Two significant items impact spending trends in many of these account categories. The first is the expense to produce the AIDS Marathon which is budgeted in several categories and hence accounts for increases in several accounts. The second is a change in budget categories for events which has moved many expenses formerly captured in event production into other accounts which are more descriptive of the expense and allow for improved budget management. Personnel Related Expenses are projected to decrease due to reduced staffing which is projected to decline from a budgeted 107.95 in June 2001 to 101.78 by June 2002. The largest reduction is HSTS staff who have been working on the emergency housing and housing wait list programs being transferred to the Department of Public Health.
Increases reflect, in part, changes in the line items where events are budgeted.
Real increases reflected include AIDS Marathon production fees, design and production fees for prevention campaigns, increased grant making advisory fees tied to higher grant making and increased database management fees. Increases are related to changes in line items for the budgeting of events in addition to promotion of the AIDS Marathon. These increases are partially offset by fundraising costs which were budgeted in other line items this year. Increases are primarily related to the change in accounts for event budgeting. The increase in this line is tied to amounts being held in reserve against private revenue goals pending success of next year s events.