Hawaii Invasive Species Council - 09/18/2009
Budget Approval

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September 18, 2009
Chairpersons and Members
Hawaii Invasive Species Council
State of Hawaii
Council Members:
SUBJECT:

Approval of the 2009-2010 Fiscal Year Budget for the Hawaii
Invasive Species Council (HISC)

The invasive species budget initiative calls for the expenditure of $2 million in State
special funds for State Fiscal Year 2010 to provide support for both the operations of theHawaii Invasive Species Council (HISC) and its cooperating partners to develop andimplement a partnership of federal, state, county, and private entities for a comprehensive
state-wide invasive species prevention, detection and control program. This amounts to a
50% reduction in funding from FY09 which had been funded at $3 million in State
special funds and $1 million in general funds.
Although this budget request is under the Department of Land and Natural Resources, itincludes and involves programs and projects through multiple departments, the fourcounties and federal and private partners. The HISC funding in previous years wastargeted to support the development of innovative approaches that address gaps incapacity and build new cooperative programs. The long term goal of this funding
continues to be the integration of successful new programs that better protect Hawaii
from invasive species into agency operations. Given the current economic climate,
however, and pending reductions in force of inspectors at the Hawaii Department ofAgriculture (HDOA), the current year’s fiscal budget is being allocated with the inclusionof funding to maintain inspectors of the HDOA who provide the first line of defense inprotecting Hawaii’s environment, economy and way of life.
With the passage of the Pest Inspection, Quarantine and Eradication (PIQE) Fee, theHDOA has begun collecting funds that currently are being used to fund 30 HDOA staff.
With the continuing layoffs, it is understood that $1.3 million will be released from thePIQE fund in order to prevent loss of HDOA inspectors.
This budget was developed under the direction of the Department of Business EconomicDevelopment and Tourism-chaired Resources Working Group. Projects were proposed inpublic meetings of all of the working groups and selected for consideration. Theresources working group then met with working group chairs in a public meeting on
September 17, 2009 to allocate funds to the program areas based on the project requests.
A detailed budget request that details the project funding is attached as Addendum 1.

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Budget Approval

Item AThe overall goals of the Hawaii Invasive Species Council budget are to:
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Advise the governor and legislature on budgetary and other issues regarding
invasive species.
Coordinate invasive species management and control programs for county, state,federal and private sector entities by developing a structure for cooperators towork together to share resources and responsibilities to address specific invasivespecies issues.
Educate the public and private sector about invasive species to positively affectperception, action and funding for control and prevention.
Review risks of pest/invasive species entry into the State; and implement
measures and improve Hawaii’s capacity to prevent the entry of newpests/invasive species with shared resources and shared responsibilities of allagencies.
Review priorities for the control of pests already present or recently arrived in thestate; and implement cost-effective eradication and control programs against
incipient and established pests with shared resources and shared responsibilities
among private, not-for-profit, county, state and federal agencies.

The State funding is broken into four integrated programs, as well as a separate
administrative budget. The Resources Working Group, the group tasked with balancing
the HISC budget, agreed upon the following budget broken out by program:

Recommended Funding
Prevention
Response & Control
Research & Technology*
Outreach
HISC Support
Total HISC Funding$740,000$820,000$0$130,000$310,000$2,000,000% of($2M)
37.0%
41.0%0.0%
6.5%
15.5%

*The funding for Research & Technology was reduced to $0 in order maintain staff in theother components. Future restoration of Research & Technology funding wasrecommended even under continuing budget restrictions.
Individual proposed funding project budgets within the component areas are attachedfollowing this summary.
RECOMMENDATION:
The Hawaii Invasive Species Council approves the proposed FY09-10 budget for theprogram areas as presented to implement the State of Hawaii's Strategic Plan for Invasive
Species Prevention, Control, and Public Outreach.

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Budget Approval

Item AADDENDUM 1

Funding Contingencies and Recommendations
Although the Natural Area Reserve (NAR) Fund has allocated to fund HISC for $2
million, the actual amount available to the HISC over FY10 is subject to reduction should
actual revenues fall below projections. Reductions in the fund will be passed on to theNAR funded projects in an equal proportion. Transfers of the funds to the HISC are on aquarterly basis and therefore projects funded by the HISC will be funded likewise bydefault.
Given the many uncertainties associated with the financial situation, the labor
negotiations, as well as the severity of the anticipated impacts to HISC-funded projects,
the following contingency plans are proposed:
1) Should labor negotiations result in substantial layoffs of HDOA staff: HDOA receives
full amount allocated during HISC budget process2) State and union negotiate furloughs vs. layoffs: HDOA has identified level of funding
needed in advance of this outcome and funding is reduced accordingly
3) HDOA secures adequate funding to maintain FY09 staffing levels from non-HISCsource (federal, cargo fee, private): amount received from HISC is reduced accordingly
and rebudgeted after scheduling a Resources Working Group sponsored review
4) A regularly scheduled report be presented to the HISC on HDOA use of HISC funds,
efficiencies gained within HDOA operations (including cooperative efforts fostered
between industry and HDOA), funding from the PIQE fund including and shipper
compliance, and efforts to secure non-HISC funding.
5) Amount of NAR funds available decreases throughout the year resulting in decreased
funds available for all programs: all programs receive a proportional reduction in
funding with the possibility of the project being eliminated if it becomes apparent thatproject would be reduced beyond functional level.
6) Authorize Working Groups to allocate funding changes within the group as opposed torequiring full council approval to make minor changes (<25% redistribution amongproposed (not new) projects) to allow projects to take advantage of any budgetary
flexibility that arises among the projects.

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Budget requests and recommended funding for financial year 2010
Budget ItemPREVENTION
Weed Risk Assessment
Ant coordinator
Ballast Water and Hull Fouling
ProgramWest Nile Virus
HDOA Inspectors
Total Prevention
RESPONSE AND CONTROL
BIISC
MISC & MoMISC
OISC
KISC
HDOA Biocontrol
AIS
Total Response & Control
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
Total R&T
OUTREACH
Staff
Materials & Travel
Total OutreachS-10-314-522$60,000$40,000$40,000$0$600,000$740,000$100,000$200,000$190,000$90,000$0$240,000$820,000$0$115,000$15,000$130,000

HISC SUPPORTDOFAW Overhead (3%)
Central Services Fee (7% of 2 M)
Support Staff
Total HISC Support$60,000$140,000$110,000$310,000$2,000,000

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