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### Koprowski, Paul

From: MOODY Christine M [Christine.Moody@co.lane.or.us]

Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 3:20 PM

To: Koprowski, Paul Subject: RE: Request for Information

Hi Paul. Here are some details for you on budget changes to ot her programs/departments. This is not an exhaustive list, but some highlights to show that other locations in the County also experienced large reductions.

#1 – Justice Courts program went from a FY 11-12 budget of $1,354,055 down to a budge t of $626,518 in FY 12-13. A

decrease of 53.7%.

#2 – Animal Services Program went From a FY 11-12 bu dget of $2,106,463 down to a bu dget of $604,422 in FY 12-13.

A decrease of 71.3%.

#3 – General Fund reserves went from $11,544,519 in FY 11-12, down to $8,509,410 in FY 12-13. A decrease of

26.3%.

#4 – The Department of Assessment & Taxation went from $6,680,524 in FY 11-12, down to $5,776,890 in FY 12-13. A

decrease of 13.5%.

#5 - From FY 11-12 to FY 12-13, Departments saw their discre tionary General Fund go down substantially. These funds are property taxes, timber dollars, etc. The largest hit were:

FY 11-12 FY 12-13 Decrease SO - $26,865,558 $22,314,984 16.9% HHS - $11,544,519 $8,509,410 26.3% DA - $11,923,919 $10,456,952 12.3%

I hope this helps. We did co ntinue to see some decreases in FY 13-14 as we’ve been spending the end of our excess reserves and there is a projected deficit in both the General Fund and Road Fund for FY 14-15.

Thanks!

-Christine Moody

Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 8:59 AM Subject: RE: Request for Information

Thanks Christine for looking into this. So rry if I was being a pest. I did get your out of office message so there was no tec hnology failure. I’m just under a bit of pressure to keep this action moving.

Thanks for your time on this. I really appreciate it.

Paul

Paul Koprowski U.S. EPA; Oregon Operations Office 805 SW Broadway, Suite 500 Portland, Oregon 97205 (503) 326-6363

From: MOODY Christine M [ mailto:Christine.Moody@co.lane.or.us ]

Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 9:33 AM2 To: Koprowski, Paul Subject: RE: Request for Information



### Hi Paul. You should have received my out of office letting you know that I was out until the 8 th 

### of July

– sorry if
technology failed there.

I’ll do my best to look into this today and see what I can gather for you.

Thanks,

Christine

From: Koprowski, Paul [ mailto:Koprowski.Paul@epa.gov ]

Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 4:32 PM

To: MOODY Christine M Subject: Request for Information

Hi Christine,

On 6/25 while you were out of the office, I sent you the following email:

“Hi Christine,

In May you provided me with some critical information necessary to complete a notice I’m working on for the federal register regarding a federal grant to Lane Regional Air Protection Agency. Unfortunately, after an internal review of my draft document a question was raised that I hope you can help me an swer or perhaps point me in the right direction.

Based on the budget information supplied by LRAPA I was able to include the following information in the draft document.

“In 2012 and 2013 county revenue reductions were 11% and 17%, re spectively, the comparative lo cal LRAPA reductions for 2012 and 2013 were 52% and 23% respectively.”

The purpose of the notice I’m working on is to affirm that LRAPA was not singled out for a reduction and the percentage of redu ction made was relatively similar among the departments cut. Can you pr ovide me with some examples of other departments that receive d reductions similar to the reduction made to LRAPA during 2012 and 2013?

I appreciate any help you can provide that will help me affirm th at other the budgets for other department were reduced by a si milar amount (more or less).

If you have any questions about this request please give me a call or send an Email.

Thank you again. I look forward to your reply.”

I’m writing now to see if you will be able to provide any of th e information requested above. I appreciate your help and look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks again,

Paul

Paul Koprowski U.S. EPA; Oregon Operations Office 805 SW Broadway, Suite 500 Portland, Oregon 97205 (503) 326-6363