY 2003
revised budget of $8,493,000 is $154,000 higher (1.8%) than the current year
2002 budget of $8,339,000. The proposed FY 2004 budget of $8,499,000 is
$6,000 higher (0.08%) than the revised FY 2003 budget.
This budget was adopted at the August 13-14, 2002 Council meeting.
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